The 57th Annual Obie Awards for excellence in Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway were announced last night. Below are the winners.
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 Now, Until It's Later (St. Ann's Warehouse)
Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra
No Place to Go (The Public Theater/Joe's Pub)
Ross Wetzsteon Grant ($1,000)
Youngblood (Ensemble Studio Theatre)
Grants
The Bushwick Starr ($2,500)
The Debate Society ($2,500)
Lifetime Achievement
Caridad Svich