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| 1956 | Special Citations | Phoenix Theatre | Shakespearean Workshop Theatre | Tempo Playhouse | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Performances (Actresses) | Shirlee Emmons for The Mother of Us All | Frances Sternhagen for The Admirable Bashville | Nancy Wickwire for The Cherry Orchard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Performances (Actors) | Alan Ansara for The Private Life of the Master Race | Roberts Blossom for A Village Wooing | Addison Powell for The Iceman Cometh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Supporting Actress | Peggy McCay for Uncle Vanya | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Supporting Actor | Gerald Hiken for The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best New Play | Lionel Abel for Absalom, Absalom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Musical | The Threepenny Opera | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Director | Jose Quintero for The Iceman Cometh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best All-Around Production | Uncle Vanya | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Actress | Julie Bovasso for The Maids | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Actor | Jason Robards, Jr for The Iceman Cometh | George Voskovec for Uncle Vanya | Klaus Holm and Alvin Colt for Phoenix Theatre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Shelley Winters | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1957 | Special Citations | Paul Shyre for bringing O'Casey to Off-Broadway; for his adaptations of I Knock at the Door, Pictures in the Hallway, and USA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Performances (Actresses) | Marguerite Lenery for House of Breath | Betty Miller for Exiles | Jutta Wolf for Exiles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Performances (Actors) | Thayer David for Saint Joan, Oscar Wilde | Michael Kane for Exiles | Arthur Malet for Volpone, The Misanthrope, The Apollo of Bellac | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best New Play | Louis A. Lippa for A House Remembered | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Director | Gene Frankel for Volpone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best All-Around Production | Daniel S. Brown and Burry Fredrick for Exiles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Actress | Colleen Dewhurst for The Taming of the Shrew, The Eagle Has Two Heads, Camille | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Actor | William Smithers for The Sea Gull | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Geraldine Page | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1958 | Special Citations | The Phoenix Theatre | The Theatre Club | Lucille Lortel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Performances (Actresses) | Tammy Grimes for Clerambard | Grania O'Malley for Guests of the Nation | Nydia Westman for Endgame | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Performances (Actors) | Leonardo Cimino for The Brothers Karamazov | Michael Higgins for The Crucible | J.D. (Jack) Cannon for Children of Darkness, New York Shakespeare Festival | Robert Gerriger for Guests of the Nation, New York Shakespeare Festival | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Revival | Arthur Miller, Directed by Word Baker for The Crucible | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Play (Adaptation) | Boris Tumarin and Jack Sydow for The Brothers Karamazov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best One-Act Play | Neil McKenzie for Guests of the Nation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Foreign Play | Samuel Beckett for Endgame | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Director | Stuart Vaughan for New York Shakespeare Festival | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Comedy | George Panetta for Comic Strip | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Actress | Anne Meacham for Garden District | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Actor | George C. Scott for Richard III, As You Like It, Children of Darkness | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Joseph Anthony | George Freedley | Jerry Tallmer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Maureen Stapleton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1959 | Special Citations | Hal Holbrook for Mark Twain Tonight! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Performances (Actresses) | Rosina Fernhoff for Fashion, The Geranium Hat | Anne Fielding for Ivanov | Nancy Wickwire for A Clearing in the Woods | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Performances (Actors) | Zero Mostel for Ulysses in Nighttown | Lester Rawlins for The Quare Fellow | Harold Scott for Deathwatch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Revue | Steven Vinaver for Diversions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Proscenium Set | Will Steven Armstrong for Ivanov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Open-Stage Set | David Hays for The Quare Fellow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Musical | A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Music | David Amram for Many Productions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Lighting | Nikola Cernovich for Many Productions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Director (Foreign Play) | William Ball for Ivanov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Director (American Play) | Jack Ragotzy for Arthur Laurents Cycle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best All-Around Production | Daniel Hineck and Harlin Quist for Ivanov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Actress | Kathleen Maquire for The Time of the Cuckoo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Actor | Alfred Ryder for I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Kenneth Tynan | Henry Hewes | Jerry Tallmer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Kim Stanley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1960 | Best Actor | Warren Finnerty for The Connection | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Actress | Eileen Brennan for Little Mary Sunshine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best All-Around Production | Julian Beck and Judith Malina for The Connection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Director | Gene Frankel for Machinal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Foreign Play | Jean Genet for The Balcony | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best New Play | Jack Gelber for The Connection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Performances (Actors) | William Daniels for The Zoo Story | Donald Davis for Krapp's Last Tape | Vincent Gardenia for Machinal | John Heffernan for Henry IV, Part 2 | Jock Livingston for The Balcony | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Performances (Actresses) | Patricia Falkenheim for Peer Gynt, Henry IV | Elisa Loti for Come Share My House | Nancy Marchand for The Balcony | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Plays | Samuel Beckett for Krapp's Last Tape | Edward Albee for The Zoo Story | Jack Richardson for The Prodigal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sets | David Hays for The Balcony | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Brooks Atkinson for New York Times | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Richard Watts Jr. | Jerry Tallmer | Robert Brustein | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Anne Bancroft | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1961 | Best Actor | Khigh Dhiegh for In the Jungle of Cities | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Actress | Anne Meacham for Hedda Gabler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Director | Gerald A. Freedman for The Taming of the Shrew | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Music | Teiji Ito for In the Jungle of Cities, Three Modern Japanese Plays, King Ubu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best New Play | Jean Genet for The Blacks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Off-Off-Broadway Production | Theodore Flicker for The Premise | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Overall Production | David Ross for Hedda Gabler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Performances Aactors) | Godfrey M. Cambridge for The Blacks | James Coco for The Moon in the Yellow River | Lester Rawlins for Hedda Gabler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Performances (Actresses) | Joan Hackett for Call Me By My Rightful Name | Gerry Jedd for She Stoops to Conquer | Surya Kumari for The King of the Darn Chamber | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Bernard Frechtman for The Blacks for his translation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Harold Clurman | Jerry Tallmer | Tom Driver | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Julie Harris | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1962 | Best Actor | James Earl Jones for Clandestine on the Morning Line, The Apple, Moon on a Rainbow Shawl | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Actress | Barbara Harris for Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best American Play | Frank D. Gilroy for Who'll Save the Plowboy? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Foreign Play | Samuel Beckett (Walter Kerr abstaining) for Happy Days | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Musical | C. Jackson, James Hatch and Jerome Eskow for Fly Blackbird | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Set | Norris Houghton for Who'll Save the Plowboy? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Performances (Actors) | Clayton Corzatte for APA Repertory | Geoff Garland for The Hostage | Gerald O'Loughlin for Who'll Save the Plowboy? | Paul Roebling for This Side of Paradise | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Performances (Actresses) | Sudie Bond for Theatre of the Absurd | Vinnette Carroll for Moon on a Rainbow Shawl | Rosemary Harris for APA Repertory | Ruth White for Happy Days | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Ellis Rabb for for conceiving and maintaining the Association of Producing Artists (APA) , The Hostage | The Hostage for for using the best possibilities of Off Broadway to convey the essence of Brendan Behan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Edward Albee | Jerry Tallmer | Walter Kerr | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Lotte Lenya | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1963 | Best Actor | George C. Scott for Desire Under the Elms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Actress | Colleen Dewhurst for Desire Under the Elms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Director | Alan Schneider for The Pinter Plays | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Production (Play) | Luigi Pirandello, directed by William Ball for Six Characters in Search of An Author | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Production (Musical) | The Boys from Syracuse | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Performances | Olympia Dukakis for A Man's a Man | Michael O'Sullivan for Six Characters in Search of An Author | Madeleine Sherwood for Hey You, Light Man! | Joseph Chaikin for Man is Man | James Patterson for `The Collection in The Pinter plays | Jacqueline Brookes for Six Characters in Search of An Author | Eli Wallach for The Typists and The Tiger | Anne Jackson for The Typists and The Tiger | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | The Second City | Jean Erdman for The Coach with the Six Insides | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | John Gassner, Norman Nadel, Michael Smith | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Uta Hagen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1964 | Best Performance | Gloria Foster for In White America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Direction | Judith Malina for The Brig | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Play | Samuel Beckett for Play | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best American Play | LeRoi Jones for Dutchman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Design | Julian Beck for The Brig | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Music | Al Carmines for Home Movies and What Happened | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Production (Play) | Living Theatre for The Brig | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Production (Musical) | Judson Poets Theatre for What Happened | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Performances | Taylor Mead for The General Returns from One Place to Another | Ronald Weyand for The Lesson | Philip Bruns for Mr. Simian | Marian Seldes for The Ginger Man | Lee Grant for The Maids | Joyce Ebert for The Trojan Women | Jack Warden for Epiphany | Estelle Parsons for Next Time I'll Sing to You and In the Summer House | Diana Sands for The Living Premise | David Hurst for A Month in the Country | |||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Plays | Rosalyn Drexler for Home Movies | Adrienne Kennedy for Funnyhouse of a Negro | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Direction | Lawrence Kornfeld for What Happened | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Judson Memorial Church for for its sponsorship of experiment and experimenters in the performing arts, through the Judson Poets' Theatre and the Judson Dance Theatre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Richard Gilman, Gordon Rogoff, Michael Smith | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Colleen Dewhurst | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1965 | Best American Play | Robert Lowell for The Old Glory | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Musical Production | The Cradle Will Rock | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Direction | Ulu Grosbard for A View from the Bridge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Costumes | Willa Kim for The Old Glory | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Plays | Maria Irene Fornes for Promenade and The Successful Life of 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Performances | Sada Thompson for Tartuffe | Rosemary Harris for APA Repertory | Roberts Blossom for Do Not Pass Go | Robert Duvall for A View from the Bridge | Margaret De Priest for The Place for Chance | Joseph Chaikin for Victims of Duty and The Exception and the Rule | James Earl Jones for Baal | Frances Sternhagen for The Room and A Slight Ache | Dean Dittmann for The Cradle Will Rock | Brian Bedford for The Knack | |||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | The Paper Bag Players for for raising the level of children's theatre through intelligence, imagination, and respecfor its audiences | Caffe Cino and Cafe La Mama for for creating opportunities for new playwrights to confront audiences and gain experience of the real theatre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Richard Gilman, Gordon Rogoff, Michael Smith | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Gloria Foster | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1966 | Best Actor | Dustin Hoffman for The Exhaustion of Our Son's Love | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Actress | Jane White for Coriolanus and Love's Labour's Lost | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Set Design | Ed Wittstein for Serjeant Musgrave's Dance | Lindsey Decker for Red Cross | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best American Play | Ronald Ribman for The Journey of the Fifth Horse | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Plays | Emanuel Peluso for Good Day | Sam Shepard for Chicago, Icarus's Mother, and Red Cross | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Performances | Sharon Gans for Soon Jack November | Michael Lipton for The Trial | Mari-Claire Charba for Birdbath | Kevin O'Connor for Chicago | Jess Osuna for Bugs and Veronica | Gloria Foster for Medea | Frank Langella for Good Day and The White Devil | Florence Tarlow for Istanbul, Red Cross, and A Beautiful Day | Douglas Turner Ward for Days of Absence | Clarice Blackburn for The Exhaustion of Our Son's Love | |||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Theatre for Ideas for for encouraging exploration in dramatic literature and music | Theater in the Street for for upholding the tradition of street theatre and reaching out to new English- and Spanish-speaking audiences | Peter Schumann for for his Bread and Puppet Theatre, which embodies a courageous and rigorous vision and practice of theatre engaged with its time | Joseph H. Dunn for The Automobile Graveyard which brilliantly combines the arts of design, lighting, and staging for audience involvement | H.M. Koutoukas for for the style and energy of his assaults on the theatre in both playwrighting and production | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Albert Bermel, Maria Irene Fornes, Robert Pasolli, Isaiah Shaffer, Michael Smith | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Anne Jackson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1967 | Best Actor | Seth Allen for Futz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Director | Tom O'Horgan for Futz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Lighting | John Dodd for The White Whore, The Madness of Lady Bright, Charles Dickens' `Christmas Carol' | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Plays | Sam Shepard for La Turista | Rochelle Owens for Futz | Henry Livings for Eh? