1969 Drama Desk Awards

Winners and nominees from the Drama Desk Awards.

1969 Drama Desk Awards

Note: Award winners appear on a red background.

Category	Nominee	Show
Most Promising Playwright	Elaine May	Adaptation1968-69 season
Most Promising Playwright	Charles Gordone	No Place to Be Somebody1968-69 season
Most Promising Playwrights	Lonnie Elder III	Ceremonies in Dark Old Men1968-69 season
Oustanding Performance	Jane Alexander	The Great White Hope1968-69 season
Outstanding Book	Peter Stone	17761968-69 season
Outstanding Choreography	Grover Dale	Billy1968-69 season
Outstanding Director	Neal Kenyon	Dames at Sea1968-69 season
Outstanding Director	Michael A. Schultz	Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?1968-69 season

Outstanding Director	Gordon Davidson	In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer1968-69 season
Outstanding Director	Alan Arkin	Little Murders1968-69 season

Outstanding Director	Edwin Sherin	The Great White Hope1968-69 season
Outstanding Lyrics	George Haimoshn, Robin Miller	Dames at Sea1968-69 season
Outstanding Lyrics	Fred Ebb	Zorba1968-69 season
Outstanding Music	Al Carmines	Peace1968-69 season
Outstanding Music	Burt Bacharach	Promises, Promises1968-69 season
Outstanding Performanc	Dorothy Loudon	The Fig Leaves Are Falling1968-69 season


Outstanding Performance	Frank Langella	A Cry of Players1968-69 season
Outstanding Performance	Douglas Turner Ward	Ceremonies in Dark Old Men1968-69 season
Outstanding Performance	Bernadette Peters	Dames at Sea1968-69 season
Outstanding Performance	Al Pacino	Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?1968-69 season

Outstanding Performance	Alec McCowen	Hadrian VII1968-69 season
Outstanding Performance	Joseph Wiseman	In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer1968-69 season
Outstanding Performance	Dustin Hoffman	Jimmy Shine1968-69 season
Outstanding Performance	Linda Lavin	Little Murders1968-69 season

Outstanding Performance	James Coco	Next1968-69 season
Outstanding Performance	Nathan George, Ron O'Neal	No Place to Be Somebody1968-69 season
Outstanding Performance	Jerry Orbach, Marian Mercer	Promises, Promises1968-69 season
Outstanding Performance	James Earl Jones	The Great White Hope1968-69 season
Outstanding Performance	Donald Pleasence	The Man in the Glass Booth1968-69 season
Outstanding Performance	Brian Bedford	The Misanthrope1968-69 season

Outstanding Performance	Rob Leibman	We Bombed in New Haven1968-69 season
Outstanding Performances	Nicol Williamson	Hamlet1968-69 season


Outstanding Set Design	Patricia Zipprodt	17761968-69 season
Outstanding Set Design	Tanya Moiseiwitsch	The House of Atreus1968-69 season
Outstanding Set Design	Patricia Zipprodt	Zorba1968-69 season
Vernon Rice Awards	Joseph Chaikin

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1969 Drama Desk Awards

1969 Drama Desk Awards

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