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The Village Voice presented its 59th annual Obie Awards, celebrating achievement in the Off-Broadway and off-off Broadway theater, at a ceremony Monday, May 19 at Webster Hall in Greenwich Village.

Winners

Sustained Excellence of Performance

  • Marylouise Burke

Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design

  • Justin Townsend

Special Citation, Projections

  • Hannah Wasileski

    The World Is Round

Special Citation, Music

  • Heather Christian

    The World Is Round

Special Citation, Lighting

  • Jiyoun Chang

    The World Is Round

Special Citation

  • Mallory Catlett

    This Was The End

  • Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and Lucy Thurber

    The Hill Town Plays

Ross Wetzsteon Award

  • Abrons Arts Center

Projections, Design

  • Ben Rubin

    Arguendo

Playwrighting

  • Will Eno

    The Open House

Performance

  • Larry Pine

    A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney

  • Mia Katigbak

    Awake and Sing

  • Sydney Lucas

    Fun Home

  • John Ellison Conlee

    The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence

  • K. Todd Freeman

    Fetch Clay, Make Man

  • John Earl Jelks

    Sunset Baby

  • Johanna Day

    Appropriate

Obie Grants

  • 600 Highwaymen

  • 48 Hours in Harlem

Lighting Design, Design/Music

  • Eric Southern

    The Correspondent

Lifetime Achievement

  • Estelle Parsons

Fight Direction, Design/Music

  • Emmanuel Brown

    Kung Fu

Director, Musical Theater

  • Sam Gold

    Fun Home

Direction

  • James MacDonald

    Love and Information

  • Oliver Butler

    The Open House

  • Liesl Tommy

    Appropriate

Composer

  • Jeanine Tesori

    Fun Home

Choreography, Design/Music

  • Sonya Tayeh

    Kung Fu

Best New American Play (tie)

  • Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

    Appropriate

  • Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

    An Octoroon

Author, Musical Theater

  • Lisa Kron

    Fun Home

  • Chris Myers

    An Octoroon

Obie Committee

  • Michael Feingold, Kirsten Childs, Nicky Paraiso, Tonya Pinkins, Michael Sommers, Rick Sordelet

Hosts & Presenters

Host

Hamish Linklater

Host

Tamara Tunie

Presenter

Betsy Aidem

Presenter

Andy Karl

Presenter

Cristin Milioti

Presenter

David Bar Katz

Presenter

Harvey Fierstein

Presenter

Kelli O'Hara

Presenter

Lena Hall

Presenter

Stephen Trask