Urban Bush Women is named a recipient of A 69th annual Obie Award Theatre Grant

Written By Urban Bush Women

The American Theatre Wing presents the
69th annual Off- and Off-Off-Broadway honors.

By Logan Culwell-Block | PLAYBILL

Winners of the 69th Annual Obie Awards were revealed on NY1 by On Stage host Frank Dilella January 31, with Nazareth Hassan's Bowl EP taking Outstanding New Play, the honors' top prize.

Presented by The American Theatre Wing, the Off- and Off-Off-Broadway honors announce their winners without a ceremony. Instead, that money is used to bestow grants on each of the 35 winners, totaling more than $250,000. A private reception to toast the winners will be held February 23.

The Obies are slightly different than most other New York theatrical honors, mostly focusing on the work of artists across an entire season rather than individual productions. That makes it difficult to name any particular production the most Obie-winning of the season, though Vineyard's Bowl EP, Off-Broadway's Can I Be Frank?, the Public's Pericles, and Under the Radar's Show/Boat: A River emerged as especially celebrated stagings.

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Urban Bush Women

Founded in 1984 by choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Urban Bush Women (UBW) seeks to bring the untold and under-told histories and stories of disenfranchised people to light through dance. We do this from a woman-centered perspective and as members of the African Diaspora community in order to create a more equitable balance of power in the dance world and beyond.

https://www.urbanbushwomen.org
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