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2015–2016

Marjorie Prime by Jordan Harrison
  • 2015 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama

2014–2015

Bootycandy by Robert O'Hara
  • Obie Award Special Citation to the creative team and cast
  • 2015 Lammy Award for LGBT Drama
IOWA by Todd Almond & Jenny Schwartz
  • Obie Award to April Matthis for Sustained Excellence of Performance

2013–2014

THE (CURIOUS CASE OF THE) WATSON INTELLIGENCE BY MADELEINE GEORGE
  • Outer Critic's Circle John Gassner Playwrighting Award for New American Play
  • Obie Award to John Ellison Conlee for Performance
Mr. BURNS, A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY BY ANNE WASHBURN
  • Obie Award to Justin Townsend for Sustained Excellence (Lighting)

2012–2013

THE CALL BY TANYA BARFIELD
  • Obie Award to Eisa Davis for Sustained Excellence of Performance
THE FLICK BY ANNIE BAKER
  • 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
  • Obie Award to Annie Baker for Playwriting
  • Obie Award to Matthew Maher for Sustained Excellence of Performance
  • Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
  • Henry Hewes Design Award to Jane Cox (Lighting Design)
  • Harold & Mimi Steinberg "Mimi" Award
THE WHALE  BY SAMUEL D. HUNTER
  • Obie Award to Shuler Hensley for Performance
  • Lucille Lortel Award to Samuel D. Hunter for Oustanding Play
  • Lucille Lortel Award to Shuler Hensley for Oustanding Lead Actor
  • Lucille Lortel Award to Jessica Pabst for Oustanding Costume Design
  • Drama Desk Special Award to Samuel D. Hunter:  "His empathic and indelible The Whale affirms his arrival as a distinguished dramatist who depicts the human condition."
DETROIT BY LISA D'AMOUR
  • Obie Award, Best New American Play

2011–2012

The Big Meal by Dan LeFranc
  • Lucille Lortel Award to Sam Gold for Outstanding Direction of a Play
Milk Like Sugar by Kirsten Greenidge
  • Lucille Lortel Award to Tonya Pinkins for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role
  • Obie Award to Cherise Boothe for Performance
  • Obie Award to Kirsten Greenidge for Playwriting

2010–2011

  • Playwrights Horizons is awarded the National Theatre Conference’s Outstanding Theatre Award.
Go Back to Where You Are by David Greenspan
  • Obie Award to Leigh Silverman for Direction

2009–2010

Clybourne Parkby Bruce Norris
  • 2012 Tony Award for Best Play
  • 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
  • 2011 Olivier Award for Best Play (London)
  • Evening Standard Award, Best Play (London)
  • Obie Award to Pam MacKinnon for Directing
CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION BY ANNIE BAKER
  • Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance
  • New York Drama Critics Circle Emerging Artist Special Citation to Annie Baker
  • Obie Award to Annie Baker for Best New American Play
  • Obie Award to Sam Gold for Directing
  • Obie Award to the ensemble for Performance 


2008–2009

  • Playwrights Horizons receives a Drama Desk Citation honoring its "ongoing support to generations of theater artists and undiminished commitment to producing new work." 

2007–2008

The Drunken City by Adam Bock
  • Theater World Award to Cassie Beck
100 Saints You Should Know by Kate FodoR
  • Clarence Derwent Award to Zoe Kazan

2006–2007

Crazy Mary by A.R. Gurney
  • Clarence Derwent Award to Michael Esper
Frank's Home by Richard Nelson
  • Obie Award to Harris Yulin for Performance

2005–2006

Pen by David Marshall Grant
  • Obie Award to Reed Birney for Sustained Excellence of Performance
Grey Gardens by Doug Wright, Scott Frankel and Michael Korie
  • Tony® Award to Christine Ebersole for Best Performance By a Leading Actress in a Musical
  • Tony® Award to Mary Louise Wilson for Best Performance By a Featured Actress in a Musical
  • Tony® Award to William Ivey Long for Best Costume Design of a Musical
  • Drama League Distinguished Performance Award to Christine Ebersole
  • New York Drama Critics Circle Special Citation to Christine Ebersole
  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical
  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical to Christine Ebersole
  • Obie Award to Christine Ebersole for Performance
  • Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical to Christine Ebersole

