1981 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	David Henry Hwang	FOB
Best Production	Emily Mann	Still Life
Costume design	Bloolips	Lust in Space
Design	Douglas Ball, Dutgenhorst, Manuel L	Request Concert
Direction	Melvin Bernhardt	Crimes of the Heart
Direction	Toby Robertson	Pericles
Direction	Wilford Leach	The Pirates of Penzance
Obie Committee	Michael Feingold, Eileen Blumenthal, Terry Curtis Fox, Erika Munk, Julius Novick, Ross Wetzsteon, Edith Oliver, Edith Oliver, James Leverett

Performance	Meryl Streep	Alice in Concert
Performance	Mary Beth Hurt	Crimes of the Heart

Performance	John Lone	FOB
Performance	Bob Gunton	How I Got That Story
Performance	William Sadler	Limbo Tales
Performance	Michele Shay	Meetings
Performance	John Spencer, Mary McDonnell, Timothy Near	Still Life
Performance	John Lone	The Dance and the Railroad


Performance	Kevin Kline, Kevin Kline	The Pirates of Penzance
Performance	Christopher Walken	The Sea Gulf
Performance	Giancarlo Esposito	Zooman and the Sign
Playwriting	Amlin Gray	How I Got That Story

Playwriting	Len Jenkin	Limbo Tales
Playwriting	Charles Fuller	Zooman and the Sign
Special Citations	Repertorio Espanol
Special Citations	Bruce Myers	A Dybbuk for Two People

Special Citations	Mabou Mines, JoAnne Akalaitis	Dead End Kids
Special Citations for his inspired clowning	Bill Irwin
Special Citations for the Winter Project	Joseph Chaikin	Tourists and Refuggees
Sustained Achievement	Negro Ensemble Company
Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design	Dennis Parichy
Sustained Excellence in Set Design	Jun Maeda

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