This is my favorite feature of the year – where we present notes from the Helen Hayes nominees. In this curtain call, if you will, I love it that a costumer ‘stands’ next to a lighting designer, followed by a performer with a choreographer and producer a few steps away. [Read more...]

Thanks to the nominees who responded to this year’s spotlight feature, to the theater companies who helped us gather responses and photos and especially to Linda Levy Grossman and the Helen Hayes Awards for their support of our project. For the complete list of nominees, go to The Helen Hayes Awards.

For easier reading, we abbreviated the original questions. To read the actual questions, click here. For our salute to the Producers, click here.

Our featured nominees are:

Keith Alan Baker, Christopher Cazenove, Gabriela Fernandez-Coffey, Ed Dixon, Timothy Douglas, Jessica Dukes, Tina Fabrique, Phillip Fletcher, Harriett D. Foy, Matthew Gardiner, Edward Gero, (in Part 2) Karla Hamilton, Marva Hicks, Bill Irwin, Tim Jerome, Dan Kazemi, Irakli Kavsadze, Susan Kellerman, Motti Lerner, Erik Liberman, Eric Lucas & Kerry Lucas, Robert McClure, William Foster McDaniel, Monique L. Midgette, Donna Migliaccio, Lawrence B. Munsey, Matthew M. Nielson, Kate Eastwood Norris, Guy Paul, (in Part 3) Mary Beth Peil, Salma Qarnain, Reggie Ray, Lawrence Redmond, Kelli Sawyer, Serge Seiden, Sekou (tha Misfit), Shirley Serotsky, Howard Shalwitz, J. Fred Shiffman, Bobby Smith, Andrew Sonntag, Alexander Strain, Eddie Sugarman, Regina Marie Williams, Dana Yeaton, Christopher Youstra

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-   A continuation of our spotlight on the 2008 Helen Hayes nominees, which begins here.

Featured in this segment are: Karla Hamilton, Marva Hicks, Bill Irwin, Tim Jerome, Dan Kazemi, Irakli Kavsadze, Susan Kellerman, Motti Lerner, Erik Liberman, Eric Lucas & Kerry Lucas, Robert McClure, William Foster McDaniel, Monique L. Midgette, Donna Migliaccio, Lawrence B. Munsey, Matthew M. Nielson, Kate Eastwood Norris, Guy Paul

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Featured in this segment are: Mary Beth Peil, Salma Qarnain, Reggie Ray, Lawrence Redmond, Kelli Sawyer, Serge Seiden, Sekou (tha Misfit), Shirley Serotsky, Howard Shalwitz, J. Fred Shiffman, Bobby Smith, Andrew Sonntag, Alexander Strain, Eddie Sugarman, Regina Marie Williams, Dana Yeaton, Christopher Youstra

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This is the final installment in our series Getting Personal.

Salute to the Producers:

Without producers, a play would be words on paper; actors, directors, and designers would have nowhere to work their art, and stages would be silent. Here’s to those producing companies who risk their resources and reputations for the love of a play.

The work honored in this year’s Helen Hayes Awards is thanks to these companies:

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Welcome to Part 2 of our interviews with 2009 Helen Hayes nominees [Read more...]