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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2008 Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production

Matthew M. Nielson
The Unmentionables  
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Ryan Rumery
Vigils
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Gil Thompson
Souvenir, A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins
Studio Theatre
Paata Tsikurishvili
Macbeth   
Synetic Theater
Irakli Kavsadze
Macbeth   
Synetic Theater

2008 Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production

Marie Anne Chiment
I Am My Own Wife  
Olney Theatre Center
James Kronzer
The Unmentionables  
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Derek McLane
33 Variations  
Arena Stage
Neil Patel
Dead Man's Cell Phone  
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Lee Savage
Richard III
Shakespeare Theatre Company
Anastasia Ryurikov Simes
Macbeth   
Synetic Theater
Narelle Sissons
The Taming of the Shrew  
Shakespeare Theatre Company
Robin Stapley
Crime and Punishment   
Round House Theatre

2008 Outstanding Resident Play

Souvenir, A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins
Studio Theatre
Taming of the Shrew
Shakespeare Theatre Company
Unmentionables
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Word Begins
Signature Theatre
Dead Man's Cell Phone
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Hamlet the rest is silence
Synetic Theater
Macbeth
Synetic Theater

2008 Outstanding Resident Musical

Into the Woods
Signature Theatre
Meet John Doe
Ford's Theatre Society
Reefer Madness: The Musical
Studio Theatre
Titanic, The Musical
Toby's Dinner Theatre
The Witches of Eastwick
Signature Theatre
The Women of Brewster Place
Arena Stage

2008 Outstanding Non-Resident Production

Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Avenue Q, The Broadway Musical
Broadway at The National
Doubt, A Parable
Broadway at The National
Emergence-See!
Arena Stage
My Fair Lady
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

2008 Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production

William Foster McDaniel
The Women of Brewster Place
Arena Stage
Christopher Youstra
Titanic The Musical
Toby's Dinner Theatre
Jon Kalbfleisch
Merrily We Roll Along  
Signature Theatre
Jon Kalbfleisch
The Witches of Eastwick  
Signature Theatre
Dan Kazemi
The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)   
MetroStage

2008 Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production

Colin K. Bills
Dead Man's Cell Phone  
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Colin K. Bills
Macbeth   
Synetic Theater
Colin K. Bills
The Unmentionables  
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
David Lander
33 Variations  
Arena Stage
Charlie Morrison
Richard III
Shakespeare Theatre Company
Rui Rita
Meet John Doe  
Ford's Theatre Society

2008 Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play

Irina Tsikurishvili
Macbeth   
Synetic Theater
Gabriela Fernandez Coffey
References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot  
Rorschach Theatre
Naomi Jacobson
Vigils
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Polly Noonan
Dead Man's Cell Phone  
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Mary Beth Peil
33 Variations  
Arena Stage
Nancy Robinette
Souvenir, A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins
Studio Theatre

2008 Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical

Heidi Blickenstaff
Meet John Doe  
Ford's Theatre Society
Carolee Carmello
Saving Aimee
Signature Theatre