2008 OBIE Awards

The 2008 OBIE Award Winners are:

Playwriting

• Horton Foote, Dividing The Estate
• David Henry Hwang, Yellow Face

Direction

• Krzysztof Warlikowski, Krum
• David Cromer, Adding Machine

Performance

• LisaGay Hamilton, The Ohio State Murders
• Kate Mulgrew, Iphigenia 2.0
• Francis Jue, Yellow Face
• Rebecca Wisocky, Amazons and Their Men
• Joel Hatch, Adding Machine
• Heidi Schreck, Drum Of The Waves Of Horikawa
• Veanne Cox, Sustained Excellence of Performance
• Sean McNall, Sustained Excellence of Performance
  
  
• Ensemble, Passing Strange:
  (De'Adre Aziza, Daniel Breaker, Eisa Davis, Colman Domingo, Chad Goodridge, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Stew)

Design

• Takeshi Kata, Set - Keith Parham, Lighting Design, Adding Machine
  
  
• Peter Ksander, Scenic Design
  Untitled Mars (This Title May Change)
  
  
• Ben Katchor, Drawings; John Findlay & Jeff Sugg, Set & Projection
  Russell H. Champa, Lighting Design
  The Slug Bearers Of Kayrol Island
  
  
• Jane Greenwood,
  Sustained Excellence of Costume Design
  
  
• David Zinn,
  Sustained Excellence of Costume and Set Design

Special Citations

• Nature Theater of Oklahoma, No Dice
• David Greenspan, The Argument

Best New Theater Piece: $1,000

• Stew, Heidi Rodewald, Annie Dorsen,
  Passing Strange

The Ross Wetzsteon Award $2,000

• Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project

Lifetime Achievement Award

• Adrienne Kennedy

Obie Grants

• Keen Company $5,000
• Theater of a Two-Headed Calf $5,000