1990 Award Winners

• Sustained Achievement
  • Money awarded to ACT-UP for the fight against AIDS,
• Special Citations
  • Eric Bogosian, Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
  • Dan Hurlin, A Cool Million
  • Joseph Papp,
    For his courageous stand against censorship
  • San Francisco Mime Troupe, Seeing Double
• Performance
  • Alec Baldwin, Prelude to a Kiss
  • Elzbieta Czyzewska, Crowbar
  • Karen Evans-Kandel, Lear
  • Marcia Jean Kurtz, The Loman Family Picnic and When She Danced
  • Ruth Maleczech, Lear
  • Greg Mehrten, Lear
  • Stephen Mellor, Terminal Hip
  • Isabell Monk, Lear
  • Jean Stapleton, Mountain Language and The Birthday Party
  • Pamela Tyson, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom
  • Courtney B. Vance, My Children! My Africa!
  • Danitra Vance, Spunk
  • Lillias White, Romance in Hard Times
  • Mary Shultz,
    Sustained Excellence in Performance
• Obie Grant
  • Dixon Place,
  • Pregones,
  • WOW Cafe,
  • BACA New Works Project,
  • 52nd Street Project,
• Obie Committee
  • Ross Wetzsteon, Chairman,
  • Michael Feingold, Erika Munk, Alisa Solomon, Voice Judges,
  • Rene Buch, Margo Jefferson, Guest judges,
• Direction
  • Liz Diamond, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom
  • Norman Rene, Prelude to a Kiss
  • Jim Simpson, Bad Penny
  • George C. Wolfe, Spunk
• Design
  • Daniel Moses Schreler,
    Sustained excellence of sound design
  • George Tsypin,
    Sustained excellence of set design
• Best New American Play
  • Craig Lucas, Prelude to a Kiss
    (three way tie)
  • Suzan-Lori Parks, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom
    (three way tie)
  • Mac Wellman, "Bad Penny," "Crowbar," and "Terminal Hip"
    (three way tie)