1976–1977 Obie Awards

Best New American Play	Sam Shepard, Curse of the Starving Class
Distinguished Productions	Eve Merriam, playwright; Tommy Tune, director; Kate Carmel, costume designer; entire cast, The Club
	Ntozake Shange, poet; Oz Scott, director; entire cast, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
	Mabou Mines, Dressed Like an Egg
Playwriting	David Berry, G.R. Point
	Maria Irene Fornes, Fefu and Her Friends
	William Hauptmann, Domino Courts
	Albert Innaurato, Gemini and The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie
	David Rudkin, Ashes
Direction	Melvin Bernhardt, Children
	Gordon Davidson, Savages
Performances	Danny Aiello, Gemini
	Martin Balsam, Cold Storage
	Lucinda Childs, Einstein on the Beach
	James Coco, The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie
	Anne DeSalvo, Gemini
	John Heard, G.R. Point
	Jo Henderson, Ladyhouse Blues
	William Hurt, My Life
	Joseph Maher, Savages
	Roberta Maxwell, Ashes
	Brian Murray, Ashes
	Lola Pashalinski, Der Ring Gott Farblonjet
	Marian Seldes, Isadora Duncan Sleeps With the Russian Navy
	Margaret Wright, A Manoir