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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.


(25 February 2026)

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