The artistic directors of Mabou Mines have received two Guggenheim Fellowships, four Rockefeller Playwriting Fellowships, two CAPS awards, the Japan-US Friendship Commission Fellowship. Further, four Fulbright Fellowships including the 40th Anniversary Beckett Chair at Trinity College/Dublin, a NYFA fellowship, the Distinguished Artist Fellowship, the Mexican/US Exchange Fellowship and the Fox Foundation Fellowship. Works by company members have received awards from ASCAP and have been nominated for such prestigious awards as the Tony, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Helen Hayes American Theater Award. The Company has been awarded the Institutional Advancement, and the Ongoing Ensembles grants from the NEA.
2020
JoAnne Akalaitis – OBIE Award For Direction for MUD/Drowning
David Neumann & Marcella Murray – OBIE Award for Distance Smaller Than This Are Not Confirmed
Lee Breuer – Inducted to The College of Fellows of the American Theatre
2019
Lee Breuer – Honoree at the Cairo International Festival for Contemporary and Experimental Theater
Lee Breuer – TCG Theatre Practitioner Award
2014
Ruth Maleczech inducted into the Off Broadway Hall of Fame by The Off Broadway Alliance.
2012
Mabou Mines DollHouse – Elliot Norton Awards (Boston): Outstanding Visiting Production, Outstanding Actress – Maude Mitchell
Elliot Norton Award Nomination for Outstanding Design – Narelle Sissons [set], Meganne George [costumes], Mary Louise Geiger [lighting], Jane Catherine Shaw [puppetry], and Edward Cosla [sound]
2011
Lee Breuer – 2011 USA Ford Fellow in Theater Arts by United States Artists
Lucia’s Chapters of Coming Forth by Day – Winner Best Design, 2011 First Irish Festival
2010
Julie Archer – 2010 USA Ford Fellow in Theater Arts by United States Artists
Ruth Maleczech – Otto René Castillo Award for Political Theatre
2009
Ruth Maleczech – 2009 USA Gracie Fellow in Theater Arts by United States Artists.
Karen Kandel – Awarded Golden Herald Angel for her performance in Peter & Wendy at the Edinburgh International Festival.
Mabou Mines DollHouse – Nominated for two 2008-09 Drama League Awards: for Distinguished Revival of a Play and Maude Mitchell for Distinguished Performance
Ruth Maleczech – Recipient of Foundation for Contemporary Arts “2009 Grants to Artists Award”
2008
Karen Kandel – 2008 USA Ziporyn Fellow in Theater Arts by United States Artists.
Lucia’s Chapters of Coming Forth by Day – Elliot Norton Award Nomination for Best Visiting Production
2007
Mabou Mines DollHouse, Lee Breuer – Golden Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh International Festival
Maude Mitchell – Garland Award (L.A. Backstage West Critics) for her performance in Mabou Mines DollHouse
Mabou Mines DollHouse – Dora Mavor Moore Award to for Outstanding Touring Production
Artistic Directors of Mabou Mines – Edwin Booth Award presented by the Doctoral Theatre Students Association at the Graduate Center, CUNY
Karen Kandel with Mabou Mines – Fox Foundation Fellowship
Basil Twist & M.L. Geiger selected to be represented at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial for their design work on Red Beads.
Narelle Sissons selected to be represented at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial for her set design for Mabou Mines DollHouse.
2006
Certificate of Outstanding Merit awarded to Ruth Maleczech for her influential, pioneering role in experimental theatre – Presented by The Egyptian Ministry of Culture, Cairo International Festival For Experimental Theatre
Chevalier Des Artes et Lettres presented to Lee Breuer by the French Ministry of Culture
2004
Lee Breuer -Village Voice OBIE Award for Direction for Mabou Mines DollHouse
Maude Mitchell – Village Voice OBIE Award to for performance in Mabou Mines DollHouse
2003
Clove Galilee selected to participate in the New Generations Program of TCG, to be mentored by Sharon Fogarty.
2002
Karen Kandel – Village Voice OBIE Award for her performance in TALK.
The Craig Noel Award for Excellence in Theatre (Awarded by the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle) Peter & Wendy: Best Special Event.
Karen Kandel – The Craig Noel Award for Excellence in Theatre: Best Solo Performance or Work in Peter & Wendy.
2001
Ruth Maleczech – Spencer Cherashore Award for Lifetime Dedication to Not-For-Profit Theatre
David Neumann – Colbert Foundation Award for Excellence in Choreography
2000
Fox Foundation Fellowship to Ruth Maleczech for Researching the life of Lucia Joyce.
Liliana Felipe and Jesusa Rodriguez – Village Voice OBIE “Special Citation” for Performance in Belén- A Book of Hours
1999
Julie Archer – National Theatre Artist Residency Award from TCG and Pew Charitable Trusts
Clove Galilee – Princess Grace, USA Award
1998
New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award – David Neumann for Choreography
1997
Lee Breuer – Awarded fellowship from John D. and Catharine T. MacArthur Foundation.
