2007 Village Voice Obie Awards

Winners and nominees from the Village Voice Obie Awards.

2007 Village Voice Obie Awards

Note: Award winners appear on a red background.

Category	Nominee	Show
Direction	Anne Kauffman
Direction	Matthew Maguire	Abandon
Direction	Chay Yew	Durango
Direction	Eirik Stubo	The Wild Duck
Direction	Lou Bellamy	Two Trains Running
Emerging Playwright Award	Young Jean Lee
Ensemble		A Tale of Two Cities
Lifetime Achievement	Alvin Epstein

Lifetime Achievement Award	Alvin Epstein
Music and lyrics	Lin-Manuel Miranda	In the Heights

Music for choreography	Bill T. Jones	Spring Awakening
Obie Committee	Elizabeth Lawler
Obie Grant	Transport Group, The Play Company, Synapse Productions, Peculiar Works Project
Performance	James Saito, James Saito	Durango
Performance	David Greenspan	Faust
Performance	David Greenspan	Faust and Some Men


Performance	Harris Yulin, Harris Yulin	Frank's Home
Performance	Nancy Opel, Nancy Opel	My Deah
Performance	Nilaja Sun	No Child
Performance	Nilaja Sun	No Child...

Performance	Roslyn Ruff, Roslyn Ruff	Seven Guitars
Performance	David Greenspan	Some Men
Performance	Ain Gordon, Ain Gordon	Stories Left to Tell
Performance	Winsome Brown, Michael Ray Escamilla, Tracey A. Leigh, Leo Marks, Leo Marks, Diane Rodriguez, Ed Vassallo, Heather Woodbury	Tale of 2Cities

Performance	Donna Lynne Champlin, Donna Lynne Champlin	The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Performance	Michael Stuhlbarg, Michael Stuhlbarg	The Voysey Inheritance
Performance	Nina Hellman, Nina Hellman	Trouble in Paradise
Playwriting	Adam Bock	The Thugs
Ross Wetzsteon Award	Rattlestick Theatre
Set and Costume Design	Rae Smith	Oliver Twist

Special Citations	Tim Crouch	An Oak Tree
Special Citations	Propeller, Edward Hall	Taming of the Shrew


Special Citations	The Living Theatre, Steve Ben Israel, Louis Williams, Antwan Ward, Evan True, Morteza Tavakoli, Isaac Scranton, Jade Rothman, Bradford Rosenbloom, Josh Roberts, Jeff Nash, Peter Lester, John Kohan, Brad Burgess, Brad Burgess, Brent Bradley, Gary Brackett, Steven Scot Bono, Kesh Baggan, Gene Ardor, Gene Ardor, Johnson Anthony, Judith Malina, The Living Theatre, Albert Lamont	The Brig
Special Citations for writing and performance	Daniel Beaty	Emergence-SEE
Sustained Excellence in Music	Michael Friedman
Sustained Excellence in Set Design	Beowulf Boritt
Sustained Excellence in Sound Design	Robert Kaplowitz
Sustained Excellence of Performance	Betsy Aidem, Andre De Shields, Ron Cephas Jones, Ron Cephas Jones, Betsy Aidem, Andre De Shields
The Ross Wetzsteon Award	Rattlestick Theatre
Voice Judges	Michael Feingold, Kirsten Childs, Jeremy McCarter, Anne Dennin, Alexis Soloski, Ain Gordon, Adam Rapp

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2007 Village Voice Obie Awards

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