Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress
January 06, 2023
The Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress was first presented in 1956. The award has no nominees and there is no set number of winners per year. Each performance listed by year below was given an award and they are listed in no particular order. The award can be for a lead or supporting performance and in a play or musical. On occasion, the Obie Awards committee will give an actress an award for sustained excellence of performance to recognize their contributions to Off-Broadway theatre. There is also a separate ensemble award given to recognize entire casts without singling out a particular performer, as they have below. On occasion, the committee gives an actress an award for sustained lifetime achievement, listings for which are also included below. The Obie Award is for performances Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway in New York City only, and is one of the most respected theatre awards given in the United States.[1][2] In 2014, Sydney Lucas became the youngest winner in OBIE history, at age 10.[3] ‡ – indicates the performance was also nominated for the Tony Award after transferring to Broadway.
^"59th Annual Obie Award Winners Announced" May 20, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Playbill
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January 06, 2023
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The Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress was first presented in 1956 The award has no nominees and there is no set number of winners per year Each performance listed by year below was given an award and they are listed in no particular order The award can be for a lead or supporting performance and in a play or musical On occasion the Obie Awards committee will give an actress an award for sustained excellence of performance to recognize their contributions to Off Broadway theatre There is also a separate ensemble award given to recognize entire casts without singling out a particular performer as they have below On occasion the committee gives an actress an award for sustained lifetime achievement listings for which are also included below The Obie Award is for performances Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway in New York City only and is one of the most respected theatre awards given in the United States 1 2 In 2014 Sydney Lucas became the youngest winner in OBIE history at age 10 3 indicates the performance was also nominated for the Tony Award after transferring to Broadway Obie Award for Best ActressAwarded forBest Performance by an Actress in a Off Broadway or Off Off Broadway productionLocationUnited States New York CityPresented byThe Village VoiceWebsitehttp www obieawards com Contents 1 1950s 2 1960s 3 1970s 4 1980s 5 1990s 6 2000s 7 2010s 8 Winners of more than one award 9 References 10 External links1950s EditYear Winners Play Musical Character1956 Peggy McCay Uncle Vanya SofiaShirlee Emmons The Mother of Us All Susan B AnthonyNancy Wickwire The Cherry Orchard VaryaJulie Bovasso The Maids ClaireFrances Sternhagen The Admirable Bashville Lydia Carew1957 Betty Miller Exiles BeatriceMarguerite Lenert The House of Breath Granny GanchionColleen Dewhurst The Taming of the Shrew amp The Eagle Has Two Heads amp Camille Kate The Queen Marguerite GautierJutta Wolf Exiles Bertha1958 Grania O Malley Guests of the Nation Kate O ConnellNydia Westman Endgame NellAnne Meacham Garden District Catharine HollyTammy Grimes Clerambard The Flounder1959 Nancy Wickwire A Clearing in the Woods VirginiaKathleen Maguire The Time of the Cuckoo Leona SamishAnne Fielding Ivanov SashaRosina Fernhoff Fashion amp The Geranium Hat Gertrude Anne Betty1960s EditYear Winners Play Musical Character1960 Eileen Brennan Little Mary Sunshine Mary PottsPatricia Falkenhain Peer Gynt amp Henry IV Part 1 The Greenclad Woman Doll TearsheetElisa Loti Come Share My House Nancy Marchand The Balcony Irma1961 Joan Hackett Call Me By My Rightful Name ChrisGerry Jedd She Stoops to Conquer Kate HardcastleSurya