2013 Helen Hayes Awards
Winners and nominees from the Helen Hayes Awards.
2013 Helen Hayes Awards
Note: Award winners appear on a red background.
| Category | Nominee | Show |
|---|---|---|
| Innovative Leadership in the Theatre Community | Capital Fringe | |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Rick Sordelet | Sucker Punch |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Anwar Thomas | The Color Purple |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Erika Chong Shuch | The Conference of the Birds Folger Theatre |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Joe Isenberg | The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Septime Webre, David Palmer | The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe |
| Outstanding Choreography, Resident Production | Parker Esse | The Music Man |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Jennifer Moeller | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Frank Labovitz | Dreamgirls |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Judith Bowden | My Fair Lady |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Lawrence B. Munsey | The Color Purple |
| Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Murell Horton | The Government Inspector |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Matthew Gardiner | Dreamgirls |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Serge Seiden | Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Kathryn Chase Bryer | Rapunzel |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Mark A. Rhea, Susan Marie Rhea | Spring Awakening |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Toby Orenstein, Lawrence B. Munsey | The Color Purple |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Musical | Janet Stanford | The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Ethan McSweeny | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Kirsten Kelly | Big Love |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Christopher McElroen | Invisible Man |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Robert Falls | Red |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | John Vreeke | The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Michael Kahn | The Government Inspector |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Christopher Bayes | The Servant of Two Masters |
| Outstanding Director, Resident Play | Aaron Posner | The Taming of the Shrew |
| Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company | Dizzy Miss Lizzie's Roadside Revue | |
| Outstanding Ensemble, Resident Musical | MetroStage | Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris |
| Outstanding Ensemble, Resident Musical | MetroStage | Josephine Tonight |
| Outstanding Ensemble, Resident Musical | GALA Hispanic Theatre | Puerto Rico...fua! |
| Outstanding Ensemble, Resident Musical | Imagination Stage | Rapunzel |
| Outstanding Ensemble, Resident Musical | The Keegan Theatre | Spring Awakening |
| Outstanding Ensemble, Resident Musical | Imagination Stage | The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe |
| Outstanding Ensemble, Resident Play | The Keegan Theatre | August: Osage County |
| Outstanding Ensemble, Resident Play | The Studio Theatre | Invisible Man |
| Outstanding Ensemble, Resident Play | Arena Stage | Pullman Porter Blues |
| Outstanding Ensemble, Resident Play | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company | The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity |
| Outstanding Ensemble, Resident Play | Shakespeare Theatre Company | The Government Inspector |
| Outstanding Ensemble, Resident Play | Folger Theatre | The Taming of the Shrew |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Ryan Fletcher | Black Watch |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Michael Benz | Hamlet |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Christopher Sieber | La Cage Aux Folles |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Martin Kaye | Million Dollar Quartet |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | David M. Lutken | Woody Sez: The Life & Music of Woody Guthrie |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Brooks Ashmanskas | 1776 |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Doug Kreeger | Brother Russia |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Bobby Smith | Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | James Gardiner | Little Shop of Horrors |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Matthew A. Anderson | Seussical |
| Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Paul Scanlan | Spring Awakening |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Ashley Blair Fitzgerald | Come Fly Away The Kennedy Center |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Emily Behny | Disney's Beauty and the Beast The National Theatre |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Mara Davi | Irving Berlin's White Christmas The Kennedy Center |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Felicia Boswell | Memphis The Kennedy Center |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Helen J. Russell | Woody Sez: The Life & Music of Woody Guthrie Theater J |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Nova Y. Payton | Dreamgirls |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Natascia Diaz | Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Mary Bridget Davies | One Night with Janis Joplin |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Dayna Quincy | The Color Purple |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Erin Weaver | Xanadu |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Rena Cherry Brown | August: Osage County |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Holly Twyford | Dirt |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Helen Carey | Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Kathleen Turner | Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Lee Mikeska Gardner | Side Man |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Francesca Faridany | Strange Interlude |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Kathryn Kelley | The Belle of Amherst |
| Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play | Kate Eastwood Norris | The Taming of the Shrew |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Colin K. Bills | Brother Russia |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Mary Louise Geiger | Invisible Man |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Justin Townsend | One Night with Janis Joplin |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Keith Parham | Red |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Colin K. Bills | The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Thom Weaver | The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Chuan-Chi Chan | The Servant of Two Masters |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Jon Kalbfleisch | Dreamgirls |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Jenny Cartney | Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Jonathan Tuzman | Mr. Burns, a post-electric play |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Jmichael | Pullman Porter Blues |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Jake Null | Spring Awakening |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Christopher Youstra | The Color Purple |
| Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production | Lawrence Goldberg | The Music Man |
| Outstanding New Play or Musical | Matthew R. Wilson | A Commedia Christmas Carol |
| Outstanding New Play or Musical | Jason Gray Platt | Crown of Shadows: the wake of odysseus |
| Outstanding New Play or Musical | Bryony Lavery | Dirt |
| Outstanding New Play or Musical | Cheryl L. West | Pullman Porter Blues |
| Outstanding New Play or Musical | Paul Downs Colaizzo | Really Really |
| Outstanding New Play or Musical | Kathryn Bryer, Janet Stanford, Septime Webre, Matthew Pierce, David Palmer, Bari Biern | The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe |
| Outstanding New Play or Musical | Renee Calarco | The Religion Thing |
| Outstanding Non-Resident Production | Shakespeare Theatre Company | Black Watch |
| Outstanding Non-Resident Production | Folger Theatre | Hamlet |
| Outstanding Non-Resident Production | The Kennedy Center | Memphis |
| Outstanding Non-Resident Production | Studio Theatre | The Animals and Children Took to the Streets |
| Outstanding Non-Resident Production | Theater J | Woody Sez: The Life & Music of Woody Guthrie |
| Outstanding Production, Theatre For Young Audiences | Adventure Theatre MTC | A Little House Christmas |
| Outstanding Production, Theatre For Young Audiences | Imagination Stage | Rapunzel |
| Outstanding Production, Theatre For Young Audiences | Imagination Stage | The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe |
| Outstanding Production, Theatre For Young Audiences | The Kennedy Center | The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg |
| Outstanding Production, Theatre For Young Audiences | Adventure Theatre MTC | The Snowy Day |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Ford's Theatre | 1776 |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Signature Theatre | Dreamgirls |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | MetroStage | Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | The Keegan Theatre | Spring Awakening |
| Outstanding Resident Musical | Toby's Dinner Theatre | The Color Purple |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Shakespeare Theatre Company | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Outstanding Resident Play | The Studio Theatre | Invisible Man |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Theater J | Our Class |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company | The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity |
| Outstanding Resident Play | Folger Theatre | The Taming of the Shrew |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Lee Savage | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Troy Hourie | Invisible Man |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Riccardo Hernandez | Pullman Porter Blues |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Todd Rosenthal | Red |
| Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Misha Kachman | The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Brendon Vierra | Hum |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | David Remedios | Invisible Man |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Christopher Baine | The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Matthew M. Nielson | The Illusion |
| Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production | Christopher Baine, Cliff Eberhardt | The Taming of the Shrew |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Musical | Christopher Bloch, Robert Cuccioli | 1776 |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Musical | Cedric Neal | Dreamgirls |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Musical | Bobby Smith | Little Shop of Horrors |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Musical | Nicholas Rodriguez | My Fair Lady |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Musical | Michael John Casey | Rapunzel |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Musical | David Little | The Color Purple |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Musical | Crystal Joy | Dreamgirls |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Musical | Priscilla Cuellar | Legally Blonde the Musical |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Musical | Theresa Cunningham | The Color Purple |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Musical | Donna Migliaccio | The Music Man |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Musical | Sherri L. edelen | Xanadu |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Natalia Payne | Dirt |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | E. Faye Butler | Pullman Porter Blues |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Nancy Robinette | The Government Inspector |
| Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play | Sarah Marshall, Holly Twyford | The Taming of the Shrew |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Robert Jack, Adam McNamara, Chris Starkie | Black Watch |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Christopher Saul | Hamlet |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Tom Lawrence | Hamlet |
| Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Julie Johnson | Memphis |
| The Helen Hayes Tribute | Actors' Equity Association | |
| The James MacArthur Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Adam Green | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| The James MacArthur Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Bradley Foster Smith | Suite Surrender |
| The James MacArthur Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Matthew McGee | Taking Steps |
| The James MacArthur Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Adi Hanash | The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity |
| The James MacArthur Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play | Danny Scheie | The Taming of the Shrew |
| The Robert Prosky Award for Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Teagle F. Bougere | Invisible Man The Studio Theatre |
| The Robert Prosky Award for Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Larry Marshall | Pullman Porter Blues Arena Stage |
| The Robert Prosky Award for Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Jose Joaquin Perez | The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company |
| The Robert Prosky Award for Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Steven Epp | The Servant of Two Masters Shakespeare Theatre Company |
| The Robert Prosky Award for Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play | Cody Nickell | The Taming of the Shrew Folger Theatre |
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