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Performances | Tom Aldredge for Measure for Measure, Stock Up on Pepper Cause Turkey's Going to War | Terry Kiser for Fortune and Men's Eyes | Stacy Keach for MacBird! | Robert Salvio for Hamp | Robert Bonnard for The Chairs | Rip Torn for The Deer Park | Neil Flanagan for The Madness of Lady Bright | Eddie McCarty for Kitchenette | Bette Henritze for Measure for Measure, the Wilder plays, The Distinguished Person, The Rimers of Eldrich | Alvin Epstein for Dynamite Tonite | |||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Tom Sankey for conceiving, writing, and performing for The Golden Screw | The Second Story Players for for consistent seriousness of purpose and superior standards of production | The Open Theatre for for maintaining a laboratory where a company of actors, directors, and playwright confront the limits of contemporary theatre experience | La Mama Troupe for for presenting a repertory of distinguished Off-Off-Broadway plays to European audiences | Jeff Weiss Joseph Cino Memorial Award, for his plays and for his performances in both for `And That's How the Rent Gets Paid and A Funny Walk Home | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Robert Pasolli, Michael Smith, Ross Wetzsteon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Barbara Harris | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1968 | Best Actor | Al Pacino for The Indian Wants the Bronx | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Actress | Billie Dixon for The Beard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Musical | Gertrude Stein and Al Carmines for In Circles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Director | Michael A. Schultz for Song of the Lusitanian Bogey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Foreign Play | Vaclav Havel for The Memorandum | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Design | Robert LaVigne for A Midsummer Night's Dream and Endecott and the Red Cross | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Plays | Sam Shepard for Forensic and the Navigator and Melodrama Play | John Guare for Muzzeka | Israel Horovitz for The Indian Wants the Bronx | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Direction | Rip Torn for The Beard | John Hancock for A Midsummer Night's Dream | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Performances | Roy R. Scheider for Stephen D. | Peggy Pope for Mama | Moses Gunn for The Negro Ensemble Company repertory | Mari Gorman for The Memorandum and Walking to Waldheim | John Cazale for Line and The Indian Wants the Bronx | Jean David for Istanboul | James Coco for Fragments | Cliff Gorman for The Boys in the Band | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | The Negro Ensemble Company for for Sustained Excellence in Repertory Theatre and the development of new theatrical talent | The Fortune Society for for expanding public awareness of the problems of the ex-convict and the prison system in America | San Francisco Mime Troupe for for uniting theatre and revolution and grooving in the park | El Teatro Campesino for for creating a workers' theatre to demonstrate the politics of survival | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Clive Barnes, John Lahr, Michael Smith | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Estelle Parsons | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1969 | There were no catagories assigned in 1969 | The Living Theatre for Frankenstein | Jeff Weiss for The International Wrestling Match | Julie Bovasso for Gloria & Esperanza | Judith Malina for Antigone | Julian Beck for Antigone | Israel Horovitz for The Honest-to-God Schnozzola | Jules Feiffer for Little Murders | Ronald Tavel for The Boy on the Straight Back Chair | Nathan George & Ron O'Neal for No Place to be Somebody | Arlene Rothlein for The Poor Little Match Girl | Theatre Genesis for Sustained Excellence | Open Theatre for The Serpent | Om Theatre for Riot | Performance Group for Dionysus in '69 | ||||||||||||||
| Obies Committee | Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Pasolli, Jerry Tallmer, Ross Wetzsteon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Julie Bovasso | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1970 | Special Citations | Charles Ludlam, The Ridiculous Theatrical Company | John Vaccaro, Theatre of the Ridiculous | Richard Foreman, Stanley Silverman for Richard Foreman, Stanley Silverman | Gardner Compton, Emile Ardolino for projected media for Oh! Calcutta! | Andre Gregory for Alice in Wonderland | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Production | Chelsea Theatre Center | Andre Gregory for Alice in Wonderland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Plays | Murray Mednick for The Deer Kill | Vaclav Havel for The Increased Difficulty of Concentration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Performances | Beeson Carroll for The Unseen Hand | Vincent Gardenia for Passing Through Exotic Places | Harold Gould for The Increased Difficulty of Concentration | Anthony Holland for The White House Murder Case | Lee Kissman for The Unseen Hand | Ron Leibman for Transfers | Rue McClanahan for Who's Happy Now? | Roberta Maxwell for Whistle in the Dark | Austin Pendleton for The Last Sweet Days of Isaac | Fredericka Weber for The Last Sweet Days of Isaac | Pamela Payton-Wright for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds | ||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Direction | Alan Arkin for The White House Murder Case | Melvin Bernhardt for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds | Maxine Klein for Approaching Simone | Gilbert Moses for Slave Ship | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Performance | Sada Thompson for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Musical | Gretchen Cryer, Nancy Ford for The Last Sweet Days of Isaac | Robert Livingston, Gary William Friedman, Will Holt for The Me Nobody Knows | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Foreign Play | Joe Orton for What the Butler Saw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best American Play | Paul Zindel for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds | Megan Terry for Approaching Simone | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Jack Kroll | John Lahr | John Simon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Dustin Hoffman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1971 | Special Citations | Orlando Furioso | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Production | The Trial of the Catonsville 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Plays | Ed Bullins for The Fabulous Miss Maria, In New England Winter | David Rabe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Performances | Susan Batson | Margaret Braidwood | Hector Elizondo | Donald Ewer | Sonny Jim (Gaines) | Stacy Keach | Harris Laskawy | Joan MacIntosh | William Schallert | James Woods | Kirk Kirksey | ||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Direction | John Berry for Boesman and Lona | John Hirsch for AC/DC | Gordon Davidson for The Trial of the Catonsville 9 | Jeff BLeckner for Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel | Larry Kornfeld for Dracula Sabbat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Performance by an Actress | Ruby Dee for Boesman and Lena | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Performance by an Actor | Jack MacGowan for Beckett | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Foreign Play | Athol Fugard for Boesman and Lena | Heathcote Williams for AC/DC | Derek Walcott for Dream on Monkey Mountain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best American Play | John Guare for House of Blue Leaves | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Harold Clurman | John Lahr | Edith Oliver | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Elaine May | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1972 | Visual Effects | Video Free America for Kaddish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Meredith Monk for Vessel | Charles Stanley for Actor, Dancer, Choreographer, Costume Designer | Theatre of Latin America for A Latin American Fair of Opinion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Music and Lyrics | Micki Grant for Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Performances | Salome Bey for Love Me, Love My Children | Maurice Blanc for The Celebrations: Joos/Guns/Movies/The Abyss | Alex Brandford for Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope | Marilyn Chris for Kaddish | Ron Faber for And They Put Handcuffs on Flowers | Jeanne Heppie for The Reliquary of Mr. and Mrs. Potterfiled | Danny Sewell for The Homecoming | Marilyn Soko for The Beggar's Opera | Kathleen Widdoes for The Beggar's Opera | Elizabeth Wilson for Sticks and Bones | Ed Zang for The Reliquary of Mr. and Mrs. Potterfiled | ||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Direction | Wilford Leach and John Braswell for The Only Jealousy of Emer | Mel Shapiro for Two Gentlemen of Verona | Michael Smith for Country Music | Tom Sydorick for 20th Century Tar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Composer | Liz Swados for Medea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Theatre Piece | The Open Theatre for The Mutation Show | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Dick Brukenfeld | Michael Feingold | John Lahr | Julius Novick | Arthur Sainer, | Michael Smith | Martin Washburn | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Groucho Marx | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1973 | Special Citations | Richard Foreman (Ontological-Hysteric Theatre) | The San Francisco Mime Troupe for The Dragon Lady's Revenge | City Center Acting Company | Workshop of the Player's Art (WPA) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Plays | Sam Shepard for The Tooth of Crime | Ronald Tavel for Bigfoot | J.E. Gaines for What if it Had Turned Up Heads? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Performances | Hume Cronyn for Krapp's Last Tape | Mari Gorman for The Hot I Baltimore | James Hilbrandt for A Boy Named Dog | Stacy Keach for Hamlet | Christopher Lloyd for Kaspar | Charles Ludlam for Corn and Camille | Lola Pashalinski for Corn | Alice Playten for Lemmings | Roxie Roker for The River Niger | Jessica Tandy for Not I | Douglas Turner Ward for The River Niger | Sam Waterston for Much Ado About Nothing | |||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Direction | Jack Gelber for The Kid | William E. Lathan for What if it Had Turned Up Heads? | Marshall W. Mason for The Hot I Baltimore | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Foreign Play | Samuel Beckett for Not I | Peter Handke for Kaspar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best American Play | Lanford Wilson for The Hot I Baltimore | Joseph A. Walker for The River Niger | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Mel Gussow | Marilyn Stasio | Michael Smith | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Sylvia Miles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1974 | Special Citations | The Bread & Puppet Theatre | The Brooklyn Academy of Music for The British Theatre Season | CSC Repertory Company | Robert Wilson for The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Set Design | Holmes Easley (The Roundabout Theatre) | Christopher Thomas for The Lady from the Sea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Music | C.O.R.F.A.X. