Helen Hayes Award Winners Announced

The 29th annual Helen Hayes Awards, honoring theatrical productions in the Washington, DC area, were held Monday, April 8 at the JW Marriot Hotel.

Bobby Smith and Natascia Diaz won for their leading roles in Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris at MetroStage. Serge Seiden also won for his direction of that production. Signature Theatre's Dreamgirls received the award for outstanding resident musical, and the 2013 John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company was presented to Dizzy Miss Lizzie's Roadside Revue, and Paul Downs Colaizzo received the The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical for Really Really.

Mary Louise Geiger won the Outstanding Lighting Design of a Resident Production award for her work in Invisible Man at The Studio Theatre. The nominees were: Colin K. Bills, Brother Russia, Signature Theatre; Colin K. Bills, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Chuan-Chi Chan, The Servant of Two Masters, Shakespeare Theatre Company ; Keith Parham, Red, Arena Stage; Justin Townsend, One Night with Janis Joplin, Arena Stage; Thom Weaver, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare Theatre Company.

Matthew Nielson won the award for Outstanding Sound Design of a Resident Production for his work on The Illusion at Forum Theatre. The nominees were: Christopher Baine, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Cliff Eberhardt, Original Music and Christopher Baine, Sound Design, The Taming of the Shrew, Folger Theatre; David Remedios, Invisible Man, The Studio Theatre; Brendon Vierra, Hum, Theater Alliance.

The award for Outstanding Set Design of a Resident Production went to both Misha Kachman, for her work in The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and Todd Rosenthal, for his work in Red at Arena Stage. The nominees were Riccardo Hernandez, Pullman Porter Blues, Arena Stage; Troy Hourie, Invisible Man, The Studio Theatre; and Lee Savage, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare Theatre Company.

For the full list of nominees, visit the URL below.