Obie Award for Playwriting

Will Eno

Honored for : The Open House

Ayad Akhtar

Honored for : Disgraced

Annie Baker

Honored for : The Flick

Kirsten Greenidge

Honored for : Milk Like Sugar

Samuel D. Hunter

Honored for : A Bright New Boise

Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Honored for : Invasion!

Enda Walsh

Honored for : The New Electric Ballroom

Horton Foote

Honored for : Dividing the Estate

David Henry Hwang

Honored for : Yellow Face

Adam Bock

Honored for : The Thugs

Rolin Jones

Honored for : The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow

Martin McDonagh

Honored for : The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Christopher Shinn

Honored for : Where Do We Live

John Patrick Shanley

Honored for : Doubt: A Parable

Caryl Churchill

Honored for : A Number

Lynn Nottage

Honored for : Fabulation

Tony Kushner

Honored for : Homebody/Kabul

Melissa James Gibson

Honored for : [sic]

José Rivera

Honored for : References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot

Harley Granville-Barker

Honored for : Waste

W. David Hancock

Honored for : The Race of the Ark Tattoo

(Playwrighting)

Dare Clubb

Honored for : Oedipus

(Playwrighting)

Christopher Durang

Honored for : Betty's Summer Vacation

(Playwrighting)

Eve Ensler

Honored for : The Vagina Monologues

David Henry Hwang

Honored for : Golden Child

Paula Vogel

Honored for : How I Learned to Drive

Lanford Wilson

Honored for : Sympathetic magic

Ain Gordon

Honored for : Wally's Ghost

Donald Margulies

Honored for : The Model Apartment

Suzan-Lori Parks

Honored for : Venus

Doug Wright

Honored for : Quills

Tony Kushner

Honored for : Slavs!

Terrence McNally

Honored for : Love! Valour! Compassion!

Susan Miller

Honored for : My Left Breast

W. David Hancock

Honored for : The Convention of Cartography

Eric Bogosian

Honored for : Pounding Nails in the Floor with my Forehead

Howard Korder

Honored for : The Lights

Harry Kondoleon

Honored for : The houseguests

Larry Kramer

Honored for : The Destiny of Me

José Rivera

Honored for : Marisol

Paul Rudnick

Honored for : Jeffrey

John Guare

Honored for : Six Degrees of Separation

Mac Wellman

Honored for : Sincerity forever

Eric Bogosian

Honored for : Drinking in America

Martha Clarke

Honored for : Vienna: Lusthaus

John Jesurun

Honored for : Deep Sleep

Tadeusz Kantor

Honored for : Let the Artists Die

Lee Nagrin

Honored for : Bird/Bear

William M. Hoffman

Honored for : As Is

Rosalyn Drexler

Honored for : Transients Welcome

Christopher Durang

Honored for : The Marriage of Bette and Boo

Václav Havel

Honored for : Private View

Ted Tally

Honored for : Terra Nova

Samuel Beckett

Honored for : Ohio Impromptu, What Where, Catastrophe, Pocket

María Irene Fornés

Honored for : The Danube, Sarita, Mud

Len Jenkin

Honored for : Five of us

Franz Xaver Kroetz

Honored for : Through The Leaves, Mensch Meier

Harry Kondoleon

(Most Promising Young Playwright)

Caryl Churchill

Honored for : Top Girls

Caryl Churchill

Honored for : Cloud Nine

Robert Auletta

Honored for : Stops, Virgins

Charles Fuller

Honored for : Zooman and the Sign

Amlin Gray

Honored for : How I Got That Story

Len Jenkin

Honored for : Limbo Tales

(script and direction)

Lee Breuer

Honored for : A Prelude to Death in Venice

(script and direction)

Christopher Durang

Honored for : Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You

Romulus Linney

Honored for : Tennessee

Roland Muldoon

Honored for : Full Confessions of a Socialist

(script and direction)

Jeff Weiss

Honored for : That's How the Rent Gets Paid

(Part Three, script and direction)

Rosalyn Drexler

Honored for : The Writer's Opera

Susan Miller

Honored for : Nasty Rumors And Final Remarks

Richard Nelson

Honored for : Vienna Notes

Bernard Pomerance

Honored for : The Elephant Man

Sam Shepard

Honored for : Buried Child

(not awarded)

David Berry

Honored for : G. R. Point

María Irene Fornés

Honored for : Fefu and Her Friends

William Hauptman

Honored for : Domino Courts

Albert Innaurato

Honored for : Gemini, The transfiguration of Benno Blimpie

David Rudkin

Honored for : Ashes

Ed Bullins

Honored for : The Taking of Miss Janie

Lanford Wilson

Honored for : The Mound Builders

Wallace Shawn

Honored for : Our late night

Sam Shepard

Honored for : Action