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Plays | Terrence McNally for Bad Habits | Mark Medoff for When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? | Paul Carter Harrison for The Great MacDaddy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Performances | Barbara Barrie for The Killdeer | Joseph Buloff for Hard to be a Jew | Kevin Conway for When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder | Conchata Ferrell for The Sea Horse | Loretta Greene for The Sirecns | Barbara Montgomery for My Sister, My Sister | Zipora Spaizman for Stempenyu | Elizabeth Sturges for When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Direction | Marvin Felix Camillo for Short Eyes | Robert Drivas for Bad Habits | David Light for Hard to be a Jew | John Pasquin for Moonchildren | Harold Prince for Candide | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Costumes | Theoni Aldredge (The Public Theatre) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Foreign Play | David Storey for The Contractor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best American Play | Miguel Pinero for Short Eyes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obies Committee | Clive Barnes | Emory Lewis | Dick Brukenfeld | Arthur Sainer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Godfrey Cambridge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1975 | Special Citations | Andrei Serban for Trilogy | The Royal Shakespeare Company for Summerfolk | Charles Ludlam for Professor Bedlam's Punch and Judy Show | The Henry Street Settlement | Charles Pierce | Mabou Mines | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special 20-year Obies | Judith Malina and Julian Beck | Ted Mann and the Circle in the Square | Joseph Papp | Ellen Stewart for The Fantasticks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | Ed Bullins for The Taking of Miss Janie | Lanford Wilson for The Mound Builders | Wallace Shawn for Our Late Night | Sam Shepard for Action | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Reyno for The First Breeze of Summer | Moses Gunn for The First Breeze of Summer | Dick Latessa for Philemon | Kevin McCarthy for Harry Outside | Stephen D. Newman for Polly | Christopher Walken for Kid Champion | Ian Trigger for The True History of Squire Jonathan | Cara Duff-MacCormick for Craig's Wife | Priscilla Smith for Trilogy | Tanya Berezin for The Mound Builders | Tovah Feldshuh for Yentl the Yeshiva Boy | ||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Lawrence Konrfeld for Listen to Me | Marshall W. Mason for Battle of Angels, The Mound Builders | Gilbert Moses for The Taking of Miss Janie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Set Design | Robert U. Taylor for Robert U. Taylor | John Lee Beatty for Down By River... Battle of Angels,The Mound Builders | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best New American Play | Leslie Lee for The First Breeze of Summer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obies Committee | Clive Barnes | Mel Gussow | Jack Kroll | Michael Feingold | Julius Novick | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Madeleine Le Roux | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1976 | Special Citations | The Creators of A Chorus Line | Edward Bond for Bingo, in the Yale Repertory Theatre production | Meredith Monk for Quarry | Morton Lichter and Gordon Rogoff for Old Timers' Sexual Symphony | Ralph Lee for The Halloween Parade | Chile! Chile! | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citation for Sets and Costumes | Santo Losquasto for Comedy of Errors | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citation for Music | Philip Glass for Mabou Mines | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citation for Set Design | Donald Brooks for The Tempest | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Contribution to Off-Off-Broadway Theatre | Neil Flanagan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Priscilla Smith for Good Woman of Setzuan | David Warrilow for The Lost Ones | Sammy Williams for A Chorus Line | Joyce Aaron for Academics | Roberts Blossom for Ice Age | Robert Christian for Blood Brothers | Crystal Field for Day Old Bread | Mike Kellin for American Buffalo | Tony Lo Bianco for Yanks 3 Detroit 0 Top of the Seventh | Priscilla Lopez for A Chorus Line | Kate Manheim for Rhoda in Potatoland | T. Miratti for The Shortchanged Review | Pamela Payton-Wright for Jesse and the Bandit Queen | ||||||||||||||||
| Obies Committee | Michael Feingold, Francoise Kourilsky, Erika Munk, Julius Novick, Arthur Sainer, Carll Tucker, Ross Wetzsteon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | JoAnne Akalaitis for Cascando | Marshall Mason for Knock Knock and Serenading Louie | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Theatre Piece | Richard Foreman for Rhoda in Potatoland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best New American Play | David Mamet for American Buffalo and Sexual Perversity in Chicago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1977 | Special Citations | Barbara Garson for The Dinosaur Door | Ping Chong for Humboldt's Current | The creators of Nightclub Cantata | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence | Manhattan Theatre Club | New York Street Theatre Caravan | Theatre for the New City | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Music | Philip Glass for Einstein on the Beach | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Design | Charles Ludlam for Der Ring Gott Farblonjet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Costumes, Set and Lighting | Carole Oditz, Douglas Schmidt, and Burl Hash for Crazy Locomotive | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Set and Lighting | Henry Millman and Edward M. Greenberg for Domino Courts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | David Berry for G.R. Point | Maria Irene Fornes for Fefu and Her Friends | William Hauptmann for Domino Courts | Albert Innaurato for Gemini and The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie | David Rudkin for Ashes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Danny Aiello for Gemini | Martin Balsam for Cold Storage | Lucinda Childs for Einstein on the Beach | James Coco for The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie | Anne DiSalvo for Gemini | John Heard for G.R. Point | Jo Henderson for Ladyhouse Blues | William Hurt for My Life | Joseph Maher for Savages | Roberta Maxwell for Ashes | Brian Murry for Ashes | Lola Pashalinski for Der Ring Gott Farblonjet | Marian Seldes for Isadora Duncan Sleeps with the Russion Navy | Margaret Wright for A Manoir | |||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Productions | Playwright Eve Merriam, director Tommy Tune, costume designer Kate Carmel, and the entire cast of The Club | Poet Ntozake SHange, director Oz Scott, and the entire cast of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf | Mabou Mines for Dressed Like an Egg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Melvin Bernhardt for Children | Gordon Davidson for Savages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best New American Play | Sam Shepard for Curse of the Starving Class | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obies Committee | Michael Feingold | Dan Isaac, | Erika Munk | Julius Novick | Arthur Sainer, | Marilyn Stasio | Ross Wetzsteon | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Gilda Radner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1978 | Special Citations | Ain't Misbehavin' | Eric Bentley | Joseph Dun and Irja Koljonen for Preface | James Lapine for Photograph | Jerry Mayer for Taud Show | Stuart Serman | Squat | Winston Tong | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Richard Bauer for Landscape of the Body and The Dybbuk | Nell Carter for Ain't Misbehavin' | Alma Cuervo for Uncommon Women | Swoosie Kurtz for Uncommon Women | Kaiulani Lee for Safe House | Bruce Myers for The Dybbuk | Lee S. Wilkof for The Present Tense | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obies Committee | Michael Feingold, Terry Curtis Fox, Erika Munk, Julius Novick, Arthur Sainer, Ross Wetzsteon, Richard Eder, Gordon Rogoff | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lifetime Achievement | Peter Schumann's Bread & Puppet Theatre, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Robert Allan Ackerman for Prayer for My Daughter | Thomas Bullard for Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act | Elizabeth Swados for Runaways | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Design | Garland Wright and John Arnone for K | Robert Yodice for Museum | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best New American Play | Lee Breuer for Shaggy Dog Animation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Dustin Hoffman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1979 | Sustained Achievement | Al Carmines | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Gordon Chater, Richard Wherrett, and Steve J. Spears for The Elocution of Benjamin | JoAnne Akalaitis, Ellen McElduff, and David Warrilow for Southern Exposure | Tadeusz Kantor for The Dead Class | The French Department of NYU for for its Samuel Beckett Festival | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Ensemble Acting | The Negro Ensemble Company | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | Rosalyn Drexler for The Writer's Opera | Susan Miller for Nasty Rumors and Final Remarks | Richard Nelson for Vienna Notes | Bernard Pomerance for The Elephant Man | Sam Shepard for Buried Child | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Mary Alice for Nongogo and Julius Caesar | Philip Anglim for The Elephant Man | Joseph Buloff for The Price | Constance Cummings for Wings | Fred Gwynne for Grand Magic | Judd Hirsch for Talley's Folley | Marcell Rosenblatt for Vienna Notes | Elizabeth Wilson for Taken in Marriage | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Maria Irene Fornes for Eyes on the Harem | Jack Ofsiss for The Elephant Man | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Design: Sets and Lighting | Theatre X for A Fierce Longing | Jennifer Tipton of the Public theatre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best New American Play | Michael McClure for Josephine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Eric Bentley, Ruth Maylees for Guest Judges | Erika Munk for Voice Theatre editor | Michael Feingold, Terry Curtis Fox, Julius Novick, and Arthur Sainer for Voice Theatre critics | Ross Wetzsteon, Chairman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Ron Leibman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1980 | Design | Ruth Maleczech and Julie Archer for Vanishing Pictures | Sally Jacobs for Conference of the Birds | Laura Crow for Mary Stuart | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Lighting Design | Beverly Emmons | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Edward Cornell for Johnny on a Spot | Elizabeth LeCompte for Point Judith | A.J. Antoon for The Art of Dining | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Michael Burrell for Hess | Michael Cristofer for Chinchilla | Lindsay Crouse for Reunion | Elizabeth Franz for Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You | Morgan Freeman for Mother Courage and Coriolanus | John Heard for Othello and Split | Michael Higgins for Reunion | Madeleine le Roux for La Justice | Jon Polito for Performances with Dodger Theatre Company and the BAM Theater Company | Bill Raymond for A Prelude to Death in Venice | Dianne Wiest for The Art of Dining | Hattie Winston for Mother Courage and The Michigan | |||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | Lee Breuer for A Prelude to Death in Venice | Christopher Durang for Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You | Romulus Linney for Tennessee | Roland Muldoon for Full Confessions of a Socialist | Jeff Weiss for That's How the Rent Gets Paid (Part Three) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | The Flying Karamazov Brothers | The Actors of Le Centre International de Creations Theatrales for Outstanding Ensemble Performance | Ellen Stewart and La Mama E.T.C. for For Contribution to the American theatre by the importation of Foreign Companies | David Jones and Richard Nelson for For innovative programming at the BAM Theatre Company | Ntozake Shange for For her Adaptation of Mother Courage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Achievement | Sam Shepard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Eileen Blumenthal | Erika Munk | Harold Clurman | Julius Novick | Terry Curtis Fox | Michael Feingold | Ross Wetzsteon | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1981 | Best New American Play | David Henry Hwang for FOB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Production | Emily Mann for Still Life | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Design | Bloolips for Lust in Space | Manuel L**Dutgenhorst and Douglas Ball for Request Concert | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence in Set Design | Jun Maeda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design | Dennis Parichy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Melvin Bernhardt for Crimes of the Heart | Wilford Leach for The Pirates of Penzance | Toby Robertson for Pericles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Giancarlo Esposito for Zooman and the Sign | Bob Gunton for How I Got That Story | Mary Beth Hurt for Crimes of the Heart | Kevin Kline for The Pirates of Penzance | John Lone for FOB and The Dance and the Railroad | Mary McDonnell for Still Life | Timothy Near for Still Life | William Sadler for Limbo Tales | Michele Shay for Meetings | John Spencer for Still Life | Meryl Streep for Alice in Concert | Christopher Walken for The Sea Gulf | |||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | Charles Fuller for Zooman and the Sign | Amlin Gray for How I Got That Story | Len Jenkin for Limbo Tales (script and direction) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | JoAnne Akalaitis and Mabou Mines for Dead End Kids | Joseph Chaikin and the Winter Project for Tourists and Refuggees | Bill Irwin | Bruce Myers for A Dybbuk for Two People | Repertorio Espanol | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Achievement | Negro Ensemble Company | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Eileen Blumenthal, | Michael Feingold | Terry Curtis Fox | Erika Munk | Julius Novick | Ross Wetzsteon | James Leverett | Edith Oliver | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Kevin Kline | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1982 | Best New American Play | Metamorphosis in Miniature | Mr. Dead and Mrs. Free | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Theater Piece | Tadeusz Kantor for Wielopole, Wielopole | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence in Set Design | Jim Clayburgh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design | Arden Fingerhut | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Tommy Tune for Cloud 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Ensemble Performance | Lisa Banes, Brenda Currin, Elizabeth McGovern and Beverly May for May My Sister in This House | Adolph Caesar, Larry Riley, and Denzel Washington for A Soldier's Play | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Kevin Bacon for Forty Deuce and Poor Little Lambs | James Barbosa for Soon Jack November | Ray Dooley for Peer Gynt | Christine Estabrook for Pastorale | Michael Gross for No End of Blame | E. Katherine Kerr for Cloud 9 | Kenneth McMillan for Weekends Like Other People | Kevin O'Connor for Chucky's Hunch, Birdbath, and Crossing the Crab Nebula | Carole Shelley for Twelve Dreams | Josef Sommer for Lydie Breeze | Irene Worth for The Chalk Garden | ||||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | Robert Auletta for Stops and Virgins | Caryl Churchill for Cloud 9 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | La Mama for 20th Anniversary Celebration | Harvey Fierstein for Torch Song Trilogy | Theatre Communications Group | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Achievement | Maria Irene Fornes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Eileen Blumenthal | Michael Feingold | Erika Munk | Julius Novick | Richard Gilman | Gus Edwards | Ross Wetzsteon | Robert Massa | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Swoosie Kurtz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1983 | Design | Heidi Landesman for A Midsummer Night's Dream and Painting Churches | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Gregory Mosher for Edmond | Gary Sinise for True West | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ensemble Performance | Director Kenneth Frankel and the Cast of Quartermaine's Terms | Director Max Stafford Clark and the Royal Court cast of Top Girls | The New York Shakespeare Festival cast of Top Girls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Ernest Abuba for Yellow Fever | Christine Baranski for A Midsummer Night's Dream | Glenn Close for The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs | Jeff Daniels for Johnny Got His Gun | Ruth Maleczech for Hadd | John Malkovich for True West | Donald Moffat for Painting Churches | Ray Wise for The Tooth of Crime | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | Caryl Churchill for