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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 Play

  • Naomi Wallace

    One Flea Spare

Best Production

  • Peter and Wendy

Obie Judges

  • Ross Wetzsteon

    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

    How I Learned to Drive

Obie Grant

  • St.Paul's Community Baptist Church Drama Ministry

  • Great Small Works

Performance

  • Andre Braugher

    Henry V

  • Tsai Chin

    Golden Child

  • Jennifer Dundas

    Good as New

  • David Greenspan

    The Boys in the Band

  • Karen Kandel

    Peter and Wendy

  • Albert Macklin

    June Moon

  • David Morse

    How I Learned to Drive

  • Mary-Louise Parker

    How I Learned to Drive

  • Sharon Shruggs

    The Trojan Woman

  • Ray Anthony Thomas

    Volunteer Man

  • Ching Valdes-Aran

    Flipzoids

Playwriting

  • Eve Ensler

    The Vagina Monologues

  • David Henry Hwang

    Golden Child

  • Paula Vogel

    How I Learned to Drive

  • Lanford Wilson

    Sympathetic Magic

Special Citations: Sustained Excellence of Performance

  • Joanne Camp

  • Arthur French

Special Citations

  • Roger Guenveur Smith & Mark Anthony Thompson

    A Huey P. Newton Story

  • Howard Crabtree & Creators of When Pigs Fly

  • James Hatch & Camille Billops

  • Dona Ann McAdams

  • Tap Dogs

  • Jeanine Tesori

    Violet

Sustained Achievement

  • Woodie King Jr.

Hosts & Presenters

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Fyvush Finkel

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Kathleen Chalfant

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Lisa Gay Hamilton

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Peter Francis James

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Shirley Knight

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Camryn Manheim

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Mary Louise Parker

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Roger Guenveur Smith

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Julie Taymor

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Marisa Tomei

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Rip Torn

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Ming Cho Lee

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Karin Coonrod

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Scott Elliot