# Obie Award

The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given since 1956 by The Village Voice newspaper to theater artists and groups involved in off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in New York City. Starting just after the 2014 ceremony, the American Theatre Wing became the joint presenter and administrative manager of the Obie Awards. The Obie Awards are considered off-Broadway's highest honor, similar to the Tony Awards for Broadway productions.

## Background

The Obie Awards were initiated by critic Jerry Tallmer and Edwin (Ed) Fancher, publisher of The Village Voice, who handled the financing and business side of the project. They were first given in 1956 under the direction of Tallmer. Initially, only off-Broadway productions were eligible; in 1964, off-off-Broadway productions were made eligible. The first Obie Awards ceremony was held at Helen Gee's cafe.
With the exception of the Lifetime Achievement and Best New American Play awards, there are no fixed categories at the Obie Awards, and the winning actors and actresses are all in a single category titled "Performance." There are no announced nominations. Awards in the past have included performance, direction, best production, design, special citations, and sustained achievement. Not every category is awarded every year. The Village Voice also awards annual Obie grants to selected companies; in 2011, these grants were $2,000 each to Metropolitan Playhouse and Wakka Wakka Productions. There is also a Ross Wetzsteon Grant, named after its former theater editor, in the amount of $2,000 (in 2009; in 2011 the grant was $1,000), for a theatre that nurtures innovative new plays.
The first awards in 1955-1956 for plays and musicals were given to Absalom (Lionel Abel) as Best New Play, Uncle Vanya, Best All-Around Production and The Threepenny Opera as Best Musical.
In September 2014, the American Theatre Wing joined the Village Voice as co-presenters, with the Wing having "overall responsibility for running" the Awards. In 2021, the Wing took over as sole presenter of the Obie Awards.

## Award categories

* Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress
* Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actor
* Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Ensemble
* Sustained Achievement Award
* Best New American Theatre Work Award
* Playwriting Award
* Design Award
* Special Citations
* Obie Grants
* The Ross Wetzsteon Award

