1980 Award Winners

• Sustained Achievement
  • Sam Shepard,
• Special Citations
  • The Flying Karamazov Brothers,
  • The Actors of Le Centre International de Creations Theatrales, for outstanding ensemble performance
  • Ellen Stewart and La Mama E.T.C., for contribution to the American theatre by the importation of foreign companies
  • David Jones and Richard Nelson, for innovative programming at the BAM Theatre Company
  • Ntozake Shange, for her adaptation of "Mother Courage"
• Playwriting
  • Lee Breuer, A Prelude to Death in Venice (script and direction)
  • Christopher Durang, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You
  • Romulus Linney, Tennessee
  • Roland Muldoon, Full Confessions of a Socialist (script and direction)
  • Jeff Weiss, That's How the Rent Gets Paid (Part Three) (script and direction)
• Performance
  • Michael Burrell, Hess
  • Michael Cristofer, Chinchilla
  • Lindsay Crouse, Reunion
  • Elizabeth Franz, "Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You"
  • Morgan Freeman, "Mother Courage" and "Coriolanus"
  • John Heard, "Othello" and "Split"
  • Michael Higgins, `Reunion"
  • Madeleine le Roux, "La Justice"
  • Jon Polito,
    for performances with Dodger Theatre Company and the BAM Theater Company
  • Bill Raymond, A Prelude to Death in Venice
  • Dianne Wiest, The Art of Dining
  • Hattie Winston, "Mother Courage" and "The Michigan"
• Obie Committee
  • Eileen Blumenthal, Harold Clurman, Michael Feingold, Terry Curtis Fox, Erika Munk, Julius Novick, Ross Wetzsteon,
• Direction
  • A.J. Antoon, The Art of Dining
  • Edward Cornell, Johnny on a Spot
  • Elizabeth LeCompte, Point Judith
• Design
  • Ruth Maleczech and Julie Archer, for the design of "Vanishing Pictures"
  • Sally Jacobs, for the designs of "Conference of the Birds"
  • Beverly Emmons,
    for distinguished lighting design
  • Laura Crow, for the costumes for "Mary Stuart"
• Best Ensemble Performance
  • See CITATIONS,