The World is Round's Design Team Receives Special Citations at Obie Awards

The 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