## Ceremony history

| Year | Host | Venue | Presenters |
| 1956 | Shelley Winters | unknown venue | |
| 1957 | Geraldine Page | The Limelight | |
| 1958 | Maureen Stapleton | The Limelight | |
| 1959 | Kim Stanley | Village Gate | |
| 1960 | Anne Bancroft | Village Gate | |
| 1961 | Julie Harris | Village Gate | |
| 1962 | Lotte Lenya | Village Gate | |
| 1963 | Uta Hagen | Village Gate | |
| 1964 | Colleen Dewhurst | Village Gate | |
| 1965 | Gloria Foster | Village Gate | |
| 1966 | Anne Jackson | Village Gate | |
| 1967 | Barbara Harris | Village Gate | |
| 1968 | Estelle Parsons | Village Gate | |
| 1969 | Julie Bovasso | Village Gate | |
| 1970 | Dustin Hoffman | Village Gate | |
| 1971 | Elaine May | Village Gate | |
| 1972 | Groucho Marx | Village Gate | |
| 1973 | Sylvia Miles | unknown venue | |
| 1974 | Madeleine Le Roux | unknown venue | |
| 1975 | Godfrey Cambridge | Village Gate | |
| 1976 | no formal host | Lincoln Center | |
| 1977 | Paul Sorvino, Gilda Radner, Marilyn Sokol | The Bottom Line | |
| 1978 | Dustin Hoffman | The Bottom Line | |
| 1979 | Ron Leibman | The Bottom Line | |
| 1980 | no formal host | Roxy NYC | |
| 1981 | Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver | Roxy NYC | |
| 1982 | Swoosie Kurtz, Tommy Tune | Savoy | |
| 1983 | Harvey Fierstein, Julie Bovasso | First City Cabaret | |
| 1984 | no formal host | Cat Club | |
| 1985 | Ellen Stewart, Harvey Fierstein | Puck Building | |
| 1986 | Christopher Durang, Swoozie Kurtz | unknown venue | |
| 1987 | Morgan Freeman, Christine Lahti | unknown venue | |
| 1988 | Morgan Freeman, Lee Breuer | unknown venue | |
| 1989 | no formal host | unknown venue | |
| 1990 | Julie Bovasso, Olympia Dukakis | unknown venue | |
| 1991 | Stockard Channing, Alan Arkin | Palladium Ballroom | |
| 1992 | Jerry Zaks, Kate Nelligan | Palladium Ballroom | |
| 1993 | no formal host | unknown venue | |
| 1994 | Mary McDonnell, James McDaniel | unknown venue | |
| 1995 | Hector Elizondo, Anne Meara | unknown venue | |
| 1996 | Nicky Silver | unknown venue | |
| 1997 | no formal host | unknown venue | Fyvush Finkel, Kathleen Chalfant, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Peter Francis James, Shirley Knight, Camryn Manheim, Mary Louise Parker, Roger Guenveur Smith, Julie Taymor, Marisa Tomei, Rip Torn, Ming Cho Lee, Karin Coonrod, and Scott Elliot |
| 1998 | Eric Bogosian, Kristen Johnson | Webster Hall | Danny Hoch, Woodie King Jr., Mac Wellman, Mary Louise Wilson, Lea DeLaria, Ellie Covan, Tsai Chin, Greg Germann, and Liz Diamond |
| 1999 | Lea DeLaria, Paul Rudnick | Webster Hall | Betty Buckley, Kathleen Chalfant, Stephen DeRosa, David Henry Hwang, Swoosie Kurtz, Elizabeth Marvel, John Cameron Mitchell, Everett Quinton, Phylicia Rashad, and Roger Rees |
| 2000 | Claudia Shear, Mary Testa | Webster Hall | Ping Chong, Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy, Cynthia Nixon, Frances Sternhagen, Mary Testa, Carmelita Tropicana, James Urbaniak |
| 2001 | Brian Murray, Marian Seldes | Webster Hall | Darius De Haas, David Gallo, Linda Lavin, Marion McClinton, Debra Monk, Mark Russell, J. Smith-Cameron, and Daphne Rubin-Vega |
| 2002 | Karen Evans Kandel, Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Webster Hall | Elizabeth Franz, Mary Louise Parker, Ellen McLaughlin, Rinde Eckert, Richard Maxwell, Suzan-Lori Parks, and George C. Wolfe |
| 2003 | Bill Irwin, Charlayne Woodard | Webster Hall | Edward Albee, Linda Emond, Juliana Francis, Martha Plimpton, Jackie Hoffman, Eddie Izzard, John Ortiz, and Liev Schreiber |
| 2004 | Swoosie Kurtz, Raul Esparza | Webster Hall | Viola Davis, Idina Menzel, Taye Diggs, and Denis O'Hare |
| 2005 | Stockard Channing, Brian F. O'Byrne | Webster Hall | Elaine Stritch and Frances Sternhagen |
| 2006 | Lili Taylor, Eric Bogosian | Skirball Center for the Performing Arts | Christine Lahti, Christine Ebersole, Edward Hibbert, Douglas Carter Beane, Phylicia Rashad, and Oskar Eustis |
| 2007 | Cynthia Nixon, T.R. Knight | Skirball Center for the Performing Arts | Michael Cerveris, Angela Lansbury, William Ivey Long, Camryn Manheim, Stephanie March, Terrence McNally, Liev Schreiber, and Anika Noni Rose |
| 2008 | Elizabeth Marvel, Bill Camp | Webster Hall | Jonathan Groff, Priscilla Lopez, S. Epatha Merkerson, Marisa Tomei, Julie White and Bradley Whitford |
