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 Lead Actress, Resident Musical

Jessica Francis Dukes
Spunk  
Tribute Productions, African Continuum Theatre Company
Tina Fabrique
Ella
Arena Stage
Harriett D. Foy
The Women of Brewster Place
Arena Stage
Marva Hicks
The Women of Brewster Place
Arena Stage
Donna Migliaccio
The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)   
MetroStage

2008 Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production

Kelli Sawyer
Avenue Q, The Broadway Musical
The National Theatre
Janet Suzman
Coriolanus  
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Cherry Jones
Doubt, A Parable  
The National Theatre
Karen Kandel
Mabou Mines' Peter and Wendy  
Arena Stage
Lisa O'Hare
My Fair Lady
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

2008 Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play

James Brown-Orleans
My Children!  My Africa!
Studio Theatre
Arnie Burton
I Am My Own Wife  
Olney Theatre Center
Edward Gero
Shining City
Studio Theatre
Charles H. Hyman
The Unmentionables  
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Christopher Innvar
The Taming of the Shrew  
Shakespeare Theatre Company
Irakli Kavsadze
Macbeth   
Synetic Theater
Michael Russotto
She Stoops to Comedy
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
J. Fred Shiffman
Souvenir, A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins
Studio Theatre

2008 Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical

Will Gartshore
Merrily We Roll Along  
Signature Theatre
Marc Kudisch
The Witches of Eastwick  
Signature Theatre
Lawrence Redmond
Reefer Madness: The Musical  
Studio Theatre
Bobby Smith
Reefer Madness:  The Musical  
Studio Theatre
Bobby Smith
The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)   
MetroStage
Andrew Sonntag
Reefer Madness:  The Musical  
Studio Theatre

2008 Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production

Daniel Beaty
Emergence-See!
Arena Stage
Christopher Cazenove
My Fair Lady
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Bill Irwin
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?  
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Robert McClure
Avenue Q, The Broadway Musical
The National Theatre
Chris McGarry
Doubt, A Parable  
The National Theatre

2008 Outstanding Director, Resident Play

Timothy Douglas
Insurrection:  Holding History
Theater Alliance
Pam MacKinnon
The Unmentionables  
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Serge Seiden
Souvenir, A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins
Studio Theatre
Shirley Serotsky
References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot  
Rorschach Theatre
Howard Shalwitz
She Stoops to Comedy
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Rebecca Bayla Taichman
Dead Man's Cell Phone  
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Rebecca Bayla Taichman
The Taming of the Shrew  
Shakespeare Theatre Company
Paata Tsikurishvili
Hamlet ... the rest is silence
Synetic Theater
Paata Tsikurishvili
Macbeth   
Synetic Theater

2008 Outstanding Director, Resident Musical

Molly Smith
The Women of Brewster Place
Arena Stage
Keith Alan Baker
Reefer Madness:  The Musical  
Studio Theatre
Ryan Christie
Reefer Madness: The Musical
Studio Theatre
Matthew Gardiner
Reefer Madness: The Musical
Studio Theatre
Lawrence B. Munsey
Titanic The Musical
Toby's Dinner Theatre
Toby Orenstein
Titanic The Musical
Toby's Dinner Theatre
Eric Schaeffer
The Witches of Eastwick  
Signature Theatre
Eric Schaeffer
Meet John Doe  
Ford's Theatre Society

2008 Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production

Jennifer Moeller
Tamburlaine
Shakespeare Theatre Company
Reggie Ray
Souvenir, A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins
Studio Theatre
Anastasia Ryurikov Simes
Macbeth   
Synetic Theater
Paul Tazewell
Carnival!
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts