1980 Village Voice Obie Awards

Winners and nominees from the Village Voice Obie Awards.

1980 Village Voice Obie Awards

Note: Award winners appear on a red background.

Category	Nominee	Show
Best Ensemble Performance	See CITATIONS
Design	Sally Jacobs	Conference of the Birds
Design	Laura Crow	Mary Stuart
Design	Ruth Maleczech, Julie Archer	Vanishing Pictures
Design for distinguished lighting	Beverly Emmons
Direction	Edward Cornell	Johnny on a Spot
Direction	Elizabeth LeCompte	Point Judith
Direction	A.J. Antoon	The Art of Dining

Obie Committee	Ross Wetzsteon, Julius Novick, Erika Munk, Terry Curtis Fox, Michael Feingold, Harold Clurman, Eileen Blumenthal
Performance	Jon Polito	For performances with Dodger Theatre Company and the BAM Theater Company.

Performance	Bill Raymond	A Prelude to Death in Venice
Performance	Michael Cristofer	Chinchilla
Performance	Morgan Freeman	Coriolanus
Performance	Michael Burrell	Hess
Performance	Madeleine le Roux	La Justice
Performance	Morgan Freeman, Hattie Winston	Mother Courage


Performance	John Heard	Othello
Performance	Lindsay Crouse, Michael Higgins	Reunion
Performance	Elizabeth Franz	Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You
Performance	John Heard	Split

Performance	Dianne Wiest	The Art of Dining
Performance	Hattie Winston	The Michigan
Playwriting	Lee Breuer	A Prelude to Death in Venice
Playwriting	Roland Muldoon	Full Confessions of a Socialist

Playwriting	Christopher Durang	Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You
Playwriting	Romulus Linney	Tennessee
Playwriting	Jeff Weiss	That's How the Rent Gets Paid (Part Three)
Special Citations	La Mama E.T.C, Ellen Stewart, David Jones, Richard Nelson	For contribution to the American theatre by the importation of foreign companies.
Special Citations	Ntozake Shange	Mother Courage
Special Citations		The Flying Karamazov Brothers

Special Citations for outstanding ensemble performance	The Actors of Le Centre International de Creations Theatrales
Sustained Achievement	Sam Shepard

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1980 Village Voice Obie Awards

1980 Village Voice Obie Awards

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