1981 Award Winners

• Sustained Achievement
  • Negro Ensemble Company,
• Special Citations
  • JoAnne Akalaitis and Mabou Mines, Dead End Kids
  • Joseph Chaikin and the Winter Project, Tourists and Refuggees
  • Bill Irwin,
    for his inspired clowning
  • Bruce Myers, A Dybbuk for Two People
  • Repertorio Espanol,
• Playwriting
  • Charles Fuller, Zooman and the Sign
  • Amlin Gray, How I Got That Story
  • Len Jenkin, Limbo Tales (script and direction)
• Performance
  • Giancarlo Esposito, Zooman and the Sign
  • Bob Gunton, How I Got That Story
  • Mary Beth Hurt, Crimes of the Heart
  • Kevin Kline, The Pirates of Penzance
  • John Lone, "FOB" and "The Dance and the Railroad"
  • Mary McDonnell, Still Life
  • Timothy Near, Still Life
  • William Sadler, Limbo Tales
  • Michele Shay, Meetings
  • John Spencer, Still Life
  • Meryl Streep, Alice in Concert
  • Christopher Walken, The Sea Gulf
• Obie Committee
  • Eileen Blumenthal, Michael Feingold, Terry Curtis Fox, Erika Munk, Julius Novick, Ross Wetzsteon, James Leverett, Edith Oliver,
• Direction
  • Melvin Bernhardt, Crimes of the Heart
  • Wilford Leach, The Pirates of Penzance
  • Toby Robertson, Pericles
• Design
  • Bloolips, "Lust in Space"
    for costume design
  • Manuel L**Dutgenhorst and Douglas Ball, Request Concert
  • Jun Maeda,
    Sustained Excellence in Set Design
  • Dennis Parichy,
    Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design
• Best Production
  • Emily Mann, Still Life
• Best New American Play
  • David Henry Hwang, FOB