History and Awards

Awards by Type

Artios Award

  • Artios Award to James Calleri, C.S.A. for Musical Theater Casting in James Joyce’s The Dead

AT&T

  • AT&T: OnStage Award for My Life with Albertine
  • AT&T: OnStage Award for Lobby Hero
  • AT&T: OnStage Award for Violet
  • AT&T: OnStage Award for Once on This Island

Audelco Award

  • AUDELCO Award for Outstanding Musical Director to Fred Carl for The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin
  • AUDELCO Award for Outstanding Musical Creator to Kirsten Childs for The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin

Burns Mantle

  • Small Tragedy included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays Theater Yearbook 2003–2004

Clarence Derwent

  • Clarence Derwent Award to Joanne Camp in Geniuses
  • Clarence Derwent Award to Michael Esper in Crazy Mary
  • Clarence Derwent Award to Zoe Kazan in 100 Saints You Should Know

Drama Desk Award

  • Drama Desk Citation to Playwrights Horizons honoring its "ongoing support to generations of theater artists and undiminished commitment to producing new work." 
  • Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical to Christine Ebersole in Grey Gardens
  • Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance in Circle Mirror Transformation
  • Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical Sunday in the Park with George
  • Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play Marvin's Room
  • Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play The Heidi Chronicles
  • Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play I Am My Own Wife
  • Drama Desk Award for Sound Design to Dan Moses Schreier for Floyd Collins
  • Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical to James Lapine for Sunday in the Park with George
  • Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical to James Lapine for Sunday in the Park with George
  • Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance to Jefferson Mays in I Am My Own Wife
  • Drama Desk Award to for Best Actress in a Play Laura Esterman in Marvin's Room
  • Drama Desk Award for Orchestration to Michael Starobin for Sunday in the Park with George
  • Drama Desk Award for Lighting Design to Richard Nelson for Sunday in the Park with George
  • Drama Desk Award for Best Actor in a Play to Ron Rifkin in The Substance of Fire
  • Drama Desk Award for Lyrics to Stephen Sondheim for Sunday in the Park with George
  • Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical to Stephen Spinella in James Joyce’s The Dead
  • Drama Desk Award for Set Design to Tony Straiges for Sunday in the Park with George
  • Drama Desk Award for Best Lyrics to William Finn for Falsettoland
  • Drama Desk Award for Best Music to William Finn for Falsettoland
  • Drama Desk Special Award to Samuel D. Hunter for The Whale
  • Drama Desk Sam Norkin Award to Danai Gurira for Familiar

Drama League

  • Drama League Award for Distinguished Production of a Play to I Am My Own Wife
  • Drama League Distinguished Performance Award to Christine Ebersole in Grey Gardens

Edgar Allan Poe

  • Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Mystery Play to Spatter Pattern (Or, How I Got Away With It)

Encore Magazine

  • Encore Magazine "Taking Off" Award to Violet

Evening Standard

  • Evening Standard Award, Best Play (London) to Clybourne Park

George Oppenheimer-Newsday

  • George Oppenheimer-Newsday Award for Best New Play to Table Settings

Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Theater Foundation

  • Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Theater Foundation Musical Theater Award to My Life with Albertine

Harold & Mimi Steinberg Award ("Mimi" Award)

  • Harold & Mimi Steinberg "Mimi" Award to The Flick

Henry Hewes Design Award

  • Henry Hewes Design Award to Jane Cox (Lighting Design) to The Flick

Kesselring Prize

  • Kesselring Prize to Lucas Hnath for The Christians

Lammy

  • Lammy Award for LGBT Drama for Bootycandy

Lucille Lortel

  • Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical to James Joyce’s The Dead
  • Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical to Violet
  • Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical to Floyd Collins
  • Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show to I Am My Own Wife
  • Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lighting Design to David Weiner for Rodney's Wife
  • Lucille Lortel Award to Derek McLane for Outstanding Scenic Design for I Am My Own Wife
  • Lucille Lortel Award to Jessica Pabst for Oustanding Costume Design for The Whale
  • Lucille Lortel Award to Kathleen Widdoes for Outstanding Featured Actress in Franny's Way
  • Lucille Lortel Award to Sam Gold for Outstanding Direction of a Play for The Big Meal
  • Lucille Lortel Award to Samuel D. Hunter for Oustanding Play for The Whale
  • Lucille Lortel Award to Scott Elliot for Outstanding Director for The Monogamist
  • Lucille Lortel Award to Scott Lehrer for Outstanding Sound Design for Breath, Boom
  • Lucille Lortel Award to Shuler Hensley for Oustanding Lead Actor in The Whale
  • Lucille Lortel Award to Tonya Pinkins for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in Milk Like Sugar
  • Lucille Lortel Award to Larry Owens for Outstanding Lead Actor in A Strange Loop
  • Lucille Lortel Award to John-Andrew Morrison for Outstanding Featured Actor in A Strange Loop
  • Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play for Heroes of the Fourth Turning
  • Lucille Lortel Award to Michele Pawk for Outstanding Featured Actress in Heroes of the Fourth Turning
  • Lucille Lortel Award to Isabella Byrd for Outstanding Lighting Design for Heroes of the Fourth Turning
  • Lucille Lortel Award for Lifetime Achievement to Tim Sanford

