Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Adaptation

Drama Desk Award
for Outstanding Adaptation
Drama Desk Award ; for Outstanding Adaptation
Awarded for	Outstanding Adaptation
Location	New York City
Country	United States
Presented by	Drama Desk
First award	2020
Currently held by	Rupert Holmes for Pirates! The Penzance Musical (2025)
Website	dramadesk.org

Awarded forOutstanding Adaptation

LocationNew York City

CountryUnited States

Presented byDrama Desk

The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Adaptation is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in adapted works of theatre across collective Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in New York City.

Amy Herzog has won the award twice in a row, for her adaptations of A Doll's House and An Enemy of the People, while she is tied with Jeffrey Hatcher and Robert Icke for most nominations, with two each.

Year	Work	Author	Ref.
2020
	A Christmas Carol	Jack Thorne	^[1]^[2]
	Judgment Day	Christopher Shinn
	Mojada	Luis Alfaro
	Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow	Halley Feiffer
2021	No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City		^[3]
2022
	Merry Wives	Jocelyn Bioh	^[4]^[5] ^[6]
	The Alchemist	Jeffrey Hatcher	^[4]^[5] ^[6]
2023
	A Doll’s House	Amy Herzog	^[7]^[8]
	Arden of Faversham	Jeffrey Hatcher and Kathryn Walat
	black odyssey	Marcus Gardley
	Oresteia	Robert Icke
	Wuthering Heights	Emma Rice
2024
	An Enemy of the People	Amy Herzog	^[9]^[10]
	The Comedy of Errors	Rebecca Martínez and Julián Mesri
	The Doctor	Robert Icke
	The Hunt	David Farr
	The Whole of Time	Romina Paul
2025
	Pirates! The Penzance Musical	Rupert Holmes	^[11]^[12]
	Becoming Eve	Emil Weinstein
	Cymbeline	Andrea Thome
	Medea: Re-Versed	Luis Quintero
	The Devil’s Disciple	David Staller
2026	and her Children	Rosie Glen-Lambert and Hailey McAfee	^[13]
	Are the Bennett Girls OK?	Emily Breeze
	Oedipus	Robert Icke
	Pride and Prejudice	Abigail Pickard Price, with Sarah Gobran and Matt Pinches
	Room 204	Zusammen Theatre Project (Dennis Flanagan and Anjelica Fellini)
	The Imaginary Invalid	Lucie Tiberghien

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