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The Helen Hayes Awards is seeking well-versed and knowledgeable men and women to serve as Helen Hayes Awards judges. They will serve on a pool of 60 judges whose task will be to see and evaluate all Helen-Hayes eligible productions throughout the calendar year, and provide those critical judgments which result in the nomination and awarding of the prestigious Helen Hayes Awards. The commitment is for a three-year term beginning with the 2009 judging cycle.

Being a Helen Hayes judge serves not only the theatre community, but is a tremendously exciting and rewarding learning experience. If you are a regular theatre-goer and have the time to commit, we hope you will contact William Spates at wspates@helenhayes.org or call 202 337-5316.

Last night, The Helen Hayes Awards, Washington theatre’s most glamorous evening, was presented before a sold-out audience at the Warner Theatre.

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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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