Helen Hayes Awards Non-Resident Acting

These Helen Hayes Awards are given for outstanding acting in non-resident or touring productions that are staged in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.

Lead acting

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Touring Production

* 1985 Derek Jacobi - "Cyrano de Bergerac" - The Kennedy Center
** Charles Adler - "Torch Song Trilogy" - The Warner Theatre
** James Whitmore - "Will Rogers, U.S.A." - Ford's Theatre
** Joe Sears - "Greater Tuna" - Ford's Theatre
** Mbongeni Ngema - "Woza, Albert!" - Arena Stage
** Percy Mtwa - "Woza, Albert!" - Arena Stage

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Touring Production or Prior to New York

* 1986 Jason Robards - "The Iceman Cometh" - American National Theatre
** Bill Irwin - "The Regard of Flight" - Arena Stage
** Keene Curtis - "La Cage aux Folles" - The National Theatre
** Patrick Dempsey - "Brighton Beach Memoirs" - The National Theatre
** Tommy Tune - "My One and Only" - The Kennedy Center
** William L. Petersen - "In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison" - American National Theatre

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Non-Resident Production

* 1987 Colm Wilkinson - "Les Misérables" - The Kennedy Center
** Ben Cross - "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" - The Kennedy Center
** Delroy Lindo - "A Raisin in the Sun" - The Kennedy Center
** Edward Duke - "Jeeves Takes Charge" - Ford's Theatre
** Joe Sears - "Greater Tuna" - Ford's Theatre
** Jonathan Silverman - "Broadway Bound" - The National Theatre
* 1988 Derek Jacobi - "Breaking the Code" - The Kennedy Center
** Ian McKellen - "Acting Shakespeare" - The National Theatre
** Joel Grey - "Cabaret" - The Kennedy Center
** Judd Hirsch - "I'm Not Rappaport" - The National Theatre
** Richard Kiley - "All My Sons" - Ford's Theatre
** Shay Duffin - "Confessions of an Irish Rebel" - New Playwrights' Theatre
* 1989 Victor Garber - "Wenceslas Square" - The Kennedy Center
** B.D. Wong - "M. Butterfly" - The National Theatre
** Brock Peters - "Driving Miss Daisy" - The Kennedy Center
** John Lithgow - "M. Butterfly" - The National Theatre
** Sammy Cahn - "Words and Music" - Ford's Theatre
** Tim Curry - "Me and My Girl" - The National Theatre
* 1990 Charles S. Dutton - "The Piano Lesson" - The Kennedy Center
** Avery Brooks - "Paul Robeson" - The Kennedy Center
** David Hurst - "Incommunicado" - The Kennedy Center
** Jaston Williams - "A Tuna Christmas" - The Kennedy Center
** Joe Sears - "A Tuna Christmas" - The Kennedy Center
** Tom Hulce - "A Few Good Men" - The Kennedy Center
* 1991 J. Mark McVey - "Les Mis rables" - The National Theatre
** Christopher Moore - "The Video Store Owner's Significant Other" - American Playwrights Theatre
** E.G. Marshall - "Love Letters" - The National Theatre
** Frank McCusker - "The Playboy of the Western World" - The Kennedy Center
** Michael Waldron - "Lend Me a Tenor" - The Kennedy Center
* 1992 Robert Morse - "Tru" - The Kennedy Center
** Harry Groener - "Crazy for You" - The National Theatre
** Jr.,John Cothran - "Two Trains Running" - The Kennedy Center
** Niall Buggy - "The Shadow of a Gunman" - The Kennedy Center
* 1993 Ian McKellen - "Richard III" - The Kennedy Center
** Chip Esten - "Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story" - The Kennedy Center
** Jonathan Earl Peck - "Blood Knot" - Arena Stage
** Stacy Keach - "Solitary Confinement" - The Kennedy Center
** Thomas W. Jones II - "The Wizard of Hip (or When in Doubt Slam Dunk)" - The Studio Theatre
* 1994 Stacy Keach - "The Kentucky Cycle" - The Kennedy Center
** Joel Blum - "The World Goes 'Round" - The Kennedy Center
** Lewis J. Stadlen - "Guys and Dolls" - The Kennedy Center
** Ron Rifkin - "3 Hotels" - The Kennedy Center
** William H. Macy - "Oleanna" - The Kennedy Center
* 1995 Raul Aranas - "Miss Saigon" - The Kennedy Center
