Bill Heck, Nina Arianda, Stephen McKinley Henderson & Helen Stenborg Honored by Actors' Equity

Bill Heck and Nina Arianda have been awarded Actors’ Equity’s 2010 Clarence Derwent Awards and Stephen McKinley Henderson and Helen Stenborg will receive the union’s Richard Seff Awards. The actors will receive their prizes on June 8 at the Equity offices.

The Derwent Award is presented annually to the most promising young male and female actors on the New York stage. Heck was honored for playing the central role of Horace Robedaux in Horton Foote’s nine-hour Orphans’ Home Cycle at Signature Theater Company. Arianda won for her performance as a mysterious young actress in David Ives’ adaptation of Venus in Fur at Classic Stage Company.

The Seff Awards honor outstanding performances in supporting roles. Henderson won for playing Jim Bono, the best friend of Troy Maxson (Denzel Washington) in the Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Fences. Stenborg was honored for playing a younger character’s dying aunt in Vigil at off Broadway's DR2 Theater.