Nominees, eventual winners, presenters, special guests, and lots of fun folks in the audience gathered at NYU's Skirball Center on Monday, June 1 for the 69th annual Drama Desk Awards. Here are Michael Portantiere photos of only a fraction of the notables on hand.
Andrew Scott (Vanya)
Jasmine Amy Rogers (Boop!)
Tom Francis (Sunset Boulevard)
Kara Young and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Purpose)
Gerard Alessandrini (Forbidden Broadway) and presenter/nominee Jonathan Groff (Just in Time)
George C. Wolfe (Gypsy)
Jeremy Jordan (Floyd Collins)
Gabriel Ebert (John Proctor Is the Villain)
Michael Rishawn (Table 17) and Norm Lewis (who performed during the ceremony)
Nicholas Barasch (Pirates! The Penzance Musical)
Michael Arden (director of Maybe Happy Ending) and
husband Andy Mientus (The Jonathan Larson Project)
Brooks Ashmanskas (Smash) and producer Tom Kirdahy
Brian Stokes Mitchell and wife, Allyson Tucker
Jeb Brown, Thom Sesma, David Yazbek, Andrew Durand (Dead Outlaw)
