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.

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1986 Outstanding Lead Actress, Touring Production or Prior to New York

Zoe Caldwell
Lillian   
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

1986 Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Production

Carole Myers
Miss Lulu Bett
Horizons Theatre
Katherine Squire
A Walk Out of Water
Studio Theatre
Halo Wines
'night, Mother
Arena Stage
Janet Bryant
Fool for Love  
Round House Theatre
Randy Danson
Good Person of Setzuan
Arena Stage
Marcia Gay Harden
Miss Firecracker Contest
Olney Theatre Center
Mercedes McCambridge
'night, Mother
Arena Stage

1986 Outstanding Lead Actor, Touring Production or Prior to New York

Keene Curtis
La Cage aux Folles  
The National Theatre
Bill Irwin
The Regard of Flight   
Arena Stage
Patrick Dempsey
Brighton Beach Memoirs
The National Theatre
William L. Petersen
In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison
American National Theater
Jason Robards
The Iceman Cometh
American National Theater
Tommy Tune
My One and Only   
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

1986 Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Production

Richard Bauer
Tartuffe  
Arena Stage
Steven Dawn
Extremities
Source Theatre Company
Grover Gardner
Looking Glass  
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Mark Jaster
The Man Who Killed the Buddha
Round House Theatre
Grover Gardner
Metamorphosis  
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Thomas Schall
Fool For Love  
Round House Theatre

1986 Outstanding Director, Resident Production

Lucian Pintilie
Tartuffe  
Arena Stage
Susann Brinkley
Fool for Love  
Round House Theatre
Peter Sellars
The Count of Monte Cristo   
American National Theater
Douglas C. Wager
Execution of Justice   
Arena Stage
Garland Wright
The Good Person of Setzuan  
Arena Stage
Leslie Bravman Jacobson
Miss Lulu Bett
Horizons Theatre

1986 Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production

Marjorie Slaiman
Women and Water   
Arena Stage
Miruna Boruzescu
Tartuffe  
Arena Stage
Kurt Wilhelm
The Count of Monte Cristo   
The National Theatre
Holly Cole
Merry Wives of Windsor
Shakespeare Theatre Company
Kurt Wilhelm
The Count of Monte Cristo   
American National Theater
Kate Corbley
Miss Firecracker Contest
Olney Theatre Center
Elizabeth Covey
A Midsummer Night's Dream   
Shakespeare Theatre Company

1986 Outstanding Actress, Resident Musical

Carol Dilley
Little Me
Ford's Theatre Society
Ann Johnson
March of the 0ttos
Studio Theatre
Liz Larsen
Baby
Olney Theatre Center
Janet Aldrich
Forbidden Broadway  
Marquee Lounge, Omni Shoreham

1986 Outstanding Actor, Resident Musical

J. Fred Shiffman
March of the 0ttos
Studio Theatre
James W. Sudik
Little Me
Ford's Theatre Society
Stephen Wade
Banjo Dancing  
Arena Stage
Romain Fruge
Baby
Olney Theatre Center

1985 The Thomas J. Lipton Award for Distinguished Volunteer Service to Washington Professional Theatre

Lady Marjorie Wright

1985 Outstanding Touring Production

Foolsfire
Arena Stage
Gospel at Colonus
Arena Stage
Cyrano de Bergerac
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Cats
Broadway at The National
Quilters
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Torch Song Trilogy
Warner Theatre

1985 Outstanding Supporting Performer in a Touring Production

Sal Mistretta
Cats
The National Theatre
Frank Oliver
Sugar Babies
Warner Theatre