1968-1969 15th Drama Desk Awards
Beginning this year the Drama Desk included both Broadway and Off-Broadway shows for consideration.
| Outstanding Performers | James Earl Jones (The Great White Hope) |
| Jane Alexander (The Great White Hope) | |
| Al Pacino (Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?) | |
| James Coco (Next) | |
| Alec McCowen (Hadrian VII) | |
| Donald Pleasence (The Man in the Glass Booth) | |
| Nicol Williamson (Hamlet ) | |
| Ron O'Neal (No Place To Be Somebody) | |
| Joseph Wiseman (In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer) | |
| Marian Mercer (Promises, Promises) | |
| Bernadette Peters (Dames at Sea) | |
| Dustin Hoffman (Jimmy Shine) | |
| Dorothy Loudon (The Fig Leaves are Falling) | |
| Nathan George (No Place to be Somebody) | |
| Linda Lavin (Little Murders) | |
| Ron Leibman (We Bombed in New Haven) | |
| Douglas Truner Ward (Ceremonies in Dark Old Men) | |
| Jerry Orbach (Promises, Promises) | |
| Brian Bedford (The Misanthrope) | |
| Frank Langella (A Cry of Players) | |
| Outstanding Directors | Edwin Sherin (The Great White Hope) |
| Gordon Davidson (In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer) | |
| Neal Kenyon (Dames at Sea) | |
| Alan Arkin (Little Murders) | |
| Michael A. Schultz (Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?) | |
| Outstanding Music | Al Carmines (Peace) |
| Burt Bacharach (Promises, Promises) | |
| Outstanding Lyrics | George Haimoshn, Robin Miller (Dames at Sea) |
| Fred Ebb (Zorba) | |
| Outstanding Book | Peter Stone (1776) |
| Outstanding Choreography | Grover Dale (Billy) |
| Outstanding Set Design | Tanya Moiseiwitsch (The House of Atreus) |
| Patricia Zipprodt (1776 / Zorba) | |
| Most Promising Playwrights | Charles Gordone (No Place to be Somebody) |
| Lonnie Elder III (Ceremonies in Dark Old Men) | |
| Elaine May (Adaptation) | |
| Vernon Rice Awards | Joseph Chaikin |
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