Top Girls | David Mamet for Edmond | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distinguished Playwriting | Tina Howe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Most Promising Young Playwright | Harry Kondoleon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | The Big Apple Circus | Ethyl Eichelberger, Lucrezia Borgia | Michael Moschen, Fred Garbo, Bob Berky for Foolsfire | The Zagreb Theater Company for The Liberation of Skopje | Dramatists Play Service for for its commitment to new work | Performing Arts Journal publications | Theatre Development Fund | The musical performance of Poppie Nongena | The musical production of The Mother of Us All | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Achievement | Lanford Wilson, Marshall Mason, and the Circle Repertory Company | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Eileen Blumenthal | Michael Feingold | Erika Munk | Julius Novick | Maria Irene Fornes | John Guare | Ross Wetzsteon | Robert Massa | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1984 | Best Musical | Lee Breuer and Bob Telson for Gospel at Colonus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best New American Play | Sam Shepard for Fool For Love | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Design | Adrianne Lobel for The Vampires and All Night Long | Bill Stabile for Spookhouse and Damnee Hanon, Sacree Sandra | Douglas Stein for Through the Leaves | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design | Anne Militello | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | JoAnne Akalaitis for Through the Leaves | Maria Irene Fornes for The Danube, Sarita, Mud | Lawrence Sacharow for Five of Us | Sam Shepard for Fool for Love | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | F. Murray Abraham for Uncle Vanya | Kathy Baker for Fool for Love | Sheila Dabney for Sarita | Morgan Freeman for Gospel at Colonus | George Guidall for Cinders | Ed Harris for Fool for Love | Richard Jordan for A Private View | Ruth Maleczech for Through the Leaves | Stephen McHattie for Mensch Meier | Frederick Neuman for Through the Leaves | Will Patton for Fool for Love | Dianne Wiest for Serendaring Louie and Other Places | |||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Performance | Pamela Reed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | Samuel Beckett for Ohio Impromptu, What Where, Catastrophe, Pocket | Maria Irene Fornes for The Danube, Sarita, Mud | Vaclav Havel for A Private view | Len Jenkin for Five of Us | Franz Xaver Kroetz for Through the Leaves, Mensch Meier | Ted Tally for Terra Nova | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni Ngema and Barney Simon for For their production of Woza Albert | International Theatre Institute of the U.S., Inc | Ann and Jules Weiss | Richard Peaslee for For his musical score for The Garden of Earthly Delights | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Achievement | Music-Theatre Group/Lenox Arts Center | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Eileen Blumenthal | Michael Feingold | Erika Munk | Julius Novick | Ross Wetzsteon | Lanford Wilson | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1985 | Best New American Play | Maria Irene Fornes for The Conduct of Life | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Grant | The Split Britches Company | The Richard Allen Center | The Production Company | Spiderwoman Theatre | Intar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | William M. Hoffman for As Is | Rosalyn Drexler for Transients Welcome | Christopher Durang for The Marriage of Bette and Boo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Achievement | Meredith Monk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Ron Vawter for Sustained Excellence in Performance | Laurie Metcalf for Balm in Gilead | Jonathan Hadary for As Is | John Turturro for Danny and the Deep Blue Sea | Frances Foster for Sustained Excellence of Performance | Dennis Boutsikaris for The Nest of the Woodgrouse | Anthony Heald for Henry V, The Foreigner and Digby | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ensemble Performance | The cast of The Marriage of Bette and Boo | Charles Ludlam and Everett Quinton for The Mystery of Irma Vep | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Music | Peter Gordon for Otello | Max Roach for Shepardsets | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Design | Victor En Yu Tan for for Lighting Design | Judy Dearing for for Costume Design | Loren Sherman for for Set Design | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | John Malkovich for Balm in Gilead | Jerry Zaks for The Foreigner and The Marriage of Bette and Boo | Barbara Vann for Bound to Rise | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | The Roy Hart Theater for Pagliacci for An Evening with Ekkard Schall | The Asia Society | Spalding Gray for Swimming to Cambodia | Penn and Teller | Julie Taymor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Ross Wetzsteon, Eileen Blumenthal, Michael Feingold, Robert Massa, Erika Munk, Julius Novick, Woodie King, Margot Lewitin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Ellen Stewart | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1986 | Obie Grant | P.S. 122 | Mabou Mines | Billie Holiday Theatre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Performance | Swoosie Kurtz for The House of the Blue Leaves | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Achievement | Mabou Mines | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | Wallace Shawn for Aunt Dan and Lemon | Tadeusz Kantor for Let the Artists Die | Martha Clarke for Vienna: Lusthaus | Lee Nagrin for Bird/Bear | John Jesurun for Deep Sleep | Eric Bogosian for Drinking in America | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Design | Rita Ryack for Costume Design | Paul Gallo for Lighting Design | Edward T. Gianfrancesco for Set Design | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Genji Ito for for Music | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Richard Foreman for Largo Desolato | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Tom Cayler for A Matter of Life and Death | Norma Aleandro for About Love and Other Stories About Love | Kevin Kline for Sustained Excellence of Performance | Kathryn Pogson for Aunt Dan and Lemon | Josef Sommer for Largo Desolato | Jill Eikenberry for Lemon Sky and Life Under Water | Helen Stenborg for Talley & Son | Farley Granger for Talley & Son | Elizabeth Wilson for Anteroom | Elisabeth Welch for Time to Start Living | Edward Herrmann for Sustained Excellence of Performance | Dylan Baker for Not About Heroes | |||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Ross Wetzsteon, Eileen Blumenthal, Michael Feingold, Erika Munk, Julius Novick, Robert Massa, Gordon Rogoff, Rosalyn Drexler, Gautam Dasgupta | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Christopher Durang | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1987 | Best New American Play | Richard Foreman for The Cure and Film Is Evil, Radio Is Good | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Grant | The New Theatre of Brooklyn | The Irish Arts Center | Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association (BACA) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Achievement | Charles Ludlam and the Ridiculous Theatrical Company | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Design | Robert Israel, sets and costumes for The Hunger Artist | Paul Gallo, lights for The Hunger Artist | James F. Ingalls for Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design | Andrew Jackness for Sustained Excellence of Set Design | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Garland Wright for On The Verge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Robin Bartlett for The Early Girl | Rob Besserer for The Hunger Artist | Philip Bosco for Sustained Excellence of Performance | Morgan Freeman for Driving Miss Daisy | Laura Hicks for On the Verge | John Kelly for Pass the Blutwurst, Bitte (The Egon Schiele St) | Gcina Mhlophe for Born in the RSA | Dana Ivey for Driving Miss Daisy | Clarice Taylor for Moms | Black-eyed Susan for Sustained Excellence of Performance | Bill Raymond for Cold Harbor | Anthony Holland for The Hunger Artist | |||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | The Woza Afrika Foundation | The Non-Traditional Casting Project | The La Mama Great Jones Repertory Company for the revival of this play for Fragments of a Greek Trilogy | Judith Malina for The Living Theatre Retrospectacle | Dario Fo and Franca Rame | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Ross Wetzsteon, Eileen Blumenthal, Robert Massa, Gordon Rogoff, Michael Feingold, Erika Munk, Julius Novick, Billie Allen, Norris Houghton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Morgan Freeman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1988 | Best New American Play | Maria Irene Fornes for Abingdon Square | Caryl Churchill for Serious Money | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Grant | Theatre for a New Audience | CSC Repertory | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Achievement | Richard Foreman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Peter Brook for The Mahabharata | Julie Taymor for Juan Darien | Anne Bogart for No Plays No Poetry... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Design | Huck Snyder for Sustained Excellence of Scenic Design | Eva Buchmuller for Sustained Excellence of Stage Design | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Elliot Goldenthal, for Music for Juan Darien | Christopher Reeve for for his courageous work on behalf of Chilean artists | B. H. Barry for Sustained Excellence of Stage Combat Choreography | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Yvonne Bryceland for The Road to Mecca | Victor Garber for Wenceslas Square | Tina Shepardl for The Three Lives of Lucie Cabro | Peggy Shaw for Dress Suits to Hire | Lauren Tom for American Notes | Larry Bazzell for The Signal Season of Dummy Hoy | Kathy Bates for Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune | John Seitz for Abingdon Square | Gordana Rashovich for A Shayna Maidel | Erland Josephson for The Cherry Orchard | Amy Irving for The Road to Mecca | ||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Ross Wetzsteon, Eileen Blumenthal, Robert Massa, Erika Munk, Julius Novick, Gordon Rogoff, Clinton Davis, Judith Malina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Morgan Freeman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1989 | Playwriting Workshop | The Frank Silva Workshop | GRANT Intar Hispanic Playwrights-in-Residence Laboratory | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Grant | The Living Theater | Cucaracha Warehouse Theater | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Achievement | Irene Worth | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Design | Susan Young for Sustained Excellence of Costume Design | Gabriel Berry for Sustained Excellence of Costume Design | Donald Eastman for Sustained Excellence of Set Design | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | William Converse-Roberts for Love's Labor's Lost | Will Patton for What Did He See? | Tim McDonnell for Diary of a Madman | Rocco Sisto for The Winter's Tale | Paul Hecht for Enrico IV | Niall Buggy for Aristocrats | Nancy Marchand for The Cocktail Hour | Mark Blum for Gus and Al | Lonny Price for The Immigrant | Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney for The Kathy and Mo Show | Gloria Foster for The Forbidden City | Fyvush Finkel for Cafe Crown | Everett Quinton for A Tale of Two Cities | ||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Rene Buch for Sustained Excellence of Direction | Peter Stein for Falstaff | Ingmar Bergman for Hamlet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | The Dramatists Guild for for the Young Playwrights Festival | Tamamatsu Yoshida for The Warrior Ant | Rachel Rosenthal for Rachel's Brain | Paul Zaloom for The House of Horror | Leo Bassi for Nero's Last Folly | Janie Geiser for Stories From Here | Dance Theater Workshop | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Ross Wetzsteon, Eileen Blumenthal, Michael Feingold, Robert Massa, Erika Munk, Julius Novick, Gordon Rogoff, Martha Coigney, Margo Jefferson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1990 | Best New American Play | Craig Lucas for Prelude to a Kiss | Suzan-Lori Parks for Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom | Mac Wellman for Bad Penny, Crowbar, and Terminal Hip | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Sound Design | Daniel Moses Schreler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Set Design | George Tsypin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Liz Diamond for Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom | Norman Rene for Prelude to a Kiss | Jim Simpson for Bad Penny | George C. Wolfe for Spunk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Grant | Dixon Place | Pregones | WOW Cafe | BACA New Works Project | 52nd Street Project | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Alec Baldwin for Prelude to a Kiss | Elzbieta Czyzewska for Crowbar | Karen Evans-Kandel for Lear | Marcia Jean Kurtz for The Loman Family Picnic and When She Danced | Ruth Maleczech for Lear | Greg Mehrten for Lear | Stephen Mellor for Terminal Hip | Isabell Monk for Lear | Jean Stapleton for Mountain Language and The Birthday Party | Pamela Tyson for Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom | Courtney B. Vance for My Children! My Africa! | Danitra Vance for Spunk | Lillias White for Romance in Hard Times | ||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence in Performance | Mary Shultz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Eric Bogosian for Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll | Dan Hurlin for A Cool Million | Joseph Papp | San Francisco Mime Troupe for Seeing Double | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Achievement | Money awarded to ACT-UP for the fight against AIDS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Michael Feingold | Erika Munk | Alisa Solomon | Ross Wetzsteon | Rene Buch | Margo Jefferson | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Julie Bovasso | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1991 | Best New American Play | Wallace Shawn for The Fever | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design | Frances Aronso | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Set Design | Mark Beard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Costume Design | William Ivey Long | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sound design | John Gromada for Machinal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Michael Grief for Machinal | Lisa Peterson for Light Shining in Buckinghamshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Ross Wetzsteon, Chairman | Michael Feingold | Gordon Rogoff | Robert Massa | Alisa Solomon | Joan Macintosh | Margo Jefferson | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Grant | En Garde Arts | Hearts and Voices | Mettawee River Theater Company | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Eileen Atkins for A Room of One's Own | Stockard Channing for Six Degrees of Separation | Joan Copeland for The American Plan | Angela Goethals for The Good Times are Killing Me | Tony Goldwyn for The Sum of Us | Jan Leslie Harding for Sincerity Forever | John Leguizamo for Mambo Mouth | Michael Lombard for What's Wrong With This Picture? | Jodie Markell for Machinal | Anne Pitonia for Pygmalion | Ron Rifkin for The Substance of Fire | Kathleen Widdoes for Tower of Evil | |||||||||||||||||
