Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics

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| George Haimsohn & Robin Miller

| Dames at Sea

| Fred Ebb

| Zorba

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| Stephen Sondheim

| Company

| Bertolt Brecht

| Mahagonny

| Stephen Sondheim

| Follies

| John Guare

| Two Gentlemen of Verona

| Stephen Sondheim

| A Little Night Music

| Al Carmines

| The Faggot

| Charlie Smalls

| The Wiz

| The Lieutenant

| Mack and Mabel

| In Gay Company

| Edward Kleban & Marvin Hamlisch

| A Chorus Line

| 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

| Tuscaloosa's Calling Me

| Pacific Overtures

| Martin Charnin

| Annie

| The Robber Bridegroom

| Carol Hall

| The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

| Runaways

| Stephen Sondheim

| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

| I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road

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| Tim Rice

| Evita

| Strider

| Stephen Sondheim

| Merrily We Roll Along

| Maury Yeston

| Nine

| Dreamgirls

| Pump Boys and Dinettes

| Howard Ashman

| Little Shop of Horrors

| Charlotte Sweet

| Cats

| Death of Von Richthofen

| Stephen Sondheim

| Sunday in the Park with George

| La Cage aux Folles

| Baby

| Doonesbury

| Roger Miller

| Big River

| 3 Guys Naked from the Waist Down

| Grind

| Stephen Sondheim

| Into the Woods

| Romance/Romance

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| David Zippel

| City of Angels

| Closer Than Ever

| Grand Hotel

| William Finn

| Falsettoland

| The Secret Garden

| Assassins

| Susan Birkenhead

| Jelly's Last Jam

| Song of Singapore

| Joel Paley

| Ruthless!

| A Backer's Audition

| Wings

| The Goodbye Girl

| Stephen Sondheim

| Passion

| Beauty and the Beast

| Hello Again

| Jonathan Larson

| Rent

| Floyd Collins

| Bed and Sofa

| Splendora

| Big

| Gerard Alessandrini

| Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back

| Violet

| When Pigs Fly

| Lynn Ahrens

| Ragtime

| Hedwig and the Angry Inch

| Triumph of Love

| Gerard Alessandrini

| Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act

| Parade

| A New Brain

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| Stephen Sondheim

| Saturday Night

| The Big Bang

| The Bomb-itty of Errors

| The Wild Party

| Mel Brooks

| The Producers

| The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin

| Urinetown

| A Class Act

| Bat Boy: The Musical

| The Full Monty

| Jason Robert Brown

| The Last Five Years

| Sweet Smell of Success

| Tick, Tick... BOOM!

| Reefer Madness

| Thoroughly Modern Millie

| Dragapella Starring The Kinsey Sicks

| Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman

| Hairspray

| Zanna, Don't!

| A Man of No Importance

| Imaginary Friends

| Avenue Q

| Amour

| Stephen Schwartz

| Wicked

| The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)

| Taboo

| Cupid and Psyche

| Johnny Guitar

| Eric Idle

| Spamalot

| Altar Boyz

| Children's Letters to God

| Newsical

| The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

| Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

| Lisa Lambert & Greg Morrison

| The Drowsy Chaperone

| The Wedding Singer

| Songs from an Unmade Bed

| I Love You Because

| Grey Gardens

| See What I Wanna See

| Steven Sater

| Spring Awakening

| Curtains

| In the Heights

| Legally Blonde

| Capitol Steps

| Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me

| Stew

| Passing Strange

| The Glorious Ones

| Young Frankenstein

| A Catered Affair

| The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island

| Adding Machine

| Stephen Sondheim

| Road Show

| The Story of My Life

| 13

| Dear Edwina

| Shrek the Musical

| 9 to 5

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| Fred Ebb & John Kander

| The Scottsboro Boys

| Newsical

| Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type

| Fascinating Aïda

| The Addams Family

| Yank!

| Trey Parker, Robert Lopez & Matt Stone

| The Book of Mormon

| Newsical The Musical – Full Spin Ahead

| The Kid

| See Rock City & Other Destinations

| Sister Act

| Catch Me If You Can

| Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová

| Once

| Bonnie & Clyde

| Newsies

| The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World

| Queen of the Mist

| Death Takes a Holiday

| Tim Minchin

| Matilda the Musical

| Hands on a Hardbody

| Bring It On: The Musical

| Giant

| Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

| The Other Josh Cohen

| Robert L. Freedman & Steven Lutvak

| A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

| Aladdin

| The Bridges of Madison County

| Love's Labour's Lost

| Far from Heaven

| Fun Home

| Lin-Manuel Miranda

| Hamilton

| Honeymoon in Vegas

| The Visit

| The Fortress of Solitude

| Something Rotten!

| The Lion

| Benj Pasek & Justin Paul

| Dear Evan Hansen

| Waitress

| School of Rock

| First Daughter Suite

| David Yazbek

| The Band's Visit

| Spamilton

| Othello: The Remix

| War Paint

| Come from Away

|Peter Kellogg

|Desperate Measures

|Mean Girls

|Miss You Like Hell

|KPOP

|David Yazbek

|Tootsie

|The Prom

|Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future

|Be More Chill

|The Hello Girls

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| Michael R. Jackson

| A Strange Loop

| The Secret Life of Bees

| Scotland, PA

| Einstein's Dreams

| Octet

| Romeo & Bernadette

| Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss

| Six

| Mr. Saturday Night

| The Hang

| Kimberly Akimbo

| Intimate Apparel

| Suffs

| Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman

| Some Like It Hot

| Shucked

| Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical

| White Girl in Danger

| The Bedwetter

| David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna

| Dead Outlaw

| Rachel Bloom: Death, Let Me Do My Show

| The Connector

| Teeth

| The Outsiders