Awards & Winners

1984 Obie Award

Check winners and nominations of 1984 Obie Award. Check awards winners of 29th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

29th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards

Obie Award for Best Musical

Lee Breuer, Bob Telson

Honored for : The Gospel at Colonus
Obie Award for Best New American Play

Sam Shepard

Honored for : Fool for Love
Obie Award for Direction

JoAnne Akalaitis

Honored for : Through the Leaves
Obie Award for Direction

María Irene Fornés

Honored for : The Danube, Sarita, Mud
Obie Award for Direction

Lawrence Sacharow

Honored for : Five of Us
Obie Award for Direction

Sam Shepard

Honored for : Fool for Love
Obie Award for Design

Douglas Stein

Honored for : Through the Leaves
(Set Design)
Obie Award for Design

Bill Stabile

Honored for : Spookhouse, Damnee Manon, Sacree Sandra
(Set Design)
Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance
Obie Award for Performance

F. Murray Abraham

Honored for : Uncle Vanya
Obie Award for Design

Adrianne Lobel

Honored for : The Vampires, All Night Long
(Set Design)
Obie Award for Playwriting

Václav Havel

Honored for : Private View
Obie Award for Performance

Kathy Baker, Ed Harris, Will Patton

Honored for : Fool for Love
Obie Award for Playwriting

Ted Tally

Honored for : Terra Nova
Obie Award for Performance

Sheila Dabney

Honored for : Sarita
Obie Award for Playwriting

Samuel Beckett

Honored for : Ohio Impromptu, What Where, Catastrophe, Pocket
Obie Award for Special Citations

Richard Peaslee

Honored for : The Garden of Earthly Delights
(For the musical score)
Obie Award for Playwriting

María Irene Fornés

Honored for : The Danube, Sarita, Mud
Obie Award for Performance

Morgan Freeman

Honored for : Gospel at Colonus
Obie Award for Playwriting

Len Jenkin

Honored for : Five of us
Obie Award for Playwriting

Franz Xaver Kroetz

Honored for : Through The Leaves, Mensch Meier
Obie Award for Performance

George Guidall

Honored for : Cinders
Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement

Music-Theatre Group

(Obie Award for Sustained Achievement)
Obie Award for Performance

Richard Jordan

Honored for : A Private View
Obie Award for Performance

Ruth Maleczech, Frederick Neumann

Honored for : Through the Leaves
Obie Award for Performance

Stephen McHattie

Honored for : Mensch Meier
Obie Award for Performance

Dianne Wiest

Honored for : Serenading Louie, Other Places
Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design
Obie Award for Special Citations

Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni Ngema, Barney Simon

Honored for : Woza Albert!
Obie Award for Special Citations
Obie Award for Special Citations

Jules Weiss, Ann Weiss

(For their tireless devotion to Off and Off-Off Broadway)