These Helen Hayes Awards are given for resident theatre productions in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. They include awards for the production itself, the direction, the acting, design and the stage plays themselves.
Outstanding Production of a Resident Play
1987 The Miser – The Shakespeare Theatre
Christmas on Mars – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Romeo and Juliet – The Shakespeare Theatre
Slab Boys – The Studio Theatre
The Birthday Party – The Studio Theatre
The Wild Duck – Arena Stage
Torch Song Trilogy – Castle Arts Center
Outstanding Resident Production
1988 The Crucible – Arena Stage
All the King's Men – Arena Stage
As Is – The Studio Theatre
Filthy Rich – Round House Theatre
Noises Off – Olney Theatre
Savage in Limbo – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
1989 Six Characters in Search of an Author – Arena Stage
Baby with the Bathwater – Round House Theatre
Eleemosynary – Horizons Theatre
Macbeth – The Shakespeare Theatre
The Cherry Orchard – Arena Stage
The Colored Museum – The Studio Theatre
1990 Heathen Valley – Round House Theatre
Bluesman – Source Theatre Company
The Day Room – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
The Dead Monkey – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
The Man Who Came to Dinner – Arena Stage
Twelfth Night – The Shakespeare Theatre
1991 Stand-Up Tragedy – Arena Stage
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune – The Studio Theatre
Juno and the Paycock – Arena Stage
Richard III – The Shakespeare Theatre
The Caucasian Chalk Circle – Arena Stage
The Merry Wives of Windsor – The Shakespeare Theatre
1992 My Children! My Africa! – Arena Stage
Fat Men in Skirts – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Jar the Floor – Arena Stage
Psycho Beach Party – Source Theatre Company
She Stoops to Conquer – Arena Stage
When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout – The Studio Theatre
Outstanding Resident Play
1986 Execution of Justice – Arena Stage
Fool for Love – Round House Theatre
Tartuffe – Arena Stage
The Foreigner – Olney Theatre
The Good Person of Setzuan – Arena Stage
1993 Hamlet – The Shakespeare Theatre
Elektra (play) – Round House Theatre
Kvetch – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Life During Wartime – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
The Lisbon Traviata – The Studio Theatre
The School for Wives – Arena Stage
1994 Dancing at Lughnasa – Arena Stage
Free Will and Wanton Lust – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Mother Courage and Her Children – The Shakespeare Theatre
Porcelain – Consenting Adults Theatre Company
Richard II – The Shakespeare Theatre
Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love – Signature Theatre
1995 Dream of a Common Language – Theater of the First Amendment
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Henry IV – The Shakespeare Theatre
The Price – Arena Stage
The Revengers' Comedies – Arena Stage
1996 The Pitchfork Disney – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Escape from Happiness – Round House Theatre
Henry V – The Shakespeare Theatre
I Am a Man – Arena Stage
Long Day's Journey Into Night – Arena Stage
The Three Sisters – The Studio Theatre
1997 Two Trains Running – The Studio Theatre
Arcadia – Arena Stage
Henry VI – The Shakespeare Theatre
Quills – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Volpone – The Shakespeare Theatre
1998 Mourning Becomes Electra – The Shakespeare Theatre
Never the Sinner – Rep Stage
Never the Sinner – Signature Theatre
Old Wicked Songs – The Studio Theatre
Romeo and Juliet – Folger Shakespeare Library
The Tempest – The Shakespeare Theatre
Travels With My Aunt – Rep Stage
1999 Nijinsky's Last Dance – Signature Theatre
Much Ado About Nothing – Folger Shakespeare Library
Peer Gynt – The Shakespeare Theatre
Seven Guitars – The Studio Theatre
The Old Settler – The Studio Theatre
You Can't Take It with You – Arena Stage
2000 Indian Ink – The Studio Theatre
Edmond – Source Theatre Company
How I Learned to Drive – Arena Stage
King John – The Shakespeare Theatre
The Dead Monkey – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
2001 The Glass Menagerie – Round House Theatre and Everyman Theatre
Collected Stories – Theater J
Heaven – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
MASTER HAROLD ... and the boys – The Studio Theatre
Romeo and Juliet – Folger Theatre
The Country Wife – The Shakespeare Theatre
2002 Home – Round House Theatre
Don Carlos – Shakespeare Theatre
Jitney – Studio Theatre
Major Barbara – Washington Stage Guild
The Andersonville Trial – American Century Theatre
The Invention of Love – Studio Theatre
2003 Hamlet – Synetic Theater
Born Guilty – Theater J
Host and Guest – Synetic Theater
She Stoops to Conquer – Folger Theatre
The Little Foxes – The Shakespeare Theatre
The Weir – Round House Theatre
Outstanding Production in a Resident Musical
1987 Quilters – Castle Arts Center
Beehive – Arena Stage
Hot Mikado – Ford's Theatre
Little Shop of Horrors – Olney Theatre
Outstanding Resident Musical
1986 March of the Falsettos – The Studio Theatre
A Chorus Line – Harlequin Dinner Theatre
Baby – Olney Theatre
Little Me – Ford's Theatre
1988 A ... My Name is Alice – Horizons Theatre
