Awards & Winners

1962 Obie Award

Check winners and nominations of 1962 Obie Award. Check awards winners of 7th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

7th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards

Obie Award for Best Actor

James Earl Jones

Honored for : Clandestine on the Morning Line, The Apple, Moon on a Rainbow Shawl
Obie Award for Best Actress

Barbara Harris

Honored for : Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad
Obie Award for Best Foreign Play

Samuel Beckett

Honored for : Happy Days
Obie Award for Best Musical

C. Bernard Jackson, Jerome Eskow, James Hatch

Honored for : Fly Blackbird
Obie Award for Set Design

Norris Houghton

Honored for : Who'll Save the Plowboy?
(Best Set)
Obie Award for Best New American Play

Frank D. Gilroy

Honored for : Who'll Save the Plowboy?
(Best American Play)
Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actor

Clayton Corzatte

(Distinguished Performances (actors), awarded for performance in APA Repertory)
Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actor

Geoff Garland

Honored for : The Hostage
(Distinguished Performances (actors))
Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actor

Gerald S. O'Loughlin

Honored for : Who'll Save the Plowboy?
(Distinguished Performances (actors))
Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actor

Paul Roebling

Honored for : This Side of Paradise
(Distinguished Performances (actors))
Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress

Sudie Bond

Honored for : Theatre of the Absurd
(Distinguished Performances (actresses))
Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress

Vinnette Justine Carroll

Honored for : Moon on a Rainbow Shawl
(Distinguished Performances (actresses))
Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress

Rosemary Harris

(For the APA Repertory, Distinguished Performances (actresses))
Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress

Ruth White

Honored for : Happy Days
(Distinguished Performances (actresses))
Obie Award for Special Citations

Ellis Rabb

(For conceiving and maintaining the Association of Producing Artists (APA))
Obie Award for Special Citations

The Hostage

(For using the best possibilities of Off Broadway to convey the essence of Brendan Behan)