Awards & Winners

1979 Obie Award

Check winners and nominations of 1979 Obie Award. Check awards winners of 24th Annual Village Voice Obie Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

24th Annual Village Voice Obie Award

Obie Award for Best New American Play

Michael McClure

Honored for : Josephine the mouse singer
Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance

Negro Ensemble Company

(Sustained Excellence of Ensemble Acting)
Obie Award for Direction

María Irene Fornés

Honored for : Eyes on the Harem
Obie Award for Direction

Jack Hofsiss

Honored for : The Elephant Man
Obie Award for Performance

Mary Alice

Honored for : Nongogo, Julius Caesar
Obie Award for Performance

Philip Anglim

Honored for : The Elephant Man
Obie Award for Playwriting

Rosalyn Drexler

Honored for : The Writer's Opera
Obie Award for Playwriting

Susan Miller

Honored for : Nasty Rumors And Final Remarks
Obie Award for Playwriting

Richard Nelson

Honored for : Vienna Notes
Obie Award for Playwriting

Bernard Pomerance

Honored for : The Elephant Man
Obie Award for Playwriting

Sam Shepard

Honored for : Buried Child
Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement

Al Carmines

(Obie Award for Sustained Achievement)
Obie Award for Special Citations

Gordon Chater, Richard Wherrett, Steve J. Spears

Honored for : The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin
Obie Award for Performance

Joseph Buloff

Honored for : The Price
Obie Award for Performance

Constance Cummings

Honored for : Wings
Obie Award for Special Citations

Ellen McElduff, JoAnne Akalaitis, David Warrilow

Honored for : Southern Exposure
Obie Award for Performance

Fred Gwynne

Honored for : Grand Magic
Obie Award for Special Citations

Tadeusz Kantor

Honored for : Dead Class
Obie Award for Special Citations
Obie Award for Performance

Judd Hirsch

Honored for : Talley's Folly
Obie Award for Special Citations

New York University Department of French

Honored for : Samuel Beckett Festival
Obie Award for Performance

Marcell Rosenblatt

Honored for : The Vienna Notes
Obie Award for Performance

Elizabeth Wilson

Honored for : Taken in Marriage
Obie Award for Design

Theatre X

Honored for : A Fierce Longing
(for sets and lighting)
Obie Award for Design

Jennifer Tipton

(Public theatre, for sets and lighting)