** Charles Cioffi - "The Sisters Rosensweig" - The Kennedy Center
** Jaston Williams - "The Foreigner" - Ford's Theatre
** Joe Sears - "The Foreigner" - Ford's Theatre
** Steve Isaacs - "The Who's Tommy" - The Kennedy Center
* 1996 Jonathan Hadary - "Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches" - The Kennedy Center
** Colm Wilkinson - "Andrew Lloyd Webber Music of the Night" - The National Theatre
** Jonathan Hadary - "Angels in America, Part 2: Perestroika" - The Kennedy Center
** Juan Chioran - "Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Musical" - The National Theatre
** Kirby Ward - "Crazy for You" - The Kennedy Center
** Matthew Broderick - "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying!" - The Kennedy Center
* 1997 Roger Guenveur Smith - "A Huey P. Newton Story" - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
** Alex Jennings - "A Midsummer Night's Dream" - The Kennedy Center
** Bruce McIntosh - "Fixin' to Die: A Visit to the Mind of Lee Atwater" - Church Street Theater
** Frederick C. Inkley - "Disney's Beauty and the Beast" - The Kennedy Center
** Jerry Lewis - "Damn Yankees" - The Kennedy Center
** Ntare Mwine - "Nomathemba" - The Kennedy Center
* 1998 Derick K. Grant - "Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk" - The National Theatre
** Ezra Knight - "The Darker Face of the Earth" - The Kennedy Center and Crossroads Theatre Company
** Gregory Henderson - "Whirlwind!" - Turnip Theatre Company and Jay Harris at Church Street Theater
** Jaston Williams - "A Tuna Christmas" - The Warner Theatre
** Joe Sears - "A Tuna Christmas" - The Warner Theatre
** John Scherer - "By Jeeves" - The Kennedy Center and the Goodspeed Opera House
* 1999 Alex Jennings - "Hamlet" - The Kennedy Center
** Alton Fitzgerald White - "Ragtime" - The National Theatre
** Dan Hiatt - "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" - Ford's Theatre
** Jeremy Kushnier - "Footloose" - The Kennedy Center
** Michael Rupert - "Ragtime" - The National Theatre
* 2000 Norbert Leo Butz - "Cabaret" - The Warner Theatre
** Bill Irwin - "Fool Moon" - The Kennedy Center
** Charles Durning - "The Gin Game" - The Kennedy Center
** David Shiner - "Fool Moon" - The Kennedy Center
** Jaston Williams - "Red, White and Tuna" - The Kennedy Center
** Joe Sears - "Red, White and Tuna" - The Kennedy Center
* 2001 Marc Wolf - "Another American: Asking and Telling" - The Studio Theatre
** Jack Willis - "Art" - The Kennedy Center
** Little John Nee - "The Derry Boat" - The Keegan Theatre
** Stephen Bogardus - "James Joyce's The Dead" - The Kennedy Center
** Terace Jones - "Fosse" - The National Theatre
** Tyler Perry - "I Can Do Bad All By Myself" - The Warner Theatre
* 2002 Jason Watkins - "A Servant of Two Masters" - John F. Kennedy Center
** Brian Stokes Mitchell - "King Hedley II" - John F. Kennedy Center
** Ethan Sandler - "Fully Committed" - Ford's Theatre
** Matt Rippy - "The Compleat Works of Wm. Shakespeare (Abridged)" - John F. Kennedy Center
** Ron Campbell - "The Thousandth Night" - MetroStage
* 2003 Brian Stokes Mitchell - "Man of La Mancha" - The National Theatre
** John Epperson - "Lypsinka! The Boxed Set" - The Studio Theatre
** Judd Hirsch - "I'm not Rappaport" - Ford's Theatre
** Justin Bond - "Kiki & Herb in Pardon Our Appearance" - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
** Len Cariou - "Copenhagen" - The Kennedy Center

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Touring Production

* 1985 Diane Fratantoni - "Cats" - The National Theatre
** Kaye Ballard - "Hey, Ma ... Kaye Ballard" - The Kennedy Center
** Lenka Peterson - "Quilters" - The Kennedy Center
** Sally Struthers - "The Odd Couple" - The National Theatre
** Sinead Cusack - "Cyrano de Bergerac" - The Kennedy Center

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Touring Production or Prior to New York

* 1986 Barbara E. Robertson - "Kabuki Medea" - American National Theatre
** Barbara Cook - "Barbara Cook -- A Broadway Evening" - Ford's Theatre
** Laurie Metcalf - "Coyote Ugly" - American National Theatre
** Sandy Duncan - "My One and Only" - The Kennedy Center
** Zoe Caldwell - "Lillian" - The Kennedy Center

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Non-Resident Production

* 1987 Linda Lavin - "Broadway Bound" - The National Theatre
** Esther Rolle - "A Raisin in the Sun" - The Kennedy Center
** Rosemary Harris - "Hay Fever" - The Kennedy Center
** Sharon Brown - "Dreamgirls" - The National Theatre
** Teresa Burrell - "Queenie Pie" - The Kennedy Center
* 1988 Ann Guilbert - "The Immigrant: A Hamilton County Album" - Arena Stage
** Alyson Reed - "Cabaret" - The Kennedy Center
** Colleen Dewhurst - "My Gene" - The Kennedy Center
** Donna McKechnie - "Sweet Charity" - The National Theatre
** Sandra Reaves-Phillips - "The Great Ladies of Blues & Jazz" - Arena Stage
* 1989 Lily Tomlin - "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" - The Kennedy Center
** Dana Ivey - "Wenceslas Square" - The Kennedy Center
** Julie Harris - "Driving Miss Daisy" - The Kennedy Center
** Madeline Kahn - "Born Yesterday" - The National Theatre
** Tina Fabrique - "Abyssinia" - Arena Stage
* 1990 Nan Martin - "The Road to Mecca" - The Kennedy Center
** Margo Martindale - "Steel Magnolias" - The Kennedy Center
** Nancy Marchand - "The Cocktail Hour" - The Kennedy Center
** S. Epatha Merkerson - "The Piano Lesson" - The Kennedy Center
** Tyne Daly - "Gypsy" - The Kennedy Center
* 1991 Cheryl Lynn Bruce - "From the Mississippi Delta" - Arena Stage
** Colleen Dewhurst - "Love Letters" - The National Theatre
** Jacqueline Williams - "From the Mississippi Delta" - Arena Stage
** Roma Downey - "The Playboy of the Western World" - The Kennedy Center
** Sally Mayes - "Closer Than Ever" - Arena Stage
** Sybil Walker - "From the Mississippi Delta" - Arena Stage
* 1992 Mercedes Ruehl - "Lost in Yonkers" - The National Theatre
** Cynthia Martells - "Two Trains Running" - The Kennedy Center
** Jodi Benson - "Crazy for You" - The National Theatre
** Julie Harris - "Lucifer's Child" - The Kennedy Center
** Teri Bibb - "The Phantom of the Opera" - The Kennedy Center
* 1993 Julie Harris - "Lettice & Lovage" - The National Theatre
** Charlotte Cornwell - "Richard III" - The Kennedy Center
** Linda Balgord - "Aspects of Love" - The Kennedy Center
** Melody Kay - "The Secret Garden" - The Kennedy Center
** Roberta Maxwell - "Lettice & Lovage" - The National Theatre
** Vanita Harbour - "Once on This Island" - The Kennedy Center
* 1994 Debra Monk - "3 Hotels" - The Kennedy Center
** Lorna Luft - "Guys and Dolls" - The Kennedy Center
** Marlo Thomas - "Six Degrees of Separation" - The National Theatre
** Melissa Errico - "My Fair Lady" - The National Theatre
** Valerie Wright - "The World Goes 'Round" - The Kennedy Center
* 1995 Eileen Atkins - "A Room of One's Own" - Arena Stage
** Caroline Aaron - "The Sisters Rosensweig" - The Kennedy Center
** Jennifer C. Paz - "Miss Saigon" - The Kennedy Center
** Lynn Redgrave - "Shakespeare for My Father" - Ford's Theatre
** Suzanne Burden - "The Winter's Tale" - The Kennedy Center
* 1996 Zoe Caldwell - "Master Class" - The Kennedy Center
** Beverly Ward - "Crazy for You" - The Kennedy Center
** Carol Channing - "Hello, Dolly!" - The Kennedy Center
** Chita Rivera - "Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Musical" - The National Theatre
** Marian Seldes - "Three Tall Women" - The Kennedy Center
* 1997 Lizan Mitchell - "Having Our Say" - The Kennedy Center
* Micki Grant - "Having Our Say" - The Kennedy Center
** Cee-Cee Harshaw - "Nomathemba" - The Kennedy Center
** Irene Molloy - "Whistle Down the Wind" - The National Theatre
** Uta Hagen - "Mrs. Klein" - The Kennedy Center
** Valerie Wright - "Damn Yankees" - The Kennedy Center
* 1998 Anna Deavere Smith - "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992" - Ford's Theatre
** Simone - "Rent" - The National Theatre
** Belle Calaway - "Chicago" - The National Theatre
** Jasmine Guy - "Chicago" - The National Theatre
** LisaGay Hamilton - "Valley Song" - The Kennedy Center and the Mark Taper Forum
* 1999 Jane Lapotaire - "All is True, or, the Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII" - The Kennedy Center
** B.J. Crosby - "Dreamgirls" - The Kennedy Center
** Darlesia Cearcy - "Ragtime" - The National Theatre
** Joanne Pearce - "Cymbeline" - The Kennedy Center
** Rebecca Eichenberger - "Ragtime" - The National Theatre
* 2000 Angelica Torn - "Side Man" - The Kennedy Center
** Bernadette Peters - "Annie Get Your Gun" - The Kennedy Center
** Erin Dilly - "Martin Guerre" - The Kennedy Center
** Julie Harris - "The Gin Game" - The Kennedy Center
** Teri Hatcher - "Cabaret" - The Warner Theatre
* 2001 Judith Light - "Wit" - The Kennedy Center
** Eloise Laws - "It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues" - The Kennedy Center
** Faith Prince - "James Joyce's The Dead" - The Kennedy Center
** Gretha Boston - "It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues" - The Kennedy Center
** Reva Rice - "Fosse" - The National Theatre
* 2002 Jodi Capeless - "Late Nite Catechism" - Phoenix Productions
** Anna Friel - "Lulu" - John F. Kennedy Center
** Claudia Shear - "dirty BLONDE" - John F. Kennedy Center
** Pauline Turner - "Mill on the Floss" - John F. Kennedy Center
** Rachel York - "Kiss Me, Kate" - John F. Kennedy Center
* 2003 Sarah Jones - "Surface Transit" - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
** Alice Ripley - "Tell Me on a Sunday" - The Kennedy Center
** Barbara Cook - "Mostly Sondheim" - The Kennedy Center
** Mariette Hartley - "Copenhagen" - The Kennedy Center
** Paulette Ivory - "Aida" - The Kennedy Center

