Danny Burstein wins The Distinguished Performance Award at the 2020 Drama League Awards
June 19, 2020: Moulin Rouge! and Danny Burstein were among the winners for the 2020 Drama League awards. The musical won Outstanding Production of a Musical and Burstein The Distinguished Performance Award for his portrayal of Harold Zidler.
The other winners of the 2019–2020 season were Matthew Lopez’s The Inheritance for Outstanding Production of a Play, A Soldier’s Play for Outstanding Revival of a Play, and Little Shop of Horrors for Outstanding Revival of a Musical.
The awards were announced online June 18, instead of the traditional ceremony due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has shut down Broadway through at least September 6.
The Drama League also honored Marianne Elliott with the Founders Award for Excellence in Directing, late playwright Terrence McNally for his unique contribution to theatre and playwright and director James Lapine for distinguished achievement in musical theatre.
Congratulations to all the Nominees and The Winners.
List of Nominees and Winners
Outstanding Revival of a Play
Betrayal
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Fires in the Mirror
Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune
Judgment Day
Medea
Native Son
The Rose Tattoo
*** A Soldier’s Play
The Woman in Black
Outstanding Revival of a Musical
Enter Laughing
*** Little Shop of Horrors
Rock of Ages
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
West Side Story
Outstanding Production of a Play
Cambodian Rock Band
Dana H.
Grand Horizons
The Hot Wing King
*** The Inheritance
The Michaels
Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow
One in Two
Sea Wall/A Life
Seared
Slave Play
Stew
Outstanding Production of a Musical
Girl from the North Country
Jagged Little Pill
*** Moulin Rouge!
Octet
The Secret Life of Bees
Sing Street
Six
Soft Power
A Strange Loop
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
Distinguished Performance Award
David Acton, The Woman in Black
Jeffrey Bean, Dublin Carol
Ato Blankson-Wood, The Rolling Stone and Slave Play
Christian Borle, Little Shop of Horrors
Danielle Brooks, Much Ado About Nothing
*** Danny Burstein, Moulin Rouge!
Rose Byrne, Medea
Len Cariou, Harry Townsend’s Last Stand
Patrice Johnson Chevannes, runboyrun & In Old Age
Liza Colón-Zayas, Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven
Kate del Castillo, the way she spoke
Edmund Donovan, Greater Clements
Raúl Esparza, Seared
Francesca Faridany, The Half-Life of Marie Curie
Halley Feiffer, The Pain of My Belligerence
Danyel Fulton, Broadbend, Arkansas
Annie Golden, Broadway Bounty Hunter
Donnetta Lavinia Grays, Where We Stand
David Alan Grier, A Soldier’s Play
Jonathan Groff, Little Shop of Horrors
Jake Gyllenhaal, Sea Wall/A Life
Tom Hiddleston, Betrayal
Paul Hilton, The Inheritance
Kathryn Hunter, Timon of Athens
Galen Ryan Kane, Native Son
Brittney Mack, Six
April Matthis, Toni Stone
Susannah Millonzi, The Crucible
Kate Mulgrew, The Half-Life of Marie Curie
Joe Ngo, Cambodian Rock Band
Deirdre O’Connell, Dana H.
Brenock O’Connor, Sing Street
Okwui Okpokwasili, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Karen Olivo, Moulin Rouge!
Larry Owens, A Strange Loop
Lauren Patten, Jagged Little Pill
Chris Perfetti, Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow
Ben Porter, The Woman in Black
Isaac Powell, West Side Story
Jonathan Pryce, The Height of the Storm
Elizabeth Rodriguez, Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven
Michael Shannon, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
Tom Sturridge, Sea Wall/A Life
Marisa Tomei, The Rose Tattoo
Blair Underwood, A Soldier’s Play
Michael Urie, Grand Horizons
Adrienne Warren, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
Michael Benjamin Washington, Fires in the Mirror
Portia, Stew
Danny Burstein Photo Credit: Matthew Murphy
