2005 Village Voice Obie Awards Announced

The 2005 Village Voice Obie Awards were announced at a ceremony hosted by Stockard Channing and Doubt's Brían F. O'Byrne at Webster Hall on May 16. This year the Obie Awards, which honor the best in off-Broadway theater, were decided by Village Voice staff members Charles McNulty, Michael Feingold and Alexis Soloski and guest judges Kathleen Chalfant, André De Shields, David Greenspan, Daphne Rubin-Vega, David Savran and Paula Vogel.

Here is a complete list of the winners:

Performance
Jeremy Shamos, Engaged
Elizabeth Marvel, Hedda Gabler
Jason Butler Harner, Hedda Gabler
Rosemary Allen, Good Samaritans
Cherry Jones, Doubt
Larry Bryggman, Romance
Kieran Culkin, After Ashley
Mercedes Ruehl, Woman Before A Glass
LaChanze, Dessa Rose
Deidre O'Connell for sustained excellence of performance
Vivienne Benesch, Going to St. Ives
L. Scott Caldwell, Going to St. Ives

Direction
Dan Wackerman, Counsellor-At-Law
Ivo van Hove, Hedda Gabler
Doug Hughes for sustained excellence of direction

Playwriting
Caryl Churchill, A Number
Lynn Nottage, Fabulation
John Patrick Shanley, Doubt
Christopher Shinn, Where Do We Live

Design
The design team of Engaged [set designer John Lee Beatty, lighting designer Rui Rita, sound designer Guy Sherman, costume designer Catherine Zuber]
The design team of Woman Before A Glass [set designer Thomas Lynch, lighting designer Phil Monat, sound designer David Van Tieghem, costume designer Willa Kim]
Set designer Jan Versweyveld, Hedda Gabler

Special Citations a way of honoring work that doesn't fall into traditional categories
The Imagine Festival of Arts, Issues & Ideas
Hell Meets Henry Halfway
Sin: A Cardinal Deposed

The Ross Wetzsteon Memorial Award
New Dramatists

Sustained Achievement
John Guare

Grants 13P $3000
Epic Theatre Company $3000
Little Theater at Tonic $3000
Gina Gionfriddo for Distinguished Emerging Playwright $1000
Margo Skinner Memorial Acting Scholarship $1000