Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design

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Drama Desk Award category theatre award

The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design is a prestigious New York theater honor recognizing exceptional costume work in Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway productions.

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Label	Occurrences
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design canonical	6
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical	1
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design for a Play	1
Drama Desk costume design award	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3955571 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

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Target entity: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design
Context triple: [The Coast of Utopia (Broadway, 2006–2007), awardReceived, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design]

A. Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Play
The Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Play is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding achievement in costume design for non-musical stage productions.
B. Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design of a Play
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design of a Play is an annual New York theater honor recognizing exceptional scenic design in Off-Broadway and Broadway plays.
C. Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play
The Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding achievement in the visual and environmental design of a play’s production.
D. Drama Desk Award
The Drama Desk Award is a prestigious New York theater honor recognizing outstanding achievements in Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway productions.
E. Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play
The Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play is a prestigious annual honor recognizing outstanding achievement in lighting design for Broadway plays.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design
Target entity description: The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design is a prestigious New York theater honor recognizing exceptional costume work in Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway productions.

A. Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Play
The Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Play is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding achievement in costume design for non-musical stage productions.
B. Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design of a Play
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design of a Play is an annual New York theater honor recognizing exceptional scenic design in Off-Broadway and Broadway plays.
C. Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play
The Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding achievement in the visual and environmental design of a play’s production.
D. Drama Desk Award
The Drama Desk Award is a prestigious New York theater honor recognizing outstanding achievements in Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway productions.
E. Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play
The Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play is a prestigious annual honor recognizing outstanding achievement in lighting design for Broadway plays.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (32)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Drama Desk Award category ⓘ theatre award ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design ⓘ surface form: Drama Desk costume design award
appliesTo	Broadway theater ⓘ surface form: Broadway productions Off-Broadway productions ⓘ Off-Off-Broadway productions ⓘ
associatedWith	New York theatre community ⓘ
awardFor	costume design in theatre ⓘ
awardType	competitive award ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
domain	performing arts ⓘ
field	costume design ⓘ theatre ⓘ
frequency	annual ⓘ
genre	theatre award ⓘ
givenTo	costume designers ⓘ
hasCategory	design award ⓘ
hasLanguage	English ⓘ
inception	20th century ⓘ
location	New York City ⓘ
notableFor	including Broadway and Off-Broadway in same category ⓘ
organizer	Drama Desk ⓘ surface form: Drama Desk organization
partOf	Drama Desk Award ⓘ surface form: Drama Desk Awards
presentedBy	Drama Desk ⓘ
presentedIn	New York City ⓘ
recognizes	excellence in theatrical costume work ⓘ outstanding costume design ⓘ
relatedTo	Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Musical ⓘ surface form: Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Musical Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Play ⓘ surface form: Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play
scope	New York theatre community ⓘ surface form: New York theatre
selectionBasis	artistic merit ⓘ quality of costume design ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

The Coast of Utopia (Broadway, 2006–2007) → awardReceived → Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design ⓘ

Barnum (1980 Broadway production) → awardReceived → Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design ⓘ

Julie Taymor → awardReceived → Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design ⓘ

Theoni V. Aldredge → awardReceived → Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design ⓘ

Gregg Barnes → awardReceived → Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design ⓘ

Catherine Zuber → awardReceived → Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design ⓘ

Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Play → relatedTo → Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design ⓘ

this entity surface form: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design for a Play

Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Musical → relatedTo → Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design ⓘ

this entity surface form: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design → alsoKnownAs → Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design ⓘ

this entity surface form: Drama Desk costume design award

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