| 2009 | Daniel Breaker, Martha Plimpton | Webster Hall | Anne Hathaway, Brian d'Arcy James, Gavin Creel, John Shea, Karen Olivo, Kate Mulgrew, Marc Kudisch, and Nilaja Sun |
| 2010 | Anika Noni-Rose and Michael Cerveris | Webster Hall | J. Smith-Cameron, Marin Ireland, Linda Lavin, Hamish Linklater, Michael Shannon and Jennifer Westfeldt |
| 2011 | S. Epatha Merkerson and David Hyde Pierce | Webster Hall | Nina Arianda, Alec Baldwin, Margaret Colin, Mamie Gummer, Rose Hemingway, John Larroquette, Patina Miller, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Arian Moayed, Jim Parsons, Andrew Rannells, Liev Schreiber, and Frank Wood |
| 2012 | no formal host | Webster Hall | Eric McCormack, Grace Gummer, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce, Justin Bartha, Leslie Odom Jr., Lily Rabe, Michael McKean, Tonya Pinkins, Topher Grace, and Tracee Chimo |
| 2013 | Jessica Hecht and Jeremy Shamos | Webster Hall | Bobby Cannavale, Tracee Chimo, Cyndi Lauper, Judith Light, Krysta Rodriguez, Duncan Sheik, Meryl Streep, and Courtney B. Vance |
| 2014 | Tamara Tunie and Hamish Linklater | Webster Hall | Betsy Aidem, Harvey Fierstein, Lena Hall, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Andy Karl, David Bar Katz, Cristin Milioti, Kelli O'Hara, Lily Rabe, and Stephen Trask |
| 2015 | Lea DeLaria | Webster Hall | Sting, Jessie Eisenberg, Stockard Channing, Billy Crudup, Tony Kushner, Lisa Kron, and William Ivey Long |
| 2016 | Lea DeLaria | Webster Hall | Savion Glover, Elizabeth Marvel, Colman Domingo, Danai Gurira, Tovah Feldshuh, Lisa Kron, Maura Tierney, Kate Burton, Carrie Preston, Norm Lewis, and Marlo Thomas |
| 2017 | Lea DeLaria | Webster Hall | Chris Cooper, Rose Byrne, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, Jayne Houdyshell, Lena Hall, Jefferson Mays, LaChanze, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Taylor Mac, Darius de Haas, Mike Faist, J. Smith-Cameron, David Henry Hwang, Derek McLane, William Ivey Long, Emilio Sosa, Peter Barbey |
| 2018 | John Leguizamo | Terminal 5 | Andrew Garfield, Lucy Liu, Matthew Broderick, Oliver Platt, Laura Benanti, Laura Osnes, Beth Malone, David Morse, Itamar Moses, Arian Moayed, Stephen Trask, Gideon Glick, Rebecca Taichman, William Ivey Long, Natasha Katz, David Henry Hwang, David Zinn, Emilio Sosa, Lilli Cooper, Pixie Aventura, Heather Hitchens, Peter Barbey, Michael Feingold |
| 2019 | Rachel Bloom | Terminal 5 | Eric Bogosian, Julie White, Kristine Nielsen, Beowulf Boritt, Patti LuPone, Lily Rabe, Hamish Linklater, Heather Hitchens, David Henry Hwang, Billy Crudup, Margo Seibert, Michael John LaChiusa, Liesl Tommy, Damon Daunno, Rachel Chavkin, Rebecca Taichman, Luke Cresswell, Riccardo Hernandez, Mimi Lien, Marc Kudisch |
| 2020 | Cole Escola | YouTube (virtual, due to COVID-19) | Clint Ramos, Craig Lucas, Cynthia Erivo, Dominique Morisseau, Eisa Davis, Emilio Sosa, Heather Hitchens, Heidi Schreck, Katrina Lenk, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Liesl Tommy, Malcolm Gets, Rachel Chavkin, Rachel Hauck, Sahr Ngaujah, Sam Pinkleton, Saycon Sengbloh |
| 2021 | due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, the 66th Obie Awards were not held until 2023, collectively honouring productions of the 2020–21, 2021–22 and 2022–23 theater seasons | due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, the 66th Obie Awards were not held until 2023, collectively honouring productions of the 2020–21, 2021–22 and 2022–23 theater seasons | due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, the 66th Obie Awards were not held until 2023, collectively honouring productions of the 2020–21, 2021–22 and 2022–23 theater seasons |
| 2022 | due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, the 66th Obie Awards were not held until 2023, collectively honouring productions of the 2020–21, 2021–22 and 2022–23 theater seasons | due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, the 66th Obie Awards were not held until 2023, collectively honouring productions of the 2020–21, 2021–22 and 2022–23 theater seasons | due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, the 66th Obie Awards were not held until 2023, collectively honouring productions of the 2020–21, 2021–22 and 2022–23 theater seasons |
| 2023 | Crystal Lucas-Perry | Terminal 5 | Emilio Sosa, Heather Hitchens, J. Allen Suddeth, Melissa Rose Bernardo, David Mendizábal, Rachel Chavkin, |
| 2024 | Kara Young and Frank DiLella | NY1 | Presented on Air by Hosts |

