2000 Helen Hayes Awards
Winners and nominees from the Helen Hayes Awards.
2000 Helen Hayes Awards
Note: Award winners appear on a red background.
| Category | Nominee | Show |
|---|---|---|
| KPMG Award for Distinguished Service to the Washington Theatre Community | Sunoco, Inc | |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Baayork Lee | Animal Crackers |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Ilona Kessell | Follies |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Patdro Harris | Slam! |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Ilona Kessell | State Fair |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Irina Tsikurishvili | The Idiot |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Mark Minnick | West Side Story |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Helen Q. Huang | Indian Ink |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Alessandra D'Ovidio | La Dama Boba |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Justine Scherer | Renard the Fox |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Zack Brown | Royal Family |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Martin Pakledinaz | The Merchant of Venice |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Paul Tazewell | The Women |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Douglas C. Wager | Animal Crackers |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Mary Hall Surface | Grimm Tales |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Thomas W. Jones, II | Slam! |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Jack Marshall | The Cradle Will Rock |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Eric Schaeffer | Sweeney Todd |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Charles Randolph-Wright | Guys and Dolls |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Joe Banno | Edmond |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Hugo Medrano | La Dama Boba |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Paata Tsikurishvili | The Idiot |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Andrei Malaev-Babel | The Idiot |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Molly Smith | How I Learned to Drive |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Joy Zinoman | Indian Ink |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Michael Kahn | King John |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Jack Willis | Art |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Bill Irwin | Fool Moon |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Stephen Bogardus | James Joyce's The Dead |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Joe Sears | Red, White, and Tuna |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Marc Wolf | Another American: Asking and Telling |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Tyler Perry | I Can Do Bad All by Myself |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Will Gartshore | Floyd Collins |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Rich Affannato | Floyd Collins |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Tim Martin Gleason | Rhythm Club |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Dwayne Nitz | Sing Down the Moon - Appalachian Wonder Tales |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Jeremy Kushnier | The Rhythm Club |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Bobby Smith | Evita |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Rick Foucheux | Hughie |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | James Brown-Orleans | MASTER HAROLD ... and the boys |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | John Emmert | Strange Interlude |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Bruce Nelson | The Mystery of Irma Vel (a penny dreadful) |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Christopher Lane | Therese Raquin |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Philip Goodwin | Timon of Athens |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Floyd King | Vigil |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Reva Rice | Fosse |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Eloise Laws, Gretha Boston | It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Faith Prince | James Joyce's The Dead |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Judith Light | Wit |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | E. Faye Butler | Dinah Was |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Alexandra Foucard | Play On! |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Sherri L. Edelen | Side Show |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Amy Goldberger | Side Show |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Lauren Kennedy | The Rhythm Club |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Janine Gulisano | Brigadoon |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Lee Mikeska Gardner | A House in The Country |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Holly Twyford | Chesapeake |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Halo Wines | Collected Stories |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Kate Eastwood Norris | Strange Interlude |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Tana Hicken | The Glass Menagerie |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Valerie Leonard | Therese Raquin |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Jonathan Blandin | Available Light |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Allen Lee Hughes | K2 |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Dan Covey | Leaving the Summer Land |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Jonathan Blandin | Mystery of Irma Vep (a penny dreadful) |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Dan Covey | Tempest |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Daniel MacLean Wagner | Therese Raquin |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Kevin Campbell | Dark Kalamazoo |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Daniel Conway | Desk Set |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Danny Kosarin | Guys and Dolls |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | William Knowles | Slam! |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Jon Kalbfleisch | Sweeny Todd |
| Outstanding Non-Resident Production | Kennedy Center | Annie Get Your Gun |
| Outstanding Non-Resident Production | Warner Theatre | Cabaret |
| Outstanding Non-Resident Production | Kennedy Center | Fool Moon |
| Outstanding Non-Resident Production | Kennedy Center | Red, White and Tuna |
| Outstanding Non-Resident Production | kennedy Center | Side Man |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Arena Stage | Animal Crackers |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | American Century Theater | Cradle Will Rock |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Theater of the First Amendment | Grimm Tales |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Arena Stage | Guys and Dolls |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Studio Theatre | Slam! |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Signature Theatre | Sweeney Todd |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company | Dead Monkey |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Source Theatre Company | Edmond |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Arena Stage | How I Learned to Drive |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Studio Theatre | Indian Ink |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Shakespeare Theatre | King John |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Daniel Conway | Ambrosio |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Tony Cisek | Communicating Doors |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Daniel Conway | Desk Set |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Russell Metheny | Indian Ink |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Lou Stancari | Sweeny Todd |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Ming Cho Lee | The Merchant of Venice |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Scott Burgess | Adding Machine |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Ron Ursano/The Chroma Group, Ltd | Angels In America, Part II: Perestroika |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | David Maddox | Grimm Tales |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Gil Thompson, Gil Thompson | Indian Ink |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Ronobir Lahiri | Indian Ink |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Mark K. Anduss | t Orbit of Billy Mars |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Neil McFadden | The Dead Monkey |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Mark K. Anduss | The Last Orbit of Billy Mars |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Ronobir Lahiri | Indian Ink |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Floyd King | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Craig Wallace | Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Paul Morella | Angerls In America Part 1: Millenium Approaches |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Christopher Henley | Entertaining Mr. Sloane |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Christopher Lane | Equus |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Marty Lodge | The Beauty Queen of Leenane |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Doug Brown | Last Orbit of Billy Mars |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Rachel Gardner | In Good Company: The Power Edition |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | June Hansen | Indian Ink |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Naomi Jacobson | Mere Mortals |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Lee Mikeska Gardner | Stanley |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Sarah Marshall | How I Learned To Drive |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Jewell Robinson | Inns and Outs |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Dick Latessa | Cabaret |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Anthony Evans | Inspiration |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Michael Arnold | Martin Guerre |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Michael Mastro | Side Man |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Marcus Chait | Titanic: A New Musical |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Resident Musical | Peggy Yates | Dreams from a Summer House |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Resident Musical | Steve Routman | Eleanor: An American Love Story |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Resident Musical | Christopher Michael Bauer | Slam! |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Resident Musical | John J. Kaczynski | Sweeny Todd |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Resident Musical | Carla Della Torre | West Side Story |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Resident Musical | Wayne W. Pretlow | Guys and Dolls |
| The American Express Tribute | August Wilson | |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | Chris Stezin | Hoboken Station |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | Caleen Sinnette Jennings | Inns & Outs |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | Robert Alexander | Last Orbit of Billy Mars |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | Oni Faida Lampley | The Dark Kalamazoo |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | Karen Zacarias | The Sins of Sor Juana |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | Sam Schwartz, Jr | Courting Chris |
| The Washington Post Award for Distinguished Community Service | Winifred and Norman Portenoy | |
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