1983 Village Voice Obie Awards

Winners and nominees from the Village Voice Obie Awards.

1983 Village Voice Obie Awards

Note: Award winners appear on a red background.

Category	Nominee	Show
Best New American Play	See PLAYWRIGHTING
Design	Heidi Landesman	A Midsummer Night's Dream
Design	Heidi Landesman	Painting Churches
Direction	Gregory Mosher	Edmond
Direction	Gary Sinise	True West
Distinguished Playwriting	Tina Howe
Ensemble Performance	Kenneth Frankel
Ensemble Performance		Quartermaine's Terms

Ensemble Performance	The New York Shakespeare Festival, Director Max Stafford Clark and the Royal Court	Top Girls
Most Promising Young Playwright	Harry Kondoleon

Obie Committee	John Guare, Eileen Blumenthal, Michael Feingold, Maria Irene Fornes, Erika Munk, Julius Novick, Voice Judges, Robert Massa, Ross Wetzsteon
Performance	Christine Baranski	A Midsummer Night's Dream
Performance	Ruth Maleczech	Hadd
Performance	Jeff Daniels	Johnny Got His Gun
Performance	Donald Moffat	Painting Churches
Performance	Glenn Close	The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs


Performance	Ray Wise	The Tooth of Crime
Performance	John Malkovich	True West
Performance	Ernest Abuba	Yellow Fever
Playwriting	Caryl Churchill	Top Girls

Special Citations	Performing Arts Journal publications, The Big Apple Circus
Special Citations	Bob Berky, Fred Garbo, Michael Moschen	Foolsfire
Special Citations	Ethyl Eichelberger	Lucrezia Borgia
Special Citations	Theatre Development Fund	Off-Broadway voucher program

Special Citations	The Zagreb theater Company	The Liberation of Skopje
Special Citations for its commitment to new work	Dramatists Play Service
Special Citations for The musical performance		Poppie Nongena
Special Citations for The musical production		The Mother of Us All
Sustained Achievement	The Circle Repertory Company, Marshall Mason, Lanford Wilson

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1983 Village Voice Obie Awards

1983 Village Voice Obie Awards

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