Awards & Winners

Obie Award for Direction

Obie Award

Obie Award for Direction is one of the awards presented at the annual Obie Award ceremony. It was previously referred to as Distinguished Direction (1960 - 1974).
Obie Award for Direction is one of the awards presented at the annual Obie Award ceremony.

Check all the winners of Obie Award for Direction presented under Obie Award since 1964 .


James Macdonald

Honored for : Love And Information

Oliver Butler

Honored for : The Open House

Liesl Tommy

Honored for : Appropriate

Lear DeBessonet

Honored for : Good Person of Szechwan

John Rando

Honored for : All in the Timing

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Honored for : The Piano Lesson

Eric Ting

Honored for : We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia...

Richard Maxwell

Honored for : The Complete and Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill Volume 1: Early Plays/Lost Plays

Jay Scheib

Honored for : World of Wires

Roger Rees, Alex Timbers

Honored for : Peter and the Starcatcher
(Obie Award for Directing)

Leigh Silverman

Honored for : In The Wake, Go Back To Where You Are
(Obie Award for Directing)

Austin Pendleton

Honored for : Three Sisters
(Obie Award for Directing)

Sam Gold

Honored for : Circle Mirror Transformation, The Aliens
(Obie Award for Directing)

Pam MacKinnon

Honored for : Clybourne Park
(Obie Award for Directing)

David Cromer

Honored for : Our Town
(Obie Award for Directing)

Katie Mitchell

Honored for : The Waves
(Obie Award for Directing)

Ken Rus Schmoll

Honored for : Telephone
(Obie Award for Directing)

