Athol Fugard - Selected Awards and Nominations

Selected Awards and Nominations

Theatre

• Obie Award
  • 1971 - Best Foreign Play - Boesman and Lena (winner)
• Tony Award
  • 1975 - Best Play - Sizwe Banzi Is Dead / The Island - Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona (nomination)
  • 2011 - Special Tony Award Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre (winner)
• New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards
  • 1981 - Best Play - A Lesson From Aloes (winner)
  • 1988 - Best Foreign Play - The Road to Mecca (winner)
• Evening Standard Award
  • 1983 – Best Play – Master Harold...and the Boys (winner)
• Drama Desk Awards
  • 1982 – Master Harold...and the Boys (winner)
• Lucille Lortel Awards
  • 1992 – Outstanding Revival – Boesman and Lena (winner)
  • 1996 – Outstanding Body of Work (winner)
• The Audie Awards (Audio Publishers Association)
  • 1999 - Theatrical Productions - The Road to Mecca (winner)
• Outer Critics Circle Award
  • 2007 – Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play – Exits and Entrances (nomination)

Honorary awards

• Writers Guild of America, East Award
  • 1986 - Evelyn F. Burkey Memorial Award - (along with Lloyd Richards)
• National Orders Award (South Africa)
  • 2005 – The Order of Ikhamanga in Silver - "for his excellent contribution and achievements in the theatre"

Honorary degrees

• Yale University, 1983
• Wittenberg University, 1992
• University of the Witwatersrand, 1993
• Brown University, 1995
• Princeton University, 1998
• University of Stellenbosch, 2006