The Creators of Peter & Wendy (Julie Archer, Lee Breuer, Johnny Cunningham and Liza Lorwin) – Village Voice OBIE Award for Best Production
Karen Kandel – Village Voice OBIE Award for Performance in Peter & Wendy
Julie Archer – A Drama League Award for Peter & Wendy
Julie Archer – American Theater Wing Design Award for Peter & Wendy.
Karen Kandel – A Drama League Award for performance for Peter & Wendy.
Peter & Wendy – A UNIMA Excellence in Puppetry Award
1996
Julie Archer and Barbara Pollitt – Village Voice OBIE Award for the performance of Rose the Dog in An Epidog
Julie Archer – The American Theater Wing’s Design Award (for Rose the Dog) An Epidog
Karen ten Eyck (for computer generated backgrounds) for An Epidog
1994
An Epidog /Lee Breuer – The Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award
David Neumann – Princess Grace, USA Award
1991
David Neumann – New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for Performance.
1990
Village Voice OBIE Awards: Karen Kandel, Ruth Maleczech, Greg Mehrten, and Isabell Monk for their performances in Mabou Mines Lear.
1989
Ruth Maleczech – The Zeisler Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Resident Theatre Community
Ruth Maleczech – The Distinguished Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts
1987
Bill Raymond – Village Voice OBIE Award for his performance in Cold Harbor
Jennifer Tipton – American Theater Wing’s Joseph Maharam Award for Lighting Design for Worstward Ho
Dead End Kids – Best Feature Film Award at the Atlanta Film Festival.
1986
Village Voice OBIE Award for Sustained Achievement to Mabou Mines
1985
Through the Leaves – Grand Prize for Best Production, Festival of the Americas, Montreal, Canada.
Ruth Maleczech – Best Performer Award for Through the Leaves, Festival of the Americas, Montreal, Canada.
Julie Archer – Hollywood Reporter Award for The Gospel at Colonus
1984
JoAnne Akalaitis – Village Voice OBIE Award for Direction, Through the Leaves
Ruth Maleczech – Village Voice OBIE Award for her Performance in Through the Leaves
Frederick Neumann – Village Voice OBIE Award for his Performance in Through the Leaves
Brandeis University Creative Arts Awards – Citation in Theater Arts to Mabou Mines for “Extraordinary Artistic Achievement”
1983
Julie Archer – The Maharam Award for her design of Hajj
Ruth Maleczech – Village Voice OBIE Award for Performance in Hajj
Bill Raymond – Villager Downtown Theater Award for his outstanding performance in Cold Harbor
Ruth Maleczech – Villager Downtown Theater Award for her outstanding solo performance in Hajj
Craig Miller – Villager Downtown Theatre Award for his Outstanding Lighting Design for Company
Gerald Marks – Villager Downtown Theatre Award for his outstanding set design for Company
1982
JoAnne Akalaitis and Mabou Mines – Theatre Magazine, Best Play Award and Prize for Dead End Kids
1981
JoAnne Akalaitis and Mabou Mines – Village Voice OBIE Special Citation for Dead End Kids
Marion Godfrey – Village Voice OBIE “Special Citation” for fundraising.
Mabou Mines – Villager Downtown Theatre Award for Outstanding Season.
JoAnne Akalaitis and Ensemble – Villager Downtown Theatre Award for Outstanding Production: Dead End Kids
Ruth Maleczech – Villager Downtown Theatre Award for Outstanding Direction: Wrong Guys
Bill Raymond – Patalogue Magazine Award (Italy), Best Performance for A Prelude to Death in Venice
1980
Julie Archer and Ruth Maleczech – Village Voice OBIE Award for their design of Vanishing Pictures
Bill Raymond – Village Voice OBIE Award for his performance in A Prelude to Death in Venice
Lee Breuer – Village Voice OBIE Award for his Script and Direction of A Prelude to Death in Venice
A Prelude to Death in Venice – San Francisco Critics Award for Best Touring Production
L.B. Dallas, Linda Hartinian and Alison Yerxa – Maharam Citation for Design for A Prelude to Death in Venice
Bill Raymond – National Federation of Community Broadcasters Radio Programming Award for Easy Daisy
1979
JoAnne Akalaitis, David Warrilow, and Ellen Mc Elduff – Village Voice OBIE Special Citation for Southern Exposure
Lee Breuer (Direction) and David Warrilow (Performance) – Los Angeles Drama League Critics Award for The Lost Ones
1978
Lee Breuer – Village Voice OBIE Award for the Shaggy Dog Animation
1977
Dressed Like an Egg – Village Voice OBIE Award for Distinguished Production
JoAnne Akalaitis – Maharam Citation for Design for Dressed Like an Egg
Dressed Like an Egg – Villager Downtown Theater Award
1976
David Warrilow – Village Voice OBIE Award for his Performance in The Lost Ones
JoAnne Akalaitis – Village Voice OBIE Award for Direction for Cascando
Philip Glass – Village Voice OBIE Award for Music: for work with Mabou Mines
1974
Village Voice OBIE Award for General Excellence to Mabou Mines.