Awards & Winners

Obie Award for Best New American Play

Obie Award

Obie Award for Best New American Play is one of the awards presented at the annual Obie Award ceremony.
Obie Award for Best New American Play is one of the awards presented at the annual Obie Award ceremony.

Check all the winners of Obie Award for Best New American Play presented under Obie Award since 1962 .


Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Honored for : Appropriate, An Octoroon

Lisa D'Amour

Honored for : Detroit

Julia Jarcho

Honored for : Grimly Handsome

Amy Herzog

Honored for : 4000 Miles

Kristoffer Diaz

Honored for : The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity

Annie Baker

Honored for : Circle Mirror Transformation, The Aliens

Lynn Nottage

Honored for : Ruined

Craig Lucas

Honored for : Small Tragedy

Adrienne Kennedy

Honored for : June And Jean In Concert, Sleep Deprivation Chamber

Donald Margulies

Honored for : Sight Unseen

Robbie McCauley

Honored for : Sally's Rape

Paula Vogel

Honored for : The Baltimore Waltz

Wallace Shawn

Honored for : The Fever

Suzan-Lori Parks

Honored for : Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom
(three way tie)

Mac Wellman

Honored for : Terminal Hip, Crowbar, Bad Penny
(three way tie)

Craig Lucas

Honored for : Prelude to a Kiss
(three way tie)

Caryl Churchill

Honored for : Serious Money

María Irene Fornés

Honored for : Abingdon Square

Richard Foreman

Honored for : The Cure, Film Is Evil, Radio Is Good

María Irene Fornés

Honored for : The Conduct of Life

Sam Shepard

Honored for : Fool for Love

David Mamet

Honored for : Edmond

Jeff Wanshel

Honored for : A Metamorphosis in Miniature

Squat Theatre

Honored for : Mr. Dead and Mrs. Free

David Henry Hwang

Honored for : FOB

Michael McClure

Honored for : Josephine the mouse singer

Lee Breuer

Honored for : Shaggy Dog Animation

Sam Shepard

Honored for : Curse of the Starving Class

David Mamet

Honored for : American Buffalo, Sexual Perversity in Chicago

Leslie Lee

Honored for : The First Breeze of Summer

Miguel Piñero

Honored for : Short Eyes
(Best American Play)

Lanford Wilson

Honored for : The Hot l Baltimore
(Best American Play)

Joseph A. Walker

Honored for : The River Niger
(Best American Play)

John Guare

Honored for : The House of Blue Leaves
(Best American Play)

Paul Zindel

Honored for : The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
(Best American Play)

Megan Terry

Honored for : Approaching Simone
(Best American Play)

Ronald Ribman

Honored for : The Journey of the Fifth Horse
(Best American Play)

Robert Lowell

Honored for : The Old Glory
(Best American Play)

Amiri Baraka

Honored for : Dutchman
(Best American Play)

Frank D. Gilroy

Honored for : Who'll Save the Plowboy?
(Best American Play)