| Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical |
| Location | New York City |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Drama Desk |
| First award | 1975 |
| Final award | 2022 |
| Website | dramadesk.org (defunct) |
TheDrama Desk Award for OutstandingFeatured Actor in aMusical was an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in theatre across collectiveBroadway,off-Broadway andoff-off-Broadway productions inNew 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 inplays 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 Musical, along withOutstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, were replaced in 2023 with thegender neutral category ofOutstanding Featured Performance in a Musical.
| Year | Actor | Musical | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | |||
| Ted Ross | The Wiz | The Lion | |
| Hinton Battle | The Wiz | The Scarecrow | |
| Pinta DeCola | In Gay Company | Unknown | |
| Jerry Lanning | Where's Charley? | Jack Chesney | |
| Gilbert Price | The Night That Made America Famous | Performer | |
| Richard Schull | Goodtime Charley | Minguet | |
| 1976 | |||
| George Rose | My Fair Lady | Alfred P. Doolittle | |
| Haruki Fujimoto | Pacific Overtures | Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry | |
| James Harder | Very Good Eddie | Steward / Al Cleveland | |
| Barry Preston | Bubbling Brown Sugar | Charlie / Count | |
| 1977 | |||
| Ken Bichel | I Love My Wife | Norman | |
| Michael Mark | Stanley | ||
| John Miller | Harvey | ||
| Joseph Saulter | Quenton | ||
| Daniel Benzali | Music Is | Feste | |
| Jack Cassidy | She Loves Me | Stephen Kodaly | |
| Christopher Hewett | Music Is | Malvolio | |
| Larry Marshall | Porgy and Bess | Sportin' Life | |
| 1978 | |||
| Kevin Kline | On the Twentieth Century | Bruce Granit | |
| Joel Higgins | Angel | Ben Gant | |
| Matt Landers | Working | Various Characters | |
| Brad Sullivan | Mike LeFevre | ||
| Charles Ward | Dancin' | Performer | |
| Lee Wilkof | The Present Tense | Performer | |
| 1979 | |||
| Ken Jennings | Sweeney Todd | Tobias Ragg | |
| Richard Cox | Platinum | Dan Danger | |
| Bob Gunton | King of Hearts | Raoul |
| Year | Actor | Musical | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | |||
| Christian Borle | Little Shop of Horrors | Orin Scrivello | |
| George Abud | Emojiland | Nerd Face | |
| Jay Armstrong Johnson | Scotland, PA | Banko | |
| Conrad Ricamora | Soft Power | Xue Xing | |
| Ryan Vasquez | The Wrong Man | The Man in Black | |
| 2021 | No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to theCOVID-19 pandemic in New York City[2] | ||
| 2022 | |||
| Matt Doyle | Company | Jamie | |
| Justin Austin | Intimate Apparel | George Armstrong | |
| Justin Cooley | Kimberly Akimbo | Seth | |
| Jared Grimes | Funny Girl | Eddie Ryan | |
| Tavon Olds-Sample | MJ | Michael | |
[note: citation provides nominations, does not confirm who winner was]