Helen Hayes Nominations Announced The nominations are in for the Helen Hayes Awards, which honor achievement in the Washington, DC, area professional theatre scene. The awards break down into two broad categories: Helen, for productions with no more than three Equity actors or with Equity actors making up less than 51% of the cast, and Hayes, for productions employing too many Equity actors to qualify for the Helen group. The design nominees are: Outstanding Lighting Design, Hayes Hailey LaRoe, cullud wattah, Mosaic Theater Company Philip S. Rosenberg, Damn Yankees, Arena Stage Jason Lynch, Play On!, Signature Theatre Colin K. Bills, The Inheritance: Parts One and Two, Round House Theatre Amanda Zieve, The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical, Signature Theatre Outstanding Lighting Design, Helen Minjoo Kim, American Fast, Theater Alliance Alberto Segarra, Furlough's Paradise, Theater Alliance Venus Gulbranson, hang, 1st Stage Dean Leong, So Late into the Night, Rorschach Theatre Lynn Joslin, The Turn of the Screw: The Musical, Creative Cauldron Outstanding Set Design, Hayes Meghan Raham, Bad Books, Round House Theatre Nadir Bey, cullud wattah Lawrence E. Moten III, Merry Wives Dan Conway, Play On! Lee Savage, The Inheritance: Parts One and Two Wilson Chin, The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical Outstanding Set Design, Helen Nadir Bey, American Fast Ali Rocha, Evil Dead the Musical Giorgos Tsappas, hang Megan Holden, Not Your Mother's Goose! August Henney, So Late into the Night Outstanding Sound Design, Hayes Walter Trarbach, Damn Yankees André Pluess, Fremont Ave., Arena Stage Andrew Harper, Guys and Dolls, Shakespeare Theatre Company Eric Norris, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Signature Theatre Daniela Hart and Uptown Works, The Inheritance: Parts One and Two Outstanding Sound Design, Helen Brandon Cook and Sayf Turkomanil, American Fast Brandon Cook, Botiquin de boleros Columbia Heights (Columbia H...), GALA Hispanic Theatre Justin Schmitz, hang Kenny Neal, Not Your Mother's Goose! Koki Lortkipanidze and Irakli Kavsadze, The Immigrant Outstanding Media/Projection Design, Hayes Patrick W. Lord, Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (with Live & Active Cultures!), Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Mona Kasra, Andy Warhol in Iran, Mosaic Theater Company Peter Nigrini, Damn Yankees Zavier Augustus Lee Taylor, Sleepova Mona Kasra, The American Five Outstanding Media/Projection Design, Helen Hailey LaRoe, American Fast Mark Costello, Fair Play, 1st Stage Luis Garcia, Furlough's Paradise Luis Garcia, Professor Woland's Black Magic Rock Show, Spooky Action Theater Julian Kelley, Woman on Fire, Creative Cauldron Outstanding Costume Design, Hayes Ivania Stack, Fiddler on the Roof, Signature Theatre Paris Francesca and Julie Cray-Leong, Hello, Dolly!, Olney Theatre Center Ivania Stack, Merry Wives Fabio Toblini, The Age of Innocence, Arena Stage Olivera Gajic, Twelfth Night, Folger Theatre Outstanding Costume Design, Helen Paris Francesca, Frosty The Snow Man, Adventure Theatre MTC Frank Labovitz, Head Over Heels, Constellation Theatre Company Paris Francesca, Not Your Mother's Goose! Erik Teague, The Immigrant Janine Sunday and Sarah King, The Music Man, Toby's Dinner Theatre The awards will be given out on May 18 at The Anthem, a local nightclub. 
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