## Notable winners
### 2000s

| Year | Recipients |
| 2000 | Cynthia Hopkins (Performance - Another Telepathic Thing); Byron Jennings (Performance Award - Waste); Maria Irene Fornes (Special Citation - Letters From Cuba); Susan Hilferty (Sustained Excellence in Costume Design) |
| 2001 | Brian d'Arcy James (Performance Award - The Good Thief); Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Special Citation - Lackawanna Blues); Justin Vivian Bond (Special Citation - Kiki and Herb: Jesus Wept); Kirsten Childs (Music and Lyrics Award - The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin); Neil Patel (Design Award - War of the Worlds, Resident Alien, Race, I Will Bear Witness); José Rivera (Playwrighting Award - References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot) |
| 2002 | Kevin Adams (Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design); Tony Kushner (Playwrighting Award - Homebody/Kabul); Caryl Churchill; Charles L. Mee |
| 2003 | Mac Wellman (Lifetime Achievement Award); Mos Def (Performance Award - Fucking A); Fiona Shaw (Performance - Medea); Edward Norton (Performance - Burn This); Denis O'Hare (Performance Award - Take Me Out); Christine Ebersole (Performance Award - Talking Heads); Kenneth Posner (Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design); David Greenspan (Special Citation - She Stoops to Comedy) |
| 2004 | Derek McLane; Moises Kaufman (Directing Award - I am My Own Wife); Viola Davis (Performance Award - Intimate Apparel); Sarah Jones (Performance Award - Bridge & Tunnel); Jefferson Mays (Performance Award - I am My Own Wife); Tony Kushner (Special Citation - Caroline, or Change); Jeanine Tesori (Special Citation - Caroline, or Change); Alex Timbers (Special Citation - A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant) |
| 2005 | LaChanze (Performance Award - Dessa Rose); Cherry Jones (Performance Award - Doubt); Deirdre O'Connell (Sustained Excellence in Performance Award); Rui Rita (Design Award - Engaged); Caryl Churchill (Playwrighting Award - A Number); Lynn Nottage (Playwriting Award - Fabulation); Ivo van Hove (Directing Award - Hedda Gabler) |
| 2006 | Dana Ivey (Performance Award - Mrs. Warren's Profession); Christine Ebersole (Performance Award - Grey Gardens); Allen Moyer (Sustained Excellence of Set Design); Robert O'Hara (Special Citation - In the Continuum); Danai Gurira (Special Citation - In the Continuum); Adam Rapp (Special Citation - Red Light Winter) |
| 2007 | Young Jean Lee (Obie Grant Award); Lin-Manuel Miranda (Music and Lyrics Award - In the Heights); Beowulf Boritt (Sustained Excellence in Set Design); Anne Kauffman |
| 2008 | Adrienne Kennedy (Lifetime Achievement Award); Annie Dorsen (Best New Theatre Piece - Passing Strange); Kate Mulgrew (Performance Award - Iphigenia 2.0); Jane Greenwood (Sustained Excellence of Costume Design Award); David Henry Hwang (Playwrighting Award - Yellow Face |
| 2009 | Lynn Nottage (Best American Play - Ruined); Stephen Sondheim (Music and Lyrics Award - Road Show); Jonathan Groff (Performance Award - Prayer for my Enemy) |

### 2010s

| Year | Recipients |
| 2010 | Sam Gold (Directing Award - Circle Mirror Transformation, The Alien); Reed Birney (Performance Award - Circle Mirror Transformation) |
| 2011 | Laurie Metcalf (Performance Award - The Other Place); Leigh Silverman (Directing Award - In the Wake, Go Back to Where You Are) |
| 2012 | Steven Hoggett, Martin Lowe, John Tiffany (Special Citations - Once); Mimi Lien (Set Design Award); Erin Courtney (Special Citation - A Map of Virtue) |
| 2013 | Dave Malloy and Rachel Chavkin (Special Citations - Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812); Annie Baker (Playwriting Award - The Flick) |
| 2014 | Sydney Lucas (Performance Award - Fun Home); Sonya Tayeh (Choreography Award) |
| 2015 | Lin-Manuel Miranda, Alex Lacamoire, Thomas Kail, Andy Blankenbuehler (Best New American Theatre Work - Hamilton) |
| 2016 | Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul (Musical Theatre Award - Dear Evan Hansen); Ben Platt (Performance Award); Lupita Nyong'o (Performance Award) |
| 2017 | Lynn Nottage (Playwriting Award - Sweat); J.T. Rogers (Playwriting Award - Oslo); Matthew Broderick (Performance Award); Michael Urie (Performance Award) |
| 2018 | Rajiv Joseph (Best New American Play-Describe the Night); Will Swenson (Performance Award); Jessica Hecht (Performance Award); Billy Crudup (Performance Award); Donald Holder (Lighting Design Award) |
| 2019 | Heidi Schreck (Best New American Play - What the Constitution Means to Me); Daniel Fish, John Heginbotham, Daniel Kluger, Laura Jellinek, Terese Wadden, Scott Zielinski, Drew Levy, Joshua Thorson (Special Citations-Oklahoma!) |

