Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play

The Helen Hayes Award for Supporting Actress in a Resident Play is an Helen Hayes Award for theatre excellence in the Washington, DC area. In 1993, awards for musicals were separated from those for dramatic plays. The award winner is listed for each year, followed by other nominees.

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Resident Production

1985 Tami Tappan - Lydie Breeze - New Playwrights' Theatre
- Brigid Cleary - Enter a Free Man - Olney Theatre
- Peggy Cosgrave - Crimes of the Heart - Olney Theatre
- Elizabeth DuVall - The Wake of Jamey Foster - The Studio Theatre
- Barbara Klein - Top Girls - Horizons Theatre

Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Production

1986 Erika Bogren - A Walk Out of Water - The Studio Theatre
- Brigid Cleary - The Miss Firecracker Contest - Olney Theatre
- Tana Hicken - Execution of Justice - Arena Stage
- Katherine Leaske - Tartuffe - Arena Stage
- Isabell Monk - Tartuffe - Arena Stage
- Ramona Rhoades - The Knight From Olmedo - GALA Hispanic Theatre
1987 Pat Carroll - Romeo and Juliet - The Shakespeare Theatre
- Heather Ehlers - The Philadelphia Story - Arena Stage
- Joan Kelley - Beyond Therapy - Source Theatre Company
- Mikel Lambert - The Miser - The Shakespeare Theatre
- Sybil Lines - The Cherry Orchard - The Shakespeare Theatre
- Barbara Rappaport - Johnny Bull - Horizons Theatre
1988 Franchelle Stewart Dorn - The Winter's Tale - The Shakespeare Theatre
- Francine Beers - Light Up the Sky - Arena Stage
- Mary Ellen Nester - Savage in Limbo - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- Nancy Paris - North Shore Fish - The Studio Theatre
- Muriel Smallwood - The Entertainer - The Studio Theatre
1989 Sarah Marshall - Baby With the Bathwater - Round House Theatre
- Patricia Connolly - Ring Round the Moon - Arena Stage
- June Hansen - An Ideal Husband - The Washington Stage Guild
- Kathryn Kelley - The Glass Menagerie - New Playwrights' Theatre
- Michaeleen O'Neil - Safe Sex - Source Theatre Company
- Lilia Skala - Les Blancs - Arena Stage
1990 Kaia Calhoun - Heathen Valley - Round House Theatre
- June Hansen - Blithe Spirit - The Washington Stage Guild
- Tana Hicken - The Man Who Came to Dinner - Arena Stage
- Sarah Marshall - Briar Patch - Arena Stage
- Jennifer Mendenhall - The Common Pursuit - The Studio Theatre
- Lynnie Raybuck - Happy Birthdays - Smallbeer Theatre Company
1991 Robin Baxter - West Memphis Mojo - The Studio Theatre
- Grainne Cassidy - Zero Positive - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- Beverly Cosham - Rebel Armies Deep Into Chad - Round House Theatre
- Franchelle Stewart Dorn - Mary Stuart - The Shakespeare Theatre
- Oni Faida Lampley - Rebel Armies Deep Into Chad - Round House Theatre
- Halo Wines - You Can't Take It With You - Olney Theatre
1992 Marilyn Coleman - Jar the Floor - Arena Stage
- Desiree Marie - Fat Men in Skirts - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- Jessica May - Psycho Beach Party - Source Theatre Company
- Jennifer Mendenhall - When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout - The Studio Theatre
- Sandra Reaves-Phillips - Before It Hits Home - Arena Stage
- Cathy Simpson - spell #7: geechee jibara quick magic trance for technologically stressed third world people - The Studio Theatre

Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play

1993 Francesca Buller - Hamlet - The Shakespeare Theatre
- Roz Fox - Shakin' the Mess Outta Misery - Source Theatre Company
- June Hansen - Joe Egg - Round House Theatre
- Gillian Holt - Table Settings - Theater J
- Carol Monda - Morticians in Love - Consenting Adults Theatre Company
- Carolyn Pasquantonio - The Miracle Worker - Olney Theatre
1994 Mary Vreeland - Mother Courage and Her Children - The Shakespeare Theatre
- Kate Buddeke - Dancing at Lughnasa - Arena Stage
- Tana Hicken - Summer and Smoke - Arena Stage
- Tana Hicken - It's the Truth (If You Think It Is) - Arena Stage
- Naomi Jacobson - Free Will and Wanton Lust - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- Mary Tucker - Red Scare on Sunset - Source Theatre Company
1995 Naomi Jacobson - Dream of a Common Language - Theater of the First Amendment
- Roz Fox - Wedding Band - Round House Theatre
- June Hansen - The Revengers' Comedies - Arena Stage
- Tana Hicken - The Revengers' Comedies - Arena Stage
- Jennifer Mendenhall - Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- Mary Tucker - Jeffrey - Source Theatre Company
1997 Helen Carey - Volpone - The Shakespeare Theatre
- Mary Teresa Fortuna - Quills - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- Deidrie N. Henry - Blues for an Alabama Sky - Arena Stage
- Tana Hicken - Arcadia - Arena Stage
- Megan Morgan - Four Dogs and a Bone - Signature Theatre
- Lisa Newman-Williams - A Cheever Evening - Source Theatre Company
1998 Franchelle Stewart Dorn - Mourning Becomes Electra - The Shakespeare Theatre
- Franchelle Stewart Dorn - Othello - The Shakespeare Theatre
- Rana Kay - 5th of July - Washington Shakespeare Company
- Laurena Mullins - Anna Karenina - The Washington Stage Guild
- Lisa Newman-Williams - Psychopathia Sexualis - Source Theatre Company
- Rhea Seehorn - The Big Slam - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
1999 Rena Cherry Brown - A Delicate Balance - The American Century Theater
- Gretchen Cleevely - Dimly Perceived Threats to the System - Arena Stage
- Lynda Gravatt - The Old Settler - The Studio Theatre
- Sarah Ripard - Dangerous Liaisons - Source Theatre Company
- Sarah Ripard - Dangerous Liaisons - Rep Stage
- Nancy Robinette - Freedomland - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- Holly Twyford - The Steward of Christendom - The Studio Theatre
2000 June Hansen - Indian Ink - The Studio Theatre
- Rachel Gardner - In Good Company: The Power Edition - Horizons Theatre
- Naomi Jacobson - Mere Mortals - Round House Theatre
- Sarah Marshall - How I Learned to Drive - Arena Stage
- Lee Mikeska Gardner - Stanley - Potomac Theatre Project
- Jewell Robinson - Inns & Outs - Source Theatre Company
2001 Jewell Robinson - Blue - Arena Stage
- Jenifer Deal - Dancing at Lughnasa - The Keegan Theatre
- Sarah Marshall - Betty's Summer Vacation - The Studio Theatre
- Kerri Rambow - A House in The Country - Charter Theatre
- Kerri Rambow - The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told - Source Theatre Company
- Nancy Robinette - Wonder of the World - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
2002 Mia Whang - Far East - Studio Theatre
- Lynn Chavis - Home - Round House Theatre
- Tina Fabrique - Constant Star - Arena Stage
- Catherine Flye - Rapture - MetroStage
- Crystal Fox - Home - Round House Theatre
- Sarah Fox - Love & Yearning in the Not-for-Profits and Other Marital Distractions - Theatre J
2003 Nancy Robinette - The Little Foxes - The Shakespeare Theatre
- Menchu Esteban - La Verdad Sospechosa - Gala Hispanic Theatre
- Catherine Flye - She Stoops to Conquer - Folger Theatre
- Tana Hicken - The Winter's Tale - The Shakespeare Theatre
- Dori Legg - Recent Tragic Events - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- Susan Lynskey - The Laramie Project - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts