1972 Award Winners

• Visual Effects
  • Video Free America, Kaddish
• Special Citations
  • Meredith Monk, "Vessel"
  • Charles Stanley,
    Actor, Dancer, Choreographer, Costume Designer
• Set Design
  • No award given,
• Obie Committee
  • Dick Brukenfeld, Michael Feingold, John Lahr, Julius Novick, Arthur Sainer, Michael Smith, and Martin Washburn,
• Music And Lyrics
  • Micki Grant, Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope
• Distinguished Plays
  • No award given,
• Distinguished Performances
  • Salome Bey, Love Me, Love My Children
  • Maurice Blanc, The Celebrations: Joos/Guns/Movies/The Abyss
  • Alex Bradford, Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope
  • Marilyn Chris, Kaddish
  • Ron Faber, And They Put Handcuffs on Flowers
  • Jeanne Hepple, The Reliquary of Mr. and Mrs. Potterfield
  • Danny Sewell, The Homecoming
  • Marilyn Soko, The Beggar's Opera
  • Kathleen Widdoes, The Beggar's Opera
  • Elizabeth Wilson, Sticks and Bones
  • Ed Zang, The Reliquary of Mr. and Mrs. Potterfield
• Distinguished Direction
  • Wilford Leach and John Braswell, The Only Jealousy of Emer
  • Mel Shapiro, Two Gentlemen of Verona
  • Michael Smith, Country Music
  • Tom Sydorick, 20th Century Tar
• Composer
  • Liz Swados, Medea
• Best Theatre Piece
  • The Open Theatre, "The Mutation Show"
• Best Foreign Play
  • No award given,
• Best American Play
  • No award given,