Off-Broadway's Highest Honor

1998 Hosts

1998 Presenters

1998 Award Winners

  • Voice Judges
    • James Hannaham, Michael Feingold,
  • Sustained Achievement
    • Jennifer Tipton,
  • Special Citations
    • Target Margin Theater, Mamba's Daughters
    • David Herskovits, Thomas Cabaniss, Lenore Doxsee, Erika Belsey, David Zinn, Tim Schellenbaum, John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig And The Angry Inch
    • Stephen Trask, Hedwig And The Angry Inch
    • Mark Bennett,
      sustained excellence of sound design
    • Alan Johnson,
      sustained excellence of musical direction
    • Karen Finley, The American Chestnut
    • Philim McDermott, Lee Simpson, Julian Crouch, Guy Dartnell, Ben Park, Steve Tiplady,
      for the creators of 70 Hill Lane
    • Buzz Cohen,
      distinguished stage management
  • Ross Wetzsteon Award
    • Doug Aibel and The Vineyard Theater,
      for sustained support of artists and creativity in the theater
  • Performance
    • Lea DeLaria, On The Town
    • Mary Testa, On the Town and From Above
    • Tim Hopper, More Stately Mansions
    • David Patrick Kelly,
      sustained excellence of performance
    • Joseph Wiseman, I Can't Remember Anything
    • Heather Gillespie, Mamba's Daughters
    • Kate Valk,
      sustained excellence of performance
    • Marie Mullen, The Beauty Queen of Leenane
    • Matthew Maguire, I Don't Know Who He Was And I Don't Know What He Said
    • Yvette Freeman, Dinah Was
    • Adriane Lenox, Dinah Was
    • Elizabeth Marvel, Therese Raquin and Misalliance
    • J. Smith Cameron, As Bees In Honey Drown
    • Brian Murray,
      sustained excellence of performance
    • Joan MacIntosh, More Stately Mansions
  • Obie Grant
    • Victoria McElwaine, Housing Works Theater Project,
    • Caught in the Act annual one-act festival presented by Threshold Theater Co.,
  • Guest Judges
    • Suzan-Lori Parks, Marian Seldes, Polly Pen, Steven Samuels,
  • Direction
    • Ivo van Hove, More Stately Mansions
    • David Esbjornson, Therese Raquin
    • Jo Bonney,
      sustained excellence of direction
    • Evan Yionoulis, Three Days of Rain
  • Design
    • Darron L. West, Bob
      for his soundscape
    • Mimi Jordan Sherin, Bob
      for her lighting design
  • Best Play
    • Richard Foreman, Pearls For Pigs and Benita Canova

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