Off-Broadway's Highest Honor

1963 Hosts

1963 Presenters

1963 Award Winners

  • Special Citations
    • The Second City,
    • Jean Erdman, The Coach with the Six Insides
  • Set Design
    • No award given,
  • Obie Committee
    • ,
      John Gassner, Norman Nadel, Michael Smith
  • Music
    • No award given,
  • Distinguished Plays
    • No award given,
  • Distinguished Performances
    • Jacqueline Brookes, Six Characters in Search of An Author
    • Michael O'Sullivan, Six Characters in Search of An Author
    • Joseph Chaikin, Man is Man
    • James Patterson, `The Collection" in The Pinter plays
    • Olympia Dukakis, A Man's a Man
    • Madeleine Sherwood, Hey You, Light Man!
    • Anne Jackson, "The Typists" and "The Tiger"
    • Eli Wallach, "The Typists" and "The Tiger"
  • Distinguished Direction
    • No award given,
  • Costumes
    • No award given,
  • Best Production (play)
    • Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of An Author
      directed by William Ball
  • Best Production (musical)
    • , The Boys from Syracuse
  • Best Foreign Play
    • No award given,
  • Best Director
    • Alan Schneider, The Pinter Plays
  • Best American Play
    • No award given,
  • Best Actress
    • Colleen Dewhurst, Desire Under the Elms
  • Best Actor
    • George C. Scott, Desire Under the Elms

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