The 2014 Village Voice Obie Award Winners

The 2014 Village Voice Obie Awards were announced on 19 May at a ceremony at Webster Hall. The awards recognise achievement in off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway theatres and are made up of informal categories that change each year to reflect the past season.

This year the awards were hosted by Hamish Linklater and Tamara Tunie, and featured presenters such as Lena Hall, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Andy Karl and Kelli O'Hara.

Fun Home was the big winner of the evening, taking home an award for Musical Theater, honouring booking writer and lyricist Lisa Kron, alongside composer Jeanine Tesori and director Sam Gold. Star of the production 10-year-old Sydney Lucas became the youngest recipient of an Obie, performing the song "Ring of Keys" from the production at the ceremony.

Appropriate and An Octoroon writer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins received the Best New American Play award, and Estelle Parsons took home a lifetime achievement award.

A full list of winners is below:

Performance

• Bad Jews
  
• Marylouise Burke, Sustained Excellence of Performance
  
• Johanna Day, Appropriate
  
• John Ellison Conlee, The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence
  
• K. Todd Freeman, Fetch Clay, Make Man
  
• John Earl Jelks, Sunset Baby / Fetch Clay, Make Man
  
• Mia Katigbak, Awake and Sing
  
• Sydney Lucas, Fun Home
  
• Chris Myers, An Octoroon
  
• Larry Pine, A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney
  

Playwriting

• Will Eno, The Open House
  

Musical Theater

• Fun Home
  Lisa Kron (book and lyrics), Jeanine Tesori (music) and Sam Gold (director).

Direction

• James MacDonald, Love and Information
  
• Oliver Butler, The Open House
  
• Liesl Tommy, Appropriate
  

Design

• Ben Rubin (projections), Arguendo
  
• Emmanuel Brown and Sonya Tayeh (fight direction and choreography), Kung Fu
  
• Eric Southern (lights), The Correspondent
  
• Justin Townsend, Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design
  

Special Citations

• Mallory Catlett, This Was the End
• Heather Christian (music), Jiyoun Chang (lights) and Hannah Wasileski (projections), The World Is Round, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and Lucy Thurber, The Hill Town Plays
  

The Ross Wetzsteon Award

• Arbons Arts Center

Grants

• 600 Highwaymen
  
• 48 Hours in Harlem
  

Best New American Play

• Branden Jacobs-Jenkens, Appropriate and An Octoroon
  

Lifetime Achievement

• Estelle Parsons