1966 Award Winners

• Special Citations
  • Joseph H. Dunn, The Automobile Graveyard
    which brilliantly combines the arts of design, lighting, and staging for audience involvement
  • H.M. Koutoukas,
    for the style and energy of his assaults on the theatre in both playwrighting and production
  • Peter Schumann,
    for his Bread and Puppet Theatre, which embodies a courageous and rigorous vision and practice of theatre engaged with its time
  • Theatre for Ideas,
    for encouraging exploration in dramatic literature and music
  • Theater in the Street,
    for upholding the tradition of street theatre and reaching out to new English- and Spanish-speaking audiences
• Set Design
  • Lindsey Decker, Red Cross
  • Ed Wittstein, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
• Obie Committee
  • ,
    Albert Bermel, Maria Irene Fornes, Robert Pasolli, Isaiah Shaffer, Michael Smith
• Distinguished Plays
  • Emanuel Peluso, Good Day
  • Sam Shepard, "Chicago," "Icarus's Mother," and "Red Cross"
• Distinguished Performances
  • Clarice Blackburn, The Exhaustion of Our Son's Love
  • Mari-Claire Charba, Birdbath
  • Gloria Foster, Medea
  • Sharon Gans, Soon Jack November
  • Frank Langella, "Good Day" and "The White Devil"
  • Michael Lipton, The Trial
  • Kevin O'Connor, Chicago
  • Jess Osuna, "Bugs" and "Veronica"
  • Florence Tarlow, "Istanbul," "Red Cross," and "A Beautiful Day"
  • Douglas Turner Ward, Days of Absence
• Best Foreign Play
  • No award given,
• Best American Play
  • Ronald Ribman, The Journey of the Fifth Horse
• Best Actress
  • Jane White, "Coriolanus" and "Love's Labour's Lost"
• Best Actor
  • Dustin Hoffman, The Exhaustion of Our Son's Love