Awards & Winners

1983 Obie Award

Check winners and nominations of 1983 Obie Award. Check awards winners of 28th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

28th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards

Obie Award for Design

Heidi Ettinger

Honored for : Painting Churches, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Obie Award for Best New American Play

David Mamet

Honored for : Edmond
Obie Award for Distinguished Playwriting
Obie Award for Direction

Gregory Mosher

Honored for : Edmond
Obie Award for Ensemble Performance
Obie Award for Direction

Gary Sinise

Honored for : True West
Obie Award for Ensemble Performance

Max Stafford-Clark, Selina Cadell, Carole Hayman, Gwen Taylor, Lesley Manville, Lindsay Duncan, Lou Wakefield, Deborah Findlay

Honored for : Top Girls
(the Royal Court cast of Top Girls)
Obie Award for Ensemble Performance

Selina Cadell, Lindsay Duncan, Deborah Findlay, Carole Hayman, Lesley Manville, Gwen Taylor, Lou Wakefield

Honored for : Top Girls
(New York Shakespeare Festival cast of Top Girls)
Obie Award for Playwriting

Harry Kondoleon

(Most Promising Young Playwright)
Obie Award for Performance

Ernest Abuba

Honored for : Yellow Fever
Obie Award for Playwriting

Caryl Churchill

Honored for : Top Girls
Obie Award for Performance

Christine Baranski

Honored for : A Midsummer Night's Dream
Obie Award for Performance

Glenn Close

Honored for : The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs
Obie Award for Performance

Jeff Daniels

Honored for : Johnny Got His Gun
Obie Award for Special Citations
Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement

Lanford Wilson, Marshall W. Mason, Circle Repertory Company

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

Ethyl Eichelberger

Honored for : Lucrezia Borgia
Obie Award for Special Citations

Michael Moschen, Fred Garbo, Bob Berky

Honored for : Foolsfire
Obie Award for Performance

Ruth Maleczech

Honored for : Hajj
Obie Award for Special Citations

The Zagreb theater Company

Honored for : The Liberation of Skopje
Obie Award for Special Citations

Dramatists Play Service

(for its commitment to new work)
Obie Award for Special Citations

PAJ

Obie Award for Performance

John Malkovich

Honored for : True West
Obie Award for Special Citations

Theatre Development Fund

(for its Off-Off-Broadway voucher program)
Obie Award for Special Citations

Poppie Nongena

(The musical performance)
Obie Award for Performance

Donald Moffat

Honored for : Painting Churches
Obie Award for Special Citations

The Mother of Us All

(The musical production)
Obie Award for Performance

Ray Wise

Honored for : The Tooth of Crime