### 2020s

| Year | Recipients |
| 2020 | Writing: Will Arbery (Heroes of the Fourth Turning); Michael R. Jackson (A Strange Loop); Haruna Lee (Suicide Forest)Directing: JoAnne Akalaitis (MUD/Drowning); Kenny Leon (Much Ado About Nothing); Whitney White (Our Dear Dead Drug Lord); Les Waters for Sustained Excellence in DirectionPerformance: Liza Colón-Zayas and Elizabeth Rodriguez (Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven); Emily Davis (Is This A Room); Edmund Donovan (Greater Clements); April Matthis (Toni Stone); Joe Ngo (Cambodian Rock Band); Deirdre O'Connell (Dana H.)Design: Yu-Hsuan Chen - set design (Our Dear Dead Drug Lord); Mikhail Fiksel - sound design (Dana H. and Cambodian Rock Band); Andrea Hood - costume design (Public Works); Arnulfo Maldonado for Sustained Excellence in Set Design; Jen Schriever for Sustained Excellence in Lighting DesignChoreography: Camille A. Brown for Sustained Excellence in ChoreographyInstitutional Recognition: National Black Theatre for sustained excellence in production and continued advocacy on behalf of Black artists; Page 73 for providing extraordinary support for early career playwrights; The Tank for providing extraordinary support for emerging artistsSpecial Citations: Entire creative team and ensemble of Heroes of the Fourth Turning; Entire creative team and ensemble of A Strange Loop; David Cale for the writing and performance of We're Only Alive For A Short Amount of Time; Dave Malloy, Or Matias and Hidenori Nakajo for their collaboration on the music and sound of Octet; David Neumann and Marcella Murray for creation and performance of Distances Smaller Than This Are Not Confirmed; Tina Satter for the conception and direction of Is This A Room; Alexandria Wailes for Sustained Excellence as an Artist and Advocate; Asian American Performers Action Coalition (AAPAC) for advocacy of equity, diversity and inclusion; Michael Feingold for Extraordinary Service to the TheaterLifetime Achievement: Tim Sanford; Vinie BurrowsIn addition, Michael Feingold, theatre critic for The Village Voice and former chair of the Obie Awards, became the first recipient of the new Michael Feingold Award, to be awarded annually for excellence in criticism, dramaturgy, translation, scholarship, mentorship, or education. |
| 2021 | due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, the 66th Obie Awards were not held until 2023, collectively honouring productions of the 2020–21, 2021–22 and 2022–23 theater seasons |
| 2022 | due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, the 66th Obie Awards were not held until 2023, collectively honouring productions of the 2020–21, 2021–22 and 2022–23 theater seasons |
| 2023 | Best New American Play: Sanaz Toossi (English) Writing: Martyna Majok (Sanctuary City) Directing: Taylor Reynolds (Man Cave, Tambo & Bones) Awoye Timpo (Wedding Band) Saheem Ali for Sustained Excellence in Direction David Brimmer for Sustained Excellence in Direction Music Direction and Composition: Matt Ray (The Hang) Performance: Stephanie Berry (On Sugarland) Lizan Mitchell (On Sugarland) Brittany Bradford (Wedding Band) Kara Young (Twelfth Night) Arturo Luís Soria (Ni Mi Madre) Billy Eugene Jones for Sustained Achievement in Performance Andrea Patterson for Sustained Achievement in Performance Design: Reza Behjat (English and Wish You Were Here Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew for sustained achievement in lighting design