Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance

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| Ian McKellen

| Acting Shakespeare

| Secret Honor

| Hey, Ma...Kaye Ballard

| Jeeves Takes Charge

| Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo

| Rockaby

| Whoopi Goldberg

| Whoopi Goldberg

| Avner the Eccentric

| Swimming to Cambodia

| Kipling

| An Evening with Ekkehard Schall

| Hannah Senesh

| Eric Bogosian

| Drinking in America

| Time to Start Living

| Barbara Cook

| A Concert for the Theatre

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| Robert Morse

| Tru

| Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll

| A Mom's Life

| Mandy Patinkin in Concert: "Dress Casual"

| Eileen Atkins

| A Room of One's Own

| Artificial Reality

| Monster in a Box

| The Big Love

| Patrick Stewart

| A Christmas Carol

| At Wit's End

| Home and Away

| Red Diaper Baby

| Anna Deavere Smith

| Fires in the Mirror

| Spic-O-Rama

| Shakespeare for My Father

| Roy Cohn/Jack Smith

| Anna Deavere Smith

| Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

| Pounding Nails in the Floor with my Forehead

| Family Secrets

| Gray's Anatomy

| Blown Sideways Through Life

| Celeste LecesneNominated as James Lecesne.

| Word of Mouth

| The Only Thing Worse You Could Have Told Me

| Some People

| Too Jewish?

| 101 Humiliating Stories

| Mary Louise Wilson

| Full Gallop

| Nude Nude Totally Nude

| Springhill Singing Disaster

| Fiona Shaw

| The Waste Land

| The Vagina Monologues

| Eddie Izzard

| A Huey P. Newton Story

| Julia Sweeney's God Said "Ha!"

| John Leguizamo

| Freak

| Black Humor

| Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop

| David Hare

| Via Dolorosa

| Bob

| Jodie's Body

| Star Billing

| 2.5 Minute Ride

| Clarence Darrow Tonight!

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| Dame Edna Everage

| Dame Edna: The Royal Tour

| Rose

| Morning, Noon and Night

| Chesapeake

| Fully Committed

| Another American: Asking and Telling

| Pamela Gien

| The Syringa Tree

| Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

| Resident Alien

| The Good Thief

| Surface Transit

| Lackawanna Blues

| Elaine Stritch

| Elaine Stritch at Liberty

| Are You Dave Gorman?

| Save It for the Stage: The Life of Reilly

| Rebel Without a Pause

| Underneath the Lintel

| Tovah Feldshuh

| Golda's Balcony

| Mostly Sondheim

| Say Goodnight, Gracie

| Ricky Jay: On the Stem

| Class Mother '68

| In Real Life

| Jefferson Mays

| I Am My Own Wife

| Barbara Cook's Broadway!

| Nobody Don't Like Yogi

| Bridge and Tunnel

| The Tricky Part

| Flow

| Billy Crystal

| 700 Sundays

| Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance

| Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure

| Jackie Mason: Freshly Squeezed

| Us

| Thom Pain (based on nothing)

| Antony Sher

| Primo

| 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother

| Los Big Names

| George M. Cohan Tonight!

| Vivien

| Songs from an Unmade Bed

| Vanessa Redgrave

| The Year of Magical Thinking

| Dai (enough)

| Wrecks

| (mis)Understanding Mammy: The Hattie McDaniel Story

| Sisters

| No Child...

| Laurence Fishburne

| Thurgood

| Dixie's Tupperware Party

| Beyond Glory

| Liberty City

| Lorenzo Pisoni

| Humor Abuse

| Sleepwalk with Me

| Southern Gothic Novel

| Krapp, 39

| Clay

| The Atheist

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| Jim Brochu

| Zero Hour

| Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears

| A Boy and His Soul

| Wishful Drinking

| The Lady with All the Answers

| Let Me Down Easy

| John Leguizamo

| Ghetto Klown

| Through the Night

| Mike Birbiglia's My Girlfriend's Boyfriend

| Batman and Robin in the Boogie Down

| Colin Quinn: Long Story Short

| The Promise

| Cillian Murphy

| Misterman

| The Rap Guide to Evolution

| Chimera

| The Eyes of Babylon

| An Iliad

| An Iliad

| Michael Urie

| Buyer & Cellar

| Hold These Truths

| Kafka's Monkey

| I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers

| A Celebration of Harold Pinter

| Ann

| John Douglas Thompson

| Satchmo at the Waldorf

| This is My Office

| Character Man

| Grounded

| Becoming Dr. Ruth

| August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned

| Benjamin Scheuer

| The Lion

| Application Pending

| Every Brilliant Thing

| Wiesenthal

| The Pianist of Willesden Lane

| The Belle of Amherst

| Jesse Tyler Ferguson

| Fully Committed

| Tuesdays at Tesco's

| Rose

| Empanada Loca

|Ed Dixon

|Georgie: My Adventures with George Rose

|The Pen (Inner Voices)

|On the Exhale

|Sell/Buy/Date

|Where Did We Sit on the Bus?

|Notes from the Field

|Billy Crudup

|Harry Clarke

|Strange Interlude

|A Hunger Artist

|Who's Holiday!

|Iphigenia in Splott

|Mike Birbiglia

|The New One

|Girls & Boys

|The Peculiar Patriot

|Spaceman

|Fleabag

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| Laura Linney

| My Name Is Lucy Barton

| We're Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time

| the way she spoke

| Get on Your Knees

| Dana H.

| Kristina Wong

| Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord

| Just for Us

| Ni Mi Madre

|Jodie Comer

|Prima Facie

| Four Saints in Three Acts

| Walking With Bubbles

| Without You

|Jack Was Kind

|Patrick Page

|All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain

| Sorry for Your Loss

| Breathless

| Make Me Gorgeous!

|SMALL