2004–2005

Rodney's Wife by Richard Nelson
  • Lucille Lortel Award to David Weiner for Outstanding Lighting Design
Spatter Pattern, or How I Got Away With It by Neal Bell
  • Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Mystery Play
  • Obie Award to Deirdre O'Connell for Sustained Excellence of Performance

2003–2004

Fabulation, or, the Re-Education of Undine by Lynn Nottage
  • Obie Award for Playwriting
Small Tragedy by Craig Lucas
  • Included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays Theater Yearbook 2003–2004
  • Obie Award to Craig Lucas for Best American Play
  • Obie Award to the acting company for Performance

2002–2003

I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright
  • Tony® Award to Doug Wright for Best Play
  • Tony® Award to Jefferson Mays for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
  • 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
  • Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play
  • Drama Desk Award to Jefferson Mays for Outstanding Solo Performance
  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Broadway Play
  • Outer Critics Circle Award to Jefferson Mays for Outstanding Solo Performance
  • Obie Award to Jefferson Mays for Performance
  • Obie Award to Moises Kaufman for Direction
  • Obie Award to Derek McLane for Design
  • Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show
  • Lucille Lortel Award to Derek McLane for Outstanding Scenic Design
  • Drama League Award for Distinguished Production of a Play
  • Theater World Award to Jefferson Mays
She Stoops To Comedy by David Greenspan
  • Obie Award to David Greenspan, Special Citation
My Life With Albertine by Richard Nelson and Ricky Ian Gordon
  • AT&T: OnStage Award
  • Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Theater Foundation Musical Theater Award

2001–2002

Franny's Way by Richard Nelson
  • Lucille Lortel Award to Kathleen Widdoes for Outstanding Featured Actress
  • Lucille Lortel Award to Scott Lehrer for Outstanding Sound Design

2000–2001

Breath, Boom by Kia Corthron
  • Obie Award to Yvette Ganier for Performance
Lobby Hero by Kenneth Lonergan
  • AT&T: OnStage Award

1999–2000

The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin by Kirsten Childs
  • AUDELCO Award to Kirsten Childs for Outstanding Musical Creator
  • AUDELCO Award to Fred Carl for Outstanding Musical Director
  • Obie Award to Kirsten Childs (Special Citation for Music & Lyrics)
  • Obie Award to David Gallo for Sustained Achievement in Set Design
James Joyce's The Dead, by Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey
  • Tony® Award to Richard Nelson for Best Book of a Musical
  • Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical
  • New York Drama Critics Award for Best Musical
  • Outer Critics Circle Award to Stephen Spinella for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical
  • Drama Desk Award to Stephen Spinella for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical
  • Artios Award to James Calleri, C.S.A. for Musical Theater Casting

1998–1999

  • Playwrights Horizons receives a New York State Governor's Arts Award, in recognition of the organization's continuing commitment to the arts and their importance in our society.
Goodnight Children Everywhere, by Richard Nelson
  • 1999 Olivier Award for Best Play (London)
Betty's Summer Vacation, by Christopher Durang
  • Obie Award to Christopher Durang for Playwriting
  • Obie Award to Nicholas Martin for Directing
  • Obie Award to Kristine Nielsen for Performance
  • Obie Award to Thomas Lynch for Sustained Excellence in Set Design

1997–1998

From Above, by Tom Donaghy
  • Obie Award to Mary Testa for Performance
Mud, River, Stone by Lynn Nottage
  • Obie Award to Brian Murray for Sustained Excellence of Performance
Lillian, written and performed by David Cale
  • 1998/1999 Obie Award Special Citation for David Cale

1996–1997

Violet, by Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley
  • NY Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical
  • Obie Award Special Citation to Jeanine Tesori for Music
  • Obie Award to Derek McLane for Sustained Excellence of Set Design
  • Obie Award to Catherine Zuber for Sustained Excellence of Costume Design
  • Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical
  • Encore Magazine "Taking Off" Award
  • AT&T: OnStage Award
Floyd Collins, by Tina Landau and Adam Guettel
  • Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical
  • Obie Award to Bruce Coughlin (Orchestrator) and Adam Guettel (Composer) for Music
  • Drama Desk Award to Dan Moses Schreier for Sound Design

1995–1996

The Monogamist, by Christopher Kyle
  • Lucille Lortel Award to Scott Elliot for Outstanding Director
  • Theater World Award to Timothy Olyphant


1994–1995

A Cheever Evening, by A. R. Gurney
  • Obie Award to Don Scardino for Directing
  • Obie Award to Mary Beth Peil for Performance
  • Obie Award to Jennifer Von Mayrhauser for Sustained Excellence in Costume Design

