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
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Marylouise Burke
Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design
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Justin Townsend
Special Citation, Projections
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Hannah Wasileski
The World Is Round
Special Citation, Music
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Heather Christian
The World Is Round
Special Citation, Lighting
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Jiyoun Chang
The World Is Round
Special Citation
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Mallory Catlett
This Was The End
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Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and Lucy Thurber
The Hill Town Plays
Ross Wetzsteon Award
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Abrons Arts Center
Projections, Design
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Ben Rubin
Arguendo
Playwrighting
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Will Eno
The Open House
Performance
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Larry Pine
A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney
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Mia Katigbak
Awake and Sing
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Sydney Lucas
Fun Home
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John Ellison Conlee
The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence
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K. Todd Freeman
Fetch Clay, Make Man
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John Earl Jelks
Sunset Baby
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Johanna Day
Appropriate
Obie Grants
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600 Highwaymen
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48 Hours in Harlem
Lighting Design, Design/Music
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Eric Southern
The Correspondent
Lifetime Achievement
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Estelle Parsons
Fight Direction, Design/Music
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Emmanuel Brown
Kung Fu
Director, Musical Theater
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Sam Gold
Fun Home
Direction
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James MacDonald
Love and Information
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Oliver Butler
The Open House
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Liesl Tommy
Appropriate
Composer
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Jeanine Tesori
Fun Home
Choreography, Design/Music
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Sonya Tayeh
Kung Fu
Best New American Play (tie)
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Appropriate
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
An Octoroon
Author, Musical Theater
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Lisa Kron
Fun Home
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Chris Myers
An Octoroon
Obie Committee
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Michael Feingold, Kirsten Childs, Nicky Paraiso, Tonya Pinkins, Michael Sommers, Rick Sordelet