1999 Village Voice Obie Awards

Winners and nominees from the Village Voice Obie Awards.

1999 Village Voice Obie Awards

Note: Award winners appear on a red background.

Category	Nominee	Show
Best Production	The Wooster Group	House
Best Production	The Wooster Group	Lights
Costume Design	Martin Pakledinaz	The Misanthrope
Design	Diedre Murray	Score for Running Man
Direction	Jim Simpson	Benten Kozo
Direction	Nicholas Martin	Betty's Summer Vacation
Direction	Declan Donnellan	Le Cid
Direction	Melia Bensussen	The Turn of the Screw

Obie Grant	National Asian American Theater, Mia Katigbak, The Point, CDC
Performance	Kristine Nielson	Betty's Summer Vacation

Performance	Liev Schreiber	Cymbeline
Performance	Viola Davis	Everybody's Ruby
Performance	Darius de Haas	Running Man
Performance	Swoosie Kurtz	The Mineola Twins
Performance	Matthew Maher	The Race of the Ark Tattoo
Performance	Kathleen Chalfant	Wit


Playwrighting	Christopher Durang	Betty's Summer Vacation
Playwrighting	Dare Clubb	Oedipus
Playwrighting	W. David Hancock	The Race of the Ark Tattoo
Ross Wetzsteon Award	Ellie Covan, Dixon Place

Special Citations	Carmelita Tropicana
Special Citations	Lisa Kron	2.5 Minute Ride
Special Citations	Richard Maxwell	House
Special Citations	David Cale	Lillian

Special Citations	Peggy Shaw	Menopausal Gentleman
Special Citations	Aasif Mandvi	Sakina's Restaura
Special Citations	Kim Hughes	Sakina's Restaurant
Special Citations	Basil Twist	Symphonie Fantastique
Special Citations	Ronnie Burkett	Tinka's New Dress
Sustained Achievement	Wynn Handman

Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design	Michael Chybowski
Sustained Excellence of Performance	Randall Duk Kim, Mina Bern, Daniel Gerroll


Sustained Excellence of Set Design	Thomas Lynch
Voice Judges	Liz Diamond, Dael Orlandersmith, Mark Russell, Una Chaudhuri, Michael Feingold, Alisa Solomon, Brian Parks, Charles McNulty, Eileen Phelan

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1999 Village Voice Obie Awards

1999 Village Voice Obie Awards

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