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Award record

2009-2010 award record

Categories
11
Honoured
11
Nominated
29
New this season
2

11 awards were given across 11 categories, chosen from 29 nominated entries listed below. The entries have been checked line by line against published records. 2 categories appear for the first time this season: Outstanding Sound Design of a Musical, Outstanding Sound Design of a Play.

Eleven categories, the widest list of any season in this batch, and the point where the splitting is most visible. Lighting and scenic design each appear as separate musical and play awards.

Projection design sits alongside them as a heading that could not have existed before the equipment did. Twenty-nine names were shortlisted. Five of the eleven winners are not named in the source used here, and the page says so rather than guessing.

An empty stage with tall illuminated panels ranged along the right-hand side, colour washing across them through haze and reflecting off the floor.
Lit panels on the deck — the equipment that made projection design a category. Photographs on these record pages illustrate the period; they do not depict the productions listed.

Outstanding Choreography

Winner

  • Twyla Tharp Come Fly Away

Also nominated

  • Lynne Page La Cage aux Folles
  • Marcia Milgrom Dodge Ragtime
  • Sergio Trujillo Memphis
  • Susan Stroman The Scottsboro Boys
  • Warren Carlyle Finian's Rainbow

Outstanding Costume Design

Winner

  • Matthew Wright La Cage aux Folles

Also nominated

  • Antonia Ford-Roberts and Bob Flanagan The Emperor Jones
  • Bobby Frederick Tilley II Lizzie Borden
  • Clint Ramos So Help Me God!
  • David Zinn In the Next Room

Outstanding Lighting Design

Winner

  • Neil Austin Red

Also nominated

  • Christian DeAngelis Lizzie Borden
  • Dane Laffery The Boys in the Band
  • Maruti Evans John Ball's In the Heat of the Night
  • Natasha Katz The Addams Family
  • Neil Austin Hamlet

Outstanding Lighting Design of a Musical

Winner

  • Not named in the source used here

Outstanding Lighting Design of a Play

Winner

  • Not named in the source used here

Outstanding Projection Design

Winner

  • Not named in the source used here

Outstanding Scenic Design of a Musical

Winner

  • Not named in the source used here

Outstanding Scenic Design of a Play

Winner

  • Not named in the source used here

Outstanding Set Design

Winner

  • Phelim McDermott , Julian Crouch and Basil Twist The Addams Family

Also nominated

  • Christopher Oram Red
  • Derek McLane Ragtime
  • Jay Rohloff Underground
  • Karen Tennent Hansel and Gretel
  • Sandra Goldmark The Boys in the Band

Outstanding Sound Design of a Musical

Winner

  • Acme Sound Partners Ragtime

Also nominated

  • Brian Ronan Promises, Promises
  • Jonathan Deans La Cage aux Folles
  • Kurt Eric Fischer, Ashley Hanson and Brian Ronan Everyday Rapture
  • Peter Hylenski The Scottsboro Boys
  • Scott Lehrer Finian's Rainbow

Outstanding Sound Design of a Play

Winner

  • Fitz Patton When the Rain Stops Falling

Also nominated

  • Adam Cork ENRON
  • Dale Bigall Underground
  • Dan Bianchi and Wes Shippee Frankenstein
  • Elizabeth Rhodes John Ball's In the Heat of the Night
  • Lindsay Jones Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers

Outstanding Sound Design of a Musical enters the record here, for the first time in any season. It is one of 2 headings new to the record this season. Sound design and scoring →

Who else on this page appears elsewhere in the record

21 of the 34 names on this page appear in at least one other season held here. Reading a person as a run rather than a single entry is the point of an index like this one. A designer's work shows up under two or three different category names as the headings were renamed.

  • Derek McLane 16 seasons 1996-1997, 1997-1998, 1999-2000, 2001-2002, 2003-2004, 2005-2006, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2015-2016, 2019-2020, 2023-2024, 2024-2025, 2025-2026
  • Susan Stroman 11 seasons 1990-1991, 1991-1992, 1995-1996, 1996-1997, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2007-2008, 2013-2014, 2022-2023
  • Brian Ronan 10 seasons 2003-2004, 2005-2006, 2010-2011, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2018-2019
  • Natasha Katz 9 seasons 1998-1999, 2001-2002, 2007-2008, 2014-2015, 2021-2022, 2022-2023, 2023-2024, 2024-2025
  • Acme Sound Partners 8 seasons 2002-2003, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2008-2009, 2010-2011, 2011-2012
  • Scott Lehrer 8 seasons 2001-2002, 2007-2008, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2024-2025
  • Warren Carlyle 8 seasons 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2016-2017, 2018-2019, 2024-2025
  • Peter Hylenski 7 seasons 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2016-2017, 2019-2020, 2022-2023, 2024-2025
  • David Zinn 5 seasons 2012-2013, 2017-2018, 2021-2022, 2023-2024
  • Maruti Evans 5 seasons 2007-2008, 2014-2015, 2017-2018, 2018-2019
  • Sergio Trujillo 5 seasons 2005-2006, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2024-2025
  • Clint Ramos 4 seasons 2007-2008, 2017-2018, 2019-2020
  • Neil Austin 4 seasons 2011-2012, 2015-2016, 2017-2018
  • Adam Cork 3 seasons 2007-2008, 2023-2024
  • Christopher Oram 3 seasons 2014-2015, 2015-2016
  • Fitz Patton 3 seasons 2015-2016, 2018-2019
  • Jonathan Deans 3 seasons 1998-1999, 2011-2012
  • Lindsay Jones 3 seasons 2010-2011, 2012-2013
  • Bobby Frederick Tilley II 2 seasons 2018-2019
  • Lynne Page 2 seasons 2015-2016
  • Twyla Tharp 2 seasons 2002-2003
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