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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play

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Location
  
United States

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Drama Desk Award

Official website
  
DramaDesk.org

Category of
  
Drama Desk Award

Awarded for
  
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play

Currently held by
  
Saycon Sengbloh for Eclipsed (2016)

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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play

The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in the theatre among Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions. The awards were established in 1955, with acting awards being given without making distinctions between roles in plays and musicals, or actors and actresses. The new award categories were later created in the 1975 ceremony.

† – indicates the performance won the Tony Award
‡ – indicates the performance was also nominated for the Tony Award

Facts

  • Mary Alice and Viola Davis are the only two women who have won for playing the same character, Rose Maxson, from Fences
  • Christine Baranski, Viola Davis, Judith Ivey, and Judith Light are the only women who have won twice.

    • References

    Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play Wikipedia
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