The Helen Hayes Awards are given for acting in resident theatre productions in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. The awards are generally divided between male and female performers, between lead and supporting performers, and since the early 1990s between dramatic plays and musicals. Lead Acting Outstanding Lead Actor in a Resident Production 1985 Francois de la Giroday - Man and Superman - Arena Stage Kevin Donovan - Cloud 9 - Arena Stage Richard Bauer - Enter a Free Man - Olney Theatre Stanley Anderson - Lydie Breeze - New Playwrights' Theatre Tom Toner - The Gin Game - Olney Theatre 1986 Thomas Schall - Fool for Love - Round House Theatre Grover Gardner - Looking Glass - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Grover Gardner - Metamorphosis - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Mark Jaster - The Man Who Killed the Buddha - Round House Theatre Richard Bauer - Tartuffe - Arena Stage Steven Dawn - Extremities - Source Theatre Company 1987 Howie Seago - Ajax - American National Theatre Casey Biggs - The Taming of the Shrew - Arena Stage Doug Brown - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - The Studio Theatre Howard Shalwitz - Christmas on Mars - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company John Wylie - The Miser - The Shakespeare Theatre Michael Willis - New York Mets - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Simon Brooking - Still Life - The Studio Theatre 1988 Michael Judge - How I Got That Story - Source Theatre Company Bill Grimmett - The Blood Knot - American Showcase Theatre Casey Biggs - All the King's Men - Arena Stage Grover Gardner - Harvey - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Michael Chaban - As Is - The Studio Theatre Nat Benchley - The Blood Knot - American Showcase Theatre T J Edwards - As Is - The Studio Theatre 1989 Michael Willis - The Boys Next Door - Round House Theatre Brian Bedford - The Merchant of Venice - The Shakespeare Theatre Brian Hemmingsen - Endgame - Scena Theatre Floyd King - The Mystery of Irma Vep (A Penny Dreadful) - The Studio Theatre Stanley Anderson - Enrico IV - Arena Stage Tom Hewitt - Ring Round the Moon - Arena Stage 1990 David Marks - Briar Patch - Arena Stage Harry R. Tate - Bluesman - Source Theatre Company Jerry Whiddon - Heathen Valley - Round House Theatre Richard Bauer - The Man Who Came to Dinner -