Obie Awards Celebrate Off-Broadway Artists

Stage Directions: The Village Voice Obies have always stood for the art-y, idealistic tenor of Off-Broadway. This year they’ve chosen to honor Amy Herzog and her play 4000 Miles with the Obie award for Best New American Play. They also gave a Lifetime Achievement Obie Award to Caridad Svich, a playwright, translator, and teacher. On the technical side, Mark Barton was given an Obie for Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design, Mimi Lien received one for Sustained Excellence of Set Design and Matt Tierney and Ben Williams won one for their sound design for The Select (The Sun Also Rises) at New York Theatre Workshop.