The 69th annual Obie Awards, honoring achievement Off and Off Off Broadway, were announced tonight. Below is the complete list, which includes lifetime achievement awards to Carmelita Tropicana and Kate Valk. David Herskovits and Whitney White were awarded for sustained achievement in directing.

Winners

OUTSTANDING NEW PLAY

• Nazareth Hassan Bowl EP (Vineyard Theatre | National Black Theatre | The New Group)

PLAYWRITING

• Morgan Bassichis Can I Be Frank? (Mike LaVoie | Carlee Briglia)
• Sarah Gancher The Wind and the Rain: A story about Sunny’s Bar (En Garde Arts | Vineyard Theatre)

DIRECTING

• Sam Pinkleton ta-da! (Mike LaVoie | Carlee Briglia) and Can I Be Frank? (Mike LaVoie | Carlee Briglia)
• abigail jean-baptiste Chiaroscuro (National Black Theatre | The Flea)
• Paul Lazar The Barbarians (Third Ear Theater Co.)

SUSTAINED ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING

• David Herskovits Show/Boat: A River (Target Margin Theater | NYU Skirball | Under the Radar Festival)
• Whitney White Walden (Second Stage Theater) and Liberation (Roundabout)

PERFORMANCE

• Bulbul Chakraborty Rheology (The Bushwick Starr | HERE Arts Center | Ma-Yi Theater Company)
• Quincy Tyler Bernstine Well, I’ll Let You Go (Regular People | Patrick Catullo | The Cohn Sisters | Shira Friedman | Danny Kopel)
• Crystal Lucas-Perry Pericles: A Public Works Concert Experience (The Public Theater) and The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar) (SoHo Repertory)
• Stephanie Weeks Show/Boat: A River (Target Margin Theater | NYU Skirball | Under the Radar Festival)

SUSTAINED ACHIEVEMENT IN PERFORMANCE

• Paul Sparks Grangeville (Signature Theatre Company)
• Stephanie Berry The Gospel At Colonus (Little Island)

DESIGN

• Afsoon Pajoufar (Sets) Five Models in Ruins, 1981 (Lincoln Center Theater) and Cold War Choir Practice (Clubbed Thumb | Page 73)
• Kate McGee (Lighting) Bowl EP (Vineyard Theatre | National Black Theatre | The New Group), Suppose Beautiful Madeline Harvey (La MaMa) and The Beastiary (On The Rocks | Ars Nova)
• Frank J. Oliva (Sets) Well, I’ll Let You Go (Regular People | Patrick Catullo | The Cohn Sisters | Shira Friedman | Danny Kopel), Danger and Opportunity (Jacob Stuckelman | Andrew Patino | Matt Krauss | Kyle Rogers), and A Knock on the Roof (New York Theatre Workshop | piece by piece productions | Under the Radar)

SUSTAINED ACHIEVEMENT IN DESIGN

• Cha See (Lighting) Five Models in Ruins, 1981 (Lincoln Center Theater), ta-da! (Mike LaVoie | Carlee Briglia), LIberation (Roundabout); Trophy Boys (MCC Theater), Hold Me in the Water (Playwrights Horizon), Show/Boat: A River (Target Margin Theater | NYU Skirball | Under the Radar Festival), Babe (The New Group), and In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot (Playwrights Horizons)
• David Bengali (Video) We Live in Cairo (New York Theatre Workshop), Joy (Ken Davenport | Sandi Moran), and Lights Out: Nat “”King”” Cole (New York Theatre Workshop)

SPECIAL CITATIONS

• On The Rocks Theatre Co. for Concept and Creation The Beastiary (On The Rocks Theatre Co. | Ars Nova)
• Ensemble of Bowl EP: Felicia Curry Bowl EP (National Black Theatre | The New Group | Vineyard Theatre)
• Ensemble of Bowl EP: Oghenero Gbaje Bowl EP (National Black Theatre | The New Group | Vineyard Theatre)
• Essence Lotus Bowl EP (National Black Theatre | The New Group | Vineyard Theatre)
• Troy Anthony (Libretto, Composition, and Music Direction) Pericles: A Public Works Concert Experience (The Public Theater)
• Ensemble of Prince Faggot: Rachel Crowl, K Todd Freeman, David Greenspan, Mihir Kumar, John McCrea, and N’yomi Stewart Prince Faggot (Playwrights Horizons | SoHo Repertory)
• Mona Pirnot (Playwright), David Greenspan (Performer), and Ken Rus Schmoll (Director) I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan (Atlantic Theater Company)
• Mehr Theatre Group for Creation Blind Runner (St Ann’s Warehouse | Mehr Theatre Group | Waterwell)

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

• Carmelita Tropicana Performance artist, playwright, lecturer and Latina comedian
• Kate Valk Founding Member and Director of The Wooster Group

THEATRE GRANTS

• Urban Bush Women (UBW) 
• The Apothetae 
• New Federal Theatre (NFT) 
• ¡OYE! Group 
• Waterwell 

ROSS WETZSTEON AWARD

• Pregones / Puerto Rican Traveling Theater 

MICHAEL FEINGOLD AWARD

• John Del Gaudio 

MORGAN JENNESS AWARD

• Nicky Paraiso