The only director to receive a Tony Award (it is Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, (1963) and an Obie Award (The Dumb Waiterand The Collection, 1963) in the same year, Mr. Schneider directed well over one hundred works, including the original American productions of such playwrights as Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, Robert Anderson, Joe Orton, and Michael Weller.