1999 Helen Hayes Awards
Winners and nominees from the Helen Hayes Awards.
1999 Helen Hayes Awards
Note: Award winners appear on a red background.
| Category | Nominee | Show |
|---|---|---|
| KPMG Award for Distinguished Service to the Washington Theatre Community | B. F. Saul, II, Chevy Chase Bank | |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Debbie Allen | Brothers of the Knight |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Charles Augins | Fix |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Mark Minnick | Godspell |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Karma Camp | Nijinsky's Last Dance |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Irina Tsikurishvili | The Little Tragedies |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Ilona Kessell | West Side Story |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Robert Perdziola | A Woman of No Importance |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Robin Stapley | Camille |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Paul Tazewell | Peer Gynt |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Natasha Djukic | Quartet |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Anne Kennedy | The Fix |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Reggie Ray | The Old Settler |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Carole Lehan, Toby Orenstein | Children of Eden |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Catherine Flye | Great Expectations, the Musical |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Jesse Berger | Marat/Sade |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Eric Schaeffer | The Fix |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Keith Glover | Thunder Knocking on the Door |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Joe Calarco | Nijinsky's Last Dance |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Michael Kahn | Peer Gynt |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Zeljko Djukic | Quartet |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Thomas W. Jones, II | Seven Guitars |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Seret Scott | The Old Settler |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Douglas C. Wager | You Can't Take It With You |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Jeremy Kushnier | Footloose |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Dan Hiatt | Picasso at Lapin Agile |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Michael Rupert, Alton Fitzgerald White | Ragtime |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Alex Jennings | Hamlet |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Stephen Bienskie | Fix |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Rob McQuay | Godspell |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Floyd King | Mad About the Bard |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Peter Jay Fernandez | Thunder Knocking on the Door |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Bill Largess | Man and Superman |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Jeremy Davidson | Nijinsky's Last Dance |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Wallace Acton | Peer Gynt |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Ted van Griethuysen | The Steward of Christendom |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Thomas W. Jones, II | Waiting for Godot |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Max Robinson | Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Jasmine Guy | Chicago |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Joanne Pearce | Cymbeline |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | B.J. Crosby | Dreamgirls |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Darlesia Cearcy, Rebecca Eichenberger | Ragtime |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Jane Lapotaire | The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Patricia Pearce | A Little Night Music |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Linda Balgord | Fix |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Maureen Kerrigan | Lady In the Dark |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Marva Hicks | Thunder Knocking on the Door |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Janine Gulisano | West Side Story |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Halo Wines | Holiday Memories |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Judith Hawking | Lovers and Executioners |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Holly Twyford | Much Ado About Nothing |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Elizabeth Ashley | Sweet Bird of Youth |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Tana Hicken | The Lion in Winter |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | S. Epatha Merkerson | The Old Settler |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Dan Covey | Dangerous Liaisons |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Daniel MacLean Wagner | Nijinsky's Last Dance |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Howell Binkley | Peer Gynt |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Michael Giannitti | Seven Guitars |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Howell Binkley | Sweet Bird of Youth |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Daniel MacLean Wagner | The Fix |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Jon Kalbfleisch | A Little Night Music |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Douglas Lawler | Hot Nostalgia II |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Buck Brown | Kerouac |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | George Fulginiti-Shakar | Mad About the Bard |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Jon Kalbfleisch | The Fix |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Anderson Edwards | Thunder Knocking on the Door |
| Outstanding Non-Resident Production | Kennedy Center | 2 Pianos, 4 Hands |
| Outstanding Non-Resident Production | Kennedy Center | Hamlet |
| Outstanding Non-Resident Production | National Theatre | Ragtime |
| Outstanding Non-Resident Production | Kennedy Center | Showboat |
| Outstanding Non-Resident Production | Studio Theatre | Vagina Monologues |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Signature Theatre | A Little Night Music |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Kennedy Center | Brothers of the Knight |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Signature Theatre in association with Cameron Mackintosh | Fix |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Washington Shakespeare Company | Marat/Sade |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Arena Stage | Thunder Knocking on the Door |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Folger Shakespeare Library | Much Ado About Nothing |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Signature Theatre | Nijinsky's Last Dance |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Studio Theatre | Old Settler |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Shakespeare Theatre | Peer Gynt |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Studio Theatre | Seven Guitars |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Arena Stage | You Can't Take It With You |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Tony Cisek | Much Ado About Nothing |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Tony Cisek | Pericles |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Daniel Conway | Seven Guitars |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Lou Stancari | The Fix |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | James Kronzer | The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Thomas Lynch | You Can't Take It With You |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Neil McFadden | Jack & Jill |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Brian Keating | Neville's Island |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | David Maddox | Nijinsky's Last Dance |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Gil Thompson, Scott Burgess | Seven Guitars |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Red Ramona | The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Timothy M. Thompson, Scott W. Edwards | You Can't Take It With You |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Marty Lodge | Criminal Genius |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Nick Olcott | Dead Funny |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | J. Fred Shiffman | Lovers and Executioners |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Frederick Strother, Donald Griffin | Seven Guitars |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Everett Quinton | The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Bruce Nelson | The Triumph of Love |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Sarah Ripard | Dangerous Liaisons |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Gretchen Cleevely | Dimly Perceived Threats to the System |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Nancy Robinette | Freedomland |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Rhea Seehorn | The Big Slam |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Lynda Gravátt | The Old Settler |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Holly Twyford | The Steward of Christendom |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Rena Cherry Brown | A Delicate Balance |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Guy Henry | Cymbeline |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Tom Plotkin | Footloose |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | David Ryall | Hamlet |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Derbhle Crotty | Hamlet |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Tony Todd | The Captain's Tiger |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Resident Musical | Donna Migliaccio | A Little Night Music |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Resident Musical | Robb McKindles | A Little Night Music |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Resident Musical | Jason Gilbert | Lady in the Dark |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Resident Musical | Rhea Seehorn | Marat / Sade |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Resident Musical | Sal Mistretta | The Fix |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Resident Musical | Doug Eskew | Thunder Knocking on the Door |
| The American Express Tribute | Fred Ebb, John Kander | |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | Lisa Loomer | Expecting Isabel |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | John Strand | Lovers and Executioners |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | Norman Allen | Nijinsky's Last Dance |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | Christi Stewart-Brown | The Gene Pool |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | Norman Allen | Waiting In Tobolsk: the Children of the Last Tsar |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | Caleen Sinnette Jennings | Playing Juliet/Casting Othello |
| The Washington Post Award for Distinguished Community Service | The League of Washington Theatres, for Stages for All Ages | |
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