2008-2009 OBIE AWARD WINNERS

2008-2009

Obie Award Winners

 

The 54th annual Obie Awards, celebrating excellence in Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway theatre, were presented last night.

 

 

 

THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN has received a performance award (Aaron Monaghan).

 

 

HUMOR ABUSE, which concluded an extended engagement this spring at Manhattan Theatre Club, received a performance Obie (Lorenzo Pisoni).

 

RUINED, currently playing at Manhattan Theatre Club, has received four Obie Awards: Best New American Play (Lynn Nottage), and three performance awards (Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, and Russell G. Jones).

 

 

Not for profit company awards:

 

 

ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY received an award for THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN.

 

 

MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB productions won five Obie Awards: four for RUINED and one for HUMOR ABUSE.

 

 

TO READ THE COMPLETE LIST OF NOMINEES, VISIT: http://tinyurl.com/oj4tee