upporting acting

Outstanding Supporting Performer in a Touring Production

* 1985 Estelle Getty - "Torch Song Trilogy" - The Warner Theatre
** Clarence Fountain - "The Gospel at Colonus" - Arena Stage
** Frank Olivier - "Sugar Babies" - The Warner Theatre
** Pete Postlethwaite - "Cyrano de Bergerac" - The Kennedy Center
** Sal Mistretta - "Cats" - The National Theatre

Outstanding Supporting Performer in a Touring Production or Prior to New York

* 1986 Barnard Hughes - "The Iceman Cometh" - American National Theatre
** Charles "Honi" Coles - "My One and Only" - The Kennedy Center
** Donald Moffat - "The Iceman Cometh" - American National Theatre
** Larry Larson - "Tent Meeting" - The Kennedy Center
** Lisa Waltz - "Brighton Beach Memoirs" - The National Theatre

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Non-Resident Production

* 1990 Stephen Lang - "A Few Good Men" - The Kennedy Center
** Carole Cook - "Steel Magnolias" - The Kennedy Center
** Holland Taylor - "The Cocktail Hour" - The Kennedy Center
** Kandis Chappell - "Rumors" - The National Theatre
** Rocky Carroll - "The Piano Lesson" - The Kennedy Center
** Tracy Katz - "Into the Woods" - The Kennedy Center

