1983 Award Winners

• Sustained Achievement
  • Lanford Wilson, Marshall Mason, and the Circle Repertory Company,
• Special Citations
  • The Big Apple Circus,
  • Ethyl Eichelberger, Lucrezia Borgia
  • Michael Moschen, Fred Garbo, Bob Berky, `Foolsfire"
  • The Zagreb theater Company, The Liberation of Skopje
  • Dramatists Play Service,
    for its commitment to new work
  • Performing Arts Journal publications,
  • Theatre Development Fund,
    for its Off-Off-Broadway voucher program
  • The musical performance of Poppie Nongena,
  • The musical production of The Mother of Us All,
• Playwriting
  • Caryl Churchill, "Top Girls"
  • Tina Howe,
    Distinguished Playwriting
  • Harry Kondoleon,
    Most Promising Young Playwright
  • David Mamet, Edmond
    (Howe, Kondoleon, and Mamet share the $1000 prize for best new American play.)
• Performance
  • Ernest Abuba, Yellow Fever
  • Christine Baranski, A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Glenn Close, The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs
  • Jeff Daniels, Johnny Got His Gun
  • Ruth Maleczech, Hadd
  • John Malkovich, True West
  • Donald Moffat, Painting Churches
  • Ray Wise, the Tooth of Crime
• Obie Committee
  • Eileen Blumenthal, Michael Feingold, Erika Munk, Julius Novick, Voice Judges,
  • Ross Wetzsteon, Chairman,
  • Robert Massa, Secretary,
  • Maria Irene Fornes and John Guare, Guest Judges,
• Ensemble Performance
  • Director Kenneth Frankel and the Cast of "Quartermaine's Terms",
  • Director Max Stafford Clark and the Royal Court cast of "Top Girls",
  • The New York Shakespeare Festival cast of "Top Girls',
• Direction
  • Gregory Mosher, Edmond
  • Gary Sinise, True West
• Design
  • Heidi Landesman, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Painting Churches"
• Best New American Play:
  • See PLAYWRIGHTING,