1977 Village Voice Obie Awards

Winners and nominees from the Village Voice Obie Awards.

1977 Village Voice Obie Awards

Note: Award winners appear on a red background.

Category	Nominee	Show
Best New American Play	Sam Shepard	Curse of the Starving Class
Design	See CITATIONS
Direction	Melvin Bernhardt	Children
Direction	Gordon Davidson	Savages
Distinguished Productions	Mabou Mines	Dressed Like an Egg
Distinguished Productions	Oz Scott	For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf
Distinguished Productions	Kate Carmel, Tommy Tune, Eve Merriam	The Club
Obie Committee	Ross Wetzsteon, Michael Feingold, Dan Isaac, Erika Munk, Julius Novick, Arthur Sainer, Marilyn Stasio

Performance	Margaret Wright	A Manoir
Performance	Brian Murray, Roberta Maxwell	Ashes

Performance	Martin Balsam	Cold Storage
Performance	Lola Pashalinski	Der Ring Gott Farblonjet
Performance	Lucinda Childs	Einstein on the Beach
Performance	John Heard	G.R. Point
Performance	Danny Aiello, Anne DiSalvo	Gemini
Performance	Marian Seldes	Isadora Duncan Sleeps with the Russian Navy


Performance	Jo Henderson	Ladyhouse Blues
Performance	William Hurt	My Life
Performance	Joseph Maher	Savages
Performance	James Coco	The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie

Playwriting	David Rudkin	Ashes
Playwriting	William Hauptmann	Domino Courts
Playwriting	Maria Irene Fornes	Fefu and Her Friends
Playwriting	David Berry	G.R. Point

Playwriting	Albert Innaurato	Gemini
Playwriting	Albert Innaurato	The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie
Special Citations	Carole Oditz, Douglas Schmidt, Burl Hash	Crazy LocomotiveCostumes, set, and lighting.
Special Citations	Charles Ludlam	Der Ring Gott Farblonjet
Special Citations	Ping Chong	Humboldt's Current
Special Citations		Nightclub Cantata

Special Citations	Barbara Garson	The Dinosaur Door
Special Citations for music	Philip Glass	Einstein on the Beach


Special Citations for set and lighting	Edward M. Greenberg, Henry Millman	Domino Courts
Special Citations for Sustained Excellence	New York Street Theatre Caravan, Manhattan Theatre Club, Theatre for the New City

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1977 Village Voice Obie Awards

1977 Village Voice Obie Awards

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