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[[Image: logo of The Negro Ensemble Company, Inc. as watermark in center of page]] The Negro Ensemble Company MAJOR AWARDS and PRIZES 1967 - 68 Vernon Rice Drama Desk Award Obie Award, Special Citation for Excellence To: The Negro Ensemble Company 1968 - 69 Tony Award, Special Achievement in the Theatre To: The Negro Ensemble Company Premio Roma Award, Artistic Excellence and Production For: The Negro Ensemble Company, and play, Song of the Lusitanian Bogey, by Peter Weiss Vernon Rice Drama Desk Award For: Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, by Lonnie Elder, III 1969 - 70 Brandeis University Creative Award To: The Negro Ensemble Company 1970 - 71 Obie Award, Outstanding New Play For: Dream on Monkey Mountain, by Derek Walcott Guggenheim Fellowship To: Lonnie Elder, III 1971 - 72 Dramatists Guild Award Vernon Rice Drama Desk Award For: Sty of the Blind Pig, by Phillip Hayes Dean 1972 - 73 Vernon Rice Drama Desk Award Obie AWard, Outstanding New Play Dramatists Guild Award For: The River Niger, by Joseph Walker (Off Broadway production) 1973 - 74 1973 Tony Award, Best Play For: The River Niger (Broadway production) Obie Award, Outstanding New Play For: The Great MacDaddy, by Paul Carter Harrison Guggenheim Fellowship To: Joseph Walker 1974 - 75 Obie Award, Outstanding New Play Margo Jones Award For: the First Breeze of Summer, by Leslie Lee (Off-Broadway production) 1975 - 76 New York State Arts Council Award To: The Negro Ensemble Company Tony Award Nomination, Best Play Clarence Derwent Award For: The First Breeze of Summer (Broadway production) 1976 - 77 Obie Award, Outstanding New Play Audelco (Black Audience AWard) For: Eden, by Steve Carter Bronze Medallion of New York City To: The Negro Ensemble Company 1977 - 78 Eudora Welty Television Award For: The First Breeze of Summer, by Leslie Lee, PBS televised presentation Guggenheim Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship To: Charles Fuller, author of The Brownsville Raid 1978-79 Obie Awards, Outstanding New Play, Outstanding Ensemble Performances For: Nevis Mountain Dew, by Steve Carter, Cast of Nevis 1979-80 Outer Critics Circle (John Gassner Playwriting Medallion) Drama Desk Award Nominations, Best Play, Best Actor Tony Award Nominations, Best Play, Best Actor For: Home, by Samm-art Williams Schubert Organization's James N. Vaughn Award for Excellence in American Theater To: The Negro Ensemble Company Obie Award, Outstanding Play For: LaGrima Del Diablo, by Dan Owens 1980 Creative Artist Public-Service Grant Award To: Ali Wadud, author of Companions of the Fire 1980-81 Obie Awards, Outstanding New Play, Outstanding Performance For: Zooman and the Sign, by Charles Fuller, GianCarlo Esposito as Zooman Obie Award, Sustained Achievement in Theatre Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Osceola Award for Artistic Achievement To: The Negro Ensemble Company Guggenheim Fellowship To: Samm-Art Williams 1981-82 1982 Pulitzer Prize, Best Drama To: Charles Fuller, a Soldier's Play Obie Award To: Larry Riley, performance in A Soldier's Play Obie Award To: Denzel Washington, performance in A Soldier's Play Obie Award To: Adolph Caesar, performance in A Soldier's Play Outer Critics Circle Award For: A Soldier's Play Theater Club Award, Best Play For: A Soldier's Play New York Drama Critics Circle Award, Best American Play For: A Soldier's Play Audelco (Black Audience Award) For: A Soldier's Play 1982-83 American Theater Wing Award To: The Negro Ensemble Company NAACP Image Award To: The Negro Ensemble Company [[underline]] MAJOR THEATER AWARDS [[/underline]] (1) Pulitzer Prize (2) Tony Awards (13) Obie Awards (2) Audelco Awards (4) Drama Desk Awards (2) Dramatist Guild Awards (1) Shubert Organization Award [[end page]] [[start page]] [[image: black & white photograph from a show, captioned Zooman and the Sign]] [[image: black & white photograph from a show, captioned The River Niger]] [[image: black & white photograph from a show, captioned Song of the Lusitanian Bogey]] [[image: black & white photograph from a show, captioned Ceremonies in Dark Old Men]] [[image:black & white photograph from a show, captioned The Dream on Monkey Mountain]]