1978 Village Voice Obie Awards
Winners and nominees from the Village Voice Obie Awards.
1978 Village Voice Obie Awards
Note: Award winners appear on a red background.
| Category | Nominee | Show |
|---|---|---|
| Best New American Play | Lee Breuer | Shaggy Dog Animation |
| Design | John Arnone, Garland Wright | K |
| Design | Robert Yodice | Museum |
| Direction | Robert Allan Ackerman | Prayer for My Daughter |
| Direction | Elizabeth Swados | Runaways |
| Direction | Thomas Bullard | Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act |
| Lifetime Achievement | Peter Schumann's Bread, Puppet Theatre | |
| Obie Committee | Ross Wetzsteon, Gordon Rogoff, Richard Eder, Arthur Sainer, Julius Novick, Terry Curtis Fox, Michael Feingold, Erika Munk | |
| Performance | Nell Carter | Ain't Misbehavin' |
| Performance | Richard Bauer | Landscape of the Body |
| Performance | Kaiulani Lee | Safe House |
| Performance | Richard Bauer, Bruce Myers | The Dybbuk |
| Performance | Lee S. Wilkof | The Present Tense |
| Performance | Alma Cuervo, Swoosie Kurtz | Uncommon Women |
| Special Citations | Winston Tong, Squat, Stuart Sherman, Eric Bentley | |
| Special Citations | Ain't Misbehavin' | |
| Special Citations | James Lapine | Photograph |
| Special Citations | Irja Koljonen, Joseph Dunn | Preface |
| Special Citations | Jerry Mayer | Taud Show |
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