Photo Coverage: Off-Broadway's Finest Celebrate Wins at the 60th Annual Obie Awards!
By: Kevin Thomas Garcia May. 19, 2015
The American Theatre Wing and the Village Voice just presented the winners of the 60th Annual OBIE Awards. The Public Theater's Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda (including special citations for Andy Blankenbuehler, Thomas Kail, and Alex Lacamoire) received the OBIE Award for Best New American Theatre Work, which is accompanied by a $1,000 check. The Signature Theatre's Founding Artistic Director James Houghton received the OBIE Award for Sustained Achievement. The Awards were hosted by OBIE Award-winning actress Lea DeLaria ("Orange is the New Black"). BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the winners room below!
Click here for a full list of winners.
This year's presenters included Sting, Jesse Eisenberg, OBIE Award winner Stockard Channing, Billy Crudup, two-time OBIE Award winner Tommy Tune, T.R. Knight, three-time OBIE Award winner Tony Kushner, OBIE Award winner LaChanze, two-time OBIE Award winner Lisa Kron, artist Bradley Theodore, OBIE Award winner William Ivey Long, and Village Voice editor-in-chief Tom Finkel. The evening also included special performances by 2015 Tony Award® nominee Michael Cerveris who celebrated the 60th Anniversary of the first musical to win an OBIE Award, The Threepenny Opera, by performing "The Ballad of Mack the Knife," and Natalie Cortez who honored the 40th Anniversary of A Chorus Line by performing "What I Did For Love".
The American Theatre Wing has entered into a partnership with the Village Voice to co-present The OBIE Awards, Off Broadway's Highest Honor. The 60th Annual OBIE Awards judging panel was led by longtime OBIE Committee Chairman Michael Feingold and included playwright Adam Bock, orchestrator Bruce Coughlin, director Lear deBessonet, scenic designer Mimi Lien, critic David Rooney, Village Voice critic Tom Sellar, and director Liesl Tommy.
For more information, visit www.ObieAwards.com.
Photo Credit: Kevin Thomas Garcia
Jesse Eisenberg and Stephen McKinley Henderson
Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sting, Alex Lacamoire and Andy Blankenbuehler
Abigail DeVille
Tony Kushner and Suzan Lori-Parks
Bush Moukarzel
Jeff Larson, Andrew Dinwiddie and Caleb Hammons
Clare Barron
Lee Sunday Evans and Kate Benson
Lisa Kron and Michael Cerveris
James Houghton and David Henry Hwang
Usman Ally and LaChanze
Benja Kay Thomas, Jesse Penington, Jessica Francis Dukes, Robert O'Hara and Philip James Branon
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