1997–1998 Obie Awards
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The 1997–1998 Obie Awards, honoring distinguished achievement in Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway productions, were presented on May 18, 1998, at New York's Manhattan Center.
Best Play: | Richard Foreman, Pearls for Pigs, Benita Canova |
Direction: | Ivo van Hove, More Stately Mansions; |
David Esbjornson, Therese Raquin; | |
Jo Bonney, sustained excellence of direction | |
Performance: | Lea DeLaria, On the Town; |
Mary Testa, On the Town and From Above; | |
Tim Hopper, More Stately Mansions; | |
David Patrick Kelly, sustained excellence of performance; | |
Joseph Wiseman, I Can't Remember Anything; | |
Heather Gillespie, Mamba's Daughters; | |
Kate Valk, sustained excellence of performance; | |
Marie Mullen, The Beauty Queen of Leenane; | |
Matthew Maguire, I Don't Know Who He Was and I Don't Know What He Said; | |
Yvette Freeman, Dinah Was; | |
Adriane Lenox, Dinah Was; | |
Elizabeth Marvel, Therese Raquin and Misalliance; | |
J. Smith Cameron, As Bees in Honey Drown; | |
Brian Murray, sustained excellence of performance; | |
Joan MacIntosh, More Stately Mansions | |
Design: | Darron L. West, soundscape for Bob; |
Mimi Jordan Sherin, lighting design for Bob | |
Special Citations: | Target Margin Theater, Mamba's Daughters; |
David Herskovits, Thomas Cabaniss, Lenore Doxsee, Erika Belsey, David Zinn, Tim Schellenbaum, John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig and the Angry Inch; | |
Stephen Trask, Hedwig and the Angry Inch; | |
Mark Bennett, sustained excellence of sound design; | |
Alan Johnson, sustained excellence of musical direction and pianism; | |
Karen Finley, The American Chestnut; | |
Philim McDermott, Lee Simpson, Julian Crouch, Guy Dartnell, Ben Park, and Steve Tiplady, creators of 70 Hill Lane; | |
Buzz Cohen, distinguished stage management | |
Sustained Achievement: | Jennifer Tipton |
Ross Wetzsteon Award: | Doug Aibel and the Vineyard Theater for sustained support of artists and creativity in the theater |
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