1984 Village Voice Obie Awards

Winners and nominees from the Village Voice Obie Awards.

1984 Village Voice Obie Awards

Note: Award winners appear on a red background.

Category	Nominee	Show
Best Musical	Lee Breuer, Bob Telson	Gospel at Colonus
Best New American Play	Sam Shepard	Fool For Love
Direction	Lawrence Sacharow	Five of Us
Direction	Sam Shepard	Fool for Love
Direction	Maria Irene Fornes	Mud
Direction	Maria Irene Fornes	Sarita
Direction	Maria Irene Fornes	The Danube
Direction	JoAnne Akalaitis	Through the Leaves

Obie Committee	Michael Feingold, Lanford Wilson, Eileen Blumenthal, Erika Munk, Ross Wetzsteon, Julius Novick
Performance	Richard Jordan	A Private View

Performance	George Guidall	Cinders
Performance	Will Patton, Ed Harris, Kathy Baker	Fool for Love
Performance	Morgan Freeman	Gospel at Colonus
Performance	Stephen McHattie	Mensch Meier
Performance	Dianne Wiest	Other Places
Performance	Sheila Dabney	Sarita


Performance	Dianne Wiest	Serendaring Louie
Performance	Frederick Neuman, Ruth Maleczech	Through the Leaves
Performance	F. Murray Abraham	Uncle Vanya
Playwriting	Vaclav Havel	A Private view

Playwriting	Samuel Beckett	Catastrophe
Playwriting	Len Jenkin	Five of Us
Playwriting	Franz Xaver Kroetz	Mensch Meier
Playwriting	Maria Irene Fornes	Mud

Playwriting	Samuel Beckett	Ohio Impromptu
Playwriting	Samuel Beckett	Pocket
Playwriting	Maria Irene Fornes	Sarita
Playwriting	Ted Tally	Terra Nova
Playwriting	Maria Irene Fornes	The Danube
Playwriting	Franz Xaver Kroetz	Through the Leaves

Playwriting	Samuel Beckett	What Where
Set design	Adrianne Lobel	All Night Long


Set design	Bill Stabile	Damnee Hanon
Set design	Bill Stabile	Sacree Sandra
Set design	Bill Stabile	Spookhouse
Set design	Adrianne Lobel	The Vampires
Set design	Douglas Stein	Through the Leaves
Special Citations	International Theatre Institute of the U.S., Inc
Special Citations for musical score	Richard Peaslee	The Garden of Earthly Delights
Special Citations for production	Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni Ngema, Barney Simon	Woza Albert


Special Citations for tireless devotion to Off and Off-Off Broadway	Ann, Jules Weiss
Sustained Achievement	Music-Theatre Group, Lenox Arts Center
Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design	Anne Militello
Sustained Excellence of Performance	Pamela Reed

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1984 Village Voice Obie Awards

1984 Village Voice Obie Awards

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