1998 Village Voice Obie Awards

Winners and nominees from the Village Voice Obie Awards.

1998 Village Voice Obie Awards

Note: Award winners appear on a red background.

Category	Nominee	Show
Best Play	Richard Foreman	Benita Canova
Best Play	Richard Foreman	Pearls For Pigs
Design for soundscape	Darron L. West	Bob
Direction	Ivo van Hove	More Stately Mansions
Direction	David Esbjornson	Therese Raquin
Direction	Evan Yionoulis	Three Days of Rain
Guest Judges	Suzan-Lori Parks, Marian Seldes, Polly Pen, Steven Samuels
Lighting design	Mimi Jordan Sherin	Bob

Obie Grant	Housing Works Theater Project, Victoria McElwaine
Obie Grant	Threshold Theater Co.	The Act annual one-act festival

Performance	J. Smith Cameron	As Bees In Honey Drown
Performance	Yvette Freeman, Adriane Lenox	Dinah Was
Performance	Mary Testa	From Above
Performance	Joseph Wiseman	I Can't Remember Anything
Performance	Matthew Maguire	I Don't Know What He Said
Performance	Matthew Maguire	I Don't Know Who He Was


Performance	Heather Gillespie	Mamba's Daughters
Performance	Tim Hopper, Joan MacIntosh	More Stately Mansions
Performance	Lea DeLaria	On The Town
Performance	Mary Testa	On the Town

Performance	Marie Mullen	The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Performance	Elizabeth Marvel	Therese Raquin
Ross Wetzsteon Award	Doug Aibel, The Vineyard Theater
Special Citations	Philim McDermott, Lee Simpson, Julian Crouch, Guy Dartnell, Ben Park, Steve Tiplady	70 Hill Lane

Special Citations	Stephen Trask, John Cameron Mitchell, David Herskovits, Thomas Cabaniss, Lenore Doxsee, Erika Belsey, David Zinn, Tim Schellenbaum	Hedwig And The Angry Inch
Special Citations	Target Margin Theater	Mamba's Daughters
Special Citations	Karen Finley	The American Chestnut
Special Citations for distinguished stage management	Buzz Cohen
Sustained Achievement	Jennifer Tipton
Sustained excellence of direction	Jo Bonney

Sustained excellence of musical direction	Alan Johnson
Sustained excellence of performance	Kate Valk, David Patrick Kelly, Brian Murray


Sustained excellence of sound design	Mark Bennett
Voice Judges	James Hannaham, Michael Feingold

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1998 Village Voice Obie Awards

1998 Village Voice Obie Awards

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