Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play
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The Helen Hayes Award for Supporting Actress in a Resident Play is an
Helen Hayes Award
for theatre
excellence in the Washington, DC area. In 1993, awards for musicals were separated from those for dramatic plays. The award winner is listed
for each year, followed by other nominees.
Helen Hayes Award
Helen Hayes Award
A Helen Hayes Award is a theater award named for the famed actress Helen Hayes to recognize excellence in professional theater in the Washington, D.C. area since 1983. The awards are managed by Linda Levy Grossman. and presented by the Washington Theatre Awards Society.-Awards:The Helen Hayes...
for theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
excellence in the Washington, DC area. In 1993, awards for musicals were separated from those for dramatic plays. The award winner is listed
for each year, followed by other nominees.
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Resident Production
- 1985 Tami Tappan - Lydie Breeze - New Playwrights' Theatre
- Brigid Cleary - Enter a Free Man - Olney Theatre
- Peggy Cosgrave - Crimes of the Heart - Olney Theatre
- Elizabeth DuVall - The Wake of Jamey Foster - The Studio Theatre
- Barbara Klein - Top GirlsTop GirlsTop Girls is a 1982 play by Caryl Churchill. It is about a woman named Marlene, a career-driven woman who is employed at the 'Top Girls' employment agency. The play examines issues of gender discrimination present in the Thatcherite society that it is set in...
- Horizons Theatre
Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Production
- 1986 Erika Bogren - A Walk Out of Water - The Studio Theatre
- Brigid Cleary - The Miss Firecracker Contest - Olney Theatre
- Tana Hicken - Execution of Justice - Arena StageArena StageArena Stage is a not-for-profit regional theater based in Southwest Washington, D.C. Its declared mission"is to produce huge plays of all that is passionate, exuberant, profound, deep and dangerous in the American spirit. Arena has broad shoulders and a capacity to produce anything from vast epics...
- Katherine Leaske - TartuffeTartuffeTartuffe is a comedy by Molière. It is one of his most famous plays.-History:Molière wrote Tartuffe in 1664...
- Arena Stage - Isabell Monk - TartuffeTartuffeTartuffe is a comedy by Molière. It is one of his most famous plays.-History:Molière wrote Tartuffe in 1664...
- Arena Stage - Ramona Rhoades - The Knight From Olmedo - GALA Hispanic Theatre
- 1987 Pat Carroll - Romeo and JulietRomeo and JulietRomeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...
- The Shakespeare Theatre- Heather Ehlers - The Philadelphia StoryThe Philadelphia Story (play)The Philadelphia Story is a 1939 American comic play by Philip Barry. It tells the story of a socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and an attractive journalist.-Production:...
- Arena Stage - Joan Kelley - Beyond TherapyBeyond TherapyBeyond Therapy is a play by Christopher Durang.The farcical comedy focuses on Prudence and Bruce, two Manhattanites who are seeking stable romantic relationships with the help of their psychiatrists, each of whom suggests the patient place a personal ad. Bruce is a highly emotional bisexual who...
- Source Theatre Company - Mikel Lambert - The Miser - The Shakespeare Theatre
- Sybil Lines - The Cherry OrchardThe Cherry OrchardThe Cherry Orchard is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's last play. It premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. Chekhov intended this play as a comedy and it does contain some elements of farce; however, Stanislavski insisted on...
- The Shakespeare Theatre - Barbara Rappaport - Johnny Bull - Horizons Theatre
- Heather Ehlers - The Philadelphia Story
- 1988 Franchelle Stewart Dorn - The Winter's TaleThe Winter's TaleThe Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, some modern editors have relabelled the play as one of Shakespeare's late romances. Some critics, among them W. W...
- The Shakespeare Theatre- Francine Beers - Light Up the Sky - Arena Stage
- Mary Ellen Nester - Savage in LimboSavage in LimboSavage In Limbo is a 1984 play by American playwright John Patrick Shanley. The play follows the tragicomic lives of a group of losers who frequent a seedy Bronx bar....
- Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company - Nancy Paris - North Shore Fish - The Studio Theatre
- Muriel Smallwood - The EntertainerThe Entertainer (play)The Entertainer is a three act play by John Osborne, first produced in 1957. His first play, Look Back in Anger, had attracted mixed notices but a great deal of publicity. Having depicted an "angry young man" in the earlier play, Osborne wrote, at Laurence Olivier's request,about an angry middle...
- The Studio Theatre
- 1989 Sarah Marshall - Baby With the Bathwater - Round House Theatre
- Patricia Connolly - Ring Round the Moon - Arena Stage
- June Hansen - An Ideal HusbandAn Ideal HusbandAn Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour...
- The Washington Stage Guild - Kathryn Kelley - The Glass MenagerieThe Glass MenagerieThe Glass Menagerie is a four-character memory play by Tennessee Williams. Williams worked on various drafts of the play prior to writing a version of it as a screenplay for MGM, to whom Williams was contracted...