National Theatre Conference

  • National Theatre Conference’s Outstanding Theatre Award to Playwrights Horizons

New York Drama Critics' Circle

  • New York Drama Critics' Award for Best Musical for James Joyce’s The Dead
  • New York Drama Critics' Circle Emerging Artist Special Citation to Annie Baker for Circle Mirror Transformation
  • New York Drama Critics' Circle Special Citation to Christine Ebersole in Grey Gardens
  • New York Outer Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical for March Of The Falsettos
  • New York Drama Critics' Circle Award to Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine for Best Musical for Sunday in the Park with George
  • New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical for Violet
  • New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play for The Heidi Chronicles
  • New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical for A Strange Loop
  • New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play for Heroes of the Fourth Turning

New York State Governor's Award

  • New York State Governor's Arts Award to Playwrights Horizons in recognition of the organization's continuing commitment to the arts and their importance in our society.

Obie

  • Obie Award for Playwriting to Christopher Durang for Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You
  • Obie Award for Performance to Harris Yulin for Frank's Home
  • Obie Award Special Citation for David Cale for Lillian
  • Obie Award for Playwriting to Lynn Nottage for Fabulation, Or, The Re-Education Of Undine
  • Obie Award Special Citation to Jeanine Tesori for Music for Violet
  • Obie Award Special Citation to the creative team and cast of A Strange Loop
  • Obie Award Special Citation to the creative team and cast of Bootycandy
  • Obie Award Special Citation to the creative team and cast of Heroes of the Fourth Turning
  • Obie Award to Albert Innaurato for Gemini
  • Obie Award for Best New American Play to Annie Baker for Circle Mirror Transformation
  • Obie Award for Playwriting to Annie Baker for The Flick
  • Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Scenic Design to Arnulfo Maldonado (A Strange Loop)
  • Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance to Brian Murray in Mud, River, Stone
  • Obie Award for Music to Bruce Coughlin (Orchestrator) and Adam Guettel (Composer) for Floyd Collins
  • Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Costume Design to Catherine Zuber for (Violet)
  • Obie Award for Performance to Cherise Boothe in Milk Like Sugar
  • Obie Award for Performance to Christine Ebersole in Grey Gardens
  • Obie Award for Playwriting to Christopher Durang in Betty’s Summer Vacation
  • Obie Award for Best American Play to Craig Lucas for Small Tragedy
  • Obie Award for Performance to Dana Ivey in Driving Miss Daisy
  • Obie Award for Sustained Achievement in Set Design to David Gallo (The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin)
  • Obie Award Special Citation to David Greenspan (She Stoops to Comedy)
  • Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance to Deirdre O'Connell (Spatter Pattern [Or, How I Got Away With It])
  • Obie Award for Design to Derek McLane for I Am My Own Wife
  • Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Set Design to Derek McLane (Violet)
  • Obie Award for Directing to Don Scardino for A Cheever Evening
  • Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance to Eisa Davis (The Call)
  • Obie Award for Performance to Elizabeth Wilson in Anteroom
  • Obie Award for Performance to Emily Donahoe in The Christians
  • Obie Award for Most Promising Young Playwright to Harry Kondoleon (Christmas On Mars)
  • Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design to Japhy Weideman (Bootycandy)
  • Obie Award for Performance to Jefferson Mays in I Am My Own Wife
  • Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design to Jen Schriever (A Strange Loop)
  • Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Costume Design to Jennifer Von Mayrhauser (A Cheever Evening)
  • Obie Award for Performance to John Ellison Conlee in The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence
  • Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design to Justin Townsend (Mr. Burns, a post-electric play)
  • Obie Award for Music & Lyrics to Kirsten Childs for The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin
  • Obie Award for Playwriting to Kirsten Greenidge for Milk Like Sugar
  • Obie Award for Performance to Kristine Nielsen in Betty’s Summer Vacation
  • Obie Award for Performance to Laura Esterman for Marvin's Room
  • Obie Award for Direction to Leigh Silverman for Go Back To Where You Are
  • Obie Award for Set Design to Loren Sherman for Romance Language
  • Obie Award for Playwriting to Lucas Hnath for The Christians
  • Obie Award for Performance to Marcell Rosenblatt in Vienna Notes
  • Obie Award for Performance to Marcia Jean Kurtz in When She Danced
  • Obie Award for Performance to Mark Blum in Gus and Al
  • Obie Award for Performance to Mary Beth Peil in A Cheever Evening
  • Obie Award for Performance to Mary Testa in From Above
  • Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance to Matthew Maher (The Flick)
  • Obie Award for Direction to Moises Kaufman to I Am My Own Wife
  • Obie Award for Performance to Morgan Freeman to Driving Miss Daisy
  • Obie Award for Directing to Nicholas Martin for Betty’s Summer Vacation
  • Obie Award for Directing to Pam MacKinnon for Clybourne Park
  • Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance to Reed Birney (Pen)
  • Obie Award for Playwriting to Richard Nelson for Vienna Notes
  • Obie Award for Performance to Roger Rees For The End of the Day
  • Obie Award for Performance to Ron Rifkin to The Substance of Fire
  • Obie Award for Directing to Sam Gold for Circle Mirror Transformation
  • Obie Award for Performance to Shuler Hensley in The Whale
  • Obie Award for Performance to Tamara Tunie in Familiar
  • Obie Award for Playwriting to Ted Tally for Terra Nova
  • Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement to Tim Sanford
  • Obie Award for Performance to the acting company of Small Tragedy
  • Obie Award for Performance to the ensemble of Circle Mirror Transformation
  • Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Set Design to Thomas Lynch (Betty’s Summer Vacation)
  • Obie Award to Will Arbery for Playwriting (Heroes of the Fourth Turning)
  • Obie Award for Performance to Yvette Ganier for Breath, Boom
  • Obie Award for Best New American Play to Detroit

