1986 Award Winners

• Sustained Achievement
  • Mabou Mines,
• Special Citations
  • Genji Ito,
    for Music
• Playwriting
  • Eric Bogosian, Drinking in America
  • Martha Clarke, Vienna: Lusthaus
  • John Jesurun, Deep Sleep
  • Tadeusz Kantor, Let the Artists Die
  • Lee Nagrin, Bird/Bear
• Performance
  • Edward Herrmann,
    Sustained Excellence of Performance
  • Kevin Kline,
    Sustained Excellence of Performance
  • Elisabeth Welch, Time to Start Living
  • Tom Cayler, A Matter of Life and Death
  • Dylan Baker, Not About Heroes
  • Kathryn Pogson, Aunt Dan and Lemon
  • Jill Eikenberry, "Lemon Sky" and "Life Under Water"
  • Josef Sommer, Largo Desolato
  • Elizabeth Wilson, Anteroom
  • Farley Granger, Talley & Son
  • Helen Stenborg, Talley & Son
  • Norma Aleandro, About Love and Other Stories About Love
• Obie Grant
  • P.S. 122,
  • Billie Holiday Theatre,
  • Mabou Mines,
• Obie Committee
  • Eileen Blumenthal, Michael Feingold, Erika Munk, Julius Novick, Robert Massa, Gordon Rogoff, Voice Judges,
  • Rosalyn Drexler, Gautam Dasgupta, Guest Judges,
  • Ross Wetzsteon, Chairman,
• For Distinguished
  • PLAYWRITING Wallace Shawn, Aunt Dan and Lemon
• Direction
  • Richard Foreman, Largo Desolato
• Design
  • Rita Ryack,
    Costume Design
  • Paul Gallo,
    Lighting Design
  • Edward T. Gianfrancesco,
    Set Design
• Best Performance
  • Swoosie Kurtz, The House of the Blue Leaves