- New Playwrights' Theatre - Michaeleen O'Neil - Safe Sex - Source Theatre Company
- Lilia Skala - Les Blancs - Arena Stage
- 1990 Kaia Calhoun - Heathen Valley - Round House Theatre
- June Hansen - Blithe SpiritBlithe Spirit (play)Blithe Spirit is a comic play written by Noël Coward which takes its title from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "To a Skylark" . The play concerns socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to...
- The Washington Stage Guild - Tana Hicken - The Man Who Came to Dinner - Arena Stage
- Sarah Marshall - Briar Patch - Arena Stage
- Jennifer Mendenhall - The Common Pursuit - The Studio Theatre
- Lynnie Raybuck - Happy Birthdays - Smallbeer Theatre Company
- June Hansen - Blithe Spirit
- 1991 Robin Baxter - West Memphis Mojo - The Studio Theatre
- Grainne Cassidy - Zero Positive - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- Beverly Cosham - Rebel Armies Deep Into Chad - Round House Theatre
- Franchelle Stewart Dorn - Mary Stuart - The Shakespeare Theatre
- Oni Faida Lampley - Rebel Armies Deep Into Chad - Round House Theatre
- Halo Wines - You Can't Take It With YouYou Can't Take It with YouYou Can't Take It with You is a comedic play in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The original production of the play opened at the Booth Theater on December 14, 1936, and played for 837 performances...
- Olney Theatre
- 1992 Marilyn Coleman - Jar the Floor - Arena Stage
- Desiree Marie - Fat Men in Skirts - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- Jessica May - Psycho Beach PartyPsycho Beach PartyPsycho Beach Party is a 2000 Comedy horror film based on the off-Broadway play of the same name, directed by Robert Lee King. Charles Busch wrote both the original play and the screenplay...
- Source Theatre Company - Jennifer Mendenhall - When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout - The Studio Theatre
- Sandra Reaves-Phillips - Before It Hits Home - Arena Stage
- Cathy Simpson - spell #7: geechee jibara quick magic trance for technologically stressed third world people - The Studio Theatre
Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play
- 1993 Francesca Buller - HamletHamletThe Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
- The Shakespeare Theatre- Roz Fox - Shakin' the Mess Outta Misery - Source Theatre Company
- June Hansen - Joe Egg - Round House Theatre
- Gillian Holt - Table Settings - Theater J
- Carol Monda - Morticians in Love - Consenting Adults Theatre Company
- Carolyn Pasquantonio - The Miracle WorkerThe Miracle WorkerThe Miracle Worker is a cycle of 20th century dramatic works derived from Helen Keller's autobiography The Story of My Life. Each of the various dramas describes the relationship between Keller—a deafblind and initially almost feral child—and Anne Sullivan, the teacher who introduced her to...
- Olney Theatre
- 1994 Mary Vreeland - Mother Courage and Her ChildrenMother Courage and Her ChildrenMother Courage and Her Children is a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht with significant contributions from Margarete Steffin...
- The Shakespeare Theatre- Kate Buddeke - Dancing at LughnasaDancing at LughnasaDancing at Lughnasa is a 1990 play by dramatist Brian Friel set in Ireland's County Donegal in August 1936 in the fictional town of Ballybeg. It is a memory play told from the point of view of the adult Michael Evans, the narrator...
- Arena Stage - Tana Hicken - Summer and SmokeSummer and SmokeSummer and Smoke is a two-part, thirteen-scene play by Tennessee Williams, originally titled Chart of Anatomy when Williams began work on it in 1945. In 1964, Williams revised the play as The Eccentricities of a Nightingale...
- Arena Stage - Tana Hicken - It's the Truth (If You Think It Is) - Arena Stage
- Naomi Jacobson - Free Will and Wanton Lust - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- Mary Tucker - Red Scare on Sunset - Source Theatre Company
- Kate Buddeke - Dancing at Lughnasa
- 1995 Naomi Jacobson - Dream of a Common Language - Theater of the First Amendment
- Roz Fox - Wedding Band - Round House Theatre
- June Hansen - The Revengers' Comedies - Arena Stage
- Tana Hicken - The Revengers' Comedies - Arena Stage
- Jennifer Mendenhall - Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- Mary Tucker - Jeffrey - Source Theatre Company
- 1997 Helen Carey - VolponeVolponeVolpone is a comedy by Ben Jonson first produced in 1606, drawing on elements of city comedy, black comedy and beast fable...
- The Shakespeare Theatre- Mary Teresa Fortuna - QuillsQuillsQuills is a 2000 period film directed by Philip Kaufman and adapted from the Obie award-winning play by Doug Wright, who also wrote the original screenplay. Inspired by the life and work of the Marquis de Sade, Quills re-imagines the last years of the Marquis' incarceration in the insane asylum at...
- Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company - Deidrie N. Henry - Blues for an Alabama Sky - Arena Stage
- Tana Hicken - ArcadiaArcadia (play)Arcadia is a 1993 play by Tom Stoppard concerning the relationship between past and present and between order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge...