Nikiya Mathis for sustained achievement in hair and wig design Machine Dazzle for sustained achievement in set and costume design Special Citation: Heather Christian (composer, vocal arrangements, orchestration) Ben Moss (music director, orchestration) Nick Kourtides (sound design) Musical team of Oratorio For Living Things Creative Team and Ensemble of Fat Ham (The Public Theater) – including James Ijames (playwright), Saheem Ali (director), Maruti Evans (set design), Dominique Fawn Hill (costume design), Stacey Derosier (lighting cesigner), Mikaal Sulaiman (sound design), Darrell Grand Moultrie (choreographer), Earon Chew Nealey (hair and wig design), Skylar Fox (illusions design), and ensemble members Nikki Crawford, Chris Herbie Holland, Billy Eugene Jones, Adrianna Mitchell, Calvin Leon Smith, Marcel Spears, Benja Kay Thomas Aya Ogawa for the creation, writing, and direction of The Nosebleed Qween Jean Digital+Virtual+Hybrid Production: Michael Breslin, Patrick Foley, Ariel Sibert, Cat Rodríguez, and Rory Pelsue (creators, writers, directors) in collaboration with David Bengali (video designer) for Circle Jerk Laurie Woolery for directing in the adaptation of As You Like It Shaina Taub for music and lyrics in the adaptation of As You Like It Alex Edelman (Just For Us) Modesto Flako Jimenez (Taxilandia) Richard Nelson for the completion and producing of The Rhinebeck Panorama Digital+Virtual+Hybrid Production: Sarah Gancher (writer), Jared Mezzocchi and Elizabeth Williamson (directors) (Russian Troll Farm) Lifetime Achievement: Ping Chong Anne Bogart Ralph Lee Casey Compton Mettawee River Theater Company Michael Feingold Award: Maestra Music |
| 2024 | Best New American Play: Ryan J. Haddad (Dark Disabled Stories) Writing: Hansol Jung (Wolf Play) Bruce Norris (Downstate) Directing: Dustin Wills (Montag, West Brain, Wolf Play) Shayok Misha Chowdhury (Public Obscenities) Faye Driscoll (Weathering) Eric Ting for Sustained Excellence in Direction Pam MacKinnon for Sustained Excellence in Direction Performance: William Jackson Harper (Primary Trust) Marla Mindelle (Titanique) Zuleyma Guevera (Sancocho) Maryann Plunkett (Deep Blue Sound) Shannon Tyo for Sustained Achievement in Performance John Douglas Thompson for Sustained Achievement in Performance K. Todd Freeman for Sustained Achievement in Performance Design: Enver Chakartash - Costume Design Barbara Samuels - Lighting Design dots for Sustained Achievement in Design Mikaal Sulaiman for Sustained Achievement in Sound Design Special Citations: Ensemble: Ryan J. Haddad, Dickie Hearts, and Alejandra Ospina (Dark Disabled Stories) Design Team of West Brain: Kate Noll (Set), Cha See (Lights), Haydee Zelideth Antuñano (Costumes), Tei Blow (Co-Sound), John Gasper (Co-Sound), Nick Hussong (Projections) Ensemble of The Comeuppance: Brittany Bradford, Caleb Eberhardt, Susannah Flood, Bobby Moreno, Shannon Tyo Liza Birkenmeier (Writer) and Tara Ahmadinejad (Director) (Grief Hotel) Lead Actors: Ariana Venturi and Nadine Malouf (Montag) Ann C. James - Founder and Mentor of Intimacy Coordinators of Color Lifetime Achievement: Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver, Writing and Performing Duo of Split Britches Carole Rothman, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Second Stage Theater Michael Feingold Award: Andrew Morrill - Director of Artistic Sign Language (Dark Disabled Stories) Alison Kopit - Access Dramaturgy (Dark Disabled Stories) |

