59th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards

The 19th Annual Panasonic Gobel Awards : Winners Announced

Award		Winner
Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance		Marylouise Burke
Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement		Estelle Parsons
Obie Award for Best New American Play		Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Honored for : Appropriate, An Octoroon
Obie Award for Performance		Mia Katigbak Honored for : Awake and Sing!
Obie Award for Performance		Sydney Lucas Honored for : Fun Home
Obie Award for Performance		John Ellison Conlee Honored for : The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence
Obie Award for Special Citations		Mallory Catlett Honored for : This Was The End
Obie Award for Music And Lyrics		Heather Christian Honored for : The World is Round
Obie Award for Direction		James Macdonald Honored for : Love And Information
Obie Award for Direction		Oliver Butler Honored for : The Open House
Obie Award for Direction		Liesl Tommy Honored for : Appropriate
Obie Award for Special Citations		Heather Christian, Jiyoun Chang, Hannah Wasileski Honored for : The World is Round
Obie Award for Playwriting		Will Eno Honored for : The Open House
Obie Award for Performance		Larry Pine Honored for : A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney
Obie Award for Performance		K. Todd Freeman Honored for : Fetch Clay, Make Man
Obie Award for Performance		John Jelks Honored for : Sunset Baby, Fetch Clay, Make Man
Obie Award for Performance		Johanna Day Honored for : Appropriate
Obie Award for Performance		Chris Myers Honored for : An Octoroon
Obie Award for Special Citations		Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Lucy Thurber Honored for : Scarcity, Ashville, Where We\u2019re Born, Killers and Other Family, Stay (Nominated as The Hill Town Plays, of which Scarcity, Ashville, Where We're Born, Killers and Other Family, and Stay are a part thereof.)
Ross Wetzsteon Award		Abrons Arts Center
Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design		Justin Townsend
Obie Award for Design/Music		Ben Rubin Honored for : Elevator Repair Service's Arguendo (for projections)
Obie Award for Design/Music		Sonya Tayeh, Emmanuel Brown Honored for : Kung Fu (for fight direction and choreography)
Obie Award for Lighting Design		Eric Southern Honored for : The Correspondent

Award

Winner

Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance

Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement

Obie Award for Best New American Play

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Honored for : Appropriate, An Octoroon

Obie Award for Performance

John Ellison Conlee

Honored for : The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence

Obie Award for Special Citations

Obie Award for Music And Lyrics

Obie Award for Direction

Obie Award for Special Citations

Heather Christian, Jiyoun Chang, Hannah Wasileski

Honored for : The World is Round

Obie Award for Playwriting

Obie Award for Performance

Larry Pine

Honored for : A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney

Obie Award for Performance

John Jelks

Honored for : Sunset Baby, Fetch Clay, Make Man

Obie Award for Performance

Obie Award for Special Citations

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Lucy Thurber

Honored for : Scarcity, Ashville, Where We\u2019re Born, Killers and Other Family, Stay
(Nominated as The Hill Town Plays, of which Scarcity, Ashville, Where We're Born, Killers and Other Family, and Stay are a part thereof.)