Krzysztof Warlikowski

Honored for : Krum

David Cromer

Honored for : Adding Machine

Lou Bellamy

Honored for : Two Trains Running

Matthew Maguire

Honored for : Abandon

Eirik Stubø

Honored for : The Wild Duck

Chay Yew

Honored for : Durango

Anne Kauffman

Honored for : The Thugs

Daniel J. Sullivan

Honored for : Stuff Happens

Dan Wackerman

Honored for : Counsellor-At-Law

Ivo van Hove

Honored for : Hedda Gabler

Lee Breuer

Honored for : Mabou Mines dollHouse

Moisés Kaufman

Honored for : I Am My Own Wife

Emily Mann

Honored for : All Over

Deborah Warner

Honored for : Medea

Mary Zimmerman

Honored for : Metamorphoses

George C. Wolfe

Honored for : Topdog/Underdog

Craig Lucas

Honored for : Saved or Destroyed

Michael Greif

Honored for : Dogeaters

Bob McGrath

Honored for : Jennie Richee

Marion McClinton

Honored for : Jitney

Nicholas Martin

Honored for : Betty's Summer Vacation

Melia Bensussen

Honored for : The Turn of the Screw

Jim Simpson

Honored for : Benten Kozo

Declan Donnellan

Honored for : Le Cid

Ivo van Hove

Honored for : More Stately Mansions

Evan Yionoulis

Honored for : Three Days of Rain

David Esbjornson

Honored for : Thérèse Raquin

Mark Brokaw

Honored for : How I Learned to Drive

Doug Hughes

Honored for : The Grey Zone

Don Scardino

Honored for : A Cheever Evening

André Ernotte

Honored for : Christina Alberta's Father

David Warren

Honored for : Pterodactyls

Christopher Ashley

Honored for : Jeffrey

Michael Maggio

Honored for : Wings

Frederick M. Zollo

Honored for : Aven 'U Boys

Mark Wing-Davey

Honored for : Mad Forest

Anne Bogart

Honored for : The Baltimore Waltz

Michael Greif

Honored for : Machinal

Lisa Peterson

Honored for : Light Shining in Buckinghamshire

Liz Diamond

Honored for : Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom

Norman René

Honored for : Prelude to a Kiss

Jim Simpson

Honored for : Bad Penny

George C. Wolfe

Honored for : Spunk

Peter Stein

Honored for : Falstaff

Ingmar Bergman

Honored for : Hamlet

Anne Bogart

Honored for : No Plays No Poetry

Peter Brook

Honored for : The Mahabharata

Julie Taymor

Honored for : Juan Darien

Garland Wright

Honored for : On The Verge

Richard Foreman

Honored for : Largo Desolato

John Malkovich

Honored for : Balm in Gilead

Barbara Vann

Honored for : Bound to Rise

Jerry Zaks

Honored for : The Foreigner, The Marriage of Bette and Boo

JoAnne Akalaitis

Honored for : Through the Leaves

María Irene Fornés

Honored for : The Danube, Sarita, Mud

Lawrence Sacharow

Honored for : Five of Us

Sam Shepard

Honored for : Fool for Love

Gregory Mosher

Honored for : Edmond

Gary Sinise

Honored for : True West

Tommy Tune

Honored for : Cloud 9

Melvin Bernhardt

Honored for : Crimes of the Heart

Wilford Leach

Honored for : The Pirates of Penzance

Toby Robertson

Honored for : Pericles

Len Jenkin

Honored for : Limbo Tales

A. J. Antoon

Honored for : The Art of Dining

Edward Cornell

Honored for : Johnny on a Spot

Elizabeth LeCompte

Honored for : Point Judith

María Irene Fornés

Honored for : Eyes on the Harem

Jack Hofsiss

Honored for : The Elephant Man

Robert Allan Ackerman

Honored for : A Prayer for My Daughter

Thomas Bullard

Honored for : Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act

Elizabeth Swados

Honored for : Runaways

Melvin Bernhardt

Honored for : Children

Gordon Davidson

Honored for : Savages

JoAnne Akalaitis

Honored for : Cascando

Marshall W. Mason

Honored for : Knock Knock, Serenading Louie

Lawrence Kornfeld

Honored for : Listen to Me

Marshall W. Mason

Honored for : Battle of Angels, The Mound Builders

Gilbert Moses

Honored for : The Taking of Miss Janie

Robert Drivas

Honored for : Bad Habits
(Distinguished Direction)

Marvin Felix Camillo

Honored for : Short Eyes
(Distinguished Direction)

John Pasquin

Honored for : Moonchildren
(Distinguished Direction)

Harold Prince

Honored for : Candide
(Distinguished Direction)

David Licht

Honored for : Hard To Be A Jew
(Distinguished Direction)

William E. Lathan

Honored for : What If It Had Turned Up Heads?
(Distinguished Direction)

Marshall W. Mason

Honored for : The Hot l Baltimore
(Distinguished Direction)

Jack Gelber

Honored for : The Kid
(Distinguished Direction)

Wilford Leach, John Braswell

Honored for : The Only Jealousy of Emer
(Distinguished Direction)

Tom Sydorick

Honored for : 20th Century Tar
(Distinguished Direction)

Michael Townsend Smith

Honored for : Country Music
(Distinguished Direction)

Mel Shapiro

Honored for : Two Gentlemen of Verona
(Distinguished Direction)

Lawrence Kornfeld

Honored for : Dracula: Sabbat
(Distinguished Direction)

John Hirsch

Honored for : AC/DC
(Distinguished Direction)

John Berry

Honored for : Boesman and Lena
(Distinguished Direction)

Jeff Bleckner

Honored for : The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel
(Distinguished Direction)

Gordon Davidson

Honored for : The Trial of the Catonsville Nine
(Distinguished Direction)

Alan Arkin

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

Melvin Bernhardt

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

Maxine Klein

Honored for : Approaching Simone
(Distinguished Direction)

Gilbert Moses

Honored for : Slave Ship
(Distinguished Direction)

John D. Hancock

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

Rip Torn

Honored for : The Beard
(Distinguished Direction)

Lawrence Kornfeld

Honored for : What Happened
(Distinguished Direction)