The 1960s saw the beginnings of Edward Albee with his first play, The Zoo Story, receiving an Obie. Colleen Dewhurst, Samuel Beckett, and Robert Duvall were just a few who garnered the award, while an up and coming Dustin Hoffman received the Obie for his performance in The Exhaustion of Our Son's Love.
Winners
Best Actor
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Al Pacino
The Indian Wants the Bronx
Best Actress
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Billie Dixon
The Beard
Best Musical
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Gertrude Stein and Al Carmines
In Circles
Best Director
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Michael A. Schultz
Song of the Lusitanian Bogey
Best Foreign Play
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Vaclav Havel
The Memorandum
Best Design
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Robert LaVigne
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Endecott and the Red Cross"
Distinguished Plays
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Sam Shepard
"Forensic and the Navigator" and "Melodrama Play"
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John Guare
Muzzeka
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Israel Horovitz
The Indian Wants the Bronx
Distinguished Direction
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Rip Torn
The Beard
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John Hancock
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Distinguished Performances
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Roy R. Scheider
Stephen D.
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Peggy Pope
Mama
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Moses Gunn
The Negro Ensemble Company repertory
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Mari Gorman
"The Memorandum" and "Walking to Waldheim"
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John Cazale
"Line" and "The Indian Wants the Bronx"
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Jean David
Istanboul
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James Coco
Fragments
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Cliff Gorman
The Boys in the Band
Special Citations
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The Negro Ensemble Company
for Sustained Excellence in Repertory Theatre and the development of new theatrical talent
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The Fortune Society
for expanding public awareness of the problems of the ex-convict and the prison system in America
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San Francisco Mime Troupe
for uniting theatre and revolution and grooving in the park
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El Teatro Campesino
for creating a workers' theatre to demonstrate the politics of survival
Obie Committee
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Clive Barnes, John Lahr, Michael Smith