| Ensemble Performance | Bette Bourne | Precious Pearl | Peggy Shaw | Lois Weaver | Belle Reprieve | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | John Guare for Six Degrees of Separation | Mac Wellman for Sincerity Forever | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Blue Man Group | John Kelly for Love of a Poet | BACA Downtown | New York Theatre Workshop | New York Shakespeare Festival for 1990-91 Season | Lori Seid | Theater for the New City, Stop the War: A Festival for Peace in the Middle East | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Achievement | The Wooster Group | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Stockard Channing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1992 | Best New American Play | Donald Margulies for Sight Unseen | Robbie McCauley for Sally's Rape | Paula Vogel for The Baltimore Waltz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Set Design | John Arnone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sets and Costumes | Marina Draghici for Mad Forest | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Anne Bogart for The Baltimore Waltz | Mark Wing-Davy for Mad Forest | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Ross Wetzsteon, Chairman | Michael Feingold | C. Carr | Alisa Solomon | Max Ferra | Linda Winer | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Grant | Downtown Art Company | Franklin Furnace | Soho Repertory Company | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Dennis Boutsikaris for Sight Unseen | Laura Esterman for Marvin's Room | Deborah Hedwall for Sight Unseen | Cherry Jones for The Baltimore Waltz | James McDaniel for Before It Hits Home | S. Epatha Merkerson for I'm Not Stupid | Roger Rees for The End of the Day | Lynne Thigpen for Boesman and Lena | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Performance | Larry Bryggman | Randy Danson | Ofelia Gonzales | Nathan Lane | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence in Playwriting | Neal Bell | Romulus Linney | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Gerard Alessandrini for Forbidden Broadway | The New York International Festival of the Arts for For presenting the works of Ingmar Bergman, Tadeusz Kantor, and Eimuntas Nekrosius | The Public Theater for `Tis Pity She's a Whore; For the conception and design | David Gordon for The Mysteries and What's So Funny | Anna Deavere Smith for Fires in the Mirror | Ron Vawter for Roy Cohn/Jack Smith | Jeff Weiss for Hot Keys | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Achievement | Athol Fugard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Kate Nelligan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1993 | Sustained Excellence of Set Design | Loy Arcenas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design | Howard Thies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Christopher Ashley for Jeffrey | Michael Maggio for Wings | Frederick Zollo for Aven 'U Boys | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Ross Wetzsteon, Chairman | Michael Feingold | Alisa Solomon | Mary Alice | Jeremy Gerard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Grant | Nuyorican Poets Cafe | Pearl Theater | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Jane Alexander for The Sisters Rosensweig | Frances Conroy for The Last Yankee | David Drake for The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me | Giancarlo Esposito for Distant Fires | Geoffrey C. Ewing for Ali | Hallie Foote for The Roads to Home | Edward Hibbert for Jeffrey | Bill Irwin for Texts for Nothing | John Cameron Mitchell for The Destiny of Me | Linda Stephens for Wings | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Performance | Miriam Colon | Ellen Parker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | Harry Kondoleon for The Houseguests | Larry Kramer for The Destiny of Me | Jose Rivera for Marisol | Paul Rudnick for Jeffrey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Cirque Du Soleil | Betty Corwin | New York Public Library Archives | Ensemble Studio Theatre, One-Act Play Marathon | The International Festival of Puppet Theater | Ariane Mnouchkine, Les Atrides | Lincoln Center Serious Fun! | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Achievement | JoAnne Akalaitis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Performers | John Kelly for as Joni Mitchell | Marga Gomez | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Nathan Lane | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1994 | Best Play | Anna Deavere Smith for Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Set Design | Kyle Chepulis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design | Brian MacDevitt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Andre Ernotte for Christina Alberta's Father | David Warren for Pterodactyls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Ross Wetzsteon, Chairman | Michael Feingold | Alisa Solomon | Anne Bogart | Jan Stuart | Ming Cho Lee | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Grant | Changing Scenes | Here | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Carolee Carmello for Hello Again | Myra Carter for Three Tall Women | Gail Grate for The America Play | Danny Hoch for Some People | Judith Ivey for The Moonshot Tape | Peter Francis James for The Maid | Jefferson Mays for Orestes | Christopher McCann for The Lights | Tom Nelis for The Medium | Alice Playten for First Lady Suite | Michael Potts for The America Play | Robert Stanton for All in the Timing | |||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | Eric Bogosian for Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead | Howard Korder for The Lights | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Ain Gordon, David Gordon and Valda Setterfield for The Family Business | Holly Hughes | Ricky Jay for Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants | Michael John LaChiusa for First Lady Suite and Hello Again | John Moran and Bob McGrath | Tom Noonan for Wifey | Claudia Shear for Blown Sideways Through Life | STOMP | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Achievement | Edward Albee | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Mary McDonnell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1995 | Sustained Excellence of Projection | Wendall K. Harrington | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Costume Design | Jennifer von Mayrhauser | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Design | David Mamet for Cryptogram | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Robert Falls for SubUrbia | Don Scardino for A Cheever Evening | Susan Schulman for Merrily We Roll Along | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Ross Wetzsteon, Chairman | Laura Ross | Michael Feingold | Lisa Kennedy | JoAnne Akalaitis | Lynne Thigpen | Michael Sommers | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Grant | Archives at LaMama | Blueprint Series at Ontologic-Hysteric Theatre | Nada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Joanna Adler for The Boys In The Basement | Eileen Atkins & Vanessa Redgrave for Vita And Virginia | Paul Calderon for Blade To The Heat | Malcolm Gets for Merrily We Roll Along & Two Gentlemen Of Verona | Felicity Huffman for Cryptogram | Linda Lavin for Death Defying Acts | Ron Liebman for The Merchant Of Venice | Camryn Manheim for Missing Persons | Kristine Nielsen for Dog Opera | Mary Beth Peil for The Naked Truth, Missing Persons & A Cheever Evening | Barbara Eda Young for Slavs | The Cast, Love! Valour! Compassion! | |||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | David Hancock for The Convention Of Cartography | Tony Kushner for Slavs! | Terrence McNally for Love! Valor! Compassion! | Susan Miller for My Left Breast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Dael Orlandersmith for Beauty's Daughter | Amy & David Sedaris for One Woman Shoe | Vernel Bagneris & Morten Gunnar Larsen for Jelly Roll | The Five Lesbian Brothers for The Secretaries | The New Group for Ecstasy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Achievement | Ming Cho Lee | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Hector Elizondo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1996 | Best New American Play | Adrienne Kennedy | June And Jean In Concert | Sleep Deprivation Chamber, Sleep Deprivation Chamber | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design | Jeffrey S. Koger | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Set Design | Neil Patel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Doug Hughes for The Grey Zone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Music | Bruce Coughlin and Adam Guettel for Floyd Collins | Polly Pen for Bed And Sofa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Music | David Van Tieghem | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Michael Feingold | Alisa Solomon | Holly Hill | Karen Kandel | Alberto Minero | Jim O'Quinn | Charles McNulty | Ross Wetzsteon | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Grant | New Georges | The TEBA Group | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Gerry Bamman for Nixon's Nixon | Lisa Gay Hamilton for Valley Song | Terri Klausner for Bed And Sofa | Tom McGowan for The Food Chain | Mark Nelson for Picasso At The Lapin Agile | Adina Porter for Venus | Virginia Rambal for Troya De America and La Dama Duende | Rose The Dog (Julie Archer and Barbara Pollitt) for Epidog | Rocco Sisto for Quills | Steven Skybell for Antigone In New York | Derek Smith for The Green Bird | James Urbaniak for The Universe | Mary Louise Wilson for Full Gallop | ||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | Ain Gordon for Wally's Ghost | Donald Margulies for The Model Apartment | Suzan-Lori Parks for Venus | Doug Wright for Quills | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citation: Sustained Excellence of Direction | Ingmar Bergman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citation: Sustained Excellence of Performance | Kathleen Chalfant | Henry Stram | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Scott Elliott and The Acting Ensemble for Curtains | Marty Pottenger for City Water Tunnel #3 | The Acting Ensemble for Rent | New Voices at Repertorio Espanol | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citation: Choreography and Dance | Savion Glover for Bring in 'da Noise/Bring in 'da Funk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citation: Composer/Writer | Jonathan Larson for Rent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citation: Director | Michael Greif for Rent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Achievement | Uta Hagen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Nicky Silver | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1997 | Best Play | Naomi Wallace for One Flea Spare | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Production | Peter and Wendy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Judges | Ross Wetzsteon for Chariman | Karen Kandel | Craig Lukas | Robert Marx | Eugene Nesmith | Michael Feingold | Alisa Solomon | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Set Design | Derek McLane | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Lightning Design | Shirley Prendergast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Costume Design | Catherine Zuber | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Mark Brokaw for How I Learned to Drive | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Grant | St.Paul's Community Baptist Church Drama Ministry | Great Small Works | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Andre Braugher for Henry V | Tsai Chin for Golden Child | Jennifer Dundas for Good as New | David Greenspan for The Boys in the Band | Karen Kandel for Peter and Wendy | Albert Macklin for June Moon | David Morse for How I Learned to Drive | Mary-Louise Parker for How I Learned to Drive | Sharon Shruggs for The Trojan Woman | Ray Anthony Thomas for Volunteer Man | Ching Valdes-Aran for Flipzoids | ||||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | Eve Ensler for The Vagina Monologues | David Henry Hwang for Golden Child | Paula Vogel for How I Learned to Drive | Lanford Wilson for Sympathetic Magic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations: Sustained Excellence of Performance | Joanne Camp | Arthur French | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Roger Guenveur Smith & Mark Anthony Thompson for A Huey P. Newton Story | Howard Crabtree & Creators of When Pigs Fly | James Hatch & Camille Billops | Dona Ann McAdams | Tap Dogs | Jeanine Tesori for Violet | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Achievement | Woodie King Jr. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1998 | Best Play | Richard Foreman for Pearls For Pigs and Benita Canova | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Design | Darron L. West for Bob | Mimi Jordan Sherin for Bob | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Ivo van Hove for More Stately Mansions | David Esbjornson, Therese Raquin for Therese Raquin | Evan Yionoulis for Three Days of Rain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Direction | Jo Bonney | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Suzan-Lori Parks | Marian Seldes | Polly Pen | Steven Samuels | James Hannaham | Michael Feingold | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Grant | Victoria McElwaine for Housing Works Theater Project | Caught in the Act annual one-act festival presented by Threshold Theater Co. