A Helen Hayes Award is a theater award named for the famed actress Helen Hayes to recognize excellence in professional theater in the Washington, D.C. area since 1983. The awards are presented by theatreWashington formerly known as the Helen Hayes Awards organization, which is the unified voice of Washington theatre since the 1980s. The organization – led by Linda Levy Grossman – works full-time to promote, represent and support all segments of Washington’s professional theatre community as well as strengthen Washington theatre’s powerful economic engine and world class brand .
Famous quotes containing the words helen hayes, helen, hayes and/or award:
“People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach “retirement” age seem very admirable to me.”
—Helen Hayes (1900–1993)
“A baby is God’s way of saying the world should go on.”
—Doris Smith. quoted in What Is a Baby?, By Richard and Helen Exley.
“Egocentrics are attracted to the inept. It gives them one more excuse for patting themselves on the back.”
—Helen Hayes (1900–1993)
“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)