| Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design | |
| Awarded For: | Outstanding Sound Design |
| Presenter: | Drama Desk |
| Location: | New York City |
| Country: | United States |
| Year: | 1980 |
| Year2: | 2009 |
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design was an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in the theatre across collective Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in New York City. The award was first presented in 1980, for work in either a play or musical production. It was retired after the 2009 ceremony, replaced by separate play and musical categories.
| Year | Designer | Production |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | ||
| Norman L. Berman | Strider | |
| Richard Peaslee | Teibele and Her Demon | |
| Stanley Silverman | Bent | |
| 1985 | ||
| John DiFusco | Tracers | |
| Nigel Hess | Cyrano de Bergerac | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | ||
| John Malkovich | Balm in Gilead | |
| 1986 | ||
| Otts Munderloh | The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe | |
| Tom Morse | Execution of Justice | |
| The Red Clay Ramblers | A Lie of the Mind |
| Year | Designer | Production |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | ||
| Aural Fixation | Red Scare on Sunset | |
| Olu Dara | Let Me Live | |
| John Gromada | Machinal | |
| Janet Kalas | The Good Times Are Killing Me | |
| 1992 | ||
| Paul Arditti | Four Baboons Adoring the Sun | |
| Mark Bennett and Jim van Bergen | Lypsinka! A Day in the Life | |
| Stewart Werner | Lips Together, Teeth Apart | |
| 1993 | ||
| Steve Canyon Kennedy | The Who's Tommy | |
| Rodrigo Bachler-Klein | Les Atrides | |
| Dan Moses Schreier | Spic-O-Rama | |
| Richard Woodbury | Wings | |
| 1994 | ||
| John A. Leonard | Medea | |
| Mark Bennett | The Lights | |
| T. Richard Fitzgerald | Beauty and the Beast | |
| John Gromada | ||
| 1995 | colspan="2" | |
| 1996 | ||
| Dan Moses Schreier | Floyd Collins | |
| David Van Tieghem | The Grey Zone | |
| 1997 | ||
| John Gromada | The Skriker | |
| Dan Moses Schreier | God's Heart | |
| Marc Anthony Thompson | A Huey P. Newton Story | |
| 1998 | ||
| Tony Meola | The Lion King | |
| Paul Arditti | The Chairs | |
| Mark Bennett | A View from the Bridge | |
| Thomas Cabaniss | Mamba's Daughters | |
| Rinde Eckert and Gina Leishman | Thérèse Raquin | |
| David Van Tieghem | Scotland Road | |
| 1999 | ||
| Christopher Shutt | Not About Nightingales | |
| John Collins and James Johnson | House/Lights | |
| Jonathan Deans | Parade | |
| Fergus O'Hare | Electra | |
| David Van Tieghem | Stop Kiss | |
| Darron L. West | Bob |
| Year | Designer | Production |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | ||
| Jamie Mereness | Charlie Victor Romeo | |
| Marc Gwinn | Coyote on a Fence | |
| Rob Milburn and Michael Bodeen | Space | |
| Darron L. West | Chesapeake | |
| Y2K | ||
| 2001 | ||
| Christopher Shutt | Mnemonic | |
| Mark Bennett and Michael Creason | Dogeaters | |
| Bruce Ellman | Comic Potential | |
| Gregory Kostroff | Lypsinka the Boxed Set | |
| Mic Pool and David Bullard | The Unexpected Man | |
| Jerry Vager | Up Against the Wind | |
| 2002 | ||
| Dan Moses Schreier | Into the Woods | |
| John Collins, Geoff Abbas and Jim Dawson | To You, the Birdie! | |
| Mark Huang | Cressida Among the Greeks | |
| Scott Lehrer | Franny's Way | |
| Matthew Spiro | 36 Views | |
| David Van Tieghem | The Glory of Living | |
| 2003 | ||
| Acme Sound Partners | La Bohème | |
| Mark Bennett | Julius Caesar | |
| Golda's Balcony | ||
| Francois Bergeron | Cirque du Soleil: Varekai | |
| Janet Kalas | Take Me Out | |
| Mel Mercier and David Meschter | Medea | |
| 2004 | ||
| Dan Moses Schreier | Assassins | |
| Mark Bennett | Henry IV | |
| Scott Jennings | Ramayana 2K3 | |
| Brian Ronan | Bug | |
| David Van Tieghem | The Stendhal Syndrome | |
| 2005 | ||
| Paul Arditti | The Pillowman | |
| Acme Sound Partners | The Light in the Piazza | |
| Jill DuBoff | Miss Julie | |
| Spatter Pattern | ||
| Jeff Lorenz | Frankenstein | |
| Darron L. West | Hot 'n' Throbbing | |
| 2006 | ||
| Steve Canyon Kennedy | Jersey Boys | |
| Acme Sound Partners | See What I Wanna See | |
| The Drowsy Chaperone | ||
| Brian Ronan | Grey Gardens | |
| The Pajama Game | ||
| Dan Moses Schreier | ||
| 2007 | ||
| Gregory Clarke | Journey's End | |
| Acme Sound Partners | In the Heights | |
| Mark Bennett | The Coast of Utopia | |
| Duncan Edwards | LoveMusik | |
| Frank Gaeta | Dai (enough) | |
| Richard Woodbury | Talk Radio | |
| 2008 | ||
| Scott Lehrer | South Pacific | |
| Adam Cork | Macbeth | |
| Jorge Cousineau | Opus | |
| Joseph Fosco | The Conversation | |
| Mic Pool | The 39 Steps | |
| Tony Smolenski, IV | Adding Machine | |
| 2009 | ||
| Paul Arditti | Billy Elliot the Musical | |
| Acme Sound Partners | Irving Berlin's White Christmas | |
| Gregory Clarke | Equus | |
| John Gromada | Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont | |
| André J. Pluess | 33 Variations | |
| John Shivers | 9 to 5 |