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Lea DeLaria for On The Town | Mary Testa for On the Town and From Above | Tim Hopper for More Stately Mansions | Joseph Wiseman for I Can't Remember Anything | Heather Gillespie for Mamba's Daughters | Marie Mullen for The Beauty Queen of Leenane | Matthew Maguire for I Don't Know Who He Was And I Don't Know What He Said | Yvette Freeman for Dinah Was | Adriane Lenox for Dinah Was | Elizabeth Marvel for Therese Raquin and Misalliance | J. Smith Cameron for As Bees In Honey Drown | Joan MacIntosh for More Stately Mansions | |||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Performance | David Patrick Kelly | Kate Valk | Brian Murray | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ross Wetzsteon Award | Doug Aibel and The Vineyard Theater for For Sustained Support of artists and Creativity in the Theater | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Target Margin Theater for Mamba's Daughters | David Herskovits, Thomas Cabaniss, Lenore Doxsee, Erika Belsey, David Zinn, Tim Schellenbaum, John Cameron Mitchell for Hedwig And The Angry Inch | Stephen Trask for Hedwig And The Angry Inch | Karen Finley for The American Chestnut | Philim McDermott, Lee Simpson, Julian Crouch, Guy Dartnell, Ben Park, Steve Tiplady, for For the Creators of 70 Hill Lane | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations: Sustained Excellence of Sound Design | Mark Bennett | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citation: Sustained Excellence of Musical Direction | Alan Johnson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citation: Distinguished Stage Management | Buzz Cohen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Achievement | Jennifer Tipton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Eric Bogosian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1999 | Best Production | The Wooster Group | House/Lights | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Set Design | Thomas Lynch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design | Michael Chybowski | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Design | Martin Pakledinaz for Costume Design for The Misanthrope | Diedre Murray for Score for Running Man | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Jim Simpson for Benten Kozo | Melia Bensussen for The Turn of the Screw | Nicholas Martin for Betty's Summer Vacation | Declan Donnellan for Le Cid | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Grant | The Point, CDC | National Asian American Theater | Mia Katigbak, Artistic/Producing Director | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Liev Schreiber for Cymbeline | Kathleen Chalfant for Wit | Matthew Maher for The Race of the Ark Tattoo | Darius de Haas for Running Man | Viola Davis for Everybody's Ruby | Kristine Nielson for Betty's Summer Vacation | Swoosie Kurtz for The Mineola Twins | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Performance | Daniel Gerroll | Randall Duk Kim | Mina Bern | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playwrighting | W. David Hancock for The Race of the Ark Tattoo | Dare Clubb for Oedipus | Christopher Durang for Betty's Summer Vacation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ross Wetzsteon Award | Ellie Covan | Dixon Place | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Peggy Shaw for Menopausal Gentleman | Richard Maxwell for House | Carmelita Tropicana | David Cale for Lillian | Kim Hughes for Sakina's Restaurant | Aasif Mandvi for Sakina's Restaurant | Ronnie Burkett for Tinka's New Dress | Lisa Kron for 2.5 Minute Ride | Basil Twist for Symphonie Fantastique | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Achievement | Wynn Handman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Liz Diamond | Eileen Phelan | Dael Orlandersmith | Mark Russell | Una Chaudhuri | Michael Feingold | Alisa Solomon | Brian Parks | Charles McNulty | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Lea Delaria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2000 | Ross Wetzsteon Award | The Foundry | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | The Cast of Jitney for Excellence of Ensemble Performance | Lynne Thigpen for Jar the Floor | Lola Pashalinski for Gertrude and Alice | Elizabeth Marvel for A Streetcar Named Desire | Eileen Heckart for The Waverly Gallery | Eddie Korbich for Taking a Chance on Love | Dominique Dibbell for Jet Lag | Debra Monk for The Time of the Cuckoo | Cynthia Hopkins for Another Telepathic Thing | Colm Meaney for The Cider House Rules: Part One, Here in St. Cloud's | Christopher Evan Welch for A Streetcar Named Desire | Charlayne Woodard for In the Blood | Byron Jennings for Waste | ||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | The Builders Association and Diller + Scofidio for Jet Lag | Sarah E. Johnson for Lava Love | Maria Irene Fornes for Letters From Cuba | Joe Mantello and Marc Wolf for Another American: Asking and Telling | Jesusa Rodriguez and Liliana Felipe for Las Horas de Belen -- A Book of Hours | Jan Lauwers / Needcompany for Morning Song | Deb Margolin for Sustained Excellence of Performance | Bill Talen for The Reverend Billy | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Design | Susan Hilferty for Sustained Excellence Costume Design | Mark Dendy for Choreography for The Wild Party | Jan Hartley for Sustained Excellence Projection Design | David Gallo for Sustained Excellence Set Design | Christopher Akerlind for Sustained Excellence Lighting Design | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Achievement | Ping Chong | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Marion McClinton for Jitney | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | Harley Granville Barker for Waste | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Grant | Five Myles | Circus Amok | Big Dance Theater | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Production | Ben Katchor, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe, Bob McGrath for The Carbon Copy Building | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Michael Feingold, James Hannaham, Alisa Solomon, Brian Parks, Holly Hughes, Jo Bonney, Neil Patel, Mac Wellman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Claudia Shear | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2001 | Ross Wetzsteon Award | Theatre For A New Audience | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Stephanie Berry for The Shaneequa Chronicles | Pamela Isaacs for Newyorkers | Judy Kuhn, Mandy Gonzalez, Anika Noni Rose, Ronnell Bey for Eli's Comin' | Janie Dee for Comic Potential | Jackie Hoffman for The Book of Liz | Brian Murray for The Play About the Baby | Brian d'Arcy James for The Good Thief | Bette Bourne for Resident Alien | George Bartenieff for I Will Bear Witness | John Ortiz for References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot | |||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Grant | Soho Rep | Mint Theater | Clubbed Thumb | Classical Theater of Harlem | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Michael Greif for Dogeaters | Craig Lucas for Saved or Destroyed | Bob McGrath for Jennie Richee | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Ruben Santiago-Hudson for Lackawanna Blues | Rinde Eckert for And God Created Great Whales | Justin Bond and Kenny Mellman for Kiki and Herb: Jesus Wept | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Play | Pamela Gien for The Syringa Tree | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Music | Kirsten Childs Music and Lyrics for The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin | Ed Kleban Music and Lyrics for A Class Act | Diedre Murray Vocal and Instrumental Arrangement for Eli's Comin' | Bill Sims, Jr. for Lackawanna Blues | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Book And Lyrics | Mark Hollmann for Urinetown | Greg Kotis for Urinetown | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Set Design | Neil Patel for War of the Worlds, Resident Alien, Race, I Will Bear Witness | Douglas Stein for Texts for Nothing and Saved | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Achievement | Marian Seldes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Design | Julia Wolfe, Laurie Olinder, Bill Morrison, Fred Tietz, Cynthia Hopkins, Howard S. Thies, Pilar Limosner, Tim Schellenbaum, Ruth Pongstaphone, Matthew Tierney for Jennie Richee | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | José Rivera for References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Choreography | John Carrafa for Urinetown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Brian Parks, Michael Feingold, Francine Russo, Charles McNulty, Jeanie Tesori, Arthur French, Doug Wright, Lola Pashalinski | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Brian Murray | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2002 | Ross Wetzsteon Award | PS 122 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Yvette Ganier for Breath, Boom | Reg E. Cathey, Karen Kandel, John Seitz, James Himelsbach, Anthony Mackie, Maria Tucci (ensemble) for Talk | Raul Esparza for Tick, Tick...Boom! | Peter Frechette and Reg Rogers for The Dazzle | Martha Plimpton for Hobson's Choice | Linda Emond for Homebody/Kabul | Juliana Francis for Maria del Bosco | Jeffrey Wright for Topdog/Underdog | Christopher Donahue for Monster | Bill Camp for Homebody/Kabul | |||||||||||||||||||
| Design | Whit MacLaughlin for sound design for The Fab 4 Reach the Pearly Gates | Marilys Ernst for video for Talk | Kevin Adams for Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design | Angela Moore and Michael Schmelling for set and lighting design of Drummer Wanted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | Tony Kushner for Homebody/Kabul | Melissa James Gibson for (sic) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Grant | Salt Theater Company | Ma-Yi Theater Company | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Mary Zimmerman for Metamorphoses | George C. Wolfe for Topdog/Underdog | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Achievement | Caryl Churchill | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | The Wooster Group for To You, the Birdie! | Ingmar Bergman and the Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden for The Ghost Sonata | Elaine Stritch for Elaine Stritch at Liberty | Daniel MacIvor for In on It | Daniel Aukin and Louisa Thompson for direction and set design of (sic) | Charles L. Mee and Les Waters for playwriting and direction of Big Love | A.R.T./NY for for support of Off-Broadway theater | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Brian Parks, Charles McNulty, Alisa Solomon, Darius de Haas, Michael Grief, John Heilpern, Alexis Soloski | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Karen Kandel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003 | Ross Wetzsteon Award | Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory series at the Ohio Theatre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lifetime Achievement | Mac Wellman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Valerie Mahaffey for Talking Heads | Ty Jones for The Blacks: A Clown Show | Stephen Mellor for Bitter Bierce or, The Friction We Call Grief | Simon Russell Beale for Uncle Vanya | Rosemary Harris for All Over | Mos Def for Fucking A | Lynn Redgrave for Talking Heads | Kathleen Chalfant for Talking Heads | Jim Norton for Dublin Carol | Jason Petty for Hank Williams: Lost Highway | J. Kyle Manzay for The Blacks: A Clown Show | Fiona Shaw for Medea | Edward Norton for Burn This | Denis O'Hare for Take Me Out | Daniel Davis for Talking Heads | Christine Ebersole for Talking Heads | Brenda Wehle for Talking Heads | Barry Del Sherman for The Mystery of Attraction | |||||||||||
| Obie Grant | The Immigrant Theatre Project | Galapagos | Collapsable Hole | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Design | Kimberly Glennon, costumes for The Blacks: A Clown Show | Kenneth Posner for sustained excellence of lighting design | Anthony Ward, sets for Uncle Vanya | Anne Lommel, masks for The Blacks: A Clown Show | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Deborah Warner for Medea | Emily Mann for All Over | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Tina Shepard for Talking Band's Painted Snake in a Painted Chair | Steven Rattazzi for Talking Band's Painted Snake in a Painted Chair | Ron Domingo for The Romance of Magno Rubio | Randolph Curtis Rand for Talking Band's Painted Snake in a Painted Chair | Ramon de Ocampo for The Romance of Magno Rubio | Ralph B. Pena for The Romance of Mag | Paul Zimet for Talking Band's Painted Snake in a Painted Chair | Orlando Pabotoy for The Romance of Magno Rubio | Nic Ularu for Talking Band's Painted Snake in a Painted Chair | Morgan Jenness for Longtime Support of Playwrights | Loy Arcenas for The Romance of Magno Rubio | Louise Smith for Talking Band's Painted Snake in a Painted Chair | Lonnie Carter for The Romance of Magno Rubio | Lisa D'Amour for Nita and Zita | Kiki Smith for Talking Band's Painted Snake in a Painted Chair | Katie Pearl for Nita and Zita | Kathy Randels for Nita and Zita | Karinne Keithley for Talking Band's Painted Snake in a Painted Chair | Jojo Gonzalez for The Romance of Magno Rubio | John Kani and Winston Ntshona for The Island | Gary Brownlee for Talking Band's Painted Snake in a Painted Chair | Erika Munk for Editorship of Theater | Ellen Maddow for Talking Band's Painted Snake in a Painted Chair | Diane Beckett for Talking Band's Painted Snake in a Painted Chair | David Greenspan for She Stoops to Comedy | Carol Mullins for Talking Band's Painted Snake in a Painted Chair | Art Acuna for The Romance of Magno Rubio | Blue Gene Tyranny for Talking Band's Painted Snake in a Painted Chair | Brooklyn Academy of Music International Programming |
| Host | Bill Irwin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2004 | Ross Wetzsteon Award | Susan Feldman for Artistic director, St. Ann's Warehouse | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lifetime Achievement | Mark Russell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Grant | The Civilians | THAW (Theaters Against War) | Musicals Tonight | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Design | Lauren Helpern (sets), Tyler Micoleau (lights), Brian Ronan (sound), Kim Gill (costumes), Faye Armon (props) for The design team of Bug | Derek McLane, sets for I Am My Own Wife | Derek McLane, sets for Aunt Dan and Lemon | Derek McLane, sets for Intimate Apparel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best New American Play | Craig Lucas for Small Tragedy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Music | Robert Een for Hiroshima Maiden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Moises Kaufman for I Am My Own Wife | Lee Breuer for Mabou Mines dollHouse | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Zilah Mendozat for Living Ou | Viola Davis for Intimate Apparel | Tonya Pinkins for Caroline, or Change | Ana Reeder, Mary Shultz, Rob Campbell, Daniel Eric Gold, Lee Pace, Rosemarie DeWitt for The acting company of Small Tragedy | Shannon Cochran, Michael Shannon, Michael Cullen, Amy Landecker, Reed Birney for The acting company of Bug | Sarah Jones for Bridge & Tunnel | Maude Mitchell for Mabou Mines dollHouse | Lisa Emery for Iron | Lili Taylor for Aunt Dan and Lemon | Jefferson Mays for I Am My Own Wife | Jayne Houdyshell for Well | Brian F. O'Byrne for Frozen | |||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Tony Kushner for Caroline, or Change | The Builders Association and motiroti Alladeen | Terry Nemeth for Play Publishing, TCG | Soho Rep for Molly's Dream | Pieter-Dirk Uys for Foreign AIDS | Martin Moran for The Tricky Part | Kyle Jarrow for A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant | Jeanine Tesori for Caroline, or Change | George C. Wolfe for For his stewardship of the Public Theater | Alex Timbers for A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant | |||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Charles McNulty, Alisa Solomon, Loy Arcenas, Tony Kushner, Diedre Murray, David Savran, James Urbaniak, Evan Yionoulis, Alexis Soloski | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Swoosie Kurtz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005 | Ross Wetzsteon Award | New Dramatists | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Achievement | John Guare | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Grant | Margo Skinner Memorial Acting Scholarship | Little Theater at Tonic | Gina Gionfriddo Distinguished Emerging Playwright | Epic Theatre Company | 13P | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Vivienne Benesch for Going to St. Ives | Rosemary Allen for Good Samaritans | Mercedes Ruehl for Woman Before A Glass | Larry Bryggman for Romance | LaChanze for Dessa Rose | L. Scott Caldwell for Going to St. Ives | Kieran Culkin for After Ashley | Jeremy Shamos for Engaged | Jason Butler Harner for Hedda Gabler | Cherry Jones for Doubt | Elizabeth Marvel for Hedda Gabler | Deidre O'Connell for sustained excellence | |||||||||||||||||
