2001 Helen Hayes Awards
Winners and nominees from the Helen Hayes Awards.
2001 Helen Hayes Awards
Note: Award winners appear on a red background.
| Category | Nominee | Show |
|---|---|---|
| KPMG Award for Distinguished Service to the Washington Theatre Community | David Rutstein | |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Ilona Kessell | 42nd Street |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Debbie Allen | Dreams |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Irina Tsikurishvili | Faust |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Jodi Moccia | The Rhythm Club |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Mercedes Ellington | Play On! |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Debra Bauer | Blue |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Murell Horton | Camino Real |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Howard Tvsi Kaplan | Man of La Mancha |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Anne Kennedy | Side Show |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Robert Perdziola | The Country Wife |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | David Petrarca | Dinah Was |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Sheldon Epps | Play On! |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Joe Calarco | Side Show |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Mary Hall Surface | Sing Down the Moon, Appalchian Wonder Tales |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Eric Schaeffer | The Rhythm Club |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Jerry Whiddon | You're A Good Man Charlie Brown |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Howard Shalwitz | Heaven |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Kasi Campbell | Lonesome West |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Donald Hicken | The Glass Menagerie |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | James A. Petosa | Collected Stories |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Thomas W. Jones, II | MASTER HAROLD...and the boys |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Joe Calarco | Shakespeare's R & J |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Michael Kahn | Timon of Athens |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Marc Wolf | Another American: Asking and Telling |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Jack Willis | Art |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Terace Jones | Fosse |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Tyler Perry | I Can Do Bad All by Myself |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Stephen Bogardus | James Joyce's The Dead |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Little John Nee | The Derry Boat |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Bobby Smith | Evita |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Will Gartshore, 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 Play | James Brown-Orleans | MASTER HAROLD ... and the boys |
| 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 Actor, Resident Play | Rick Foucheux | Hughie |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | John Emmert | Strange Interlude |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Reva Rice | Fosse |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Gretha Boston | It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Eloise Laws | 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 | Janine Gulisano | Brigadoon |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | E. Faye Butler | Dinah Was |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Alexandra Foucard | Play On! |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Amy Goldberger | Side Show |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Sherri L. Edelen | Side Show |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Lauren Kennedy | The Rhythm Club |
| 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 | 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 Lead Actress, Resident Play | Halo Wines | Collected Stories |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Jonathan Blandin | Available Light |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Allen Lee Hughes | K2 |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Jonathan Blandin | Mystery of Irma Vep (a penny dreadful) |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Daniel MacLean Wagner | Therese Raquin |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Dan Covey | Leaving the Summer Land |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Dan Covey | Tempest |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Deborah Wicks La Puma | Crack Between the Worlds: the goddess returns |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | William Knowles | Dinah Was |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Jason Robert Brown | Dinah Was |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | J. Leonard Oxley | Play On! |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Jay Crowder | Side Show |
| Outstanding Non-Resident Production | Round House Theatre | Youre A Good Man, Charlie Brown |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Arena Stage | Dinah Was |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Arena Stage | Play On! |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Signature Theatre | Rhythm Club |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Signature Theatre | Side Show |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Theater of the First Amendment | Sing Down the Moon: Appalachian Wonder Tales |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Theater J as part of Olney Theatre Center's Potomac Theatre Festival | Collected Stories |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Round House Theatre and Everyman Theatre | Glass Menagerie |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company | Heaven |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Studio Theatre | MASTER HAROLD ... and the boys |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Folger Theatre | Shakespeare's R & J |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Shakespeare | Theatre Country Wife |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Russell Metheny | bash; latterday plays |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | James Kronzer | Collected Stories |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | James Leonard | Joy Blue |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Ming Cho Lee | K2 |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Lou Stancari | The Mystery of Irma Vep |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Walt Spangler | Timon of Athens |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Tony Cisek | Leaving the Summer Land |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Brian Keating | Floyd Collins |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Brian Keating | In The Absence of Spring |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Scott Burgess | Mystery of Irma Vep (a penny dreadful) |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Scott Burgess | Tempest |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Hana Sellers | Wonder of the World |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Rick Foucheux | Heaven |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Christopher Marlowe Roche | The Importance of Being Earnest |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Carlos Castillo | El burlador de Sevilla y convivado de piedra (Don Juan of Seville) |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Ted van Griethuysen | Timon of Athens |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Brian McMonagle | Too 1 to be Good |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | David Jourdan | Twelve Angry Men |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Edward Gero | bash: latterday plays |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Kerri Rambow | A House In The Country |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Sarah Marshall | Betty's Summer Vacation |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Jewell Robinson | Blue |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Jenifer Deal | Dancing at Lughnasa |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Kerri Rambow | The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Nancy Robinette | Wonder of the World |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Len Cariou | Dinner Party |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Penny Fuller | Dinner Party |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Sean McCourt | It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Charles Bevel | It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Alice Cannon | James Joyce's The Dead |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Resident Musical | Carla J. Hargrove | Dinah Was |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Resident Musical | Harriett D. Foy | Reunion, A Musical Epic in Miniature |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Resident Musical | Eric Jordan Young | Side Show |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Resident Musical | Mark Jaster | The Fantasticks |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Resident Musical | Nikki Crawford | Play On! |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Resident Musical | John J. Kaczynski | You're A Good Man Charlie Brown |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | Peter Coy | A House in the Country |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | Charles Randolph-Wright | Blue |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | Ari Roth | Life in Refusal |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | Chad Beguelin | Rhythm Club |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | Mary Hall Surface | Sing Down the Moon, Appalchian Wonder Tales |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | David Maddox | Sing Down the Moon; Appalachian Wonder Tales |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | Matthew Sklar | The Rhythm Club |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | David Lindsay-Abaire | Wonder of the World |
| The Helen Hayes Tribute sponsored by American Airlines | Phillip Bosco | |
| The Washington Post Award for Distinguished Community Service | Arlington County for their Cultural Affairs Division's Arts Incubator Program | |
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