Winners

Best Actor

• Dustin Hoffman

  The Exhaustion of Our Son's Love

Best Actress

• Jane White

  "Coriolanus" and "Love's Labour's Lost"

Direction

• Jacques Levy

  "As Old As Your Arteries," "Red Cross," and "The Next Thing"

Set Design

• Ed Wittstein

  Serjeant Musgrave's Dance

• Lindsey Decker

  Red Cross

Best American Play

• Ronald Ribman

  The Journey of the Fifth Horse

Distinguished Plays

• Emanuel Peluso

  Good Day

• Sam Shepard

  "Chicago," "Icarus's Mother," and "Red Cross"

Distinguished Performances

• Sharon Gans

  Soon Jack November

• Michael Lipton

  The Trial

• Mari-Claire Charba

  Birdbath

• Kevin O'Connor

  Chicago

• Jess Osuna

  "Bugs" and "Veronica"

• Gloria Foster

  Medea

• Frank Langella

  "Good Day" and "The White Devil"

• Florence Tarlow

  "Istanbul," "Red Cross," and "A Beautiful Day"

• Douglas Turner Ward

  Days of Absence

• Clarice Blackburn

  The Exhaustion of Our Son's Love

Special Citations

• Theatre for Ideas

  for encouraging exploration in dramatic literature and music

• Theater in the Street

  for upholding the tradition of street theatre and reaching out to new English- and Spanish-speaking audiences

• Peter Schumann

  for his Bread and Puppet Theatre, which embodies a courageous and rigorous vision and practice of theatre engaged with its time

• Joseph H. Dunn

  The Automobile Graveyard which brilliantly combines the arts of design, lighting, and staging for audience involvement

• H.M. Koutoukas

  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