Olivier Award (London)

  • Olivier Award for Best Musical to Once On This Island
  • Olivier Award for Best Play to Goodnight Children Everywhere
  • Olivier Award for Best Play to Clybourne Park

Outer Critics Circle

  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play to The Christians
  • Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Playwrighting Award for New American Play to The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence
  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical to Falsettoland
  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical to Sunday in the Park with George
  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical to Christine Ebersole in Grey Gardens
  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Broadway Play to I Am My Own Wife
  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Broadway Production of a Play to The Heidi Chronicles
  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical to Grey Gardens
  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play to Marvin's Room
  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play to Driving Miss Daisy
  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress to Dana Ivey in Driving Miss Daisy
  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Performance to Jefferson Mays for  in  I Am My Own Wife
  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Directing to John Tillinger in The Perfect Party
  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play to Laura Esterman in Marvin's Room
  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Directionto Ron Lagomarsino in Driving Miss Daisy
  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical to Stephen Spinella James Joyce’s The Dead
  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Set Design to Tony Straiges for Sunday in the Park With George
  • Outer Critics Circle Award John Gassner Playwriting Award to Scott McPherson in Marvin's Room

Pulitzer Prize

  • Pulitzer Prize for Drama to Sunday in the Park With George
  • Pulitzer Prize for Drama to Driving Miss Daisy
  • Pulitzer Prize for Drama to The Heidi Chronicles
  • Pulitzer Prize for Drama to I Am My Own Wife
  • Pulitzer Prize for Drama to Clybourne Park
  • Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama to The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence
  • Pulitzer Prize for Drama to The Flick
  • Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama to Marjorie Prime
  • Pulitzer Prize for Drama to A Strange Loop
  • Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama to Heroes of the Fourth Turning 

Susan Smith Blackburn Prize

  • Susan Smith Blackburn Prize to Annie Baker for The Flick
  • Susan Smith Blackburn Prize to Marlane Meyer for Moe's Lucky Seven
  • Susan Smith Blackburn Prize to Wendy Wasserstein for The Heidi Chronicles

Theater World Award

  • Theater World Award to Cassie Beck for The Drunken City
  • Theater World Award to Jefferson Mays for I Am My Own Wife
  • Theater World Award to Joanne Camp for Geniuses
  • Theater World Award to LaChanze for Once on this Island
  • Theater World Award to Mark Rosenthal for Marvin's Room
  • Theater World Award to Timothy Olyphant for The Monogamist

Tony Award

  • Tony Award for Best Play to The Heidi Chronicles
  • Tony Award for Best Featured Actor to Boyd Gaines in The Heidi Chronicles
  • Tony Award for Best Play to Clybourne Park
  • Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical to Falsettos (the combination of March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland)
  • Tony Award for Best Musical Score to Falsettos (the combination of March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland)
  • Tony Award for Best Performance By a Leading Actress in a Musical to Christine Ebersole in Grey Gardens
  • Tony Award for Best Play to Doug Wright for I Am My Own Wife
  • Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play to Jefferson Mays in I Am My Own Wife
  • Tony Award for Best Performance By a Featured Actress in a Musical to Mary Louise Wilson in Grey Gardens
  • Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical to Richard Nelson for James Joyce’s The Dead
  • Tony Award for Lighting Design to Richard Nelson for Sunday in the Park with George
  • Tony Award for Set Design  to Tony Straiges for Sunday in the Park with George
  • Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Musical to William Ivey Long for Grey Gardens