2003 Village Voice Obie Awards

Winners and nominees from the Village Voice Obie Awards.

2003 Village Voice Obie Awards

Note: Award winners appear on a red background.

Category	Nominee	Show
Costume design	Kimberly Glennon	The Blacks: A Clown Show
Direction	Emily Mann	All Over
Direction	Deborah Warner	Medea
Lifetime Achievement	Mac Wellman
Mask design	Anne Lommel	The Blacks: A Clown Show
Obie Grant	The Immigrant Theatre Project, Galapagos, Collapsable Hole
Performance	Rosemary Harris	All Over
Performance	Stephen Mellor	Bitter Bierce or, The Friction We Call Grief

Performance	Edward Norton	Burn This
Performance	Jim Norton	Dublin Carol

Performance	Mos Def	Fucking A
Performance	Jason Petty	Hank Williams: Lost Highway
Performance	Fiona Shaw	Medea
Performance	Denis O'Hare	Take Me Out
Performance	Lynn Redgrave, Kathleen Chalfant, Valerie Mahaffey, Daniel Davis, Christine Ebersole, Brenda Wehle	Talking Heads
Performance	Ty Jones, J. Kyle Manzay	The Blacks: A Clown Show


Performance	Barry Del Sherman	The Mystery of Attraction
Performance	Simon Russell Beale	Uncle Vanya
Ross Wetzsteon Award	The Ohio Theatre	Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory series
Set design	Anthony Ward	Uncle Vanya

Special Citations	Brooklyn Academy of Music	International Programming
Special Citations	Kathy Randels, Katie Pearl, Lisa D'Amour	Nita and Zita
Special Citations	David Greenspan	She Stoops to Comedy
Special Citations	"Blue" Gene Tyranny, Steven Rattazzi, Carol Mullins, Diane Beckett, Ellen Maddow, Gary Brownlee, Karinne Keithley, Kiki Smith, Louise Smith, Tina Shepard, Nic Ularu, Paul Zimet, Randolph Curtis Rand	Talking Band's Painted Snake in a Painted Chair

Special Citations	John Kani, Winston Ntshona	The Island
Special Citations	Ralph B. Pena, Art Acuna, Ron Domingo, Ramon de Ocampo, Lonnie Carter, Orlando Pabotoy, Jojo Gonzalez, Loy Arcenas	The Romance of Magno Rubio
Special Citations for Editorship of Theater	Erika Munk
Special Citations for Longtime Support of Playwrights	Morgan Jenness
Sustained excellence of lighting design	Kenneth Posner

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2003 Village Voice Obie Awards

2003 Village Voice Obie Awards

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