Kamari The King of the Dark Chamber Queen SudarshanaAnne Meacham Hedda Gabler Hedda Gabler1962 Ruth White Happy Days WinnieSudie Bond Theatre of the Absurd NellBarbara Harris Oh Dad Poor Dad Mamma s Hung You RosalieRosemary Harris The Tavern amp The School for Scandal amp The Seagull Virginia Lady Teazle NinaVinnette Carroll Moon on a Rainbow Shawl Sophia1963 Olympia Dukakis A Man s a Man Leocadia BegbickMadeleine Sherwood Hey You Light Man Lula RocaJacqueline Brookes Six Characters in Search of an Author The Step DaughterAnne Jackson The Typists amp The Tiger Sylvia Payton Gloria FiskeColleen Dewhurst Desire Under the Elms Abbie Putnam1964 Gloria Foster In White America Claudette NevinsMarian Seldes The Ginger Man Miss FrostLee Grant The Maids SolangeJoyce Ebert The Trojan Women AndromacheEstelle Parsons Next Time I ll Sing to You amp In the Summer House Lizzie Gertrude Eastman CuevasDiana Sands The Living Premise in Living Color Various Characters1965 Sada Thompson Tartuffe DorineRosemary Harris Judith amp Man and Superman amp War and Peace Judith Violet Robinson Natasha RostovaMargaret DePriest The Place for Chance Various CharactersFrances Sternhagen The Room amp A Slight Ache Rose Flora1966 Clarice Blackburn The Exhaustion of Our Son s Love Sara CalendarFlorence Tarlow Red Cross amp Istanbul amp A Beautiful Day The Maid Various CharactersJane White Coriolanus amp Love s Labour s Lost Volumnia Princess of FranceMari Claire Charba Birdbath Velma SparrowSharon Gans Soon Jack November Gloria Foster Medea Medea1967 Bette Henritze Measure for Measure amp The Long Christmas Dinner amp Queens of France amp The Displaced Person amp The Rimers of Eldritch amp All s Well That Ends Well Mariana Ermengarde Mademoiselle Pointevin Mrs Shortley Mary Windrod Mariana1968 Peggy Pope Muzeeka Evelyn LandisMari Gorman The Memorandum amp Walking to Waldheim Maria Zelda SherBillie Dixon The Beard Harlow1969 Arlene Rothlein The Poor Little Match Girl GirlJulie Bovasso Gloria and Esperanza Gloria B GilbertJudith Malina Antigone Antigone1970s EditYear Winners Play Musical Character1970 Rue McClanahan Who s Happy Now Faye PreciousSada Thompson The Effect of Gamma Rays Beatrice HunsdorferRoberta Maxwell A Whistle In the Dark Betty CarneyPamela Payton Wright The Effect of Gamma Rays Matilda Tillie HunsdorferFredricka Weber The Last Sweet Days of Isaac Ingrid Alice1971 Ruby Dee Boesman and Lena LenaMargaret Braidwood Saved MaryJoan MacIntosh Commune Big Time ClementineSusan Batson AC DC Sadie1972 Elizabeth Wilson Sticks and Bones Harriet Jeanne Hepple The Reliquary of Mr and Mrs Potterfield Chloe PotterfieldMarilyn Chris Kaddish Naomi Livergant GinsbergKathleen Widdoes The Beggar s Opera Polly PeachumSalome Bey Love Me Love My Children Various CharactersMarilyn Sokol The Beggar s Opera Lucy Lockit1973 Alice Playten National Lampoon Lemmings Various CharactersJessica Tandy Not I The MouthMari Gorman The Hot l Baltimore JackieLola Pashalinski Corn Lola LolaRoxie Roker The River Niger Mattie Williams 1974 Barbara Barrie The Killdeer SparkyLoretta Greene The Sirens PepperBarbara Montgomery My Sister My Sister MamaElizabeth Sturges When You Comin Back Red Ryder AngelConchata Ferrell The Sea Horse Gertrude BlumZypora Spaisman Stempenyu 1975 Cara Duff MacCormick Craig s Wife Harriet CraigTovah Feldshuh Yentl Yentl Priscilla Smith Fragments of a Greek Trilogy Medea Electra AndromacheTanya Berezin The Mound Builders D K Eriksen1976 Crystal Field Day Old Bread Kate Manheim Rhoda in Potatoland RhodaPamela Payton Wright Jesse and the Bandit Queen Belle StarrJune Gable The Comedy of Errors AdrianaPriscilla Smith The Good Woman of Szechwan Shen TeJoyce Aaron Academics Priscilla Lopez A Chorus Line Diana Morales 1977 Marian Seldes Isadora Duncan Sleeps with the Russian Navy Isadora DuncanJo Henderson Ladyhouse Blues LizLucinda Childs Einstein on the Beach Various CharactersAnne DeSalvo Gemini Lucille GrandeRoberta Maxwell Ashes AnneLola Pashalinski Der Ring Gott Farblonjet BrunnhildaMargaret Wright A Manoir A Woman in White1978 Swoosie Kurtz Uncommon Women and Others Rita