Winners

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

• Paula Vogel

BEST NEW AMERICAN THEATRE WORK

• Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard

  Underground Railroad Game (Ars Nova)

• J. T. Rogers

  Oslo (Lincoln Center Theater)

PLAYWRITING

• Christopher Chen

  Caught (The Play Company at La MaMa)

• Lynn Nottage

  Sweat (Public Theater)

MUSICAL THEATRE

• Itamar Moses (book) and David Yazbek (music & lyrics)

  The Band’s Visit (Atlantic Theater)

DIRECTING

• Arin Arbus

  The Skin of Our Teeth (Theater for a New Audience)

• Lileana Blain-Cruz

  The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (Signature Theatre)

• David Cromer

  The Band’s Visit (Atlantic Theater)

• Jack Cummings III

  Picnic (Transport Group)

• Rebecca Taichman

  Indecent (Vineyard Theatre)

ENSEMBLE AWARDS

• Bartlett Sher (director) and the cast of Oslo (Lincoln Center Theater) (Michael Aronov, Anthony Azizi, Adam Dannheiser,Jennifer Ehle, Daniel Jenkins, Dariush Kashani, Jeb Kreager, Jefferson Mays, Christopher McHale, Daniel Oreskes, Angela Pierce, Henny Russell, Joseph Siravo, T. Ryder Smith)

• Lila Neugebauer (director) and the cast of The Wolves (Playwrights Realm) (Mia Barron, Kate Arrington, Brenna Coates, Jenna Dioguardi, Samia Finnerty, Midori Francis, Lizzy Jutila, Sarah Mezzanotte, Tedra Millan, Lauren Patten, Susannah Perkins)

PERFORMANCE

• Matthew Broderick

  Evening at the Talk House (New Group) and Shining City (Irish Rep)

• Bobby Cannavale

  The Hairy Ape (New York Armory)

• Kevin Geer

  sustained excellence [in memoriam]

• Kecia Lewis

  Marie and Rosetta (Atlantic Theater) and The Skin of Our Teeth (TFANA)

• Heather MacRae

  Come Back, Little Sheba (Transport Group)

• Amy Ryan

  Love, Love, Love (Roundabout/Laura Pels)

• Pete Simpson

  sustained excellence

• Michael Urie

  Homos, Or Everyone in America (Labyrinth Theater)

DESIGN

• Riccardo Hernandez

  sustained excellence of set design

• Dane Laffrey

  sustained excellence of set and costume design

• Jared Mezzocchi

  projection design, Vietgone (Manhattan Theatre Club)

• Ryan Rumery

  sustained excellence of sound design

• Scott Zielinski

  sustained excellence of lighting design

SPECIAL CITATIONS

• Anna Deavere Smith

  Notes From the Field (Second Stage)

• Taylor Mac

  A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (St. Ann’s Warehouse)

OBIE GRANTS

• Irish Repertory Theatre

• Pearl Theatre Company

• The Playwrights Realm

THE ROSS WETZSTEON AWARD

• Theatre for a New Audience

OBIE JUDGES

• Michael Feingold, Chairman; Ayad Akhtar, Melissa Rose Bernardo, Darius de Haas, Miriam Felton-Dansky, Daphne Rubin-Vega, J. Smith-Cameron