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Off-Broadway's Highest Honor

The 53rd Annual Village Voice Obie Awards Announce Judges for May 19, 2008 Ceremony.
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2008 Co-Hosts Elizabeth Marvel & Bill Camp
The Village Voice 53rd annual Obie awards.

Presenters include Neil Patrick Harris, Priscilla Lopez, S. Epatha Merkerson, Marisa Tomei, Julie White, and Bradley Whitford, among others.

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2008 Presenters
Special Announncement
Special Performance By The Cast Of The Hit Musical
“Passing Strange”
2007 OBIE Award Winners

Performance

  • Betsy Aidem, Sustained Excellence of Performance
  • 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."

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