DETROIT, GRIMLY HANDSOME Tie for Best New American Play at 2013 Obie Awards - All the Winners!

The 58th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards ceremony was held tonight, May 20 at Webster Hall (125 East 11th Street, NYC). Check out the the full list of winners below!

The evening, hosted by THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES' Jessica Hecht and Jeremy Shamos, featured performances by HERE LIES LOVE and Banda Magda, as well as presenters Bobby Cannavale, Maggie Grace, Cyndi Lauper, Judith Light, Krysta Rodriguez, Duncan Sheik and Courtney B. Vance.

The 2013 Lifetime Achievement OBIE Award Recipients were Lois Smith and Frances Sternhagen. The honorees were presented with their awards by Meryl Streep.

The Obies were judged by a committee that included the Voice's Chief Theater Critc Michael Feingold as Chairman, Voice critic Alexis Soloski as secretary, and the following guest judges: Obie Award-winning playwright Erin Courtney; director-performer Mia Katigbak, Co-Founder of NAATCO; critic and Theatermagazine editor Tom Sellar; and Obie Award-winning director Leigh Silverman.

In a tie vote, the judges accorded the award for Best New American Play to Lisa d'Amour's Detroit (Playwrights Horizons) and Julia Jarcho's Grimly Handsome (Incubator Arts Project), with each playwright receiving a $500. cash prize.

2013 VILLAGE VOICE OBIE AWARD WINNERS:

PERFORMANCE

Eisa Davis

Sustained Excellence

Brandon J. Dirden

The Piano Lesson (Signature Theatre)

Shuler Hensley

The Whale (Playwrights Horizons)

Matthew Maher

Sustained Excellence

Paul Thureen

Blood Play (The Debate Society/Bushwick Starr)

PLAYWRITING

Ayad Akhtar

Disgraced (LCT3)

Annie Baker

The Flick (Playwrights Horizons)

DIRECTION

Lear deBessonet

The Good Person Of Szechuan (Foundry Theatre/La MaMa)

John Rando

All In The Timing (Primary Stages)

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

The Piano Lesson (Signature Theatre)

Eric Ting

We Are Proud To Present A Presentation... (Soho Rep)

DESIGN

Laura Jellinek

Sustained excellence of Set Design

Clint Ramos

Sustained excellence of Costume Design

SPECIAL CITATIONS

David Levine and Marsha Ginsberg

HABIT (Crossing the Line Festival/FIAF & PS122)

Dave Malloy and Rachel Chavkin

NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 (Ars Nova)

Nature Theater of Oklahoma

LIFE AND TIMES: EPISODES 1-4 (Public Theater/SoRep)

MUSIC/LYRICS

David Byrne & Fatboy Slim

HERE LIES LOVE (Public Theater)

The Ross Wetzsteon Award (with check for $1000.)

Clubbed Thumb

GRANTS

Fulcrum Theater ($1,000)

Half Straddle ($1,000)

BEST NEW AMERICAN PLAY (tie w/$500. to each playwright)

Lisa D'Amour, Detroit

Julia Jarcho, Grimly Handsome

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

Lois Smith

Frances Sternhagen