2006 Obie Award winners

[MargoChanning]

2006 Obie Award winners#0

Posted: 5/15/06 at 10:43pm

2006 Winners

Performance

Reed Birney, sustained excellence of performance
Michael Cumpsty, Hamlet
Christine Ebersole, Grey Gardens
Ari Fliakos, Poor Theater: A Series of Simulacra
Edwin Lee Gibson, The Seven
Peter Francis James, Stuff Happens
Byron Jennings, Stuff Happens
Marin Ireland, Cyclone
Dana Ivey, Mrs. Warren's Profession
Meg MacCary, What Then
S. Epatha Merkerson, Birdie Blue
Euan Morton, Measure for Pleasure
Sherie Rene Scott, Landscape of the Body
Scott Shepherd, Poor Theater: A Series of Simulacra
Lois Smith, The Trip to Bountiful
Julie White, The Little Dog Laughed
Gary Wilmes, Red Light Winter

Direction

John Clancy, sustained excellence of direction
Daniel Sullivan, Stuff Happens

Playwriting
Rolin Jones, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow
Martin McDonagh, The Lieutenant Of Inishmore

Design

Allen Moyer, sustained excellence of set design
The National Theater of the United States of America, Abacus Black Strikes Now! The Rampant Justice of Abacus Black
Anita Yavich, sustained excellence of costume design

Special Citation

Hunter Bell, Michael Berresse, Jeff Bowen; [title of show]
Ricky Ian Gordon, Jane Moss, Jon Nakagawa, Doug Varone; Orpheus and Euridyce
Danai Gurira, Robert O'Hara, Nikkole Salter; In the Continuum
Adam Rapp, Red Light Winter

The Ross Wetzsteon Memorial Award
Soho Repertory Theater

Lifetime Achievement
Eric Bentley

Theater Grants
Billie Holiday Theatre ($3,000)
Edge Theater Company ($3,000)
Red Bull Theater ($3,000)
Emerging Playwright Grants
Neena Beber ($1,000)
Rinne Groff ($1,000)

Village Voice Judges
Michael Feingold
Jorge Morales, chairman
Alexis Soloski

Guest Judges
David Herskovits
Eduardo Machado
Lynn Nottage
Deidre O'Connell
Marc Robinson

Assistant to the Committee
Elizabeth Lawler


http://www.villagevoice.com/obies/

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

Updated On: 5/15/06 at 10:43 PM

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: 2006 Obie Award winners#1

Posted: 5/15/06 at 10:50pm

Hunter Bell, Michael Berresse, Jeff Bowen; [title of show]

Congrats, guys! Very much deserved!

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

[little_sally]

re: 2006 Obie Award winners#2

Posted: 5/15/06 at 10:58pm

I'm shocked Euan Morton won and not Michael Stuhlbarg. I thought Stuhlbarg was far better in Measure For Pleasure.

A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.

[CurtainPullDowner]

re: 2006 Obie Award winners#3

Posted: 5/15/06 at 11:07pm

Where's Mary Louise Wilson?
She was also brilliant!

[wickedrentq]

re: 2006 Obie Award winners#4

Posted: 5/15/06 at 11:07pm

Congrats to Sherie! So nice to see her up there.

"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli

[Unknown User]

re: 2006 Obie Award winners#5

Posted: 5/15/06 at 11:08pm

Were they presented tonight? Earlier this evening I saw Lois Smith walking down the street and she was all dressed up - She looked lovely. I was wondering if she was heading to an awards ceremony!

[MargoChanning]

re: 2006 Obie Award winners#6

Posted: 5/15/06 at 11:12pm

Yep. The Obie ceremony just finished up less than an hour ago.

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

[Dre2387]

re: 2006 Obie Award winners#7

Posted: 5/15/06 at 11:18pm

Red Bull Theater?

that just makes me laugh.

<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.

-Dre- You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree.
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
There's a special kind of people known as show people. We live in a world full of dreams. Sometimes we're not too certain what's false and what's real. But we're seldom in doubt about what we feel.
~Curtains~
It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever known.
~A Tale of Two Cities ~

[Unknown User]

re: 2006 Obie Award winners#8

Posted: 5/15/06 at 11:19pm

Thanks,Margo.