1989 Award Winners

• Sustained Achievement
  • Irene Worth,
• Special Citations
  • Leo Bassi, Nero's Last Folly
  • Dance Theater Workshop,
  • The Dramatists Guild, for the Young Playwrights Festival
  • Janie Geiser, Stories From Here
  • Rachel Rosenthal, Rachel's Brain
  • Tamamatsu Yoshida, The Warrior Ant
  • Paul Zaloom, The House of Horror
• Playwriting Workshop
  • GRANT Intar Hispanic Playwrights-in-Residence Laboratory,
  • The Frank Silva Workshop,
• Performance
  • Mark Blum, Gus and Al
  • Niall Buggy, Aristocrats
  • William Converse-Roberts, Love's Labor's Lost
  • Fyvush Finkel, Cafe Crown
  • Gloria Foster, The Forbidden City
  • Paul Hecht, Enrico IV
  • Nancy Marchand, The Cocktail Hour
  • Tim McDonnell, Diary of a Madman
  • Will Patton, What Did He See?
  • Lonny Price, The Immigrant
  • Everett Quinton, A Tale of Two Cities
  • Rocco Sisto, The Winter's Tale
  • Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney, The Kathy and Mo Show
• Obie Grant
  • Cucaracha Warehouse Theater,
  • The Living Theater,
• Obie Committee
  • Ross Wetzsteon, Chairman,
  • Eileen Blumenthal, Michael Feingold, Robert Massa, Erika Munk, Julius Novick, Gordon Rogoff,
  • Martha Coigney, Margo Jefferson, Guest Judges,
• Direction
  • Ingmar Bergman, Hamlet
  • Peter Stein, Falstaff
  • Rene Buch,
    Sustained Excellence of Direction
• Design
  • Donald Eastman,
    Sustained Excellence of Set Design
  • Gabriel Berry,
    Sustained Excellence of Costume Design
  • Susan Young,
    Sustained Excellence of Costume Design
• Best New American Play
  • No award given,