Broadway Ties ‘Fat Ham’ Among Obie Award Recipients – Full List of Winners

The Broadway bound comedy Thick ham and Shakespeare in the parks happy women is one of this year’s recipients of the 66th Obie Awards, which honor Off and Off-Off-Broadway productions.

Presented by the American Theater Wing, the Obies will be presented Monday night at a ceremony in Terminal 5 in Manhattan. The Sustained and Lifetime Achievement winners will receive their awards at the ceremony, while comments from all other winners will be featured on the American Theater Wing’s YouTube channel.

The final Obies ceremony was virtual and aired on Wing’s YouTube channel on July 14, 2020.

“For this OBIES, judges reviewed more than 400 productions, including digital and audio works, created during the pandemic over the past three seasons,” Heather Hitchens, president and CEO, said in a statement. “We look forward to finally coming together in person to celebrate the artistic excellence and resilience of the amazing artists and theater companies that make up the Off and Off-Broadway community.”

James Ijames’s Thick ham, a Pulitzer Prize winner that opened Off Broadway at the Public Theater in 2022, presents Hamlet as a black, gay Southern college student who is visited by his father’s ghost at a family’s backyard kitchen. The Broadway production begins previews at the American Airlines Theater on March 21st, with an official opening on April 12th.

The Obie winners were announced today. Here is the full list:

BEST NEW AMERICAN GAME

Sanaz Toossi, English (Atlantic Theater Company, Rotonde Theater Company)

SPELLWRITING

Martyna Mayok, sanctuary town (Theatre Workshop New York)

DIRECTION

Taylor Reynolds, man cave (page 73) and Tambo & Bean (playwright Horizons)

awoye tempo, wedding ring (TFNA) and her work as the founder of Classix

· Matt Ray (music direction and composition) The hill (HERE)

SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE TO

Sahim Ali, Nollywood Dreams (Customer Center); happy women (Public); Romeo and Juliet (Public); And Thick ham (The audience | National Black Theater – NBT)

David Brimmer, playing wolves (SoHo Repertory)

ACHIEVEMENT

Stephanie Berry and Lizan Mitchell, On the sugar country (NYTW)

Brittany Bradford, wedding ring (Theater for a New Audience)

karaoke, Twelfth Night (Harlem Classic Theatre)

Arturo Luis Soria Ni Mi Madre (rattle stick)

SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE IN PERFORMANCE

Billy Eugene Jones for On the sugar country (NYTW) and Thick ham (Public)

Andrea Patterson, front Cullud Watta (Public Theatre); allies (Signature); And Grab the king (Harlem’s Classic Theatre)

DESIGN

· Reza Behjat (lighting designer), front English (Atlantic Theater Company, Roundabout Theater Company) and i wish you were here (playwright Horizons)

LONG-TERM PERFORMANCE BY DESIGN

Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew (Lighting Design) for Cullud Watta (Public), Orator for living beings (Arsnova), The nosebleed (Lincoln Center Theatre), golden shield (MTC), snow in midsummer (CSC) fairy cake (Greenwich House) and what you are now (EUROPEAN SUMMER TIME)

· Nikiya Mathis (hair and wig design) for Nollywood Dreams (MTC)

Machine Dazzle (set and costume designer)

SPECIAL QUOTATIONS

· Heather Christian (composer, vocal arrangements, orchestration); Ben Moss (musical director, orchestration); Nick Kourtides (sound design); and the music team of Orator for living beings (Arsnova)

· Creative team and ensemble of Thick ham (The audience) James Ijames (playwright), Saheem Ali (director); Maruti Evans (set design); Dominique Fawn Hill (costume design); Stacey Derosier (lighting designer); Mikaal Sulaiman (sound design); Darrell Grand Moultrie (choreographer); Earon Chew Nealey (hair and wig design); Skylar Fox (designed by Illusions); Nikki Crawford, Chris Herbie Holland, Billy Eugene Jones, Adrianna Mitchell, Calvin Leon Smith, Marcel Spears and Benja Kay Thomas (ensemble)

· Creative team and ensemble of English (The Atlantic Theatre, Roundabout Theater Company) Knud Adams (Director), Marsha Ginsberg (Set Design), Enver Chakartash (Costume Design), Reza Behjat (Lighting Design), Sinan Refik Zafar (Sound Design) Tala Ashe, Ava Lalezarzadeh, Pooya Mohseni, Marjan Neshat and Hadi Tabbal (ensemble)

· Aya Ogawa for creating, writing and directing The nosebleed (Lincoln Center Theater | Japanese Society)

· Qween Jean (Costume Designer) for Corsican (playwright Horizons), Soft (Customer Center), wedding ring (TFNA), Black no more (The New Group), the feverr (audible | The new group), What to send if it fails (The horizons of the dramatist) and seems (NYTW)

Digital+Virtual+Hybrid Production: Michael Breslin, Patrick Foley, Ariel Sibert, Cat Rodríguez and Rory Pelsue (Creators, Writers, Director) in collaboration with David Bengali (Video Designer) CircleJerk (Fake Friends and Jeremy O. Harris)

· Laurie Woolery (director) and Shaina Taub (music and lyrics) for work on the adaptation of As you like it (Public)

Alex Edelman (creator and artist), Just for us (Mike Birbiglia | Greenwich House Theatre)

Digital+Virtual+Hybrid Production: Modesto Flako Jimenez (Creator and Writer) Taxilandia (Oye Group | NYTW | Bushwick Starr | The Tank)

Digital+Virtual+Hybrid Production: Sarah Gancher (writer), Jared Mezzocchi and Elizabeth Williamson (directors) Russian Troll Farm (The Civilians, Theater Works Hartford and TheatreSquared)

· Richard Nelson (playwright), for the completion and production of The Rijnbeck panorama

PURPOSE OF LIFE

Ping Chong (director, choreographer, video and installation artist and founder of Ping Chong and Company)

Anne Bogart (CEO and co-founder of SITI Company)

Ralph Lee and Casey Compton (artist and managers, Mettawee River Theater Company)

THEATER COMPANY

· The Sol project

Quarantine Theatre

· See Enlightenment Foundation

· Anti-capitalism for artists

ROSS WETZSTEON AWARD

Classic Harlem Theater

MICHAEL FEINGOLD AWARD

· Maestra Music