1996 Helen Hayes Awards
Winners and nominees from the Helen Hayes Awards.
1996 Helen Hayes Awards
Note: Award winners appear on a red background.
| Category | Nominee | Show |
|---|---|---|
| KPMG Peat Marwick Award for Distinguished Service to the Washington Theatre Community | William R. Tiefel, Marriott International, Inc. | |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Patdro Harris | Bessie's Blues |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Mike Malone | Black Nativity |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Karma Camp | Cabaret |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Dianne McIntyre | I Could Stop on a Dime and Get Ten Cents Change (A Ballroom Drama) |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Brad Waller | Richard III |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Reggie Ray | Black Nativity |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Anita Stewart | Love's Labor's Lost |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Paul Tazewell | The Matchmaker |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Rosemary Pardee | When We Are Married |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Lindsay W. Davis | A Month in the Country |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Thomas W. Jones, II | Bessie's Blues |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Mike Malone | Black Nativity |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Eric Schaeffer | Cabaret |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Catherine Flye | H.M.S. Pinafore |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | James A. Petosa | Jaques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Daniel De Raey | Escape from Happiness |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Michael Kahn | Henry V |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Donald Douglass | I Am a Man |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Douglas C. Wager | Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Rob Bundy | Pitchfork Disney |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Joy Zinoman | Three Sisters |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Colm Wilkinson | Andrew Lloyd Webber Music of the Night |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Jonathan Hadary | Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Jonathan Hadary | Angels in America, Part 2: Perestroika |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Kirby Ward | Crazy for You |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Matthew Broderick | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying! |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Juan Chioran | Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Musical |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Steven Cupo | Cabaret |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | John Dossett | Elmer Gantry |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Steve Cramer | H.M.S. Pinafore |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Scott Morgan | Noel and Gertie |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Jeff Hairston | Standup Shakespeare |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Conrad Feininger | A Tale of the Wolf |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Harry Hamlin | Henry V |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Wendell Wright | I am a Man |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Stacy Keach | Macbeth |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Rick Hammerly | Me and Jezebel |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Wallace Acton | Pitchfork Disney |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Ian Price | Private Lives |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Beverly Ward | Crazy for You |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Carol Channing | Hello, Dolly! |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Chita Rivera | Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Musical |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Zoe Caldwell | Master Class |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Marian Seldes | Three Tall Women |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Bernardine Mitchell | Bessie's Blues |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Megan Lawrence | Cabaret |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Sharon Scruggs | Elmer Gantry |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Dahd Sfeir | Mano a Mano |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Sarah Marshall | Wanted |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Nancy Robinette | Escape From Happiness |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Sarah Marshall | Escape from Happiness |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Afi McClendon | Holiday Heart |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Tana Hicken | Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Helen Carey | Macbeth |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Naomi Jacobson | Scenes from an Execution |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Daniel MacLean Wagner | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Daniel MacLean Wagner | Conversations with My Father |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Howell Binkley | Henry V |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Howell Binkley | Macbeth |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Daniel MacLean Wagner | The Passion of Dracula |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Nancy Schertler | The Waiting Room |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Dave Ferguson | Bessie's Blues |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Tony Booker | Black Nativity |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Jon Kalbfleisch | Cabaret |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Larry Edward Vote | H.M.S. Pinafore |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Jack Bashkow | Standup Shakespeare |
| Outstanding Non-Resident Production | Kennedy Center | Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches |
| Outstanding Non-Resident Production | Kennedy Center | Angels in America, Part 2: Perestroika |
| Outstanding Non-Resident Production | Kennedy Center | Crazy for You |
| Outstanding Non-Resident Production | National Theatre | Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Musical |
| Outstanding Non-Resident Production | Kennedy Center | Master Class |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Olney Theatre Center for the Arts | acques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Studio Theatre | Bessie's Blues |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Kennedy Center | Black Nativity |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Signature Theatre | Cabaret |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Interact Theatre Company | H.M.S. Pinafore |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Round House Theatre | Escape from Happiness |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Shakespeare Theatre | Henry V |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Arena Stage | I Am a Man |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Arena Stage | Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company | Pitchfork Disney |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Studio Theatre | Three Sisters |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | James Kronzer | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Lou Stancari | Cabaret |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | James Kronzer | Conversations with My Father |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Ming Cho Lee | Macbeth |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | James Kronzer | The Pitchfork Disney |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Russell Metheny | Three Sisters |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Ben Zastrow | Marisol |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Ron Ursano | On the Open Road |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Daniel Schrader | The Pitchfork Disney |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | John Gottlieb, Mitchell Greenhill | Waiting Room |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Musical | David A. St. Louis | Bessie's Blues |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Musical | LeRoi Simmons | Black Nativity |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Musical | Lawrence Redmond | Cabaret |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Musical | David James | Pirates of Penzance |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Musical | J. Fred Shiffman | Wanted |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Henry Strozier, Henry Strozier | A Month in the Country |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Jarlath Conroy | Henry V |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Rainn Wilson, Casey Biggs | Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Floyd King, Floyd King | Love's Labor's Lost |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | J. Fred Shiffman, J. Fred Shiffman | Rhinoceros |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Musical | Monique L. Midgette | Beehive |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Musical | Roz White | Bessie's Blues |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Musical | Patricia Pearce | Cabaret |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Musical | Karlah Hamilton | First Lady Suite |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Musical | Eileen Ward | Hello, Dolly! |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Isabel Dada | Dona Rosita la Soltera o el Lenguaje de las Flores |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Paula Gruskiewicz | It's Only a Play |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Marcia Gardner | Poor Super Man |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Mary Teresa Fortuna | The Pitchfork Disney |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | June Kyoko Lu | The Waiting Room |
| The American Express Tribute | Chita Rivera | |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical | Ernie Joselovitz | Catskills Tzimmis |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical | Dianne McIntyre | I Could Stop on a Dime and Get Ten Cents Change (A Ballroom Drama) |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical | Susan Altman | Out of the Whirlwind |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical | Adam Long | The Bible: The Word of God (unabridged) |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical | Amy Freed | The Psychic Life of Savages |
| The Washington Post Award for Distinguished Community Service | Jaylee and Gilbert Mead | |
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