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Off-Broadway's Highest Honor

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of The Obies award by iClips Network


The Village Voice 53rd annual Obie awards.

Presenters include Jonathan Groff, Neil Patrick Harris, Priscilla Lopez, S. Epatha Merkerson, Marisa Tomei, Julie White, and Bradley Whitford, among others.

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2008 Hosts

2008 Presenters

2008 Award Winners

  • Special Citations
    • Nature Theater of Oklahoma, No Dice
    • David Greenspan, The Argument
  • Ross Wetzsteon Award
    • Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project,
      $2,000
  • Playwriting
    • Horton Foote, Dividing The Estate
    • David Henry Hwang, Yellow Face
  • Performance
    • LisaGay Hamilton, The Ohio State Murders
    • Kate Mulgrew, Iphigenia 2.0
    • Francis Jue, Yellow Face
    • Rebecca Wisocky, Amazons and Their Men
    • Joel Hatch, Adding Machine
    • Heidi Schreck, Drum Of The Waves Of Horikawa
    • Veanne Cox, Sustained Excellence of Performance
    • Sean McNall,
      Sustained Excellence of Performance
    • Ensemble, Passing Strange
      (De'Adre Aziza, Daniel Breaker, Eisa Davis, Colman Domingo, Chad Goodridge, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Stew)
  • Obie Grant
    • Keen Company,
      $5,000
    • Theater of a Two-Headed Calf,
      $5,000
  • Lifetime Achievement
    • Adrienne Kennedy,
  • Direction
    • Krzysztof Warlikowski, Krum
    • David Cromer, Adding Machine
  • Design
    • Takeshi Kata, Set - Keith Parham, Lighting Design, Adding Machine
    • Peter Ksander, Scenic Design, Untitled Mars (This Title May Change)
    • Ben Katchor, Drawings; John Findlay & Jeff Sugg, Set & Projection, The Slug Bearers Of Kayrol Island
    • Jane Greenwood,
      Sustained Excellence of Costume Design
    • David Zinn,
      Sustained Excellence of Costume and Set Design
  • Best New Theater Piece
    • Stew, Heidi Rodewald, Annie Dorsen, Passing Strange
      $1,000

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Fri Aug 24, 9:24 AM

Enjoy the show...or else: Orientarhythm This week in the Village Voice Theater Section: Michael Feingold contemplates links between violence in the larger world and contemporary drama. I spent four days covering this incarnation of the New York... More >>

8 Plays a Week

Fri Aug 24, 9:18 AM

The Knee Plays: Fair Game I'll be away this weekend, in Saratoga for the races. But last night I managed to catch September 12th at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and also a performance of La Vie at the Spiegeltent... More >>

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