Awards & Winners

1970 Obie Award

Check winners and nominations of 1970 Obie Award. Check awards winners of 15th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

15th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards

Obie Award for Best New American Play

Paul Zindel

Honored for : The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
(Best American Play)
Obie Award for Best Foreign Play

Joe Orton

Honored for : What the Butler Saw
Obie Award for Best Musical

Gretchen Cryer, Nancy Ford

Honored for : The Last Sweet Days of Isaac
Obie Award for Best Musical

Robert H. Livingston, Gary William Friedman, Will Holt

Honored for : The Me Nobody Knows
Obie Award for Best Performance

Sada Thompson

Honored for : The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Obie Award for Direction

Alan Arkin

Honored for : The White House Murder Case
(Distinguished Direction)
Obie Award for Direction

Melvin Bernhardt

Honored for : The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
(Distinguished Direction)
Obie Award for Performance

Beeson Carroll

Honored for : The Unseen Hand
(Distinguished Performances)
Obie Award for Distinguished Plays

Murray Mednick

Honored for : The Deer Kill
Obie Award for Direction

Maxine Klein

Honored for : Approaching Simone
(Distinguished Direction)
Obie Award for Distinguished Plays

Václav Havel

Honored for : The Increased Difficulty of Concentration
Obie Award for Direction

Gilbert Moses

Honored for : Slave Ship
(Distinguished Direction)
Obie Award for Performance

Vincent Gardenia

Honored for : Passing Through From Exotic Places
(Distinguished Performances)
Obie Award for Distinguished Productions

Chelsea Theater Center

(Special Citations)
Obie Award for Performance

Harold Gould

Honored for : The Increased Difficulty of Concentration
(Distinguished Performances)
Obie Award for Special Citations

Richard Foreman, Stanley Silverman

Honored for : Elephant Steps
Obie Award for Performance

Anthony Holland

Honored for : The White House Murder Case
(Distinguished Performances)
Obie Award for Performance

Ron Leibman

Honored for : Transfers
(Distinguished Performances)
Obie Award for Performance

Rue McClanahan

Honored for : Who's Happy Now?
(Distinguished Performances)
Obie Award for Performance

Roberta Maxwell

Honored for : A Whistle in the Dark
(Distinguished Performances)
Obie Award for Special Citations
Obie Award for Performance

Austin Pendleton

Honored for : The Last Sweet Days of Isaac
(Distinguished Performances)
Obie Award for Special Citations

Gardner Compton, Emile Ardolino

Honored for : Oh! Calcutta!
(Projected media for Oh! Calcutta!)
Obie Award for Performance

Pamela Payton-Wright

Honored for : The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
(Distinguished Performances)
Obie Award for Special Citations
Obie Award for Special Citations

Andre Gregory

Honored for : Alice in Wonderland
Obie Award for Set Design
Obie Award for Performance

Lee Kissman

Honored for : The Unseen Hand
(Distinguished Performances)
Obie Award for Performance

Fredericka Weber

Honored for : The Last Sweet Days of Isaac
(Distinguished Performances)
Obie Award for Best New American Play

Megan Terry

Honored for : Approaching Simone
(Best American Play)