1995 Village Voice Obie Awards

Winners and nominees from the Village Voice Obie Awards.

1995 Village Voice Obie Awards

Note: Award winners appear on a red background.

Category	Nominee	Show
Best Play	David Mamet	Cryptogram
Direction	Don Scardino	A Cheever Evening
Direction	Susan Schulman	Merrily We Roll Along
Direction	Robert Falls	SubUrbia
Obie Committee	Michael Sommers, Lynne Thigpen, JoAnne Akalaitis, Lisa Kennedy, Michael Feingold, Laura Ross, Ross Wetzsteon
Obie Grant	Nada, Blueprint Series at Ontologic-Hysteric Theatre, Archives at LaMama
Performance	Mary Beth Peil	A Cheever Evening
Performance	Paul Calderon	Blade To The Heat

Performance	Felicity Huffman	Cryptogram
Performance	Linda Lavin	Death Defying Acts

Performance	Kristine Nielsen	Dog Opera
Performance	Joe Mantello	Love! Valour! Compassion!
Performance	Malcolm Gets	Merrily We Roll Along
Performance	Camryn Manheim, Mary Beth Peil	Missing Persons
Performance	Barbara Eda-Young	Slavs!
Performance	Joanna Adler	The Boys In The Basement


Performance	Ron Liebman	The Merchant Of Venice
Performance	Mary Beth Peil	The Naked Truth
Performance	Malcolm Gets	Two Gentlemen Of Verona
Performance	Eileen Atkins, Vanessa Redgrave	Vita & Virginia

Playwriting	Terrence McNally	Love! Valour! Compassion!
Playwriting	Susan Miller	My Left Breast
Playwriting	Tony Kushner	Slavs!
Playwriting	David Hancock	The Convention Of Cartography

Special Citations	Dael Orlandersmith	Beauty's Daughter
Special Citations	The New Group	Ecstasy
Special Citations	Vernel Bagneris, Morten Gunnar Larsen	Jelly Roll
Special Citations	Amy, David Sedaris	One Woman Shoe
Special Citations	The Five Lesbian Brothers	The Secretaries
Sustained Achievement	Ming Cho Lee

Sustained excellence of costume design	Jennifer von Mayrhauser
Sustained excellence of projection	Wendall K. Harrington

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1995 Village Voice Obie Awards

1995 Village Voice Obie Awards

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