2026 Drama Desk Awards Nominations: Watch the Live Announcement
Raúl Esparza and Helen J Shen reveal nominees April 29 at 10 a.m. ET on Broadway.com
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What to Know
- Nominations for the 70th Annual Drama Desk Awards will be announced live on the Broadway.com YouTube channel at 10 a.m. ET on April 29
- Raúl Esparza and Helen J Shen will reveal the nominees from The Lambs Club in New York City
- The Drama Desk Awards ceremony takes place on May 17 at the Town Hall, hosted by Titanique star Marla Mindelle
Nominations for the 70th Annual Drama Desk Awards, the theater award honoring excellence across all of New York City’s theatrical landscape, will be announced live on the Broadway.com YouTube channel. Raúl Esparza (upcoming Galileo) and Helen J Shen (original Claire in Maybe Happy Ending) will reveal the nominees at 10:00 a.m. ET on April 29 from The Lambs Club in New York City, America’s oldest professional theatrical club.
The complete list of nominees will be made available here following the announcement.
The 2026 Drama Desk Awards ceremony returns to the Town Hall on May 17, hosted by Titanique star Marla Mindelle. The 70th celebration will recognize the outstanding New York theater of the 2025-2026 season, and honor Harold S. Prince Award-recipient Tom Schumacher, former President of Disney Theatrical Productions.
The Drama Desk Awards are presented by the Drama Desk organization and produced by Drama Desk Awards Productions, a venture of Scene Partners in partnership with The Season. David Barbour and Charles Wright are co-presidents of the Drama Desk organization; Mike Karns and Steven Tartick are co-founders. Victoria Weinberg leads Drama Desk Awards Productions.
The 2025-26 Drama Desk nominating committee is comprised of Martha Wade Steketee, Linda Armstrong, Dan Dinero, Peter Filichia, Kenji Fujishima, Margaret Hall and Raven Snook.
Watch the nominations below beginning at 10:00 a.m. ET:
