Awards & Winners

JoAnne Akalaitis

Date of Birth 29-June-1937
Place of Birth Chicago
(Illinois, United States of America, Chicago metropolitan area, Area code 872)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Joanne Akalaitis, JoAnne Akalaitisová, Jo Anne Akalaitis
Profession Screenwriter, Film Director, Theatre Director, Writer
JoAnne Akalaitis is an Lithuanian American theatre director and a writer and the winner of five Obie Awards for direction and founder of the critically acclaimed Mabou Mines in New York, from which she resigned after twenty years in June 1990. Akalaitis was pre-med and studied philosophy at the University of Chicago. After choosing acting as a career, she also studied with the Actor's Workshop in San Francisco, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, The Open Theater Workshop in New York, and acting theorist Jerzy Grotowski in France. Additionally, as a Mabou Mines founder, she conducted workshops in Mabou’s acting technique. In addition to the American Repertory Theater - where she has directed Endgame, The Balcony and The Birthday Party - she has staged works by Euripides, Shakespeare, Strindberg, Schiller, Tennessee Williams, Philip Glass, Janáček, and her own work at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York City Opera, Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, Mark Taper Forum, Court Theatre, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and The Guthrie Theater. She is the former artistic director of the New York Shakespeare Festival and was artist in residence at the Court Theatre.

Awards by JoAnne Akalaitis

Check all the awards nominated and won by JoAnne Akalaitis.

1997


Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Director, Resident Play Dance of Death

1994


Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play In the Summer House

1993


Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement
(Obie Award for Sustained Achievement)

1992


Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play Tis Pity She's a Whore

1984


Obie Award for Direction
Honored for : Through the Leaves

1981


Obie Award for Special Citations
Honored for : Dead End Kids

1979


Obie Award for Special Citations
Honored for : Southern Exposure

1976


Obie Award for Direction
Honored for : Cascando