| Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play |
| Location | New York City |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Drama Desk |
| First awarded | 1975 |
| Last awarded | 2022 |
| Website | dramadesk.org (defunct) |
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play was an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in the theatre across collective Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in New York City. The award was one of eight new acting awards first presented in 1975, when Drama Desk retired an earlier award that had made no distinction between work in plays and musicals, nor between actors and actresses, nor between lead performers and featured performers.
After the 2022 ceremony, all eight acting categories introduced in 1975 were retired. The award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, along with Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, were replaced in 2023 with the gender neutral category of Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play.
| Year | Actor | Play | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | |||
| Paul Hilton | The Inheritance | Morgan / Walter Poole | |
| Victor Almanzar | Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven | Joey Fresco | |
| Esteban Andres Cruz | Venus Ramirez | ||
| David Alan Grier | A Soldier's Play | Sergeant Vernon C. Waters | |
| Chris Perfetti | Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow | Masha | |
| 2021 | No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City[1] | ||
| 2022 | |||
| Ron Cephas Jones | Clyde's | Montrellous | |
| Joshua Boone | Skeleton Crew | Dez | |
| Chuck Cooper | Trouble in Mind | Sheldon Forrester | |
| Daniel K. Isaac | The Chinese Lady | Atung | |
| Billy Eugene Jones | On Sugarland | Saul | |