- Arena Stage - Megan Morgan - Four Dogs and a Bone - Signature Theatre
- Lisa Newman-Williams - A Cheever Evening - Source Theatre Company
- Mary Teresa Fortuna - Quills
- 1998 Franchelle Stewart Dorn - Mourning Becomes ElectraMourning Becomes ElectraMourning Becomes Electra is a play cycle written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. The play premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theatre on 26 October 1931 where it ran for 150 performances before closing in March 1932...
- The Shakespeare Theatre- Franchelle Stewart Dorn - OthelloOthelloThe Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565...
- The Shakespeare Theatre - Rana Kay - 5th of July - Washington Shakespeare Company
- Laurena Mullins - Anna KareninaAnna KareninaAnna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger...
- The Washington Stage Guild - Lisa Newman-Williams - Psychopathia Sexualis - Source Theatre Company
- Rhea Seehorn - The Big Slam - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- Franchelle Stewart Dorn - Othello
- 1999 Rena Cherry Brown - A Delicate Balance - The American Century Theater
- Gretchen Cleevely - Dimly Perceived Threats to the System - Arena Stage
- Lynda Gravatt - The Old Settler - The Studio Theatre
- Sarah Ripard - Dangerous LiaisonsDangerous LiaisonsDangerous Liaisons is a 1988 drama film based upon Christopher Hampton's play, Les liaisons dangereuses, which in turn was a theatrical adaptation of the 18th-century French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos....
- Source Theatre Company - Sarah Ripard - Dangerous LiaisonsDangerous LiaisonsDangerous Liaisons is a 1988 drama film based upon Christopher Hampton's play, Les liaisons dangereuses, which in turn was a theatrical adaptation of the 18th-century French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos....
- Rep Stage - Nancy Robinette - FreedomlandFreedomlandFreedomland has several meanings:* Freedomland U.S.A. was a short-lived themed amusement park in the Baychester section of the Bronx, New York City* Freedomland , a 1998 novel by Richard Price, and...
- Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company - Holly TwyfordHolly TwyfordHolly Twyford is a Washington, D.C.-based American stage actress. She is a ten-time nominee and a four-time winner of the Helen Hayes Award.-Biography:...
- The Steward of Christendom - The Studio Theatre
- 2000 June Hansen - Indian Ink - The Studio Theatre
- Rachel Gardner - In Good Company: The Power Edition - Horizons Theatre
- Naomi Jacobson - Mere Mortals - Round House Theatre
- Sarah Marshall - How I Learned to DriveHow I Learned To DriveHow I Learned to Drive is a play written by American playwright Paula Vogel. The play premiered on March 16, 1997 off-broadway at the Vineyard Theatre...
- Arena Stage - Lee Mikeska Gardner - Stanley - Potomac Theatre Project
- Jewell Robinson - Inns & Outs - Source Theatre Company
- 2001 Jewell Robinson - Blue - Arena Stage
- Jenifer Deal - Dancing at LughnasaDancing at LughnasaDancing at Lughnasa is a 1990 play by dramatist Brian Friel set in Ireland's County Donegal in August 1936 in the fictional town of Ballybeg. It is a memory play told from the point of view of the adult Michael Evans, the narrator...
- The Keegan Theatre - Sarah Marshall - Betty's Summer Vacation - The Studio Theatre
- Kerri Rambow - A House in The Country - Charter Theatre
- Kerri Rambow - The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told - Source Theatre Company
- Nancy Robinette - Wonder of the World - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- Jenifer Deal - Dancing at Lughnasa
- 2002 Mia Whang - Far East - Studio Theatre
- Lynn Chavis - Home - Round House Theatre
- Tina Fabrique - Constant Star - Arena Stage
- Catherine Flye - Rapture - MetroStage
- Crystal Fox - Home - Round House Theatre
- Sarah Fox - Love & Yearning in the Not-for-Profits and Other Marital Distractions - Theatre J
- 2003 Nancy Robinette - The Little FoxesThe Little FoxesThe Little Foxes is a 1939 play by Lillian Hellman. Its title comes from Chapter 2, Verse 15 in the Song of Solomon in the King James version of the Bible, which reads, "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes." Set in a small town in Alabama in...
- The Shakespeare Theatre- Menchu Esteban - La Verdad Sospechosa - Gala Hispanic Theatre
- Catherine Flye - She Stoops to ConquerShe Stoops to ConquerShe Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by the Irish author Oliver Goldsmith, son of an Anglo-Irish vicar, first performed in London in 1773. The play is a great favourite for study by English literature and theatre classes in Britain and the United States. It is one of the few plays from the 18th...
- Folger Theatre - Tana Hicken - The Winter's TaleThe Winter's TaleThe Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, some modern editors have relabelled the play as one of Shakespeare's late romances. Some critics, among them W. W...
- The Shakespeare Theatre - Dori Legg - Recent Tragic Events - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- Susan Lynskey - The Laramie ProjectThe Laramie ProjectThe Laramie Project is a play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project about the reaction to the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming gay student Matthew Shepard in Laramie,...
- Olney Theatre Center for the Arts