Awards & Winners

Robert Whitehead

Date of Birth 03-March-1916
Place of Birth Montreal
(Canada, Urban agglomeration of Montreal, Québec)
Nationality Canada
Profession Theatrical producer, Theatre Director, Presenter, Entrepreneur, Performer
Robert Whitehead was a theatre producer. His first production was Medea, starring Judith Anderson and John Gielgud, and he won the Critics' Circle Award five times, His father owned textile mills, and his mother, Selena Mary LaBatt Whitehead, was an opera singer. He went to Trinity College School in Montreal, then worked as a commercial photographer before studying acting at the New York School of the Theatre. He spent the Second World War years as an ambulance driver in North Africa and Italy. In 1964 the Lincoln Center Repertory Theatre opened with Robert Whitehead and Elia Kazan as its heads and Harold Clurman as literary adviser. In 1968 Whitehead married Zoe Caldwell, who starred in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. The couple bought property in Pound Ridge, a mountain area in New York State, and built a house there. Caldwell, who won a Tony as Brodie, later appeared for Whitehead in a revival of Medea, Lillian, a one-woman show about Lillian Hellman, and Terrence McNally's Master Class, in which she played Maria Callas.

Awards by Robert Whitehead

Check all the awards nominated and won by Robert Whitehead.

2002


Special Tony Award
(Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre)

1996


Tony Award for Best Play
Honored for : Master Class
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play
Honored for : Master Class

Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Play Master Class
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play Master Class

1994


Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Play Broken Glass

1984


Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival
Honored for : Death of a Salesman
Tony Award for Best Revival
Honored for : Death of a Salesman

Nominations 1984 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Revival Death of a Salesman
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival Death of a Salesman

1979


Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Play Bedroom Farce

1977


Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play (American)
Honored for : A Texas Trilogy: Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play (American)
Honored for : A Texas Trilogy: The Oldest Living Graduate
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play (American)
Honored for : A Texas Trilogy: The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia

Nominations 1977 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play (American) A Texas Trilogy: Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play (American) A Texas Trilogy: The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play (Foreign) No Man's Land
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play (American) A Texas Trilogy: The Oldest Living Graduate

1968


Nominations 1968 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Play The Price

1962


Tony Award for Best Play
Honored for : A Man for All Seasons

Nominations 1962 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Play A Man for All Seasons

1957


Nominations 1957 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Play The Waltz Of The Toreadors

1956


Nominations 1956 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Play Bus Stop