2001 Village Voice Obie Awards

Winners and nominees from the Village Voice Obie Awards.

2001 Village Voice Obie Awards

Note: Award winners appear on a red background.

Category	Nominee	Show
Best Play	Pamela Gien	The Syringa Tree
Book And Lyrics	Mark Hollmann, Greg Kotis	Urinetown
Choreography	John Carrafa	Urinetown
Design	Pilar Limosner, Matthew Tierney, Ruth Pongstaphone, Tim Schellenbaum, Howard S. Thies, Cynthia Hopkins, Fred Tietz, Bill Morrison, Laurie Olinder, Julia Wolfe	Jennie Richee
Direction	Michael Greif	Dogeaters
Direction	Bob McGrath	Jennie Richee
Direction	Craig Lucas	Saved or Destroyed
Music	Diedre Murray	Eli's Comin'Vocal and Instrumental Arrangement

Music	Bill Sims, Jr.	Lackawanna Blues
Music and Lyrics	Ed Kleban	A Class Act

Music and Lyrics	Kirsten Childs	The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin
Obie Grant	Mint Theater, Clubbed Thumb, Classical Theater of Harlem, Soho Rep
Performance	Janie Dee	Comic Potential
Performance	Anika Noni Rose, Ronnell Bey, Mandy Gonzalez, Judy Kuhn	Eli's Comin'
Performance	George Bartenieff	I Will Bear Witness
Performance	Pamela Isaacs	Newyorkers


Performance	John Ortiz	References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot
Performance	Bette Bourne	Resident Alien
Performance	Jackie Hoffman	The Book of Liz
Performance	Brian d'Arcy James	The Good Thief

Performance	Brian Murray	The Play About the Baby
Performance	Stephanie Berry	The Shaneequa Chronicles
Playwriting	José Rivera	References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot
Ross Wetzsteon Award	Theatre For A New Audience

Set Design	Neil Patel	I Will Bear Witness
Set Design	Neil Patel	Race
Set Design	Neil Patel, Neil Patel	Resident Alien
Set Design	Douglas Stein	Texts for Nothing
Set Design	Neil Patel	War of the Worlds
Special Citations	Rinde Eckert	And God Created Great Whales

Special Citations	Justin Bond, Kenny Mellman	Kiki and Herb: Jesus Wept
Special Citations	Ruben Santiago-Hudson	Lackawanna Blues


Sustained Achievement	Marian Seldes

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2001 Village Voice Obie Awards

2001 Village Voice Obie Awards

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