2002 Helen Hayes Awards
Winners and nominees from the Helen Hayes Awards.
2002 Helen Hayes Awards
Note: Award winners appear on a red background.
| Category | Nominee | Show |
|---|---|---|
| KPMG Award for Distinguished Service to the Washington Theatre Community | Pepco | |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Septime Webre | Coyote Builds North America |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Ilona Kessell | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Irina Tsikurishvili | Don Quixote |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Marlies Yearby | The Oedipus Plays |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Ilona Kessell | Damn Yankees |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Lindsay W. Davis | Agamemnon and His Daughters |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Susan E. Mickey | Blues in the Night |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Robert Perdziola | Don Carlos |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Lucas Maroney, Justine Light | God of Vengeance |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Jelena Vukmirovic | Perseus Bayou |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Murell Horton | Hedda Gabler |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Toby Orenstein | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Mary Hall Surface | Perseus Bayou |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Darryl V. Jones | SPUNK |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Catherine Flye | The Pirates of Penzance or The Picaroons of the Potomac! |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Kenny Leon | Blues in the Night |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Eric Schaeffer | Putting It Together |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Molly Smith | Agamemnon and His Daughters |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Michael Kahn | Don Carlos |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Thomas W. Jones, II | Home |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Joy Zinoman | The Invention of Love |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Joy Zinoman | Far East |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Jason Watkins | A Servant to Two Masters |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Ethan Sandler | Fully Committed |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Brian Stokes Mitchell | King Hedley II |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Matt Rippy | The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Ron Campbell | The Thousandth Night |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Will Gartshore | Grand Hotel |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Jason Gilbert | Putting it Together |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Barbaro Marin | Raices Cubanas 2 (Cuban Roots 2) |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Michael Rupert | A New Brain |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Brian Childers | Danny & Sylvia: A Musical Love Story |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Conrad Feininger | A Skull in Connemara |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Wallace Acton | Hamlet |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Bruce Alan Rauscher | The Andersonville Trial |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Tom Story | The Invention of Love |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Ted van Griethuysen | The Invention of Love |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Nigel Reed | The Judas Kiss |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Jack Willis | Of Mice and Men |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Claudia Shear | dirty BLONDE |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Rachel York | Kiss Me, Kate |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Jodi Capeless | Late Nite Catechism |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Anna Friel | Lulu |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Pauline Turner | Mill on the Floss |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Donna Migliaccio | Gypsy |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Jane Pesci-Townsend | Putting It Together |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Peggy Yates | She Loves Me |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Deidra LaWan Starnes | SPUNK |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Bernardine Mitchell | Blues in the Night |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Janine Gulisano | Danny & Sylvia: A Musical Love Story |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Judith Light | Hedda Gabler |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Kelly McAndrew | Holiday |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Gail Grate | In the Blood |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Kate Eastwood Norris | Intimate Exchanges |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Lucy Newman-Williams | Macbeth |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Jenifer Deal | The Muckle Man |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Pavel Dobrusky | Agamemnon and His Daughters |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Chris Parry | Don Carlos |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Dan Covey | Macbeth |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Marianne Meadows | The Chosen |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Marcus Dilliard | The Oedipus Plays |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Nancy Schertler | Tom Walker |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Dwight Andrews | Blues in the Night |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Dianne Adams McDowell | Constant Star |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Jon Kalbfleisch | Grand Hotel |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Jon Kalbfleisch | Putting It Together |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | George Fulginiti-Shakar | The Oedipus Plays |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Larry Edward Vote | The Pirates of Penzance or The Picaroons of the Potomac! |
| Outstanding Non-Resident Production | Kennedy Center | A Servant to Two Masters |
| Outstanding Non-Resident Production | Kennedy Center | dirty BLONDE |
| Outstanding Non-Resident Production | Kennedy Center | Disney's Beauty and the Beast |
| Outstanding Non-Resident Production | Ford's Theatre | Fully Committed |
| Outstanding Non-Resident Production | Kennedy Center | Mill on the Floss |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Studio Theatre | A New Brain |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Arena Stage | Blues in the Night |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Toby's Dinner Theatre | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Theatre of the First Amendment | Perseus Bayou |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Signature Theatre | Putting it Together |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | African Continuum Theatre Company | SPUNK |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Shakespeare Theatre | Don Carlos |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Round House Theatre | Home |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Studio Theatre | Jitney |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Washington Stage Guild | Major Barbara |
| Outstanding Resident Play | American Century Theater | The Andersonville Trial |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Studio Theatre | The Invention of Love |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Pavel Dobrusky | Agamemnon and His Daughters |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Greg Mitchell | American Buffalo |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Ming Cho Lee | Don Carlos |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | James Kronzer | In the Garden |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Daniel Conway | Jitney |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Tony Cisek | The Judas Kiss |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Fabian Obispo | Agamemnon and His Daughters |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Martin Desjardins | Hamlet |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Adam Wernick | Hamlet |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Tony Angelini | Home |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Daniel Portaix | Les Cloisons (Partitions) |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Fred Karns, Gil Thompson | The Invention of Love |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Mark K. Anduss | Andromeda Shack |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Musical | Gary Marshall Dieter | Forever Plaid |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Musical | Michael Sharp | Grand Hotel |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Musical | Steven Tipton, Andrew Wynn | The Pirates of Penzance or The Picaroons of the Potomac! |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Musical | Paul Takacs | Perseus Bayou |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Bruce Nelson | Fuddy Meers |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Helmar Augusttus Cooper | Jitney |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Michael Glenn | Major Barbara |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | David Marks | The Rivals |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Doug Brown | Fuddy Meers |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Roger Kraus | The Judas Kiss |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Musical | Andrea Frierson-Toney | A New Brain |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Musical | Deanna Harris | Gypsy |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Musical | Sherri L. Edelen | She Loves Me |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Musical | Kadejah Oni Higdon | SPUNK |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Musical | Jane Pesci-Townsend | The Pirates of Penzance or The Picaroons of the Potomac! |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Mia Whang | Far East |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Lynn Chavis, Crystal Fox | Home |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Sarah Fox | Love & Yearning in the Not-for-Profits and Other Marital Distractions |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Catherine Flye | Rapture |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Tina Fabrique | Constant Star |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Charles Brown, Stephen McKinley Henderson | King Hedley II |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Nancy Anderson | Kiss Me, Kate |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Michael Matus | Mill on the Floss |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Tom Riis Farrell | dirty BLONDE |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | Norman Allen | In the Garden |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | Paul D'Andrea | Nathan the Wise |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | Mary Hall Surface, David Maddox | Perseus Bayou |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | Martha King De Silva | Stretch Marks |
| The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play | Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa | The Muckle Man |
| The Governor's Award | Roger Meersman | |
| The Helen Hayes Tribute, sponsored by Jaylee and Gilbert Mead | Emery Battis | |
| The Washington Post Award for Innovative Leadership in the Theatre Community | Mark and Merrill Shugoll | |
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