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Alec Baldwin, Stockard Channing, Nathan Lane, Felicity Huffman, and Lea DeLaria were just a few performers who received the Obie Award in the 1990s.

The 1990s awarded several plays and musicals that would go on to world wide audiences including Prelude to a Kiss, Six Degrees of Separation, Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Rent.

Winners

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

    The Grey Zone

Music

  • Bruce Coughlin and Adam Guettel

    Floyd Collins

  • Polly Pen

    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

    Nixon's Nixon

  • Lisa Gay Hamilton

    Valley Song

  • Terri Klausner

    Bed And Sofa

  • Tom McGowan

    The Food Chain

  • Mark Nelson

    Picasso At The Lapin Agile

  • Adina Porter

    Venus

  • Virginia Rambal

    Troya De America and La Dama Duende

  • Rose The Dog (Julie Archer and Barbara Pollitt)

    Epidog

  • Rocco Sisto

    Quills

  • Steven Skybell

    Antigone In New York

  • Derek Smith

    The Green Bird

  • James Urbaniak

    The Universe

  • Mary Louise Wilson

    Full Gallop

Playwriting

  • Ain Gordon

    Wally's Ghost

  • Donald Margulies

    The Model Apartment

  • Suzan-Lori Parks

    Venus

  • Doug Wright

    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

    Curtains

  • Marty Pottenger

    City Water Tunnel #3

  • The Acting Ensemble

    Rent

  • New Voices at Repertorio Espanol

Special Citation: Choreography and Dance

  • Savion Glover

    Bring in 'da Noise/Bring in 'da Funk

Special Citation: Composer/Writer

  • Jonathan Larson

    Rent

Special Citation: Director

  • Michael Greif

    Rent

Sustained Achievement

  • Uta Hagen

Hosts & Presenters

Host

Nicky Silver