The winners of the 78th annual DRAMA LEAGUE AWARDS LUNCHEON benefiting the education programs of The Drama League Directors Project are:

DISTINGUISHED PRODUCTION OF A PLAY
Other Desert Cities
Lincoln Center Theatre
Andre Bishop, Artistic Director; Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer

DISTINGUISHED REVIVAL OF A PLAY
 Death of a Salesman
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Scott Rudin, Stuart Thompson, Jon B. Platt, Columbia Pictures, Jean Doumanian, 
Merritt Forrest Baer, Roger Berlind, Scott M. Delman, Sonia Friedman Productions, 
Ruth Hendel, Carl Moellenberg, Scott and Brian Zerlinger, Eli Bush, producers
 
DISTINGUISHED PRODUCTION OF A MUSICAL
Once
New York Theatre Workshop/Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
Barbara Broccoli, John N. Hart Jr., Patrick Milling Smith, Frederick Zollo, 
Brian Carmody, Michael G. Wilson, Orin Wolf, The Shubert Organization, 
Robert Cole, New York Theatre Workshop, producers
 
DISTINGUISHED REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
Follies
Marquis Theatre
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (David M. Rubenstein, Chairman;
Michael M. Kaiser, President; Max A. Woodward, Vice President), Nederlander Presentations Inc.,
Adrienne Arsht, HRH Foundation, Allan Williams, producers

DISTINGUISHED PERFORMANCE AWARD
Audra McDonald 
The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
 
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSICAL THEATRE
Alan Menken
 
UNIQUE CONTRIBUTION TO THE THEATRE
Rosie O’Donnell

FOUNDERS AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN DIRECTING
Diane Paulus

Photography: Barry Gordin