The World is Round's Design Team Receives Special Citations at Obie AwardsThe 59th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards paid tribute to the Off-Broadway and off-off Broadway theatre community on May 19, at Webster Hall in Greenwich Village. Special citations were bestowed on The World is Round's Jiyoun Chang for lighting and Hannah Wasileski for projections. Additional design awards were presented to Ben Rubin for projections in Arguendo, Eric Southern for lighting design in The Correspondent, and Justin Townsend for sustained excellence of lighting design. Additional awards include: Performance Mary Louise 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 Theatre Lisa Kron (author), Jeanine Tesori (composer), and Sam Gold (director), Fun Home Direction James MacDonald, Love and Information Oliver Butler, The Open House Liesl Tommy, Appropriate Design/Music Emmanuel Brown and Sonya Tayeh (fight direction and choreography), Kung Fu Special Citations Mallory Catlett, This was the End Heather Christian (music), The World is Round Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and Lucy Thurber, The Hill Town Plays The Ross Wetzsteon Award Abrons Arts Center Grants 600 Highwaymen 48 Hours in Harlem Best New American Play Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Appropriate and An Octoroon Lifetime Achievement Estelle Parsons ![](/std_images/blank.gif)
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