The Village Voice has announced this year’s off-Broadway awards… the Obies … for the past year. And here they are:Best New American Play, which is accompanied by a $1,000 prize.
A complete list of awards is given below:
Lifetime Achievement:
- Caridad Svich—a playwright, translator, and teacher
Best New American Play (with $1,000 prize):
- Amy Herzog, 4000 Miles (Lincoln Center Theater)
Performance:
- Cherise Boothe, Milk Like Sugar (Playwrights Horizons and the Women’s Project)
- Steven Boyer, Hand to God (Ensemble Studio Theatre/Youngblood)
Sweet and Sad Ensemble:
- Jon DeVries, Shuler Hensley, Maryann Plunkett, Laila Robins, Jay O. Sanders, J. Smith-Cameron (The Public Theater)
- Gabriel Ebert and Mary Louise Wilson, 4000 Miles (Lincoln Center Theater)
- Jim Fletcher, Sustained Excellence
- Santino Fontana, Sons of the Prophet (The Roundabout Theatre)
- Linda Lavin, The Lyons (The Vineyard Theatre)
- Susan Pourfar, Tribes (Barrow Street Theatre)
Playwriting:
- Kirsten Greenidge, Milk Like Sugar (Playwrights Horizons and the Women’s Project)
Direction:
- Richard Maxwell, Early Plays (The Wooster Group and St. Ann’s Warehouse)
- Jay Scheib, World of Wires (The Kitchen)
Design:
- Mark Barton, Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design
- Mimi Lien, Sustained Excellence of Set Design
- Matt Tierney and Ben Williams, sound design
- The Select (The Sun Also Rises) (New York Theatre Workshop)
Special Citations:
- Mark Bennett, Denis O’Hare, Lisa Peterson, and Stephen Spinella, An Iliad (New York Theatre Workshop), Elevator Repair Service
Sustained Excellence:
- Erin Courtney and Ken Rus Schmoll, A Map of Virtue (13P)
- Steven Hoggett, Martin Lowe, and John Tiffany, Once (New York Theatre Workshop)
- Daniel Kitson, It’s Always Right
