| Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design | |
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| Awarded for | Outstanding Sound Design in a Play |
| Location | United States |
| Presented by | Drama Desk |
| Currently held by | Ben and Max Ringham for Cyrano de Bergerac (2022) |
| Website | DramaDeskAwards.com |
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design in a Play is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in the theatre among Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions. The category was created in the 2010 ceremony when the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design was split in two — Sound Design in a Play, and Sound Design in a Musical.
| Year | Designer | Production |
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| 2010 | ||
| Fitz Patton | When the Rain Stops Falling | |
| Dan Bianchi and Wes Shippee | Frankenstein | |
| Dale Bigall | Underground | |
| Adam Cork | ENRON | |
| Lindsay Jones | Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers | |
| Elizabeth Rhodes | John Ball's In the Heat of the Night | |
| 2011 | ||
| Acme Sound Partners and Cricket S. Myers | Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo | |
| Acme Sound Partners | The Merchant of Venice | |
| Ian Dickinson | John Gabriel Borkman | |
| Brett Jarvis | Baby Universe | |
| Bray Poor | Wings | |
| Eric Shimelonis | The Hallway Trilogy | |
| 2012 | ||
| John Gromada | The Best Man | |
| Quentin Chiappetta | The Navigator | |
| Gregory Clarke | Misterman | |
| Gareth Fry | Richard III | |
| Stowe Nelson | Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War | |
| Shane Rettig | She Kills Monsters | |
| 2013 | ||
| Mel Mercier | The Testament of Mary | |
| Ien DeNio | The Pilo Family Circus | |
| Steve Fontaine | Last Man Club | |
| Christian Frederickson | Through the Yellow Hour | |
| Lindsay Jones | Wild With Happy | |
| Fergus O'Hare | Macbeth | |
| 2014 | ||
| Matt Tierney | Machinal | |
| M.L. Dogg | The Open House | |
| Katie Down | The Golden Dragon | |
| Paul James Prendergast | All the Way | |
| Dan Moses Schreier | Act One | |
| Christopher Shutt | Love and Information | |
| 2015 | ||
| Ian Dickinson (for Autograph) | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | |
| Nathan Davis | The Other Mozart | |
| Ien Denio | Deliverance | |
| Gareth Fry | Let the Right One In | |
| John Gromada | Lives of the Saints (an anthology of short plays by David Ives) | |
| Matt Tierney | Our Lady of Kibeho | |
| 2016 | ||
| Fitz Patton | The Humans | |
| Fitz Patton | An Act of God | |
| Miles Polaski | Fulfillment | |
| Bray Poor | John | |
| Ryan Rumery | Empanada Loca | |
| 2017 | ||
| Gareth Fry and Pete Malkin | The Encounter | |
| Mikhail Fiksel | A Life | |
| Brian Quijada | Where Did We Sit on the Bus? | |
| Leon Rothenberg | Notes from the Field | |
| Jane Shaw | Men on Boats | |
| 2018 | ||
| Gareth Fry | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | |
| Brendan Aanes | Balls | |
| Tom Gibbons | 1984 | |
| People, Places and Things | ||
| Stefan Gregory | Yerma | |
| Palmer Hefferan | Today is My Birthday | |
| 2019 | ||
| Nick Powell | The Ferryman | |
| Tyler Kieffer | Plano | |
| Fitz Patton | Choir Boy | |
| Jane Shaw | I Was Most Alive with You | |
| Mikaal Sulaiman | Fairview |
| Year | Designer | Production |
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| 2020 | ||
| Paul Arditti and Christopher Reid | The Inheritance | |
| Justin Ellington | Heroes of the Fourth Turning | |
| Mikhail Fiksel | Dana H. | |
| Palmer Hefferan | Fefu and Her Friends | |
| Lee Kinney and Sanae Yamada | Is This A Room | |
| 2022 | ||
| Ben and Max Ringham | Cyrano de Bergerac | |
| Tyler Kieffer | Seven Deadly Sins | |
| Hidenori Nakajo and Ryan Rumery | Autumn Royal | |
| Mikaal Sulaiman | Sanctuary City | |
| Lee Kinney | Selling Kabul |
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