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The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards originally given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City. In September 2014, the Awards were jointly presented and administered with the American Theatre Wing. As the Tony Awards cover Broadway productions, the Obie Awards cover Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway productions.
The Obie Awards were initiated by Edwin (Ed) Fancher, publisher of The Village Voice, who handled the financing and business side of the project. They were first given in 1956 under the direction of theater critic Jerry Tallmer. Initially, only Off-Broadway productions were eligible; in 1964, Off-Off-Broadway productions were made eligible.
With the exception of the Lifetime Achievement and Best New American Play awards, there are no fixed categories and the winning actors and actresses are in a single category titled "Performance". There are no announced nominations. Awards in the past have included performance, direction, best production, design, special citations, and sustained achievement. Not every category is awarded every year. The Village Voice also awards annual Obie grants to selected companies; in 2011, these grants were $2,000 each to Metropolitan Playhouse and Wakka Wakka Productions. There is also a Ross Wetzsteon Grant, named after its former theater editor, in the amount of $2,000 (in 2009; in 2011 the grant was $1,000), for a theatre that nurtures innovative new plays.
Actors: Julian Lowenthal (actor), Tom Kemp (actor), Carlyne Fournier (actress), Carlyne Fournier (producer), Carlyne Fournier (miscellaneous crew), Curtis Reid (actor), Patrick Jerome (actor), Miguel Lopes (miscellaneous crew), Kati Salowsky (actress), Jean-Paul Ouellette (producer), Sean Leser (actor), Mohamed Dione (actor), Christopher L. Ferreira (actor), Benjamin Chou (miscellaneous crew), Matthias Lupri (actor),
Plot: When Sudanese "Lost Boy" Mohammed (Mo) Deng is dumped by his girlfriend of fourteen months, the resulting heartache opens up scabs of old wounds he thought had healed in time, in the ten years that he has been in America, after being rescued from the civil war in Sudan. On the other hand, when his best friend Edward Dudley falls in love with Yafit Abdeel, a former soldier of the Israel Defense Forces, his life will never remain the same again. Edward is well known as a playboy whose life is characterized by frivolous dating and casual sex, whereas Yafit grew up in a conservative home where sex comes only with marriage. As Mohammed's emotional life spirals down the rabbit hole, and Edward's heart is pulled apart in different directions, the two friends are caught up in the wave of a controversial event that is tearing their school apart. Conflict erupts on their campus as groups of students observe the year's "Israeli Apartheid Week", an annual exercise organized by pro-Palestinian teachers and students to protest events in the Middle East. For Edward, this becomes an opportunity to please a girl he's crazy about, and then maybe also to do something bigger than himself. Mohammed, however, seems to have no choices. As a popular peer tutor, he has befriended many students on campus, including several Jews and Arabs. Thus, he is an asset to the cause Edward is cooking up, and he feels that he can't let his best friend down. Yet his old wounds, sustained from the war that marred his childhood, are becoming as fresh as new.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Logan Cross (director), Logan Cross (producer), Logan Cross (actor), Logan Cross (writer), Read MacGuirtose (actor), Kristina Hess (actress), Kristina Hess (producer), Kristin Ige (actress), Webster Batista (actor), Michael Johns (actor), Michael Johns (miscellaneous crew), Talia-Lynn Prairie (actress), Phylicia Wissa (actress), Ben Griesse (actor), Katie McCabe (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Peter McGlynn (actor), Josh Johnson (composer), Josh Johnson (writer), Josh Johnson (writer), Josh Johnson (director), Josh Johnson (editor), Josh Johnson (producer), Sina J. Henrie (actress), Bryan Scott Cooper (actor), Christopher Kyle Kelley (producer), Christopher Kyle Kelley (editor), Christopher Kyle Kelley (writer), Scott Ramirez (actor), Astrid Vineyard (actress), Bill Bateman (actor),
Genres: Drama, Romance, Short,Actors: Tim Ware (actor), Bill Oberst Jr. (actor), Bill Oberst Jr. (actor), Justin Geer (actor), Deborah Duke (actress), Dale Basescu (actor), Brian F. Durkin (actor), Ashley LeConte Campbell (actress), Luke Ashlocke (actor), Tommy Wood (writer), Tommy Wood (producer), Tommy Wood (director), Tommy Wood (editor), West Cummings (actor), Courtney Cole-Fendley (actress),
Plot: In a small, sleepy Georgia town, Bobby Hicks rules the roost, until he is found grilled to death on his still-warm barbecue smoker. When the town's only lawyer informs a select group that Bobby has left over a quarter-million dollar inheritance to the last one of them left living, things take a turn for the worse. In the midst of the chaos, Bobby's niece Megan falls for a Latino artist and suspect in Bobby's murder. Can Megan and Lenny get out of town before it's too late for both of them?