| Design | Willa Kim, costumes for Woman Before A Glass | Thomas Lynch, sets for Woman Before A Glass | Rui Rita,lights for Engaged | Phil Monat, lights for Woman Before A Glass | John Lee Beatty, sets for Engaged | Jan Versweyveld, sets for Hedda Gabler | David Van Tieghem, sound for Woman Before A Glass | Catherine Zuber, costumes for Engaged | Aural Fixation Sound & Music, sound for Engaged | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | Lynn Nottage for Fabulation | John Patrick Shanley for Doubt | Christopher Shinn for Where Do We Live | Caryl Churchill for A Number | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Ivo van Hove for Hedda Gabler | Doug Hughes for sustained excellence | Dan Wackerman for Counsellor-At-Law | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | The Imagine Festival of Arts, Issues & Ideas | Sin: A Cardinal Deposed | Hell Meets Henry Halfway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Charles McNulty, Michael Feingold, Alexis Soloski, Kathleen Chalfant, Andre de Shields, David Greenspan, Daphne Rubin-Vega, David Savran, Paula Vogel, David Kornhaber | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Stockard Channing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006 | Ross Wetzsteon Award | Soho Repertory Theater | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Emerging Theater Grants | Rinne Groff | Red Bull Theater | Neena Beber | Edge Theater Company | Billie Holiday Theatre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lifetime Achievement | Eric Bentley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Sherie Rene Scott for Landscape of the Body | Scott Shepherd for Poor Theater: A Series of Simulacra | S. Epatha Merkerson for Birdie Blue | Reed Birney for Sustained Excellence | Peter Francis James for Stuff Happens | Michael Cumpsty for Hamlet | Meg MacCary for What Then | Marin Ireland for Cyclone | Lois Smith for The Trip to Bountiful | Julie White for The Little Dog Laughed | Euan Morton for Measure for Pleasure | Edwin Lee Gibson for The Seven | Gary Wilmes for Red Light Winter | Dana Ivey for Mrs. Warren's Profession | Christine Ebersole for Grey Gardens | Byron Jennings for Stuff Happens | Ari Fliakos for Poor Theater: A Series of Simulacra | ||||||||||||
| Playwriting | Rolin Jones for Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow | Martin McDonagh for The Lieutenant Of Inishmore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Design | NTUSA for Abacus Black Strikes Now | Anita Yavich for Sustained Excellence of Costume Design | Allen Moyer for Sustained Excellence of Set Design | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | John Clancy for Sustained Excellence | Daniel Sullivan for Stuff Happens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Robert O'Hara for In the Continuum | Ricky Ian Gordon for Orpheus and Euridyce | Nikkole Salter for In the Continuum | Michael Berresse for [title of show] | Jon Nakagawa for Orpheus and Euridyce | Jeff Bowen for [title of show] | Jane Moss for Orpheus and Euridyce | Hunter Bell for [title of show] | Doug Varone for Orpheus and Euridyce | Danai Gurira for In the Continuum | Adam Rapp for Red Light Winter | ||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Michael Feingold, Jorge Morales, Alexis Soloski, David Herskovits, Eduardo Machado, Lynn Nottage, Deidre O'Connell, Marc Robinson, Elizabeth Lawler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Eric Bogosian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Ross Wetzsteon Award | Rattlestick Theatre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lifetime Achievement | Alvin Epstein | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Grant | Young Jean Lee, Emerging Playwright Grants | Transport Group | The Play Company | Synapse Productions | Peculiar Works Project | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Tim Crouch for An Oak Tree | The Living Theatre, ensemble and director Judith Malina (Ensemble: Johnson Anthony, Gene Ardor, Kesh Baggan, Steven Scot Bono, Gary Brackett, Brent Bradley, Brad Burgess, John Kohan, Albert Lamont, Peter Lester, Jeff Nash, Josh Roberts, Bradford Rosenbloom, Jade Rothman, Isaac Scranton, Morteza Tavakoli, Evan True, Antwan Ward, Louis Williams; Steve Ben Israel, ensemble director) for The Brig | Edward Hall & Propeller for Taming of the Shrew | Daniel Beaty for writing and performance Emergence-SEE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Roslyn Ruff for Seven Guitars | Ron Cephas Jones for Sustained Excellence of Performance | Nina Hellman for Trouble in Paradise | Nilaja Sun for No Child | Nancy Opel for My Deah | Michael Stuhlbarg for The Voysey Inheritance | James Saito for Durango | Harris Yulin for Frank's Home | Ensemble (Winsome Brown, Michael Ray Escamilla, Tracey A. Leigh, Leo Marks, Diane Rodriguez, Ed Vassallo, Heather Woodbury) for Tale of 2Cities | Donna Lynne Champlin for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs | David Greenspan for Faust and Some Men | Betsy Aidem for Sustained Excellence of Performance | Andre De Shields for Sustained Excellence of Performance | Ain Gordon for Stories Left to Tell | |||||||||||||||
| Music | Michael Friedman for Sustained Excellence in Music | Lin-Manuel Miranda, music and lyrics for In the Heights | Bill T. Jones, choreography for Spring Awakening | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | Adam Bock for The Thugs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Design | Robert Kaplowitz for Sustained Excellence in Sound Design | Rae Smith, sets and costumes for Oliver Twist | Beowulf Boritt for Sustained Excellence in Set Design | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Matthew Maguire for Abandon | Lou Bellamy for Two Trains Running | Eirik Stubo for The Wild Duck | Chay Yew for Durango | Anne Kauffman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committe | Michael Feingold, Kirsten Childs, Jeremy McCarter, Anne Dennin, Alexis Soloski, Ain Gordon, Adam Rapp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Cynthia Nixon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Ross Wetzsteon Award | Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lifetime Achievement | Adrienne Kennedy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Grant | Theater of a Two-Headed Calf | Keen Company | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best New Theater Piece | Stew, Heidi Rodewald, Annie Dorsen for Passing Strange | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Veanne Cox for Sustained Excellence of Performance | Sean McNall for Sustained Excellence of Performance | Rebecca Wisocky for Amazons and Their Me | LisaGay Hamilton for The Ohio State Murders | Kate Mulgrew for Iphigenia 2.0 | Joel Hatch for Adding Machine | Heidi Schreck for Drum Of The Waves Of Horikawa | Francis Jue for Yellow Face | Ensemble (De'Adre Aziza, Daniel Breaker, Eisa Davis, Colman Domingo, Chad Goodridge, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Stew) for Passing Strange | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Design | Takeshi Kata, Set - Keith Parham, Lighting Design for Adding Machine | Peter Ksander, Scenic Design for Untitled Mars (This Title May Change) | Jane Greenwood for Sustained Excellence of Costume Design | David Zinn for Sustained Excellence of Costume and Set Design | Ben Katchor, Drawings; John Findlay & Jeff Sugg, Set & Projection for The Slug Bearers Of Kayrol Island | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Krzysztof Warlikowski for Krum | David Cromer for Adding Machine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | Horton Foote for Dividing The Estate | David Henry Hwang for Yellow Face | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Nature Theater of Oklahoma for o Dice | David Greenspan for The Argument | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Michael Feingold, Alexis Soloski, Mark Blankenship, Jeremy Gerard, Robert O'Hara, Neil Patel, Helen Shaw, Clint Allen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Elizabeth Marvel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Ross Wetzsteon Award | HERE Arts Center | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lifetime Achievement | Earle Hyman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Grant | The Classical Theatre of Harlem | The Chocolate Factory | Lark Play Development Center | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best New American Play | Lynn Nottage for Ruined | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Design | Toni-Leslie James for Sustained Excellence of Costume Design | David Korins for sustained excellence of set design | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Music And Lyrics | Stephen Sondheim for Road Show | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Directing | Ken Rus Schmoll for Telephone | Katie Mitchell for The Waves | David Cromer for Our Town | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Sarah Benson (director) and Louisa Thompson (set designer) (Soho Rep) for Blasted | David Esbjornson (director) and Christian Camargo (actor) (Theatre for a New Audience) for Hamlet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Saidah Arrika Ekulona for Ruined | Sahr Ngaujah for Fela! | Russell Gebert Jones for Ruined | Quincy Tyler Bernstine for Ruined | Lorenzo Pisoni for Humor Abuse | Kevin T. Carroll for sustained excellence of performance | Jonathan Groff for Prayer for My Enemy | John Douglas Thompson for Othello | James Sugg for Chekhov Lizardbrain | Francois Battiste for The Good Negro | Birgit Huppuch for Telephone | Aaron Monaghan for The Cripple of Inishmaan | |||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Michael Feingold, Alexis Soloski, Eisa Davis, Eric Grode, Ty Jones, Moises Kaufman, Chay Yew, Andy Propst | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Daniel Breaker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Obie Grant | Vampire Cowboys | Ontological Incubator | Harlem School of the Arts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | The Ohio Theatre | Chris Wells | Ariane Mnouchkine for Theatre du Soleil | Hoi Polloi for Three Pianos | Taylor Mac for The Lily's Revenge | Les Ephemeres | Philippe Quesne and Gatan Vourch for L'Effet de Serge | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Performance | Wendell Pierce | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design | Tyler Micoleau | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Tracee Chimo for Circle Mirror Transformation | Reed Birney for Circle Mirror Transformation | Peter Friedman for Circle Mirror Transformation | Marc Damon Johnson for The Brother/Sister Plays | Laurie Metcalf for A Lie of the Mind | Juliet Rylance for As You Like It | Jonathan Hammond for The Boys in the Band | Heidi Schreck for Circle Mirror Transformation | Deirdre O'Connell for Circle Mirror Transformation | Dane deHaan for The Aliens | |||||||||||||||||||
| Design/Music | Steven Dufala for Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines | Stephin Merritt for Coraline | Neil Murray for Brief Encounter | Malcom Rippeth for Brief Encounter | John Driscoll for Brief Encounter | Gemma Carrington for Brief Encounter | Billy Blaise Dufala for Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Directing | Sam Gold for Circle Mirror Transformation, The Aliens | Pam MacKinnon for Clybourne Park | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence | Rocco Sisto | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Ross Wetzsteon Award | Foundry Theatre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | Enda Walsh for The New Electric Ballroom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Achievement | David Greenspan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best New American Play | Annie Baker for Circle Mirror Transformation and The Aliens | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Michael Feingold, Kristin Marting, Ralph B. Pena, Martha Plimpton, Andy Propst, Alexis Soloski | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Anika Noni Rose | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Obie Grant | Wakka Wakka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Young Jean Lee for We're Gonna Die! | Stephen Dobbie for Sleep No More | Maxine Doyle for Sleep No More | Livi Vaughan for Sleep No More | Leah C. Gardiner for Born Bad | Felix Barrett for Sleep No More | Euan Maybank for Sleep No More | Debbie Tucker Green for Born Bad | David Israel Reynoso for Sleep No More | Beatrice Minns for Sleep No More | |||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Thomas Sadoski for Other Desert Cities | Scott Shepherd for Gatz | Michael Chernus for In The Wake | Laurie Metcalf for The Other Place | Hamish Linklater for School for Lies | Ethan Hawke for Blood from a Stone | Charlayne Woodard for The Witch of Edmonton | Brenda Wehle for The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide | Andre Braugher for The Whipping Man | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Best New American Play | Kristoffer Diaz for The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | Samuel D. Hunter for A Bright New Boise | Jonas Hassen Khemiri for INVASION! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Directing | Roger Rees for Peter and the Starcatcher | Alex Timbers for Peter and the Starcatcher | Austin Pendleton for The Three Sisters | Leigh Silverman for In the Wake, Go Back to Where You Are | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lifetime Achievement | Rene Buch for Repertorio Espanol | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Performance | F. Murray Abraham | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Set Design | Donyale Werle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ross Wetzsteon Award | Belarus Free Theatre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Michael Feingold, Hilton Als, David Henry Hwang, Evan Yionoulis, Andy Propst, Alexis Soloski | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | David Hyde Pierce | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Special Citation | Mark Bennett, Denis O'Hare, Lisa Peterson, and Stephen Spinella for An Iliad | Erin Courtney and Ken Rus Schmoll for A Map of Virtue | Elevator Repair Service | Steven Hoggett, Martin Lowe, and John Tiffany for Once | Daniel Kitson for It's Always Right Now, Until It's Later | Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra for No Place to Go | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Ross Wetzsteon Award | Youngblood | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Set Design | Mimi Lien | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Performance | Jim Fletcher | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design | Mark Barton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sound Design | Matt Tierney and Ben Williams for The Select (The Sun Also Rises) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | Kristen Greenidge for Milk Like Sugar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Steven Boyer for Hand to God | Cherise Boothe for Milk Like Sugar | Gabriel Ebert and Mary Louise Wilson for 4000 Miles | Santino Fontana for Sons of the Prophet | Linda Lavin for The Lyons | Susan Pourfar for Tribes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Grant | The Bushwick Starr | The Debate Society | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lifetime Achievement | Caridad Svich | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ensemble Performance | Jon DeVries, Shuler Hensley, Maryann Plunkett, Laila Robbins, Jay O. Sanders, J. Smith-Cameron for Sweet and Sad | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Richard Maxwell for Early Plays | Jay Scheib for World of Wires | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best New American Play | Amy Herzog for 4000 Miles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Brian Parks, Michael Feingold, Annie Baker, Anne Kauffman, Jose Rivera, Helen Shaw, Alexis Soloski | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | No Host | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Special Citations | David Levine and Marsha Ginsberg for HABIT | Dave Malloy and Rachel Chavkin for Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 | Nature Theater of Oklahoma for Life and Times: Episodes 1-4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | Ayad Akhtar for Disgraced | Annie Baker for The Flick | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Eisa Davis for Sustained Excellence | Brandon J. Dirden for The Piano Lesson | Shuler Hensley for The Whale | Matthew Maher for Sustained Excellence | Paul Thureen for Blood Play | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Grant | Fulcrum Theater | Half Straddle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Music And Lyrics | David Byrne & Fatboy Slim for Here Lies Love | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Ross Wetzsteon Award | Clubbed Thumb | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lifetime Achievement | Lois Smith | Frances Sternhagen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Lear deBessonet for The Good Person Of Szechuan | John Rando for All In The Timing | Ruben Santiago-Hudson for The Piano Lesson | Eric Ting for We Are Proud To Present A Presentation... