Theater The 2008 Obie Award Winners
by Decision of this year's judges panel
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Adrienne Kennedy
PLAYWRITING
Horton Foote Dividing the Estate
David Henry Hwang Yellow Face
PERFORMANCE
Veanne Cox Sustained excellence of performance
LisaGay Hamilton The Ohio State Murders
Joel Hatch Adding Machine
Francis Jue Yellow Face
Sean McNall Sustained excellence of performance
Kate Mulgrew Iphigenia 2.0
Heidi Schreck Drum of the Waves of Horikawa
Rebecca Wisocky Amazons and Their Men
Ensemble of Passing Strange: de’Adre Aziza, Daniel Breaker, Eisa Davis, Colman Domingo, Chad Goodridge, Rebecca Naomi Jones, and Stew
DIRECTION
David Cromer Adding Machine
Krzysztof Warlikowski Krum
DESIGN
Jane Greenwood Sustained excellence of costume design
Takeshi Kata (set) and Keith Parham (lighting) Adding Machine
Peter Ksander (set) Untitled Mars (this title may change)
David Zinn Sustained excellence of set and costume design
Scenic design for The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island Ben Katchor (drawings), Jim Findlay and Jeff Sugg (set and projection design), and Russell H. Champa (lighting)
SPECIAL CITATIONS
David Greenspan The Argument
Nature Theater of Oklahoma No Dice
BEST NEW AMERICAN THEATER PIECE
Passing Strange by Stew and Heidi Rodewald in collaboration with Annie Dorsen
THE ROSS WETZSTEON AWARD
Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project
OBIE GRANTS
Keen Company
The Theater of a Two-Headed Calf
CEREMONY HOSTS
Bill Camp
Elizabeth Marvel
AWARD PRESENTERS
Jonathan Groff
Priscilla Lopez
S. Epatha Merkerson
Marisa Tomei
Julie White
Bradley Whitford
OBIE AWARDS CHAIRMAN
Michael Feingold
OBIE AWARDS JUDGES
Mark Blankenship
Michael Feingold
Jeremy Gerard
Robert O’Hara
Neil Patel
Helen Shaw
Alexis Soloski
SECRETARY TO THE JUDGES COMMITTEE
Clint Allen
OBIE AWARDS CEREMONY PRODUCER
Eileen Phelan