Obies

2009 Award Winners

• Special Citations
  • Sarah Benson (director) and Louisa Thompson (set designer), BLASTED
    (Soho Rep)
  • David Esbjornson (director) and Christian Camargo (actor), HAMLET
    (Theatre for a New Audience)
• Ross Wetzsteon Award
  • HERE Arts Center,
    (includes a cash prize of $2,000)
• Performance
  • Francois Battiste, THE GOOD NEGRO
    (Public Theater)
  • Quincy Tyler Bernstine, RUINED
    (Manhattan Theatre Club)
  • Kevin T. Carroll,
    sustained excellence of performance
  • Saidah Arrika Ekulona, RUINED
    (Manhattan Theatre Club)
  • Jonathan Groff,
    PRAYER FOR MY ENEMY (Playwrights Horizons) and THE SINGING FOREST (Public Theater)
  • Birgit Huppuch, TELEPHONE
    (Foundry Theatre)
  • Russell Gebert Jones, RUINED
    (Manhattan Theatre Club)
  • Aaron Monaghan, THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN
    (Atlantic Theater Co.)
  • Sahr Ngaujah, FELA!
    (37 Arts)
  • Lorenzo Pisoni, HUMOR ABUSE
    (Manhattan Theatre Club)
  • James Sugg, CHEKHOV LIZARDBRAIN
    (Pig Iron Theatre Company)
  • John Douglas Thompson, OTHELLO
    (Theatre for a New Audience)
• Obie Grant
  • The Chocolate Factory,
  • The Classical Theatre of Harlem,
  • Lark Play Development Center,
    ($10,000 divided equally among three theaters)
• Music And Lyrics
  • Stephen Sondheim, ROAD SHOW
    (Public Theater)
• Lifetime Achievement
  • Earle Hyman,
• Directing
  • David Cromer, OUR TOWN
    (Barrow Street Theatre)
  • Katie Mitchell, THE WAVES
    (National Theatre of Great Britain / Lincoln Center Great Performances "New Visions" Series)
  • Ken Rus Schmoll, TELEPHONE
    (Foundry Theatre)
• Design
  • Toni-Leslie James,
    sustained excellence of costume design (with special reference to WIG OUT, Vineyard Theatre)
  • David Korins,
    sustained excellence of set design (with special reference to WHY TORTURE IS WRONG, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM, Public Theater)
• Best New American Play
  • Lynn Nottage, RUINED
    Manhattan Theatre Club (includes a cash prize of $1,000)