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Design | Laura Jellinek for Sustained excellence of Set Design | Clint Ramos for Sustained excellence of Costume Design | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best New American Play | Lisa D'Amour for Detroit | Julia Jarcho for Grimly Handsome | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Michael Feingold, Alexis Soloski, Erin Courtney, Mia Katigbak, Tom Sellar, Leigh Silverman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Jessica Hecht | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Sustained Excellence of Performance | Marylouise Burke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design | Justin Townsend | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citation, Projections | Hannah Wasileski for The World Is Round | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citation, Music | Heather Christian for The World Is Round | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citation, Lighting | Jiyoun Chang for The World Is Round | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citation | Mallory Catlett for This Was The End | Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and Lucy Thurber for The Hill Town Plays | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ross Wetzsteon Award | Abrons Arts Center | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Projections, Design | Ben Rubin for Arguendo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playwrighting | Will Eno for The Open House | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Larry Pine for A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney | Mia Katigbak for Awake and Sing | Sydney Lucas for Fun Home | John Ellison Conlee for The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence | K. Todd Freeman for Fetch Clay, Make Man | John Earl Jelks for Sunset Baby | Johanna Day for Appropriate | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Grants | 600 Highwaymen | 48 Hours in Harlem | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lighting Design, Design/Music | Eric Southern for The Correspondent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lifetime Achievement | Estelle Parsons | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fight Direction, Design/Music | Emmanuel Brown for Kung Fu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Director, Musical Theater | Sam Gold for Fun Home | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | James MacDonald for Love and Information | Oliver Butler for The Open House | Liesl Tommy for Appropriate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Composer | Jeanine Tesori for Fun Home | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Choreography, Design/Music | Sonya Tayeh for Kung Fu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best New American Play (tie) | Branden Jacobs-Jenkins for Appropriate | Branden Jacobs-Jenkins for An Octoroon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Author, Musical Theater | Lisa Kron for Fun Home | Chris Myers for An Octoroon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Committee | Michael Feingold, Kirsten Childs, Nicky Paraiso, Tonya Pinkins, Michael Sommers, Rick Sordelet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Hamish Linklater | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Sustained Achievement Award | James Houghton | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best New American Theatre Work | Lin-Manuel Miranda (writer) for Hamilton | Andy Blankenbuehler (Choreography) for Hamilton | Thomas Kail (direction) for Hamilton | Alex Lacamoire for Hamilton | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Usman Ally for The Invisible Hand (New York Theatre Workshop) | Firdous Bamji for Indian Ink (Roundabout Theatre Company) | Brooke Bloom for You Got Older (Page 73) | Stephen McKinley Henderson for Between Riverside and Crazy (Atlantic Theater Company & Second Stage Theatre) | April Matthis for Sustained Excellence of Performance | John Douglas Thompson for Tamburlaine (Theatre for a New Audience) / The Iceman Cometh (BAM) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | Ayad Akhtar for The Invisible Hand (New York Theatre Workshop) | Clare Barron for You Got Older (Page 73) | Suzan-Lori Parks for Father Comes Home From the Wars Parts I, II, & III (The Public Theater) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Trip Cullman for Punk Rock (MCC Theater) | Anne Kauffman for Sustained Excellence of Direction | Darko Tresnjak for The Killer (Theatre for a New Audience) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Design | Abigail DeVille for Prophetika: An Oratorio (La MaMa) | Christine Jones for Sustained Excellence of Set Design | Ben Stanton for Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design | Japhy Weideman for Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Kate Benson (writer) for A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes (New Georges) | Robert O’Hara (writer, director) for Bootycandy | Philip James Brannon (actor) for Bootycandy | Jessica Frances Dukes (actor) for Bootycandy | Jesse Pennington (actor) for Bootycandy | Benja Kay Thomas (actor) for Bootycandy | Lance Coadie Williams (actor) for Bootycandy | Andrew Dinwiddie for Catch (performance series) | Caleb Hammons for Catch (performance series) | Jeff Larson for Catch (performance series) | Bridget Everett for Rock Bottom (Public Theater) | Dead Centre Theatre | Bush Moukarzel for Lippy (Abrons Arts Center and Irish Arts Center) | Andrew Schneider for Youarenowhere (PS 122 & COIL Festival) | |||||||||||||||
| Obie Grants | Horse Trade Theater Group / The Fire This Time Festival | JACK for (Arts Center) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Ross Wetzsteon Award | Ars Nova | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Lea DeLaria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Lifetime Achievement | Carmen de Lavallade | A. R. Gurney | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best New American Play | Rajiv Joseph for GUARDS AT THE TAJ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | Lucas Hnath for THE CHRISTIANS and RED SPEEDO | Stephen Karam for THE HUMANS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Musical Theatre | Steven Levenson (book) for DEAR EVAN HANSEN | Benj Pasek (lyrics) for DEAR EVAN HANSEN | Justin Paul (music) for DEAR EVAN HANSEN | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direction | Rachel Chavkin for THE ROYALE | Michael Leibenluft for I’LL NEVER LOVE AGAIN | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Khris Davis for THE ROYALE | Emily Donahoe for THE CHRISTIANS | Georgia Engel for JOHN | Pascale Armand for ECLIPSED | Akosua Busia for ECLIPSED | Zainab Jah for ECLIPSED | Lupita Nyong’o for ECLIPSED | Saycon Sengbloh for ECLIPSED | Jayne Houdyshell for THE HUMANS | Omar Metwally for GUARDS AT THE TAJ | Arian Moayed for GUARDS AT THE TAJ | Ben Platt for DEAR EVAN HANSEN | Lucas Caleb Rooney for RED SPEEDO | Tamara Tunie for FAMILIAR | |||||||||||||||
| Design | Rachel Hauck for sustained excellence of set design | Jason Lyons for sustained excellence of lighting design | James Ortiz for puppet design, THE WOODSMAN | Bray Poor for sustained excellence of sound design | Kaye Voyce for sustained excellence of costume design | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations: Collaboration | Annie Baker (playwright) for JOHN | Sam Gold (director) for JOHN | Mark Barton (lighting) for JOHN | Ásta Bennie Hostetter (costumes) for JOHN | Mimi Lien (set) for JOHN | Noah Mease (props) for JOHN | Bray Poor (sound) for JOHN | Ed Herman (production stage manager) for JOHN | Dominique Morisseau (playwright) for SKELETON CREW | Ruben Santiago-Hudson (director) for SKELETON CREW | |||||||||||||||||||
| Obies Grants | Bedlam Theatre | Noor Theatre | Prospect Theater Company | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ross Wetzsteon Awards | NAATCO /National Asian American Theatre Company | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Lea DeLaria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD | Paula Vogel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BEST NEW AMERICAN THEATRE WORK | Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard for Underground Railroad Game (Ars Nova) | J. T. Rogers for Oslo (Lincoln Center Theater) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PLAYWRITING | Christopher Chen for Caught (The Play Company at La MaMa) | Lynn Nottage for Sweat (Public Theater) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MUSICAL THEATRE | Itamar Moses (book) and David Yazbek (music & lyrics) for The Band’s Visit (Atlantic Theater) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DIRECTING | Arin Arbus for The Skin of Our Teeth (Theater for a New Audience) | Lileana Blain-Cruz for The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (Signature Theatre) | David Cromer for The Band’s Visit (Atlantic Theater) | Jack Cummings III for Picnic (Transport Group) | Rebecca Taichman for Indecent (Vineyard Theatre) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ENSEMBLE AWARDS | Bartlett Sher (director) and the cast of Oslo (Lincoln Center Theater) (Michael Aronov, Anthony Azizi, Adam Dannheiser,Jennifer Ehle, Daniel Jenkins, Dariush Kashani, Jeb Kreager, Jefferson Mays, Christopher McHale, Daniel Oreskes, Angela Pierce, Henny Russell, Joseph Siravo, T. Ryder Smith) | Lila Neugebauer (director) and the cast of The Wolves (Playwrights Realm) (Mia Barron, Kate Arrington, Brenna Coates, Jenna Dioguardi, Samia Finnerty, Midori Francis, Lizzy Jutila, Sarah Mezzanotte, Tedra Millan, Lauren Patten, Susannah Perkins) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PERFORMANCE | Matthew Broderick for Evening at the Talk House (New Group) and Shining City (Irish Rep) | Bobby Cannavale for The Hairy Ape (New York Armory) | Kevin Geer for sustained excellence [in memoriam] | Kecia Lewis for Marie and Rosetta (Atlantic Theater) and The Skin of Our Teeth (TFANA) | Heather MacRae for Come Back, Little Sheba (Transport Group) | Amy Ryan for Love, Love, Love (Roundabout/Laura Pels) | Pete Simpson for sustained excellence | Michael Urie for Homos, Or Everyone in America (Labyrinth Theater) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| DESIGN | Riccardo Hernandez for sustained excellence of set design | Dane Laffrey for sustained excellence of set and costume design | Jared Mezzocchi for projection design, Vietgone (Manhattan Theatre Club) | Ryan Rumery for sustained excellence of sound design | Scott Zielinski for sustained excellence of lighting design | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SPECIAL CITATIONS | Anna Deavere Smith for Notes From the Field (Second Stage) | Taylor Mac for A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (St. Ann’s Warehouse) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| OBIE GRANTS | Irish Repertory Theatre | Pearl Theatre Company | The Playwrights Realm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| THE ROSS WETZSTEON AWARD | Theatre for a New Audience | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| OBIE JUDGES | Michael Feingold, Chairman; Ayad Akhtar, Melissa Rose Bernardo, Darius de Haas, Miriam Felton-Dansky, Daphne Rubin-Vega, J. Smith-Cameron | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | Lea DeLaria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Best New American Play | Rajiv Joseph for Describe the Night | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playwriting | Aleshea Harris for Is God Is | Amy Herzog for Mary Jane | Abe Koogler for Fulfillment Center | Dominique Morisseau for Pipeline | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Directing | Jesse Berger for The Government Inspector | Anne Kaufman for Mary Jane | Taibi Magar for Is God Is | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performance | Sean Carvajal & Edi Gathegi for Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train | Carrie Coon for Mary Jane | Alfie Fuller & Dame-Jasmine Hughes for Is God Is | Denise Gough for People, Places & Things | Will Swenson for Jerry Spring - The Opera | Chukwudi Iwuji for The Low Road | Robert Sean Leonard for At Home at the Zoo | Jessica Hecht for Admissions | Ben Edelman for Admissions | Billy Crudup for Harry Clarke | |||||||||||||||||||
| Design | Lap Chi Chu for Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design | Sarah Laux for Costume Design, Jerry Springer – The Opera | Christopher Barreca (Set Design) for He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box | Justin Ellington (Sound Design) for He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box | Donald Holder (Lighting Design) for He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box | Montana Levi Blanco (Costume Design) for He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box | Austin Switser (Video Design) for He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special Citations | Ariane Mnouchkine & Theatre du Soleil for A Room in India | The Cast and Creative Team of Yerma for Simon Stone (Director), Lizzie Clachan (Set Design), Alice Babidge (Costume Design), James Farncombe (Lighting Design), Stefan Gregory (Sound Design); Maureen Beattie, Brendan Cowell, John MacMillan, Billie Piper, Charlotte Randle, Thalissa Teixeira (Cast) | David Greenspan, Jack Cummings III, & Transport Group for Strange Interlude | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Ross Wetzsteon Award | Ma-Yi Theater Company | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Grants | Pan-Asian Repertory Theatre | York Theatre Company for Musicals in Mufti Series | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lifetime Achievement Award | Kathleen Chalfant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obie Judges | Michael Feingold (chairman), Melissa Rose Bernardo, Wendall K. Harrington, Charles Isherwood, Toni-Leslie James, Sondra Lee, Arian Moayed, Ching Valdes-Aran | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host | John Leguizamo |
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