The Village Voice Obies Winners

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Earle Hyman

BEST NEW AMERICAN PLAY

Ruined, by Lynn Nottage

PERFORMANCE

Francois Battiste, The Good Negro

Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Ruined

Kevin T. Carroll, sustained

excellence of performance

Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Ruined

Jonathan Groff, Prayer for My

Enemy and The Singing Forest

Birgit Huppuch, Telephone

Russell Gebert Jones, Ruined

Aaron Monaghan, The Cripple of Inishmaan

Sahr Ngaujah, Fela!

Lorenzo Pisoni, Humor Abuse

James Sugg, Chekhov Lizardbrain

John Douglas Thompson, Othello

MUSIC & LYRICS

Stephen Sondheim, Road Show

DIRECTING

David Cromer, Our Town

Katie Mitchell, The Waves

Ken Rus Schmoll, Telephone

DESIGN

Toni-Leslie James, sustained excellence of costume design

David Korins, sustained excellence of set design

SPECIAL CITATIONS

Sarah Benson (director) and Louisa Thompson (set designer), Blasted

David Esbjornson (director) and Christian Camargo (actor), Hamlet

The ROSS WETZSTEON AWARD ($2,000 prize)

HERE Arts Center

OBIE GRANTS ($10,000 divided equally)

The Chocolate Factory

The Classical Theatre of Harlem

Lark Play Development Center

CEREMONY HOSTS

Daniel Breaker

Martha Plimpton

AWARD PRESENTERS

Gavin Creel

Brian d’Arcy James

Anne Hathaway

Marc Kudisch

Kate Mulgrew

Karen Olivo

John Shea

Nilaja Sun

OBIE AWARD JUDGES

Michael Feingold, Chairman

Andy Propst, Secretary

Eisa Davis

Eric Grode

Ty Jones

Moisés Kaufman

Alexis Soloski

Chay Yew

OBIE AWARDS CEREMONY PRODUCER

Eileen Phelan