AltabelKaiulani Lee Safe House Alma Cuervo Uncommon Women and Others Holly KaplanNell Carter Ain t Misbehavin Nell 1979 Mary Alice Julius Caesar amp Nongogo Portia QueenyElizabeth Wilson Taken in Marriage Aunt HelenConstance Cummings Wings Emily Stilson 1980s EditYear Winners Play Musical Character1980 Lindsay Crouse Reunion amp Dark Pony amp The Sanctity of Marriage Carol Mindler Daughter WifeHattie Winston Mother Courage and Her Children amp The Michigan Yvette Pottier Elizabeth Franz Sister Mary Ignatius Explains amp The Actor s Nightmare Sister Mary Ignatius Sarah SiddonsDianne Wiest The Art of Dining Elizabeth Barrow ColtMadeleine le Roux la Justice 1981 Meryl Streep Alice in Concert AliceMichele Shay Meetings JeanMary Beth Hurt Crimes of the Heart Meg MaGrath Mary McDonnell Still Life Cheryl1982 Carole Shelley Twelve Dreams Dorothy TrowbridgeIrene Worth The Chalk Garden Miss MadrigalChristine Estabrook Pastorale RachelE Katherine Kerr Cloud Nine Ellen Mrs Saunders1983 Glenn Close The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs Albert NobbsChristine Baranski A Midsummer Night s Dream HelenaRuth Maleczech Hajj The Woman1984 Kathy Baker Fool for Love MayRuth Maleczech Through the Leaves AnnettePamela Reed for sustained excellence of performance Sheila Dabney Sarita SaritaDianne Wiest Serenading Louie amp Other Places Gabby Deborah1985 Laurie Metcalf Balm in Gilead DarleneFrances Foster for sustained excellence of performance Meredith Monk for sustained excellence of performance 1986 Norma Aleandro About Love and Other Stories About Love Various CharactersJill Eikenberry Lemon Sky amp Life Under Water Ronnie JinkxElizabeth Wilson Anteroom Fay LelandKathryn Pogson Aunt Dan and Lemon LemonHelen Stenborg Talley amp Son Netta TalleyElisabeth Welch Time to Start Living Various CharactersSwoosie Kurtz The House of Blue Leaves Bananas Shaughnessy 1987 Robin Bartlett The Early Girl JeanDana Ivey Driving Miss Daisy Daisy WerthanLaura Hicks On the Verge Alexandra CafuffleGcina Mhlope Born in the RSA SindiswaClarice Taylor Moms Moms Mabley1988 Kathy Bates Frankie and Johnny FrankieYvonne Bryceland The Road to Mecca Miss HelenTina Shepard The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol Lucie CabrolGordana Rashovich A Shayna Maidel Lusia Weiss PechenikLauren Tom American Notes PaulinePeggy Shaw Dress Suits to Hire DeeluxeAmy Irving The Road to Mecca Elsa Barlow1989 Kathy Najimy The Kathy and Mo Show Parallel Lives Various CharactersIrene Worth for sustained lifetime achievement Nancy Marchand The Cocktail Hour AnnGloria Foster The Forbidden City Molly HoffenburgMo Gaffney The Kathy and Mo Show Parallel Lives Various Characters1990s EditYear Winners Play Musical Character1990 Lillias White Romance in Hard Times HennieMary Shultz for sustained excellence of performance Isabell Monk Lear GloucesterJean Stapleton The Birthday Party amp Mountain Language Meg Bowles Elderly WomanRuth Maleczech Lear LearDanitra Vance Spunk Various CharactersPamala Tyson Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom Veronica Us seer Aretha Mrs SmithKaren Evans Kandel Lear EdnaMarcia Jean Kurtz The Loman Family Picnic amp When She Danced Doris Loman Miss BelzerElzbieta Czyzewska Crowbar 1991 Kathleen Widdoes Tower of Evil Margaret of BurgundyJoan Copeland The American Plan Eva AdlerJan Leslie Harding Sincerity Forever Furball 2Anne Pitoniak Pygmalion Mrs HigginsJodie Markell Machinal The Young WomanStockard Channing Six Degrees of Separation Ouisa Kittredge Angela Goethals The Good Times are Killing Me Edna ArkinsEileen Atkins A Room of One s Own Virginia Woolf1992 Lynne Thigpen Boesman and Lena LenaCherry Jones The Baltimore Waltz AnnaS Epatha Merkerson I m Not Stupid MotherDeborah Hedwall Sight Unseen PatriciaLaura Esterman Marvin s Room BessieOfelia Gonzales for sustained excellence of performance Randy Danson for sustained excellence of performance Anna Deavere Smith Fires in the Mirror Various Characters1993 Jane Alexander The Sisters Rosensweig Sara Goode Miriam Colon for sustained excellence of performance Frances Conroy The Last Yankee Patricia