Theater News

Judges Chosen for 2005-2006 Obie Awards

The judges for the 51st Annual Obie Awards, presented by The Village Voice, will include actress Deirdre O’Connell (who won an Obie for Sustained Excellence in May and who will soon be seen in Playwrights Horizons’ produciton of Manic Flight Reaction), playwright Eduardo Machado (whose new play Kissing Fidel is on view at INTAR), director David Herskovits, the founder of Target Margin Theater, and Marc Robinson, a professor at the Yale School of Drama.

Chairing the committee will be the paper’s newest theater editor Jorge Morales (who takes over in November from departing editor Charles McNulty); he will be joined on the panel by Voice critics Michael Feingold and Alexis Soloski. The Obies, which cover Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway, will be given out in May 2006.