1979 Village Voice Obie Awards

Winners and nominees from the Village Voice Obie Awards.

Note: Award winners appear on a red background.

Category	Nominee	Show
Best New American Play	Michael McClure	Josephine
Design for sets and lighting	Jennifer Tipton Public theatre
Design for sets and lighting	Theatre X	A Fierce Longing
Direction	Maria Irene Fornes	Eyes on the Harem
Direction	Jack Hofsiss	The Elephant Man
Obie Committee	Ruth Maylees, Arthur Sainer, Julius Novick, Terry Curtis Fox, Michael Feingold, Guest Judges, Ross Wetzsteon, Erika Munk, Eric Bentley
Performance	Fred Gwynne	Grand Magic
Performance	Mary Alice	Julius Caesar

Performance	Mary Alice	Nongogo
Performance	Elizabeth Wilson	Taken in Marriage

Performance	Judd Hirsch	Talley's Folly
Performance	Philip Anglim	The Elephant Man
Performance	Joseph Buloff	The Price
Performance	Marcell Rosenblatt	Vienna Notes
Performance	Constance Cummings	Wings
Playwriting	Sam Shepard	Buried Child


Playwriting	Susan Miller	Final Remarks
Playwriting	Susan Miller	Nasty Rumors
Playwriting	Bernard Pomerance	The Elephant Man
Playwriting	Rosalyn Drexler	The Writer's Opera

Playwriting	Richard Nelson	Vienna Notes
Special Citations	JoAnne Akalaitis, Ellen McElduff, David Warrilow	Southern Exposure
Special Citations	Tadeusz Kantor	The Dead Class
Special Citations	Gordon Chater, Richard Wherrett, Steve J. Spears	The Elocution of Benjamin

Special Citations for its Samuel Beckett Festival	The French Department of NYU
Special Citations for Sustained Excellence of Ensemble Acting	The Negro Ensemble Company
Sustained Achievement	Al Carmines

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