1991 Village Voice Obie Awards

Winners and nominees from the Village Voice Obie Awards.

1991 Village Voice Obie Awards

Note: Award winners appear on a red background.

Category	Nominee	Show
Best New American Play	Wallace Shawn	The Fever
Direction	Lisa Peterson	Light Shining in Buckinghamshire
Direction	Michael Grief	Machinal
Ensemble performance	Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw, Precious Pearl, Bette Bourne	Belle Reprieve
Obie Committee	Joan Macintosh, Margo Jefferson, Alisa Solomon, Gordon Rogoff, Robert Massa, Michael Feingold, Ross Wetzsteon
Obie Grant	Mettawee River Theater Company, En Garde Arts, Voices, Hearts
Performance	Eileen Atkins	A Room of One's Own
Performance	Jodie Markell	Machinal

Performance	John Leguizamo	Mambo Mouth
Performance	Anne Pitonia	Pygmalion

Performance	Jan Leslie Harding	Sincerity Forever
Performance	Stockard Channing	Six Degrees of Separation
Performance	Joan Copeland	The American Plan
Performance	Angela Goethals	The Good Times Are Killing Me
Performance	Ron Rifkin	The Subtance of Fire
Performance	Tony Goldwyn	The Sum of Us


Performance	Kathleen Widdoes	Tower of Evil
Performance	Michael Lombard	What's Wrong With This Picture?
Playwriting	Mac Wellman	Sincerity Forever
Playwriting Workshop	John Guare	Six Degrees of Separation

Sound design	John Gromada	Machinal
Special Citations	New York Theatre Workshop, Blue Man Group, BACA Downtown, New York Shakespeare Festival
Special Citations	John Kelly	Love of a Poet
Special Citations for Peace in the Middle East	Theater for the New City	Stop the War: A Festival

Special Citations for Stage management	Lori Seid
Sustained Achievement	The Wooster Group
Sustained Excellence of Costume Design	William Ivey Long
Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design	Frances Aronson
Sustained Excellence of Set Design	Mark Beard

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1991 Village Voice Obie Awards

1991 Village Voice Obie Awards

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