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51st Annual Village Voice Obie Awards

The 51st Annual Village Voice Obie Awards were presented on May 15, 2005 at the NYU Skirball Center in Manhattan.


PERFORMANCE

Reed Birney for sustained excellence of performance

Michael Cumpsty for his performance in Hamlet

Christine Ebersole for her performance in Grey Gardens

Ari Fliakos for his performance in Poor Theater: A Series of Simulacra

Edwin Lee Gibson for his performance in The Seven

Peter Francis James for his performance in Stuff Happens

Byron Jennings for his performance in Stuff Happens

Marin Ireland for her performance in Cyclone

Dana Ivey for her performance in Mrs. Warren's Profession

Meg MacCary for her performance in What Then

S. Epatha Merkerson for her performance in Birdie Blue

Euan Morton for his performance in Measure for Pleasure

Sherie Rene Scott for her performance in Landscape of the Body

Scott Shepherd for his performance in Poor Theater: A Series of Simulacra

Lois Smith for her performance in The Trip to Bountiful

Julie White for her performance in The Little Dog Laughed

Gary Wilmes for his performance in Red Light Winter


DIRECTION

John Clancy for sustained excellence of direction

Daniel Sullivan for Stuff Happens


PLAYWRITING

Rolin Jones for The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow

Martin McDonagh for The Lieutenant Of Inishmore


DESIGN

Allen Moyer for sustained excellence of set design

The National Theater of the United States of Americ for Abacus Black Strikes Now! The Rampant Justice of Abacus Black

Anita Yavic for sustained excellence of costume design

Special Citation

Hunter Bell, Michael Berresse, Jeff Bowen; [title of show]

Special Citation

Ricky Ian Gordon, Jane Moss, Jon Nakagawa, Doug Varone; Orpheus and Euridyce

Special Citation

Danai Gurira, Robert O'Hara, Nikkole Salter; In the Continuum

Special Citation

Adam Rapp, Red Light Winter


THE ROSS WETZSTEON MEMORIAL AWARD

Soho Repertory Theater


SUSTAINED ACHIEVEMENT

Eric Bentley

THEATER GRANTS

Billie Holiday Theatre ($3,000)
Edge Theater Company ($3,000)
Red Bull Theater ($3,000)

EMERGING PLAYWRIGHT GRANTS

Neena Beber ($1,000)
Rinne Groff ($1,000)

Village Voice Judges : Michael Feingold, Alexis Soloski, Jorge Morales, chairman

Guest Judges: David Herskovits, Eduardo Machado, Lynn Nottage, Deidre O'Connell, Marc Robinson

Assistant to the Committee: Elizabeth Lawler

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