Helen Hayes Award Winners Announced

The winners of this year's Helen Hayes Awards were announced on May 18. The awards are split into two broad categories: "Helen," for productions where less than 51% of the cast operates under an Equity contract, and there are no more than three Equity actors in the cast, and "Hayes," for productions in which 51% or more of the cast is on an Equity contract, or in which four or more cast members are working under an Equity contract.

The design nominees are listed below, with the winners in bold.

Outstanding Costume Design, Hayes
Ivania Stack, Fiddler on the Roof, Signature Theatre
Paris Francesca & Julie Cray-Leong, Hello, Dolly! Olney Theatre Center
Ivania Stack, Merry Wives, Shakespeare Theatre Company
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!, Adventure Theatre MTC
Luis Garcia, The Immigrant, Synetic Theater in association with Theater J
Janine Sunday & Sarah King, The Music Man, Toby's Dinner Theatre

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 Stage

Outstanding Set Design, Hayes
Meghan Raham, Bad Books, Round House Theatre
Nadir Bey, cullud wattah, Mosaic Theater Company
Lawrence E. Moten III, Merry Wives, Shakespeare Theatre Company
Dan Conway, Play On!, Signature Theatre
Lee Savage, The Inheritance: Parts One and Two, Round House Theatre
Wilson Chin, The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical, Signature Theatre

Outstanding Set Design, Helen
Nadir Bey, American Fast, Theater Alliance
Ali Rocha, Evil Dead the Musical, Workhouse Arts Center
Giorgos Tsappas, hang, 1st Stage
Megan Holden, Not Your Mother's Goose!, Adventure Theatre MTC
August Henney, So Late into the Night, Rorschach Theatre

Outstanding Sound Design, Hayes
Walter Trarbach, Damn Yankees, Arena Stage
Andre Pluess, Fremont Ave., Arena Stage
Andrew Harper, Guys and Dolls, Shakespeare Theatre Company
Eric Norris, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Signature Theatre
Daniela Hart, Liam Bellman-Sharpe, & UptownWorks, The Inheritance: Parts One and Two, Round House Theatre

Outstanding Sound Design, Helen
Brandon Cook & Sayf Turkomani, American Fast, Theater Alliance
Brandon Cook, Botiquin de boleros Columbia Heights (Columbia Heights Bolero Bar), GALA Hispanic Theatre
Justin Schmitz, hang, 1st Stage
Kenny Neal, Not Your Mother's Goose!, Adventure Theatre MTC
Koki Lortkipanidze & Irakli Kavsadze, The Immigrant, Synetic Theater in association with Theater J

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, Arena Stage
Zavier Augustus, Lee Taylor, Sleepova, Olney Theatre Center
Mona Kasra, The American Five, Ford's Theatre

Outstanding Media/Projection Design, Helen
Hailey LaRoe, American Fast, Theater Alliance
Mark Costello, Fair Play, 1st Stage
Luis Garcia, Furlough's Paradise, Theater Alliance
Luis Garcia, Professor Woland's Black Magic Rock Show, Spooky Action Theater
Julian Kelley, Woman on Fire, Creative Cauldron Stage

For the full list of nominees and winners, go to www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/dc/dc1390.html.