Awards & Winners

1978 Obie Award

Check winners and nominations of 1978 Obie Award. Check awards winners of 23rd Annual Village Voice Obie Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

23rd Annual Village Voice Obie Awards

Obie Award for Design

Garland Wright, John Arnone

Honored for : K
Obie Award for Design

Robert Yodice

Honored for : Museum
Obie Award for Direction

Robert Allan Ackerman

Honored for : A Prayer for My Daughter
Obie Award for Direction

Thomas Bullard

Honored for : Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act
Obie Award for Direction

Elizabeth Swados

Honored for : Runaways
Obie Award for Best New American Play

Lee Breuer

Honored for : Shaggy Dog Animation
Obie Award for Performance

Richard Bauer

Honored for : Landscape of the Body, The Dybbuk
Obie Award for Playwriting
(not awarded)
Obie Award for Performance

Nell Carter

Honored for : Ain't Misbehavin'
Obie Award for Performance

Alma Cuervo

Honored for : Uncommon Women and Others
Obie Award for Performance

Swoosie Kurtz

Honored for : Uncommon Women and Others
Obie Award for Performance

Kaiulani Lee

Honored for : Safe House
Obie Award for Performance

Bruce Myers

Honored for : The Dybbuk
Obie Award for Performance

Lee Wilkof

Honored for : The Present Tense
Obie Award for Special Citations

Ain't Misbehavin'

Obie Award for Special Citations
Obie Award for Special Citations

Joseph Dunn, Irja Koljonen

Honored for : Preface
Obie Award for Special Citations

James Lapine

Honored for : Photograph
Obie Award for Special Citations

Jerry Mayer

Honored for : Taud Show
Obie Award for Special Citations
Obie Award for Special Citations
Obie Award for Special Citations
Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement

Peter Schumann

Honored for : Bread and Puppet Theater