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Erin Connarn (miscellaneous crew), Najarra Townsend (producer), Erin Gibson (actress), Najarra Townsend (actress), Aprill Winney (miscellaneous crew), Kira Willoughby (miscellaneous crew), Miguel Arteta (producer), Bo Barrett (actor), Mary Elise Hayden (actress), Devin Leigh (actor), Rob Poswall (producer), Summera Howell (actress), Corinne Reilly (actress), Jeffrey Reeves (actor), Jane Anne Thomas (actress),
Genres: Drama, Drama,Actors: David Alan Graf (actor), Crystal Burdette (producer), Shelli Boone (actress), Jabbaar George (actor), Tyrone Burton (actor), Ernest Johnson (producer), Ernest Johnson (director), Ernest Johnson (writer), Dre Bowie (actor), Corey Miguel Curties (actor), Cornelius Williams (producer), Aaron Frazier (actor), Andrew William Mariano Jr. (actor), Jolin Miranda (actress), Candy Thomas (actress),
Plot: Auto Recovery is a heart warming story about three young men, Slim, Ralph and Cory who specialize in recovering high end, expensive and well protected autos that are hard to retrieve due to lack of payments.
Keywords: auto-racer, gospel, urbanActors: Richard Lawson (actor), Allen Williams (actor), Sheri Hellard (actress), Judith Benezra (actress), Patricia Skeriotis (actress), Pierpaolo Tiano (actor), Marina Martins (editor), Tom Ayers (actor), Nick Costantino (producer), Art Cohan (actor), Michael Yavnielli (actor), David S. Merrill (miscellaneous crew), Renee Weldon (actress), Matthew Chaffee (director), Matthew Chaffee (writer),
Genres: ,Actors: Jonathan D. Krane (producer), Adam Baldwin (actor), Wallace Langham (actor), Bud Cort (actor), John Glover (actor), Keith Gordon (director), Keith Gordon (writer), Brent David Fraser (actor), Doug Hutchison (actor), Robert Munns (actor), Kelly Johnson (miscellaneous crew), Ethan Sandler (actor), Jenny Wright (actress), Virginia Bogert (miscellaneous crew), Jeff Wishengrad (editor),
Plot: A surreal portrait of a Catholic Private School and its hierarchy. A new student must submit to the bizarre rituals of his peers and the expectations of the school's administration by selling chocolates.
Keywords: abuse-of-power, african-american, american-flag, american-football, appendicitis, based-on-novel, beating, black-leather-jacket, blackboard, blackboard-drawingActors: Sheldon Kahn (editor), Ivan Reitman (producer), Bruce Broughton (composer), Paul Winfield (actor), Ellen Geer (actress), Joe Medjuck (producer), Robert Prosky (actor), Jim Antonio (actor), Ron Dean (actor), Jerzy Skolimowski (actor), Timothy Scott (actor), Robert Joy (actor), Robert Minkoff (actor), Ross L. Kulma (miscellaneous crew), Dennis Virkler (editor),
Plot: Following the death of his father, suburbanite Obie runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, he befriends con artist Scam. The two then embark on a Down South adventure involving gangsters, the police, and a search for Scam's father.
Keywords: african-american, bank-account, bar, basement, beer, belt, bible-salesman, bicycle, black-american, buddyActors: Benjamin A. Weissman (editor), Brad Fiedel (composer), Paul Winfield (actor), Ike Eisenmann (actor), George Coe (actor), Benjamin A. Weissman (producer), Roger Young (director), Leonard Hill (producer), Israel Juarbe (actor), Joe Cirillo (actor), Trini Alvarado (actress), Todd Arnow (miscellaneous crew), Ira Marvin (producer), James Broderick (actor), Philip Mandelker (producer),
Plot: Two young kids in love, one young graffiti artist and the other a foster-child, find trouble on the mean streets on the other side of the river in New York City. Officer Charles Banks finds young Danny tagging subway cars and then catches Teiresa selling drugs for another mislead teen, Kirk. The officer, instead of turning both of them in, gives both teens a chance to make more of their lives together. Changing their ways turns out to be more challenging than first thought.
Keywords: graffiti, graffiti-artist, new-york-city, subway, teenagerMusic video by Obie Trice performing Snitch. (C) 2006 Shady Records/Interscope Records
Music video by Obie Bermudez performing Si Fuera Facil.
Obie Trice feat. Eminem - Rap Name (EXPLICIT LYRICS)
Obie & Theo Rose - Go Loca (Official Video) by Mixton Music for Cat Music | Subscribe to Romania's #1 ♫Music Channel: http://bit.ly/Subscribe2CatMusic Muzica: Obinna Chigbundu,Catalin Dascalu Text: Obinna Chigbundu Orchestratie: Ionut Mugur Chiper,Catalin Dascalu,Dragos Epurica,Danut Tulea Regie: Ciprian Iacob Management Theo Rose: Mixton Music - Cătălin Dascălu | catalindascalu@mixtonmusic.com Cat Music is the main player in the Romanian music industry, representing some of the most influential and successful artists from Romania, for the past 20 years. Cat Music's portfolio includes phenomenal bands and artists, who wrote and keep on writing the music history in Romania. Cat Music Online: http://fb.com/CatMusicRomania http://www.youtube.com/catmusicoffice http://www.twitter.com/ca...
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Music video by Obie Trice performing Don't Come Down. (C) 2003 Shady Records/Interscope Records
Music video by Obie Trice performing Got Some Teeth. (C) 2003 Shady Records/Interscope Records
The poster on the wall of a dear friend
I wish there was a way that I could show you how your songs set me free
The hero of them all
You're a legend
I guess I'll never get a chance to know you
Still you're close as can be
Make the bandstand to a dreamland, Rubber Ball Man
Clapping your hands, let your feet dance, Rubber Ball Man
When you're jumping up and down, nobody's standing still
Some of us dreaming, some of us screaming