Awards & Winners

1980 Obie Award

Check winners and nominations of 1980 Obie Award. Check awards winners of 25th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

25th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards

Obie Award for Lighting Design
Obie Award for Direction

A. J. Antoon

Honored for : The Art of Dining
Obie Award for Design

Ruth Maleczech, Julie Archer

Honored for : Vanishing Pictures
Obie Award for Design

Sally Jacobs

Honored for : Conference of the Birds
Obie Award for Performance

Michael Burrell

Honored for : Hess
Obie Award for Performance

Michael Cristofer

Honored for : Chinchilla
Obie Award for Performance

Lindsay Crouse

Honored for : Reunion
Obie Award for Performance

Elizabeth Franz

Honored for : Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You
Obie Award for Performance

Morgan Freeman

Honored for : Mother Courage and Her Children, Coriolanus
Obie Award for Playwriting

Lee Breuer

Honored for : A Prelude to Death in Venice
(script and direction)
Obie Award for Design

Laura Crow

Honored for : Mary Stuart
(for the costumes for Mary Stuart)
Obie Award for Playwriting

Christopher Durang

Honored for : Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You
Obie Award for Playwriting

Romulus Linney

Honored for : Tennessee
Obie Award for Playwriting

Roland Muldoon

Honored for : Full Confessions of a Socialist
(script and direction)
Obie Award for Playwriting

Jeff Weiss

Honored for : That's How the Rent Gets Paid
(Part Three, script and direction)
Obie Award for Direction

Edward Cornell

Honored for : Johnny on a Spot
Obie Award for Performance

John Heard

Honored for : Othello, Split
Obie Award for Performance

Michael Higgins

Honored for : Reunion
Obie Award for Performance

Madeleine De La Roux

Honored for : La Justice
Obie Award for Direction

Elizabeth LeCompte

Honored for : Point Judith
Obie Award for Performance
Obie Award for Performance

Bill Raymond

Honored for : A Prelude to Death in Venice
Obie Award for Performance

Dianne Wiest

Honored for : The Art of Dining
Obie Award for Performance

Hattie Winston

Honored for : Mother Courage and Her Children, The Michigan
Obie Award for Special Citations
Obie Award for Special Citations

International Centre for Theatre Research

(Actors - For outstanding ensemble performance)
Obie Award for Special Citations

Ellen Stewart, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club

(For contribution to the American theatre by the importation of foreign companies)
Obie Award for Special Citations

David Hugh Jones, Richard Nelson

(For innovative programming at the BAM Theatre Company)
Obie Award for Special Citations

Ntozake Shange

(For her adaptation of Mother Courage)
Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement

Sam Shepard

(Obie Award for Sustained Achievement)
Obie Award for Ensemble Performance
(for outstanding ensemble performance)