1961 Award Winners

• Special Citations
  • Bernard Frechtman, The Blacks
    for his translation
• Set Design
  • No award given,
• Obie Committee
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    Harold Clurman, Tom Driver, Jerry Tallmer
• Distinguished Plays
  • No award given,
• Distinguished Performances (actresses)
  • Joan Hackett, Call Me By My Rightful Name
  • Gerry Jedd, She Stoops to Conquer
  • Surya Kumari, The King of the Darn Chamber
• Distinguished Performances (actors)
  • Godfrey M. Cambridge, The Blacks
  • James Coco, The Moon in the Yellow River
  • Lester Rawlins, Hedda Gabler
• Distinguished Direction
  • No award given,
• Costumes
  • No award given,
• Best Overall Production
  • David Ross, Hedda Gabler
• Best Off--off--broadway Production
  • Theodore Flicker, The Premise
    produced and directed by Theodore Flicker
• Best New Play
  • Jean Genet, The Blacks
• Best Music
  • Teiji Ito, "In the Jungle of Cities," "Three Modern Japanese Plays," "King Ubu"
• Best Foreign Play
  • No award given,
• Best Director
  • Gerald A. Freedman, The Taming of the Shrew
• Best Actress
  • Anne Meacham, Hedda Gabler
• Best Actor
  • Khigh Dhiegh, In the Jungle of Cities