1982 Award Winners

• Sustained Achievement
  • Maria Irene Fornes,
• Special Citations
  • La Mama, 20th anniversary celebration
  • Harvey Fierstein, "Torch Song Trilogy,"
  • Theatre Communications Group,
• Playwriting
  • Robert Auletta, "Stops" and "Virgins,"
  • Caryl Churchill, "Cloud 9,"
• Performance
  • Kevin Bacon, "Forty Deuce" and "Poor Little Lambs"
  • James Barbosa, Soon Jack November
  • Ray Dooley, Peer Gynt
  • Christine Estabrook, Pastorale
  • Michael Gross, No End of Blame
  • E. Katherine Kerr, Cloud 9
  • Kenneth McMillan, Weekends Like Other People
  • Kevin O'Connor, "Chucky's Hunch," "Birdbath," and "Crossing the Crab Nebula"
  • Carole Shelley, Twelve Dreams
  • Josef Sommer, Lydie Breeze
  • Irene Worth, The Chalk Garden
• Obie Committee
  • Eileen Blumenthal, Michael Feingold, Erika Munk, Julius Novick, Voice Judges,
  • Gus Edwards, Richard Gilman, Guest Judges,
  • Ross Wetzsteon, Chairman,
  • Robert Massa, Assistant to the committee,
• Distinguished Ensemble Performance
  • Lisa Banes, Brenda Currin, Elizabeth McGovern and Beverly May, May My Sister in This House
  • Adolph Caesar, Larry Riley, and Denzel Washington, `A Soldier's Play"
• Direction
  • Tommy Tune, Cloud 9
• Design
  • Jim Clayburgh,
    Sustained Excellence in Set Design
  • Arden Fingerhut,
    Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design
• Best Theater Piece
  • Tadeusz Kantor, "Wielopole, Wielopole"
• Best New American Play (tie)
  • tie), Metamorphosis in Miniature
  • , Mr. Dead and Mrs. Free