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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

  • Richard Foreman

    Pearls For Pigs and Benita Canova

Design

  • Darron L. West

    Bob

  • Mimi Jordan Sherin

    Bob

Direction

  • Ivo van Hove

    More Stately Mansions

  • David Esbjornson, Therese Raquin

    Therese Raquin

  • Evan Yionoulis

    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

    Housing Works Theater Project

  • Caught in the Act annual one-act festival presented by Threshold Theater Co.

Performance

  • Lea DeLaria

    On The Town

  • Mary Testa

    On the Town and From Above

  • Tim Hopper

    More Stately Mansions

  • Joseph Wiseman

    I Can't Remember Anything

  • Heather Gillespie

    Mamba's Daughters

  • Marie Mullen

    The Beauty Queen of Leenane

  • Matthew Maguire

    I Don't Know Who He Was And I Don't Know What He Said

  • Yvette Freeman

    Dinah Was

  • Adriane Lenox

    Dinah Was

  • Elizabeth Marvel

    Therese Raquin and Misalliance

  • J. Smith Cameron

    As Bees In Honey Drown

  • Joan MacIntosh

    More Stately Mansions

Sustained Excellence of Performance

  • David Patrick Kelly

  • Kate Valk

  • Brian Murray

Ross Wetzsteon Award

  • Doug Aibel and The Vineyard Theater

    For Sustained Support of artists and Creativity in the Theater

Special Citations

  • Target Margin Theater

    Mamba's Daughters

  • David Herskovits, Thomas Cabaniss, Lenore Doxsee, Erika Belsey, David Zinn, Tim Schellenbaum, John Cameron Mitchell

    Hedwig And The Angry Inch

  • Stephen Trask

    Hedwig And The Angry Inch

  • Karen Finley

    The American Chestnut

  • Philim McDermott, Lee Simpson, Julian Crouch, Guy Dartnell, Ben Park, Steve Tiplady,

    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

Hosts & Presenters

Host

Eric Bogosian

Host

Kristen Johnson

Presenter

Danny Hoch

Presenter

Woodie King Jr.

Presenter

Mac Wellman

Presenter

Mary Louise Wilson

Presenter

Lea DeLaria

Presenter

Ellie Covan

Presenter

Tsai Chin

Presenter

Greg Germann

Presenter

Liz Diamond