2015 Obie Award Winners Announced
Sustained Achievement Award
James Houghton
Best New American Theatre Work
Hamilton
Written by Lin-Manuel Miranda,
Choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler
Direction by Thomas Kail
Arrangements/orchestrations/music direction by Alex Lacamoire
(The Public Theater)
Performance
Usman Ally, The Invisible Hand (New York Theatre Workshop)
Firdous Bamji, Indian Ink (Roundabout Theatre Company)
Brooke Bloom, You Got Older (Page 73)
Stephen McKinley Henderson, Between Riverside and Crazy (Atlantic Theater Company & Second Stage Theatre)
April Matthis, Sustained Excellence of Performance
John Douglas Thompson, Tamburlaine (Theatre for a New Audience)/ The Iceman Cometh / (BAM)
Playwriting
Ayad Akhtar, The Invisible Hand (New York Theatre Workshop)
Clare Barron, You Got Older (Page 73)
Suzan-Lori Parks, Father Comes Home From the Wars Parts I, II, & III (The Public Theater)
Direction
Trip Cullman, Punk Rock (MCC Theater)
Anne Kauffman, Sustained Excellence of Direction
Darko Tresnjak, The Killer (Theatre for a New Audience)
Design
Abigail DeVille, Prophetika: An Oratorio (La MaMa)
Christine Jones, Sustained Excellence of Set Design
Ben Stanton, Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design
Japhy Weideman, Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design
Special Citations
Kate Benson, writer, Lee Sunday Evans, director A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes (New Georges)
Bootycandy, writer/director Robert O’Hara, actors Philip James Brannon, Jessica Frances Dukes, Jesse Pennington, Benja Kay Thomas, Lance Coadie Williams (Playwrights Horizons)
Catch (performance series), Andrew Dinwiddie, Caleb Hammons, Jeff Larson
Bridget Everett, Rock Bottom (Public Theater)
Dead Centre Theatre Company
Bush Moukarzel, Lippy (Abrons Arts Center and Irish Arts Center)
Andrew Schneider, Youarenowhere (PS 122 / COIL Festival)
OBIE Grants
Horse Trade Theater Group / The Fire This Time Festival
JACK (Arts Center)
The Ross Wetzsteon Award
Ars Nova