Awards

MTC’s many laurels include 18 Tony Awards, 6 Pulitzer Prizes, 48 Obies and 30 Drama Desk Awards, as well as numerous Drama Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards. MTC has won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Achievement, a Drama Desk for Outstanding Excellence, and a Theatre World for Outstanding Achievement.

TONY AWARDS

• VENUS IN FUR - 2012
  Best Actress - Nina Arianda
• GOOD PEOPLE - 2011
  Best Actress - Frances McDormand
• THE ROYAL FAMILY - 2010
  Best Costume Design - Catherine Zuber
• RABBIT HOLE - 2006
  Best Actress - Cynthia Nixon
• DOUBT - 2005
  Best Play - John Patrick Shanley
  Best Leading Actress - Cherry Jones
  Best Featured Actress - Adriane Lenox
  Best Direction - Doug Hughes
• KING HEDLEY II - 2001
  Best Featured Actress - Viola Davis
• PROOF - 2001
  Best Play - David Auburn
  Best Actress - Mary-Louise Parker
  Best Director - Daniel Sullivan
• SEVEN GUITARS - 1996
  Performer - Ruben Santiago-Hudson
• LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! - 1994
  Best Play - Terrence McNally
  Performer - John Glover
• AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' - 1978
  Best Musical
  Best Musical Director - Richard Maltby, Jr.
  Performer - Nell Carter

PULITZER PRIZES

• RUINED - 2009
  Lynn Nottage
• RABBIT HOLE - 2007
  David Lindsay-Abaire
• DOUBT - 2005
  John Patrick Shanley
• PROOF - 2001
  David Auburn
• THE PIANO LESSON - 1990
  August Wilson
• CRIMES OF THE HEART - 1980
  Beth Henley

DRAMA DESK AWARDS

• GOOD PEOPLE - 2010
  Outstanding Actress in a Play - Frances McDormand
• RUINED - 2009
  Outstanding Play - Lynn Nottage
  Outstanding Music in a Play - Dominic Kanza
• LOVEMUSIK - 2007
  Outstanding Actress in a Musical - Donna Murphy
  Best Orchestration - Jonathan Tunick
• DOUBT - 2005
  Outstanding Play - John Patrick Shanley
  Outstanding Actor in a Play - Brían F. O'Byrne
  Outstanding Actress in a Play - Cherry Jones
  Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play - Adrian Lenox
  Outstanding Direction - Doug Hughes
• KING HEDLEY II - 2001
  Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play - Viola Davis
  Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play - Charles Brown
• PROOF - 2001
  Best Play - David Auburn
  Outstanding Actress in a Play - Mary-Louise Parker
• THE WILD PARTY - 2000
  Outstanding Music - Andrew Lippa
• FUDDY MEERS - 1999
  Outstanding Featured Actress - Marylouise Burke
• FULL GALLOP - 1995
  Outstanding One Person Show - Mary Louise Wilson
• LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! - 1994
  Outstanding Play - Terrence McNally
  Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play - Nathan Lane
• LIPS TOGETHER, TEETH APART - 1991
  Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play - Christine Baranski
• THE PIANO LESSON - 1990
  Best Play - August Wilson
• THE LISBON TRAVIATA - 1989
  Outstanding Actor in a Play - Nathan Lane
• EASTERN STANDARD - 1988
  Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play - Peter Frechette
• WOMAN IN MIND - 1988
  Outstanding Actress in a Play - Stockard Channing
• ITALIAN AMERICAN RECONCILIATION - 1988
  Outstanding Set Design - Santo Loquasto
• LOOT - 1986
  Performer - Joseph Maher
• IT'S ONLY A PLAY - 1985
  Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play - Joanna Gleason
• AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' - 1978
  Outstanding Actress in a Musical - Nell Carter
  Outstanding Actor in a Musical - Ken Page
• THE MIGHTY GENTS - 1976-1977
  Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play - Morgan Freeman

NEW YORK DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS

• GOOD PEOPLE - 2011
  Best Play
• RUINED - 2009
  Best Play
• DOUBT - 2005
  Best Play
• PROOF - 2001
  Best American Play
• LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! - 1994
  Best American Play
• THE PIANO LESSON - 1990
  Best Play
• ARISTOCRATS - 1989
  Best Foreign Play
• MASS APPEAL - 1980
  Director - Geraldine Fitzgerald
• AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' - 1979
  Best Musical

OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS

• THE WHIPPING MAN - 2011
  John Gassner Playwriting Award - Matthew Lopez
• GOOD PEOPLE - 2011
  Best Actress in a Play - Frances McDormand
• RUINED - 2009
  Outstanding Off-Broadway Play
• HUMOR ABUSE - 2009
  Outstanding Solo Performance - Lorenzo Pisoni
• FROM UP HERE - 2008
  John Gassner Playwriting Award - Liz Flahive
• LOVEMUSIK - 2007
  Outstanding Actress in a Musical - Donna Murphy
  Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical - David Pittu
• MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS - 2005
  John Gassner Playwriting Award - Ron Hutchinson
• DOUBT - 2005
  Outstanding Broadway Play
  Outstanding Actress - Cherry Jones
  Outstanding Actor - Brian F. O'Byrne
  Outstanding Director - Doug Hughes
• PROOF - 2001
  Outstanding Broadway Play
  Outstanding Actress - Mary-Louise Parker
  John Gassner Playwriting Award - David Auburn
• KING HEDLEY II - 2001
  Performer - Viola Davis
• THE WILD PARTY - 2000
  Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical
• THE TALE OF THE ALLERGIST'S WIFE - 2000
  John Gassner Playwriting Award - Charles Busch
• NINE ARMENIANS - 1996
  John Gassner Playwriting Award
• SEVEN GUITARS - 1996
  Outstanding Director - Lloyd Richards
  Outstanding Cast - Special Achievement Award
  Outstanding Ensemble Performance
• AFTER-PLAY - 1995
  Playwright - Anne Meara
• LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! - 1994
  Outstanding Broadway Play
  Outstanding Director - Joe Mantello
  Performer - Nathan Lane
• THE PIANO LESSON - 1990
  Performer - Rocky Carroll
• LOOT - 1986
  Outstanding Revival of a Play On or Off
  Broadway Director - John Tillinger

AUDELCO AWARDS

• THE TALENTED TENTH - 1989
  Best Dramatic Production
  Playwright - Richard Wesley
  Director - M. Neema Barnette
  Lead Actress - Marie Thomas
  Supporting Actress - LaTanya Richardson
  Sound Design - David Lawson
• THE LAST STREET PLAY - 1977
  Best Dramatic Production

THE OBIE AWARDS

• THE WHIPPING MAN - 2011
  Performance - André Braugher
• HUMOR ABUSE - 2009
  Performance - Lorenzo Pisoni
• RUINED - 2009
  Best New American Play - Lynn Nottage
  Performance - Quincy Tyler Bernstine
  Performance - Saidah Arrika Ekulona
  Performance - Russell Gebert Jones
• DOUBT - 2005
  Playwrighting - John Patrick Shanley
  Sustained Excellence in Direction - Doug Hughes
  Performance - Cherry Jones
• COMIC POTENTIAL - 2001
  Performance - Janie Dee
• NEWYORKERS - 2001
  Performance - Pamela Isaacs
• A CLASS ACT - 2001
  Special Citation for Music & Lyrics - Ed Kleban
• THE WILD PARTY - 2000
  Choreography - Mark Dendy
  Sustained Excellence in Set Design - David Gallo
• FULL GALLOP - 1995
  Performance - Mary Louise Wilson
• VALLEY SONG - 1995
  Performance - Lisa Gay Hamilton
• LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! - 1994
  Playwrighting - Terrence McNally
  Performance - Randy Becker, Stephen Bogardus, John Glover, John Benjamin Hickey, Justin Kirk, Nathan Lane, Stephen Spinella, and director Joe Mantello
• THE LAST YANKEE - 1993
  Performance - Frances Conroy
• JOINED AT THE HEAD - 1992
  Sustained Excellence in Performance - Ellen Parker
• SIGHT UNSEEN - 1992
  Playwrighting - Donald Margulies
  Performance - Dennis Boutsikaris
  Performance - Deborah Hedwall
• BOESMAN AND LENA - 1992
  Performance - Lynne Thigpen
• THE AMERICAN PLAN - 1990
  Performance - Joan Copeland
• ARISTOCRATS - 1989
  Performance - Niall Buggy
• THE LOMAN FAMILY PICNIC - 1989
  Performance - Marcia Jean Kurtz
• FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE - 1987
  Performance - Kathy Bates
• IT'S ONLY A PLAY - 1985
  Costumes - Rita Ryack
• DIGBY - 1985
  Performance - Anthony Heald
• MENSCH MEIER - 1984
  Playwrighting - Franz Xavier Kroetz
  Performance - Stephen McHattie
• OTHER PLACES - 1984
  Performance - Dianne Wiest
• THE SINGULAR LIFE OF ALBERT NOBBS - 1982
  Performance - Glenn Close
• SLACKS AND TOPS - 1982
  Playwriting - Harry Kandoleon
• CRIMES OF THE HEART - 1980
  Direction - Melvin Bernhardt
  Performance - Mary Beth Hurt
• GRAND MAGIC - 1979
  Performance - Fred Gwynne
• NONGOGO - 1979
  Performance - Mary Alice
• STATEMENTS AFTER ARREST UNDER THE IMMORALITY ACT - 1978
  Direction - Thomas Bullard
• SAFE HOUSE - 1978
  Performance - Kaiulani Lee
• AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' - 1978
  Performance - Nell Carter
• ASHES - 1976
  Playwrighting - David Rudkin
  Performance - Brian Murray
  Performance - Roberta Maxwell
• CHILDREN - 1976
  Direction - Melvin Bernhardt
• BAD HABITS - 1974
  Distinguished Plays - Terrence McNally
  Distinguished Direction - Robert Drivas