HamiltonHallie Foote Nightingale amp Spring Dance Annie Gayle LongEllen Parker for sustained excellence of performance Linda Stephens Wings Emily Stilson1994 Myra Carter Three Tall Women AJudith Ivey The Moonshot Tape DianeHolly Hughes for sustained excellence of performance Alice Playten First Lady Suite Mamie Eisenhower Lady Bird JohnsonCarolee Carmello Hello Again The Young WifeAnna Deavere Smith Twilight Los Angeles 1992 Various Characters Gail Grate The America Play LucyClaudia Shear Blown Sideways Through Life Various Characters1995 Mary Beth Peil The Naked Truth amp A Cheever Evening amp Missing Persons Nan Bemiss Various Characters Addie PenckeLinda Lavin Hotline amp Central Park West Dorothy CarolKristine Nielsen Dog Opera Madeline NewellEileen Atkins Vita and Virginia Virginia WoolfBarbara Eda Young Slavs Mrs Domik First BabushkaFelicity Huffman The Cryptogram DonnyJoanna Adler The Boys in the Basement Camryn Manheim Missing Persons Gemma CalabreseVanessa Redgrave Vita and Virginia Vita Sackville West1996 Mary Louise Wilson Full Gallop Diana VreelandUta Hagen for sustained lifetime achievement Terri Klausner Bed and Sofa LudmillaAdina Porter Venus Mrs Sartje Baartman The Venus HottentotLisa Gay Hamilton Valley Song Veronica JonkersVirginia Rambal The Elf Lady amp Troy of America Angela Kathleen Chalfant for sustained excellence in performance Marty Pottenger City Water Tunnel 3 Various Characters1997 Karen Evans Kandel Peter and Wendy The NarratorMary Louise Parker How I Learned to Drive Li l BitTsai Chin Golden Child Eng Siu YongJennifer Dundas Good as New MaggieSharon Scruggs The Trojan Women CassandraChing Valdes Aran Flipzoids AyingJoanne Camp for sustained excellence of performance 1998 Adriane Lenox Dinah Was Mama JonesMarie Mullen The Beauty Queen of Leenane Maureen Folan J Smith Cameron As Bees In Honey Drown Alexa Vere de VereLea DeLaria On the Town Hildy EsterhazyYvette Freeman Dinah Was Dinah WashingtonElizabeth Marvel Misalliance amp Therese Raquin Lina Szczepanowska Therese RaquinMary Testa On the Town amp From Above Madame Maude P Dilly RozKate Valk for sustained excellence of performance Joan MacIntosh More Stately Mansions Deborah HarfordHeather Gillespie Mamba s Daughters HagarKaren Finley The American Chestnut Various Characters1999 Kristine Nielsen Betty s Summer Vacation Mrs SiezmagraffSwoosie Kurtz The Mineola Twins Myra MyrnaKathleen Chalfant W t Vivian BearingViola Davis Everybody s Ruby Ruby McCollumMina Bern for sustained excellence of performance Peggy Shaw Menopausal Gentleman Various CharactersCarmelita Tropicana for sustained excellence of performance Lisa Kron 2 5 Minute Ride Lisa2000s EditYear Winners Play Musical Character2000 Eileen Heckart The Waverly Gallery Gladys GreenDebra Monk The Time of the Cuckoo Leona SamishCynthia Hopkins Another Telepathic Thing The NarratorElizabeth Marvel A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche DuboisLynne Thigpen Jar the Floor LolaCharlayne Woodard In the Blood HesterLola Pashalinski Gertrude and Alice Gertrude SteinDeb Margolin for sustained excellence of performance Dominique Dibbell Jet Lag Lincoln2001 Mary Louise Parker Proof Catherine Pamela Isaacs Newyorkers Various CharactersJackie Hoffman The Book of Liz Various CharactersJanie Dee Comic Potential Jacie TriplethreeStephanie Berry The Shaneequa Chronicles ShaneequaMarian Seldes for sustained lifetime achievement 2002 Elaine Stritch Elaine Stritch At Liberty Elaine Martha Plimpton Hobson s Choice Maggie HobsonYvette Ganier Breath Boom PrixLinda Emond Homebody Kabul The HomebodyJuliana Francis Maria del Bosco Maria2003 Rosemary Harris All Over The WifeFiona Shaw Medea Medea 2004 Jayne Houdyshell Well Ann Kron Viola Davis Intimate Apparel EstherLili Taylor Aunt Dan and Lemon LemonZilah Mendoza Living Out Ana HernandezTonya Pinkins Caroline or Change Caroline Thibodeaux Sarah Jones Bridge and Tunnel Various Characters Lisa Emery Iron FayMaude Mitchell Maybou Mines DollHouse Nora Helmer2005 Elizabeth Marvel Hedda Gabler Hedda GablerRosemary Allen Good Samaritans RosemaryMercedes Ruehl Woman