Presenters include Jonathan Groff, Neil Patrick Harris, Priscilla Lopez, S. Epatha Merkerson, Marisa Tomei, Julie White, and Bradley Whitford, among others.
Donna Lynne Champlin, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Andre De Shields, Sustained Excellence of Performance
Ain Gordon, Stories Left to Tell
David Greenspan, Faust and Some Men
Nina Hellman, Trouble in Paradise
Ron Cephas Jones, Sustained Excellence of Performance
Nancy Opel, My Deah
Roslyn Ruff, Seven Guitars
James Saito, Durango
Michael Stuhlbarg, The Voysey Inheritance
Nilaja Sun, No Child
Harris Yulin, Frank's Home
Ensemble, Tale of 2Cities (Winsome Brown, Michael Ray Escamilla, Tracey A. Leigh, Leo Marks, Diane Rodriguez, Ed Vassallo, Heather Woodbury)
Direction
Lou Bellamy, Two Trains Running
Anne Kauffman, The Thugs
Matthew Maguire, Abandon
Eirik Stubo, The Wild Duck
Chay Yew, Durango
Playwriting
Adam Bock, The Thugs
Music & Choreography
Michael Friedman, Sustained Excellence in Music
Bill T. Jones, choreography, Spring Awakening
Lin-Manuel Miranda, music and lyrics, In the Heights
Design
Beowulf Boritt, Sustained Excellence in Set Design
Robert Kaplowitz, Sustained Excellence in Sound Design
Rae Smith, Set and Costume Design, Oliver Twist
Special Citation
Daniel Beaty, writing and performance Emergence-SEE
Tim Crouch, An Oak Tree
Edward Hall & Propeller, Taming of the Shrew
The Living Theatre, ensemble and director Judith Malina, The Brig (Ensemble: Johnson Anthony, Gene Ardor, Kesh Baggan, Steven Scot Bono, Gary Brackett, Brent Bradley, Brad Burgess, John Kohan, Albert Lamont, Peter Lester, Jeff Nash, Josh Roberts, Bradford Rosenbloom, Jade Rothman, Isaac Scranton, Morteza Tavakoli, Evan True, Antwan Ward, Louis Williams; Steve Ben Israel, ensemble director)
The Ross Wetzsteon Memorial Award
Rattlestick Theatre
Lifetime Achievement
Alvin Epstein
Theater Grants
Peculiar Works Project
The Play Company
Synapse Productions
Transport Group
Emerging Playwright Grants
Young Jean Lee ($1,000)
Judges
Kirsten Childs
Anne Dennin
Michael Feingold
Ain Gordon
Jeremy McCarter
Adam Rapp
Alexis Soloski
Assistant to the Committee
Elizabeth Lawler
Delayed Transmission
Václav Havel finally collects his Obies
Václav Havel, who won Village Voice OBIE Awards for Distinguished Playwriting in 1968, 1970, and 1984, finally got a chance to accept Off-Broadway's highest honor on Monday, December 4, when the Public Theater hosted an evening in his honor entitled "Theater and Citizenship."