Obie Award

The **Obie Awards** or **Off-Broadway Theater Awards** are annual awards originally given by Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City

## Ceremony history

Obie Award ceremonies have been held at Webster Hall in Manhattan's East Village since the 2010-2011 season.
|Year|Host|Venue|Presenters||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1956|Shelley Winters|unknown venue|||
|1957|Geraldine Page|rowspan=2|The Limelight||
|1958|Maureen Stapleton||||
|1959|Kim Stanley|rowspan=14|Village Gate||
|1960|Anne Bancroft||||
|1961|Julie Harris||||
|1962|Lotte Lenya||||
|1963|Uta Hagen||||
|1964|Colleen Dewhurst||||
|1965|Gloria Foster||||
|1966|Anne Jackson||||
|1967|Barbara Harris||||
|1968|Estelle Parsons||||
|1969|Julie Bovasso||||
|1970|Dustin Hoffman||||
|1971|Elaine May||||
|1972|Groucho Marx||||
|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|rowspan=3|The Bottom Line||
|1978|Dustin Hoffman||||
|1979|Ron Leibman||||
|1980|no formal host|rowspan=2|Roxy NYC||
|1981|Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver||||
|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|rowspan=2|Palladium Ballroom||
|1992|Jerry Zaks, Kate Nelligan||||
|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|rowspan=8|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|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|Ping Chong, Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy, Cynthia Nixon, Frances Sternhagen, Mary Testa, Carmelita Tropicana, James Urbaniak|||
|2001|Brian Murray, Marian Seldes|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|Elizabeth Franz, Mary Louise Parker, Ellen McLaughlin, Rinde Eckert, Richard Maxwell, Suzan-Lori Parks, and George C. Wolfe|||
|2003|Bill Irwin, Charlayne Woodard|Edward Albee, Linda Emond, Juliana Francis, Martha Plimpton, Jackie Hoffman, Eddie Izzard, John Ortiz, and Liev Schreiber|||
|2004|Swoosie Kurtz, Raul Esparza|Viola Davis, Idina Menzel, Taye Diggs, and Denis O'Hare|||
|2005|Stockard Channing, Brian F. O'Byrne|Elaine Stritch and Frances Sternhagen|||
|2006|Lili Taylor, Eric Bogosian|rowspan=2|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|Michael Cerveris, Angela Lansbury, William Ivey Long, Camryn Manheim, Stephanie March, Terrence McNally, Liev Schreiber, and Anika Noni Rose|||
|2008|Elizabeth Marvel, Bill Camp|rowspan=10|Webster Hall|Jonathan Groff, Priscilla Lopez, S. Epatha Merkerson, Marisa Tomei, Julie White and Bradley Whitford|
|2009|Daniel Breaker, Martha Plimpton|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|J. Smith-Cameron, Marin Ireland, Linda Lavin, Hamish Linklater, Michael Shannon and Jennifer Westfeldt|||
|2011|S. Epatha Merkerson and David Hyde Pierce|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|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|Bobby Cannavale, Tracee Chimo, Cyndi Lauper, Judith Light, Krysta Rodriguez, Duncan Sheik, Meryl Streep, and Courtney B. Vance|||
|2014|Tamara Tunie and Hamish Linklater|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|Sting, Jessie Eisenberg, Stockard Channing, Billy Crudup, Tony Kushner, Lisa Kron, and William Ivey Long|||
|2016|Lea DeLaria|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|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|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,||

## Infobox (award)

- **name**: Obie Awards
- **presenter**: American Theatre Wing and _The Village Voice_
- **awarded for**: Excellence in Off-Broadway, Off-Broadway theatre
- **location**: New York City, New York (state), New York
- **country**: United States