Obie Award Winners
Obie Award Winners
#1Obie Award Winners
Posted: 5/21/07 at 10:45pm
PERFORMANCE
Betsy Aidem, Sustained Excellence of Performance
Donna Lynne Champlin for her performance in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Andre De Shields, Sustained Excellence of Performance
Ain Gordon for his performance in Stories Left to Tell
David Greenspan for his performance in Faust and Some Men
Nina Hellman for her performance in Trouble in Paradise
Ron Cephas Jones, Sustained Excellence of Performance
Nancy Opel for her performance in My Deah
Roslyn Ruff for her performance in Seven Guitars
James Saito for his performance in Durango
Michael Stuhlbarg for his performance in The Voysey Inheritance
Nilaja Sun for her performance in No Child
Harris Yulin for his performance in Frank's Home
Ensemble for their performance in Tale of 2Cities (Winsome Brown, Michael Ray Escamilla, Tracey A. Leigh, Leo Marks Diane Rodriguez, Ed Vassallo, Heather Woodbury)
PLAYWRITING
Adam Bock for The Thugs
DIRECTION
Lou Bellamy for Two Trains Running
Anne Kauffman for The Thugs
Matthew Maguire for Abandon
Eirik Stubo for The Wild Duck
Chay Yew for Durango
MUSIC AND CHOREOGRAPHY
Michael Friedman, Sustained Excellence in Music
Bill T. Jones for his choreography of Spring Awakening
Lin-Manuel Miranda for his music and lyrics for In The Heights
DESIGN
Beowulf Boritt, Sustained Excellence in Set Design
Robert Kaplowitz, Sustained Excellence in Sound Design
Rae Smith for the set and costume design of Oliver Twist
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Alvin Epstein
EMERGING PLAYWRIGHT AWARD ($1,000 prize)
Young Jean Lee
THE ROSS WETZSTEON AWARD ($2,000 given annually to a theatre that nurtures innovative new plays)
Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre
SPECIAL CITATIONS
Daniel Beaty, writing and performance Emergence-SEE
Edward Hall & Propeller, Taming of the Shrew
Tim Crouch, An Oak Tree
The Living Theatre, Ensemble and director Judith Malina, The Brig (Ensemble: Gene Ardor, Johnson Anthony, Kesh Baggan, Steven Scot Bono, Gary Brackett, Brent Bradley, Brad Burgess, John Kohan, Albert Lamont, Peter Lester, Jeff Nash, Josh Roberts, Bradford Rosenbloom, Jade Rothman, Isaac Scranton, Morteza Tavakoli, Evan True, Antwan Ward, Louis Williams; Steve Ben Israel, ensemble director)
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#2re: Obie Award Winners
Posted: 5/21/07 at 10:56pmYay for Donna Lynne!
#2re: Obie Award Winners
Posted: 5/21/07 at 10:58pmSo so SO happy for Michael Stuhlbarg.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
Bobby Maler
Featured Actor Joined: 1/8/07
#3re: Obie Award Winners
Posted: 5/21/07 at 11:19pmI'm happy for Chay Yew, James Saito, Michael Stuhlbarg and David Greenspan. I usually love Nancy Opel, but I thought My Deah was just eh.
#4re: Obie Award Winners
Posted: 5/21/07 at 11:30pmBut she was phenomenal in it.
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
#5re: Obie Award Winners
Posted: 5/22/07 at 8:25amI'm really happy that they remembered Roslyn Ruff. Her performance in Seven Guitars was astonishing.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#6re: Obie Award Winners
Posted: 5/22/07 at 9:04amDid anyone see THE THUGS? I missed it.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
jordangirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
#7re: Obie Award Winners
Posted: 5/22/07 at 9:22amYay Nilaja!! No Child... is amazing. Of course...being a teacher (1st year AND full-time grad student) I'm probably a little biased... but she NAILS our experience!!
Experience live theater. Experience paintings. Experience books. Live, look and listen like artists! ~ imaginethis
LIVE THAT LESSON!!!!!!
LIVE THAT LESSON!!!!!!
Jazzysuite82
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/6/05
#8re: Obie Award Winners
Posted: 5/22/07 at 9:38amYay Nancy Opel. I thought My Deah was hilarious as was she.
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#9re: Obie Award Winners
Posted: 5/22/07 at 10:42amShout out to James Saito. Terrific actor with whom it is an absloute joy to work.
"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."
