The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play was first awarded at the 1974-1975 Drama Desk Awards and has been awarded every year since. Before the 21st Drama Desk Awards, acting awards were given without making distinctions between roles in straight dramas as opposed to musicals, nor were there separate categories for actors and actresses.

Award winners and nominations

1970s

• 1975: Frances Sternhagen ? Equus
  • Polly Adams ? London Assurance
  • Maureen Anderman ? Seascape
  • Carolyn Lagerfelt ? The Constant Wife
  • Carole Shelley ? Absurd Person Singular
  • Elizabeth Spriggs ? London Assurance
  • Marie Wallace ? Avon Lady

• 1976: Rachel Roberts ? Habeas Corpus
  • Lynn Ann Leveridge ? Yentl
  • Toni Darnay ? The Heiress
  • Alice Drummond ? A Memory of Two Mondays
  • June Havoc ? Habeas Corpus
  • Kaiulani Lee ? Kennedy's Children

• 1977: Rosemary De Angelis ? The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie
  • Joyce Ebert ? The Shadow Box
  • Rosemary Gregorio ? The Shadow Box
  • Cecilia Hart ? The Dirty Linen
  • Patricia Roe ? The Oldest Living Graduate
  • Meryl Streep ? The Cherry Orchard
  • Gretchen Wyler ? Sly Fox

• 1978: Eileen Atkins ? Tribades
  • Martha Gaylord ? The Elusive Angel
  • Carol Kane ? Marigolds
  • Swoosie Kurtz ? Uncommon Women
  • Pamela Reed ? The Curse of the Starving Class

• 1979: Pamela Reed ? Getting Out
  • Dixie Carter ? Fathers and Sons
  • Frances Foster ? Nevis Mt. Dew
  • Joan Hickson ? Bedroom Farce
  • Laurie Kennedy ? Man and Superman
  • Susan Littler ? Bedroom Farce

1980s

• 1980: Lois de Banzie ? Morning's at Seven
  • Pamela Brook ? Goodbye Fidel
  • Frances Conroy ? Othello
  • Mia Dillon ? Once a Catholic
  • Dianne Wiest ? The Art of Dining

• 1981: Swoosie Kurtz ? Fifth of July
  • Fran Brill ? Knuckle
  • Carrie Nye - The Man Who Came to Dinner
  • Jean Smart ? Last Summer of Bluefish Cove
  • Jessica Tandy ? Rose
  • Zoe Wanamaker - Piaf

• 1982: Amanda Plummer - Agnes of God
  • Pauline Flanagan Medea
  • Estelle Getty Torch Song Trilogy
  • Cheryl Giannini Grownups
  • E. Katherine Kerr Cloud Nine
  • Aideen O'Kelly Othello

Reference

• http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0152906.html
• http://dramadesk.com/
• http://www.ibdb.com/

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