1984 Award Winners

• Sustained Achievement
  • Music-Theatre Group/Lenox Arts Center,
• Special Citations
  • Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni Ngema and Barney Simon, for their production of "Woza Albert"
  • International Theatre Institute of the U.S., Inc,
  • Ann and Jules Weiss,
    for their tireless devotion to Off and Off-Off Broadway
  • Richard Peaslee, for his musical score for "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
• Playwriting
  • Samuel Beckett, "Ohio Impromptu," "What Where," "Catastrophe," "Pocket"
  • Maria Irene Fornes, "The Danube," "Sarita," "Mud"
  • Vaclav Havel, A Private view
  • Len Jenkin, Five of Us
  • Franz Xaver Kroetz, `Through the Leaves," "Mensch Meier"
  • Ted Tally, Terra Nova
• Performance
  • F. Murray Abraham, Uncle Vanya
  • Kathy Baker, Fool for Love
  • Sheila Dabney, Sarita
  • Morgan Freeman, Gospel at Colonus
  • George Guidall, Cinders
  • Ed Harris, Fool for Love
  • Richard Jordan, A Private View
  • Ruth Maleczech, Through the Leaves
  • Stephen McHattie, Mensch Meier
  • Frederick Neuman, Through the Leaves
  • Will Patton, Fool for Love
  • Dianne Wiest, "Serendaring Louie" and "Other Places'
  • Pamela Reed,
    Sustained Excellence of Performance
• Obie Committee
  • Eileen Blumenthal, Michael Feingold, Erika Munk, Julius Novick, Ross Wetzsteon,
  • Lanford Wilson, Guest Judge,
• Direction
  • JoAnne Akalaitis, Through the Leaves
  • Maria Irene Fornes, "The Danube," "Sarita," "Mud"
  • Lawrence Sacharow, Five of Us
  • Sam Shepard, Fool for Love
• Design
  • Adrianne Lobel, set design for "The Vampires," "All Night Long"
  • Bill Stabile, set design for "Spookhouse" and "Damnee Hanon, Sacree Sandra"
  • Douglas Stein, set design for "Through the Leaves"
  • Anne Militello,
    Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design
• Best New American Play
  • Sam Shepard, Fool For Love
• Best Musical
  • Lee Breuer and Bob Telson, Gospel at Colonus