Awards & Winners

1968 Obie Award

Check winners and nominations of 1968 Obie Award. Check awards winners of 13th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

13th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards

Obie Award for Best Actor

Al Pacino

Honored for : The Indian Wants the Bronx
Obie Award for Best Actress

Billie Dixon

Honored for : The Beard
Obie Award for Best Director

Michael Schultz

Honored for : Song of the Lusitanian Bogey
Obie Award for Best Foreign Play

Václav Havel

Honored for : The Memorandum
Obie Award for Design

Robert LaVigne

Honored for : A Midsummer Night's Dream, Endecott and the Red Cross
(Best Design)
Obie Award for Best Musical

Gertrude Stein, Al Carmines

Honored for : In Circles
Obie Award for Direction

John D. Hancock

Honored for : A Midsummer Night's Dream
(Distinguished Direction)
Obie Award for Distinguished Plays

Israel Horovitz

Honored for : The Indian Wants the Bronx
Obie Award for Distinguished Plays

John Guare

Honored for : Muzeeka
Obie Award for Distinguished Plays

Sam Shepard

Honored for : Forensic and the Navigators, Melodrama Play
Obie Award for Special Citations

Teatro Campesino

(For creating a workers' theatre to demonstrate the politics of survival)
Obie Award for Special Citations

The Fortune Society

(For expanding public awareness of the problems of the ex-convict and the prison system in America)
Obie Award for Special Citations

Negro Ensemble Company

(For Sustained Excellence in Repertory Theatre and the development of new theatrical talent)
Obie Award for Special Citations

San Francisco Mime Troupe

(For uniting theatre and revolution and grooving in the park)
Obie Award for Performance

Roy Scheider

Honored for : Stephen D.
(Distinguished Performances)
Obie Award for Direction

Rip Torn

Honored for : The Beard
(Distinguished Direction)