1977 Award Winners

• Special Citations
  • Barbara Garson, The Dinosaur Door
  • Manhattan Theatre Club,
    for Sustained Excellence
  • New York Street Theatre Caravan,
    for Sustained Excellence
  • Theatre for the New City,
    for Sustained Excellence
  • Philip Glass, for the music for Einstein on the Beach
  • Ping Chong, Humboldt's Current
  • The creators of "Nightclub Cantata",
  • Charles Ludlam, for the design of Der Ring Gott Farblonjet
  • Carole Oditz, Douglas Schmidt, and Burl Hash, "Crazy Locomotive"
    costumes, set , and lighting
  • Henry Millman and Edward M. Greenberg, "Domino Courts"
    set and lighting
• Playwriting
  • David Berry, G.R. Point
  • Maria Irene Fornes, Fefu and Her Friends
  • William Hauptmann, Domino Courts
  • Albert Innaurato, "Gemini" and "The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie"
  • David Rudkin, Ashes
• Performance
  • Danny Aiello, Gemini
  • Martin Balsam, Cold Storage
  • Lucinda Childs, Einstein on the Beach
  • James Coco, The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie
  • Anne DiSalvo, Gemini
  • John Heard, G.R. Point
  • Jo Henderson, Ladyhouse Blues
  • William Hurt, My Life
  • Joseph Maher, Savages
  • Roberta Maxwell, Ashes
  • Brian Murray, Ashes
  • Lola Pashalinski, Der Ring Gott Farblonjet
  • Marian Seldes, Isadora Duncan Sleeps with the Russian Navy
  • Margaret Wright, A Manoir
• Obie Committee
  • Michael Feingold, Dan Isaac, Erika Munk, Julius Novick, Arthur Sainer, Marilyn Stasio, Ross Wetzsteon,
• Distinguished Productions
  • Playwright Eve Merriam, director Tommy Tune, costume designer Kate Carmel, and the entire cast of "The Club",
  • Poet Ntozake SHange, director Oz Scott, and the entire cast of "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf",
  • Mabou Mines, Dressed Like an Egg
• Direction
  • Melvin Bernhardt, Children
  • Gordon Davidson, Savages
• Design
  • See CITATIONS,
• Best New American Play
  • Sam Shepard, Curse of the Starving Class