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American Theatre Wing and The Village Voice co-presented its 62nd annual Obie Awards, celebrating achievement in the Off-Broadway and off-off Broadway theater, at a ceremony Monday, May 22, 2017 at Webster Hall.

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

Hosts & Presenters

Host

Lea DeLaria

Presenter

LaChanze

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Daphne Rubin-Vega

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Darius de Haas

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Mike Faist

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William Ivey Long

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Emilio Sosa

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Taylor Mac

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Lena Hall

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Jefferson Mays

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David Henry Hwang

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J. Smith Cameron

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Peter Barbey

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Rose Byrne

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Benj Pasek

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Justin Paul

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Jayne Houdyshell

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Chris Cooper

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Derek McLane