Outstanding Supporting Performer in a Non-Resident Production

* 1987 Frances Ruffelle - "Les Mis rables" - The Kennedy Center
** Andrew Polk - "Biloxi Blues" - The National Theatre
** Jason Alexander - "Broadway Bound" - The National Theatre
** Martine Allard - "The Tap Dance Kid" - The Warner Theatre
** Randy Graff - "Les Mis rables" - The Kennedy Center
* 1988 Jamey Sheridan - "All My Sons" - Ford's Theatre
** Ed Hall - "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" - Arena Stage
** Michael Gough - "Breaking the Code" - The Kennedy Center
** Regina Resnik - "Cabaret" - The Kennedy Center
** Richard McMillan - "The Mikado" - The Kennedy Center
* 1989 Bruce Norris - "Wenceslas Square" - The Kennedy Center
** Erick Devine - "Me and My Girl" - The National Theatre
** Fannie Green - "Abyssinia" - Arena Stage
** Queen Esther Marrow - "Harlem Suite" - The Warner Theatre
** Stephen Root - "Driving Miss Daisy" - The Kennedy Center
* 1991 Mark Baker - "Grand Hotel: The Musical" - The Kennedy Center
** David Kelly - "The Playboy of the Western World" - The Kennedy Center
** Drew Eshelman - "Les Mis rables" - The National Theatre
** Letta Mbulu - "Sheila's Day" - Ford's Theatre
** Ron Holgate - "Lend Me a Tenor" - The Kennedy Center
** Susan Tilson - "Les Mis rables" - The National Theatre
* 1992 Roscoe Lee Browne - "Two Trains Running" - The Kennedy Center
** Irene Worth - "Lost in Yonkers" - The National Theatre
** Mark Harelick - "The Heidi Chronicles" - The Kennedy Center
** Pauline Flanagan - "The Shadow of a Gunman" - The Kennedy Center
** Rainn Wilson - "Two Gentlemen of Verona" - Arena Stage
** Robert Curtis Brown - "The Heidi Chronicles" - The Kennedy Center
* 1994 Jacob (Tuck) Milligan - "The Kentucky Cycle" - The Kennedy Center
** Jeanne Paulsen - "The Kentucky Cycle" - The Kennedy Center
** Lillian Garrett-Groag - "The Kentucky Cycle" - The Kennedy Center
** Paxton Whitehead - "My Fair Lady" - The National Theatre
* 1997 Desmond Barrit - "A Midsummer Night's Dream" - The Kennedy Center
** Andrea McArdle - "State Fair" - The Kennedy Center
** Joseph Shabalala - "Nomathemba" - The Kennedy Center
** Laila Robins - "Mrs. Klein" - The Kennedy Center
** Scott Wise - "State Fair" - The Kennedy Center
* 1998 L. Scott Caldwell - "Proposals" - The Kennedy Center
** Obba Babatund - "Chicago" - The National Theatre
** Stephan Alexander - "Rent" - The National Theatre
** Trazana Beverley - "The Darker Face of the Earth" - The Kennedy Center and Crossroads Theatre Company
** Tsai Chin - "Golden Child" - The Kennedy Center
* 1999 Guy Henry - "Cymbeline" - The Kennedy Center
** David Ryall - "Hamlet" - The Kennedy Center
** Derbhle Crotty - "Hamlet" - The Kennedy Center
** Tom Plotkin - "Footloose" - The Kennedy Center
** Tony Todd - "The Captain's Tiger" - The Kennedy Center
* 2000 Dick Latessa - "Cabaret" - The Warner Theatre
** Anthony Evans - "Inspiration" - Ford's Theatre
** Marcus Chait - "Titanic: A New Musical" - The Kennedy Center
** Michael Arnold - "Martin Guerre" - The Kennedy Center
** Michael Mastro - "Side Man" - The Kennedy Center
* 2001 Alice Cannon - "James Joyce's The Dead" - The Kennedy Center
** "Mississippi" Charles Bevel - "It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues" - The Kennedy Center
** Len Cariou - "The Dinner Party" - The Kennedy Center
** Penny Fuller - "The Dinner Party" - The Kennedy Center
** Sean McCourt - "It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues" - The Kennedy Center
* 2002 Tom Riis Farrell - "dirty BLONDE" - John F. Kennedy Center
** Charles Brown - "King Hedley II" - John F. Kennedy Center
** Michael Matus - "Mill on the Floss" - John F. Kennedy Center
** Nancy Anderson - "Kiss Me, Kate" - John F. Kennedy Center
** Stephen McKinley Henderson - "King Hedley II" - John F. Kennedy Center
* 2003 Kelli Fournier - "Aida" - The Kennedy Center
** Carol Woods - "The Full Monty" - The National Theatre
** Cleavant Derricks - "The Full Monty" - The National Theatre
** Kenny Mellman - "Kiki & Herb in Pardon Our Appearance" - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
** Mary Ellen Mahoney - "Mamma Mia!" - The National Theatre

ources

*cite web | title=Helen Hayes Awards | work=The Helen Hayes Awards: Communicating, Educating, Participating and Celebrating Washington Professional Theatre | url=http://www.helenhayes.org | accessmonthday=February 27 | accessyear=2005