| Most Promising Book | Melvin Van Pebbles | Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death1971-72 season |
| Most Promising Composer | Andre Lloyd Webber | Jesus Christ Superstar1971-72 season |
| Most Promising Costume Design | Carrie F. Robbins | Grease1971-72 season |
| Most Promising Costume Design | Carrie F. Robbins | The Beggar's Opera1971-72 season |
| Most Promising Director | Gilbert Moses | Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death1971-72 season |
| Most Promising Director | Dan Sullivan | Suggs1971-72 season |
| Most Promising Lyricist | Micki Grant | Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope1971-72 season |
| Most Promising Playwright | J.E. Franklin | Black Girl1971-72 season |
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| Most Promising Playwright | Michael Weller | Moonchildren1971-72 season |
| Most Promising Playwright | David Wiltse | Suggs1971-72 season |
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| Most Promising Playwright | Jason Miller | That Championship Season1971-72 season |
| Most Promising Playwright | Richard Wesley | The Black Terror1971-72 season |
| Most Promising Playwright | Philip Dean Hayes | The Sty of the Blind Pig1971-72 season |
| Most Promising Set Design | Video Free America | Kaddish1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Book | Mel Shapiro, John Guare | Two Gentlemen of Verona1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Choreography | Patricia Birch | Grease1971-72 season |
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| Outstanding Choreography | Jean Erdman | Two Gentlemen of Verona1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Willa Kim | The Screens1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Theoni V. Aldredge | Two Gentlemen of Verona1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Director | Andrei Serban | Medea1971-72 season |
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| Outstanding Director | Peter Hall | Old Times1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Director | Mel Shapiro | Older People1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Director | Jeff Bleckner | Sticks and Bones1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Director | A.J. Antoon | That Championship Season1971-72 season |
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| Outstanding Director | Mel Shapiro | Two Gentlemen of Verona1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Lyrics | John Guare | Two Gentlemen of Verona1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Music | Galt MacDermot | Two Gentlemen of Verona1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Performance | George S. Irving | An Evening With Richard Nixon1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Performance | Ron Faber | And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Performance | Ruby Dee | Boesman and Lena1971-72 season |
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| Outstanding Performance | Micki Grant | Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Performance | Linda Hopkins | Inner City1971-72 season |
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| Outstanding Performance | Marilyn Chris | Kaddish1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Performance | Brock Peters | Lost in the Stars1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Performance | Lester Rawlins | Nightride1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Performance | Rosemary Harris | Old Times1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Performance | Tom Aldredge | Sticks and Bones1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Performance | Robert Morse | Sugar1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Performance | William Athertow | Suggs1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Performance | Kain | That Black Terror1971-72 season |
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| Outstanding Performance | Michael McGuire, Walter McGinn, Charles Durning, Paul Sorvino, Richard A. Dysart | That Championship Season1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Performance | Julie Bovasso | The Screens1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Performance | Sada Thompson | Twigs1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Performance | Jonelle Allen, Raul Julia | Two Gentlemen of Verona1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Performance | Eileen Atkins | Vivat! Vivat Regina!1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Playwright | J.E. Gaines | Don't Let It Go to Your Head1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Set Design | Kert Lundell | Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Set Design | Santo Loquasto | Sticks and Bones1971-72 season |
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| Outstanding Set Design | Santo Loquasto | That Championship Season1971-72 season |
| Outstanding Set Design | Robert U. Taylor | The Beggar's Opera1971-72 season |
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| Vernon Rice Award | Chelsea Theatre Center | 1971-72 season |