THEATRE WORLD AWARDS

• RUINED - 2009
  Condola Rashad
• DOUBT - 2005
  Heather Goldenhersh
• COMIC POTENTIAL - 2001
  Janie Dee
• THREE BIRDS ALIGHTING ON A FIELD - 1994
  Harriet Walter
• FOUR DOGS AND A BONE - 1993
  Arabella Field
• SIGHT UNSEEN - 1992
  Laura Linney
• THE PIANO LESSON - 1990
  Rocky Carroll and Tommy Hollis
• WHAT THE BUTLER SAW - 1989
  Joanne Whalley-Kilmer
• EASTERN STANDARD - 1988
  Dylan Baker and Peter Frechette
• ELEEMOSYNARY - 1989
  Jennie Moreau
• PRINCIPIA SCRIPTORIAE - 1986
  Joe Urla
• SKIRMISHES - 1982
  Suzanne Bertish

LUCILLE LORTEL AWARDS

• LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD - 2011
  Lynne Meadow
• THE WHIPPING MAN - 2011
  Outstanding Lighting Design - Ben Stanton
• RUINED - 2008
  Outstanding Play
  Outstanding Lead Actress - Saidah Arrika Ekulona
• HUMOR ABUSE - 2008
  Outstanding Solo Show
• DOUBT - 2005
  Outstanding Play
  Outstanding Director - Doug Hughes
  Outstanding Actress - Cherry Jones
  Outstanding Featured Actress - Adriane Lenox
• FOUR - 2002
  Outstanding Featured Actor - Keith Nobbs
• PROOF - 2001
  Outstanding Play
  Outstanding Actress - Mary-Louise Parker
  Outstanding Director - Daniel Sullivan
• THE WILD PARTY - 2000
  Outstanding Scenic Design - David Gallo
  Outstanding Lighting Design - Kenneth Posner
  Outstanding Costume Design - Martin Pakledinaz
• THE TALE OF THE ALLERGIST'S WIFE - 2000
  Stars on the Sidewalk - Charles Busch
• SYLVIA - 1995
  Outstanding Costume Design - Jane Greenwood

TIME MAGAZINE BEST PLAY

• BOY GETS GIRL - 2001
• EASTERN STANDARD - 1988
• ARISTOCRATS - 1989
• MASS APPEAL - 1980
• ASHES - 1976
• LIFE CLASS - 1975

SPECIAL AWARDS

• 2011 LILY AWARD
  Lynne Meadow - For Lifetime Achievement
• 2011 LUCILLE LORTEL AWARD
  Lynne Meadow - For Lifetime Achievement
• 2005 DRAMA LEAGUE AWARD
  Doubt - Distinguished Production of a Play
• 2005 HULL-WARRINER PLAYWRITING AWARD
  John Patrick Shanley - Doubt
• 2001 NEW YORK CITY PROCLAMATION
  For Contributions to the Cultural Arts of New York City
• 2000 EDITH OLIVER AWARD
  Barry Grove - For Sustained Excellence Off-Broadway
• 1999 AWARD FROM BROOKLYN COLLEGE
  Lynne Meadow - For her Distinguished Contribution for the American Performance Arts
• 1989 DRAMA DESK AWARD
  For setting high standards, encouraging new playwrights, and importing unusual plays from abroad
• 1987 LUCILLE LORTEL AWARD
  For Outstanding Achievement
• 1982 THEATRE WORLD AWARD
  For Outstanding Achievement
• 1982 ENCORE AWARD
  From the Arts and Business Council
• 1981 MARGO JONES AWARD
  For Continued Encouragement of Young Playwrights
• 1977 SPECIAL OBIE CITATION
  For Sustained Excellence
• 1977 DRAMA DESK AWARD
  For Outstanding Contribution to the Theatre
• 1977 SPECIAL OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
  Lynne Meadow - For her Supportive and Perceptive Contributions to the American Theatre
• 1977 SHUBERT FOUNDATION JAMES N. VAUGHAN MEMORIAL AWARD
  For Exceptional Achievement and Contribution to the Development of Professional Theatre