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
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Craig Lucas
Prelude to a Kiss
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Suzan-Lori Parks
Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom
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Mac Wellman
Bad Penny, Crowbar, and Terminal Hip
Sustained Excellence of Sound Design
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Daniel Moses Schreler
Sustained Excellence of Set Design
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George Tsypin
Direction
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Liz Diamond
Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom
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Norman Rene
Prelude to a Kiss
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Jim Simpson
Bad Penny
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George C. Wolfe
Spunk
Obie Grant
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Dixon Place
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Pregones
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WOW Cafe
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BACA New Works Project
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52nd Street Project
Performance
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Alec Baldwin
Prelude to a Kiss
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Elzbieta Czyzewska
Crowbar
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Karen Evans-Kandel
Lear
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Marcia Jean Kurtz
The Loman Family Picnic and When She Danced
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Ruth Maleczech
Lear
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Greg Mehrten
Lear
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Stephen Mellor
Terminal Hip
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Isabell Monk
Lear
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Jean Stapleton
Mountain Language and The Birthday Party
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Pamela Tyson
Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom
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Courtney B. Vance
My Children! My Africa!
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Danitra Vance
Spunk
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Lillias White
Romance in Hard Times
Sustained Excellence in Performance
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Mary Shultz
Special Citations
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Eric Bogosian
Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
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Dan Hurlin
A Cool Million
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Joseph Papp
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San Francisco Mime Troupe
Seeing Double
Sustained Achievement
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Money awarded to ACT-UP for the fight against AIDS
Obie Committee
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Michael Feingold
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Erika Munk
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Alisa Solomon
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Ross Wetzsteon
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Rene Buch
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Margo Jefferson