Obie
Speech parts
1. Obie - Noun
2. Obie - Proper noun
Meaning
Obie (plural Obies)
(television, film) A small lamp positioned over the camera, sometimes used to produce catchlights in the subject's eyes.
Obie (plural Obies)
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An Off-Broadway Theater Award, given annually to theatre artists and groups in New York City.
Obie (plural Obies)
A surname from French.
Examples
Obie was bored. Worse than bored. He was also tired. He went to bed tired and woke up tired. He found himself yawning constantly. Most of all, he was tired of Archie. Archie the bastard. The bastard that Obie alternately hated and admired.
Obie could feel Archie's eyes on him as he walked away, those cold intelligent eyes. "Good-bye, Obie," he called. He had never said good-bye before.
But, of course, he turns out to be a drunken brute with a heart of gold, and Millie starts having fantasies about Obie, one of the only white people residing in the neighborhood.
In 1979, Gwynne won an Obie, the off-Broadway award comparable to a Broadway Tony, for his role in "Grand Magic."
Robin Tynes, founder of Three Bone Theatre describes the Charlotte company's next production, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' "Appropriate," which won an Obie Award for best play.
The show went through further revisions before Beckett directed it in Paris in 1970; MacGowran won the 1970-71 Obie for Best Performance By an Actor when he performed the show off-Broadway as Jack MacGowran in the Works of Samuel Beckett.