Call for Helen Hayes Judges

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.

The Helen Hayes Awards

 

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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Getting Personal – 2008 Helen Hayes Nominees

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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Getting Personal, Part 2

-   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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Getting Personal, Part 3

More in our spotlight feature on the 2008 Helen Hayes nominees, which begins here.

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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Getting Personal, Part 4

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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Nominations for the Helen Hayes Awards Announced

 

by Joel Markowitz 

Feb 25 — The 2008 Helen Hayes Awards nominations were announced by President and CEO Linda Levy Grossman tonight at the Gallery of The National Theatre.   She told a standing room only crowd that 189 productions met the eligibility requirements for the Awards, and a record 149 nominated artists and productions were named in 24 categories. Read more

Helen Hayes Awards

LOVE’S LABOR’S FOUND

Mon, Apr 16 – The wind blew in Lear-like gusts last night, but inside the Warner Theatre, the atmosphere at the 23^rd annual Helen Hayes Awards suggested the title Love’s Labor’s Found. Sparked by the opening flourishes of Marvin Hamlisch at the piano, the warmly modest emceeing of DC actor Jason Kravits, now enjoying a Broadway run in The Drowsy Chaperone (and fondly remembered as the world’s most annoying District Attorney on "The Practice"), guest performer E. Faye Butler, and the surprise appearance of Lynn Redgrave, the crisply produced awards ceremony managed to hand out 27 awards in two hours and ten minutes, with the sold-out audience lustily cheering each nominee.

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Helen Hayes Awards – the overture

From the 2006 Helen Hayes Nominees

All last season, Washington was awash in fine theater. Hundreds of artists took on thousands of tasks, large and small, designed to bring great classics and challenging new works to life. They did so, in most cases, with great skill and for disproportionately little money, knowing as they do, the stage artist’s secret: that good work, in and of itself, brings great reward. Next Monday, April 16th, Washington’s theatre community will gather for the Helen Hayes Awards Ceremony. Broadway star Jason Kravits will host a Nick Olcott-written, Daniel MacLean Wagner-designed, and Karma Camp-directed extravaganza, in which Sir Derek Jacobi, and Marvin Hamlisch, among others, will help to honor Washington’s extraordinary artists. Read more