Nominees & Recipients Database

Use this database to search Helen Hayes Award-nominated theatres, theatre-makers, and productions and recipients. **Please note that some categories may be split to two pages at the bottom of this list. Scroll to the next page to see additional nominees in that category. 2024 nominees will be added to this database soon, please see the complete lists here.

Filters
Recipient
5251 to 5300 items shown of 5670

1989 Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production

Nancy Schertler
Playboy of the West Indies  
Arena Stage
Stephen Strawbridge
Macbeth   
Shakespeare Theatre Company

1989 Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Production

Brigid Cleary
House of Blue Leaves   
Olney Theatre Center
Franchelle Stewart Dorn
MacBeth   
Shakespeare Theatre Company
Shirley Knight
The Cherry Orchard  
Arena Stage
Kelly McGillis
The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare Theatre Company
Jennifer Mendenhall
Aunt Dan and Lemon  
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Grainne Cassidy
Sharon and Billy  
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

1989 Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical

Deidra L. Johnson
Sanctuary D.C.
The No-Neck Monsters Theatre Company
Jane Pesci-Townsend
Revenge of Mrs. Foggybottom
The Omni-Shoreham Hotel Marquee Cabaret
Sharon Scruggs
Elmer Gantry
Ford's Theatre Society
Karen Akers
Side by Side by Sondheim
Olney Theatre Center
Kim Criswell
Side by Side by Sondheim
Olney Theatre Center

1989 Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production

Tina Fabrique
Abyssinia
Arena Stage
Julie Harris
Driving Miss Daisy  
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Dana Ivey
Wencelas Square   
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Madeline Kahn
Born Yesterday
The National Theatre
Lily Tomlin
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life In The Universe  
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

1989 Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Production

Brian Hemmingsen
Endgame   
Scena Theatre
Stanley Anderson
Enrico IV
Arena Stage
Tom Hewitt
Ring Round the Moon
Arena Stage
Brian Bedford
Merchant of Venice  
Shakespeare Theatre Company
Floyd King
The Mystery of Irma Vep (A Penny Dreadful)
Studio Theatre
Michael Willis
The Boys Next Door  
Round House Theatre

1989 Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical

Charles Janasz
The Cocoanuts  
Arena Stage
Stephen Mellor
The Cocoanuts  
Arena Stage
Robert C. Torri
La Cage Aux Folles  
Harlequin Dinner Theatre
Casey Biggs
Elmer Gantry
Ford's Theatre Society
Martin Vidnovic
Side by Side by Sondheim
Olney Theatre Center
Mitchell Greenberg
0bable Frequency
Arena Stage

1989 Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production

Tim Curry
Me and My Girl
The National Theatre
Victor Garber
Wenceslas Square  
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
John Lithgow
M. Butterfly
The National Theatre
Brock Peters
Driving Mrs. Daisy  
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
B. D. Wong
M. Butterfly
The National Theatre
Sammy Cahn
Words and Music   
Ford's Theatre Society

1989 Outstanding Director, Resident Production

Leslie Bravman Jacobson
Eleemosynary
Horizons Theatre
Michael Kahn
Macbeth   
Shakespeare Theatre Company
Kim Rubinstein
Baby With the Bathwater  
Round House Theatre
Douglas C. Wager
The Cocoanuts  
Arena Stage
Joe Banno
Tartuffe  
Source Theatre Company
Liviu Ciulei
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Arena Stage

1989 Outstanding Director, Non-Resident Production

Tazewell Thompson
Abyssinia
Arena Stage
Jane Wagner
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life In The Universe  
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Jerry Zaks
Wenceslas Square  
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Ron Lagomarsino
Driving Miss Daisy  
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Mike Ockrent
Me and My Girl
The National Theatre

1989 Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production

Susan Hirschfeld
The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare Theatre Company
Smaranda Branescu
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Arena Stage
Martin Pakledinaz
The Cocoanuts  
Arena Stage