## Grants

Obie Grants are awarded each year to select theatre companies. Previous recipients include:
| Year | Recipient |
| 1985 | Intar |
| 1985 | The Production Company |
| 1985 | The Richard Allen Center |
| 1985 | Spiderwoman Theatre |
| 1985 | The Split Britches Company |
| 1986 | P.S. 122 |
| 1986 | Billie Holiday Theatre |
| 1986 | Mabou Mines |
| 1987 | The Irish Arts Center |
| 1987 | Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association (BACA) |
| 1987 | The New Theatre of Brooklyn |
| 1988 | CSC Repertory |
| 1988 | Theatre for a New Audience |
| 1989 | Cucaracha Warehouse Theater |
| 1989 | The Living Theater |
| 1990 | Dixon Place |
| 1990 | Pregones Theater |
| 1990 | WOW Cafe |
| 1990 | BACA New Works Project |
| 1990 | 52nd Street Project |
| 1991 | En Garde Arts |
| 1991 | Hearts and Voices |
| 1991 | Mettawee River Theater Company |
| 1992 | Downtown Art Company |
| 1992 | Franklin Furnace |
| 1992 | Soho Repertory Company |
| 1993 | Nuyorican Poets Cafe |
| 1993 | Pearl Theater |
| 1994 | Changing Scenes |
| 1994 | HERE Arts Center |
| 1995 | Archives at LaMama |
| 1995 | Blueprint Series at Ontologic-Hysteric Theatre |
| 1995 | Nada |
| 1996 | New George's |
| 1996 | The TEBA Group |
| 1997 | St.Paul's Community Baptist Church Drama Ministry |
| 1997 | Great Small Works |
| 1998 | Housing Works Theater Project |
| 1998 | Caught in the Act annual one-act festival presented (Threshold Theater Co.) |
| 1999 | The POINT Community Development Corporation |
| 1999 | National Asian American Theater |
| 2000 | Five Myles |
| 2000 | Circus Amok |
| 2000 | Big Dance Theater |
| 2001 | Soho Rep |
| 2001 | Clubbed Thumb |
| 2001 | Classical Theater of Harlem |
| 2001 | Mint Theater Company |
| 2002 | Ma-Yi Theater Company |
| 2002 | Salt Theater Company |
| 2003 | Collapsable Hole |
| 2003 | Galapagos |
| 2003 | The Immigrant Theatre Project |
| 2004 | The Civilians |
| 2004 | Musicals Tonight |
| 2004 | THAW (Theaters Against War) |
| 2005 | 13P |
| 2005 | Epic Theatre Company |
| 2005 | Little Theater at Tonic |
| 2005 | Gina Gionfriddo Distinguished Emerging Playwright |
| 2005 | Margo Skinner Memorial Acting Scholarship |
| 2007 | Peculiar Works Project |
| 2007 | The Play Company |
| 2007 | Synapse Productions |
| 2007 | Transport Group |
| 2007 | Young Jean Lee |
| 2008 | Keen Company |
| 2008 | Theater of a Two-Headed Calf |
| 2009 | The Chocolate Factory |
| 2009 | The Classical Theatre of Harlem |
| 2009 | Lark Play Development Center |
| 2010 | Harlem School of the Arts |
| 2010 | Ontological Incubator |
| 2010 | Vampire Cowboys |
| 2011 | Metropolitan Playhouse |
| 2011 | Wakka Wakka |
| 2012 | Bushwick Starr |
| 2012 | The Debate Society |
| 2013 | Fulcrum Theater |
| 2013 | Half Straddle |
| 2014 | 48 Hours in Harlem |
| 2014 | 600 Highwaymen |
| 2015 | Horse Trade Theater Group / The Fire This Time Festival |
| 2015 | JACK (Arts Center) |
| 2016 | Bedlam Theatre |
| 2016 | Noor Theatre |
| 2016 | Prospect Theater Company |
| 2017 | Irish Repertory Theatre |
| 2017 | Pearl Theatre Company |
| 2017 | The Playwrights Realm |
| 2018 | Pan-Asian Repertory Theatre |
| 2018 | York Theatre Company |
| 2019 | The Movement Theatre Company |
| 2019 | Target Margin Theatre |
| 2019 | WP Theater |
| 2023 | The Sol Project |
| 2023 | Theatre in Quarantine |
| 2023 | See Lighting Foundation |
| 2023 | Anticapitalism for Artists |
| 2024 | Breaking the Binary Theatre Company |
| 2024 | Dominican Artists Collective (DAC) |
| 2024 | The Brick |
Ross Wetzsteon Award is a $2,000 grant awarded to a theatre that nurture innovative new plays. Previous recipients include:
| Year | Recipient |
| 1998 | Vineyard Theatre |
| 1999 | Ellie Covan |
| 1999 | Dixon Place |
| 2000 | The Foundry |
| 2001 | Theatre For A New Audience |
| 2002 | PS 122 |
| 2003 | Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory series at the Ohio Theatre |
| 2004 | St. Ann's Warehouse |
| 2005 | New Dramatists |
| 2006 | Soho Repertory Theater |
| 2007 | Rattlestick Theatre |
| 2008 | Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project |
| 2009 | HERE Arts Center |
| 2011 | Belarus Free Theatre |
| 2014 | Abrons Arts Center |
| 2015 | Ars Nova |
| 2016 | NAATCO / National Asian American Theatre Company |
| 2017 | Theatre For a New Audience |
| 2018 | Ma-Yi Theater Company |
| 2019 | LCT3 |
| 2023 | Classical Theatre of Harlem |
| 2024 | Under the Radar Festival |