Before a Glass Peggy GuggenheimCherry Jones Doubt Sister Aloysius Beauvier Deirdre O Connell for sustained excellence of performance Vivienne Benesch Going to St Ives Cora GageLaChanze Dessa Rose Dessa RoseL Scott Caldwell Going to St Ives Mary N Kame2006 Lois Smith The Trip to Bountiful Carrie WattsSherie Rene Scott Landscape of the Body RosalieJulie White The Little Dog Laughed Diane Dana Ivey Mrs Warren s Profession Kitty WarrenChristine Ebersole Grey Gardens Edith Bouvier Beale Meg MacCary What Then DianeS Epatha Merkerson Birdie Blue Birdie BlueMarin Ireland Cyclone Erin2007 Roslyn Ruff Seven Guitars VeraNina Hellman Trouble in Paradise LilyBetsy Aidem for sustained excellence of performance Nancy Opel My Deah My Deah Hedgepeth Lillie VDonna Lynne Champlin The Dark at the Top of the Stairs Cora FloodNilaja Sun No Child Various Characters2008 Veanne Cox for sustained excellence of performance Rebecca Wisocky Amazons and Their Men The FrauLisa Gay Hamilton Ohio State Murders Suzanne AlexanderKate Mulgrew Iphigenia 2 o ClytemnestraHeidi Schreck Drum of the Waves of Horikawa Various Characters2009 Birgit Huppuch Telephone Miss StSaidah Arrika Ekulona Ruined Mama Nadi2010s EditYear Winners Play Musical Character2010 Laurie Metcalf A Lie of the Mind MegJuliet Rylance As You Like It Rosalind2011 Brenda Wehle The Intelligent Homosexual s Guide To ClioCharlayne Woodard The Witch of Edmonton Elizabeth SawyerLaurie Metcalf The Other Place Juliana 2012 Cherise Booth Milk Like Sugar TalishaMary Louise Wilson 4000 Miles Vera JosephLinda Lavin The Lyons Rita Lyons Susan Parfour Tribes Sylvia2013 Lois Smith for sustained lifetime achievement Frances Sternhagen for sustained lifetime achievement Eisa Davis for sustained excellence of performance 2014 Estelle Parsons for sustained lifetime achievement Johanna Day Appropriate Antoinette Toni LafayetteMarylouise Burke for sustained excellence of performance Sydney Lucas Fun Home Small Allison Bechdel Mia Katigbak Awake and Sing Bessie Berger2015 Brooke Bloom You Got Older MaeApril Matthis for sustained excellence of performance 2016 Emily Donahoe The Christians JennyGeorgia Engel John Mertis Katherine GravenJayne Houdyshell The Humans Deirdre Blake Tamara Tunie Familiar Marvelous2017 Kecia Lewis Marie and Rosetta Sister Rosetta TharpeHeather MacRae Come Back Little Sheba Lola DelaneyAmy Ryan Love Love Love Sandra2018 Carrie Coon Mary Jane Mary JaneDame Jasmine Hughes Is God Is RacineDenise Gough People Places amp Things EmmaJessica Hecht Admissions Sherri Rosen Mason2019 Cherise Booth Fabulation or the Re Education of Undine Undine Barnes CallesHeather Simms Fabulation or the Re Education of Undine Grandma Caseworker Inmate Dr KhdairMia Barron Hurricane Diane Carol FleischerQuincy Tyler Bernstine for sustained excellence of performance 2020 April Mathis Toni Stone Toni StoneDeirdre O Connell Dana H Dana HigginbothamElizabeth Rodriguez Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven Miss RiveraEmily Davis Is This A Room Reality WinnerLiza Colon Zayas Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven SargeVinie Burrows for sustained lifetime achievement Winners of more than one award Edit3 Wins Gloria Foster Marian Seldes Ruth Maleczech Swoosie Kurtz Elizabeth Wilson Laurie Metcalf Lola Pashalinski Elizabeth Marvel Rosemary Harris Frances Sternhagen 2 Wins April Mathis Cherise Booth Viola Davis Dianne Wiest Deirdre O Connell Cherry Jones Kathleen Widdoes Nancy Marchand Peggy Shaw Alice Playten Irene Worth Charlayne Woodard Kristine Nielsen Joan MacIntosh S Epatha Merkerson Linda Lavin Anna Deavere Smith Eileen Atkins Mary Louise Wilson Karen Evans Kandel Nancy Wickwire Priscilla Smith Mari Gorman Anne Meacham Estelle Parsons Pamela Payton Wright Lois Smith Roberta Maxwell Sada Thompson Dana Ivey Lynne Thigpen Kathleen Chalfant Mary Louise Parker Julie Bovasso Lisa Gay Hamilton Jayne HoudyshellReferences Edit 1 infoplease 2 news google com 59th Annual Obie Award Winners Announced Archived May 20 2014 at the Wayback Machine PlaybillExternal links 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