1993-94

MOE'S LUCKY SEVEN BY Marlane Meyer
  • Susan Smith Blackburn Prize

1991–1992

Falsettos, the combination of "March of the Falsettos" and "Falsettoland" by William Finn and James Lapine
  • Tony® Award for Best Musical Score
  • Tony® Award for Best Book of a Musical
The End of the Day, by Jon Robin Baitz
  • Obie Award to Roger Rees for Performance
Marvin's Room, by Scott McPherson
  • Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play
  • Drama Desk Award to Laura Esterman for Best Actress in a Play
  • Obie Award to Laura Esterman for Performance
  • Outer Critics Circle: John Gassner Playwriting Award to Scott McPherson
  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play
  • Outer Critics Circle Award to Laura Esterman for Outstanding Actress in a Play
  • Theater World Award to Mark Rosenthal

1990–1991

The Substance of Fire, by Jon Robin Baitz
  • Drama Desk Award to Ron Rifkin for Best Actor in a Play
  • Obie Award to Ron Rifkin for Performance
Falsettoland, by Willian Finn and James Lapine
  • Drama Desk Award to William Finn for Best Music
  • Drama Desk Award to William Finn for Best Lyrics
  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical

1989–1990

Once on this Island, by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty
  • 1995 Olivier Award for Best Musical (London)
  • The AT&T: OnStage Award
  • Theater World Award to LaChanze
When She Danced, by Martin Sherman
  • Obie Award to Marcia Jean Kurtz for Performance

1988–1989

The Heidi Chronicles, by Wendy Wasserstein
  • 1989 Tony Award for Best Play
  • 1989 Tony Award for Boyd Gaines for Best Featured Actor
  • 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
  • NY Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play
  • Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play
  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Broadway Production of a Play
  • Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
Gus and Al, by Albert Innaurato
  • Obie Award to Mark Blum for Performance

1986–1987

Driving Miss Daisy, by Alfred Uhry
  • 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
  • Obie Award to Dana Ivey for Performance
  • Obie Award to Morgan Freeman for Performance
  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play
  • Outer Critics Circle Award to Ron Lagomarsino for Direction
  • Outer Critics Circle Award to Dana Ivey for Outstanding Performance by an Actress
  • 1989 Academy Award for Best Picture

1985–1986

Anteroom, by Harry Kondoleon
  • Obie Award to Elizabeth Wilson for Performance
The Perfect Party, by A.R. Gurney
  • Outer Critics Circle Award to John Tillinger for Directing (along with Loot and Corpse!)

1984–1985

Romance Language by Peter Parnell
  • Obie Award to Loren Sherman for Set Design (not show-specific)

1983–1984

Sunday in the Park with George, by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim
  • 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
  • NY Drama Critics Circle Award to Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine for Best Musical
  • Tony® Award to Tony Straiges for Set Design
  • Tony® Award to Richard Nelson for Lighting Design
  • Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical
  • Drama Desk Award to James Lapine for Outstanding Director of a Musical
  • Drama Desk Award to James Lapine for Outstanding Book of a Musical
  • Drama Desk Award to Michael Starobin for Orchestration
  • Drama Desk Award to Tony Straiges for Set Design
  • Drama Desk Award to Stephen Sondheim for Lyrics
  • Drama Desk Award to Richard Nelson for Lighting Design
  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical
  • Outer Critics Circle Award to Tony Straiges for Set Design
Terra Nova, by Ted Tally
  • Obie Award to Ted Tally for Playwriting

1982–1983

Christmas on Mars by Harry Kondoleon
  • Obie Award to Harry Kondoleon for Most Promising Young Playwright

1981–1982

Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, by Christopher Durang
  • Obie Award to Christopher Durang for Playwriting
Geniuses by Jonathan Reynolds
  • Clarence Derwent Award to Joanne Camp
  • Theater World Award to Joanne Camp

1980–1981

March of the Falsettos, by William Finn and James Lapine
  • New York Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical
Table Settings, by James Lapine
  • George Oppenheimer-Newsday Award for Best New Play

1978–1979

Vienna Notes, by Richard Nelson
  • Obie Award to Richard Nelson for Playwriting
  • Obie Award to Marcell Rosenblatt for Performance

1976–1977

Gemini, by Albert Innaurato
  • Obie Award to Albert Innaurato