42nd Street – Harlequin Dinner Theatre
A Dance Against Darkenss: Living With AIDS – D.C. Cabaret
1989 The Cocoanuts – Arena Stage
Elmer Gantry – Ford's Theatre
Sanctuary D.C. – No-Neck Monsters Theatre Company
Side by Side by Sondheim – Olney Theatre
The Gifts of the Magi – The Studio Theatre
1990 Lucky Stiff – Olney Theatre
Don't Let This Dream Go (A Musical Celebration of Mahalia Jackson) – Ford's Theatre
On the Town – Arena Stage
Pins and Needles – Washington Jewish Theatre
The Beggar's Opera – The Shakespeare Theatre
1991 The Rocky Horror Show – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Amahl and the Night Visitors – The Kennedy Center
Children with Stones – Source Theatre Company
Me and My Girl – Harlequin Dinner Theatre
Merrily We Roll Along – Arena Stage
1992 Sweeney Todd – Signature Theatre
A Wonderful Life – Arena Stage
Damn Yankees – Harlequin Dinner Theatre
Forever Plaid – Ford's Theatre
1993 Assassins – Signature Theatre
Closer Than Ever – The Rose Organization
Executive Leverage – Source Theatre Company
Falsettoland – The Studio Theatre
Of Thee I Sing – Arena Stage
1994 The Pirates of Penzance – Interact Theatre Company
Five Guys Named Moe – Ford's Theatre
Show Me Where the Good Times Are – Olney Theatre
1995 Into the Woods – Signature Theatre
God's Trombones – DC ART/WORKS '(based on the poetry book of the same name
Hot Mikado – Ford's Theatre
Iolanthe – Interact Theatre Company
Wings – Signature Theatre
1996 Bessie's Blues – The Studio Theatre
Black Nativity – The Kennedy Center
Cabaret – Signature Theatre
H.M.S. Pinafore – Interact Theatre Company
Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris – Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
1997 Passion – Signature Theatre
Candide – Arena Stage
Hip 2: Birth of the Boom – The Studio Theatre
The Mikado – Interact Theatre Company
The Rink – Signature Theatre
Torn From the Headlines – Everyday Theatre
Torn From the Headlines – The African Continuum Theatre Company
1998 Hair, The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical – The Studio Theatre Secondstage
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Toby's Dinner Theatre
No Way to Treat a Lady – Signature Theatre
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Purloined Patience or The Scandal at the D'Oyly Carte – Interact Theatre Company
Sunday in the Park with George – Arena Stage
Sunday in the Park with George – Signature Theatre
1999 Thunder Knocking on the Door – Arena Stage
A Little Night Music – Signature Theatre
Brothers of the Knight – The Kennedy Center
Marat/Sade – Washington Shakespeare Company
The Fix – Signature Theatre in association with Cameron Mackintosh
2000 Animal Crackers – Arena Stage
Grimm Tales – Theater of the First Amendment
Guys and Dolls – Arena Stage
Slam! – The Studio Theatre
Sweeney Todd – Signature Theatre
The Cradle Will Rock – The American Century Theater
2001 Side Show – Signature Theatre
Dinah Was – Arena Stage
Play On! – Arena Stage
Sing Down the Moon: Appalachian Wonder Tales – Theater of the First Amendment
The Rhythm Club – Signature Theatre
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown – Round House Theatre
2002 Blues in the Night – Arena Stage
A New Brain – Studio Theatre
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Toby's Dinner Theatre
Perseus Bayou – Theatre of the First Amendment
Putting it Together – Signature Theatre
Spunk – African Continuum Theatre Company
2003 Sweeney Todd – The Kennedy Center
Jekyll & Hyde The Musical – Toby's Dinner Theatre
Polk County – Arena Stage
South Pacific – Arena Stage
Sunday in the Park with George – The Kennedy Center
The Gospel According to Fishman – Signature Theatre
Outstanding Director of a Resident Production
1985 Gary Pearle – Cloud 9 – Arena Stage
Dorothy Neumann – Top Girls – Horizons Theatre
Douglas C. Wager – Man and Superman – Arena Stage
Elinor Renfield – Passion Play – Arena Stage
Elizabeth Swados – The Beautiful Lady – New Playwrights' Theatre
Joy Zinoman – My Sister in This House – The Studio Theatre
1986 Douglas C. Wager – Execution of Justice – Arena Stage
Garland Wright – The Good Person of Setzuan – Arena Stage
Leslie Bravman Jacobson – Miss Lulu Bett – Horizons Theatre
Lucian Pintilie – Tartuffe – Arena Stage
Peter Sellars – The Count of Monte Cristo – American National Theatre
Susann Brinkley – Fool for Love – Round House Theatre
1987 John Going – The Miser – The Shakespeare Theatre
Dorothy Neumann – Johnny Bull – Horizons Theatre
Douglas C. Wager – The Taming of the Shrew – Arena Stage
Gillian Drake – The Water Engine – Round House Theatre
Joy Zinoman – Slab Boys – The Studio Theatre
Lucian Pintilie – The Wild Duck – Arena Stage
Michael Kahn – Romeo and Juliet – The Shakespeare Theatre
1988 Zelda Fichandler – The Crucible – Arena Stage
Douglas C. Wager – All the King's Men – Arena Stage
James C. Nicola – Filthy Rich – Round House Theatre
John Going – Noises Off – Olney Theatre
Leslie Bravman Jacobson – A ... My Name is Alice – Horizons Theatre
Michael Kahn – All's Well That Ends Well – The Shakespeare Theatre
Yuri Lyubimov – Crime and Punishment – Arena Stage
1989 Liviu Ciulei – Six Characters in Search of an Author – Arena Stage
Douglas C. Wager – The Cocoanuts – Arena Stage
Joe Banno – Tartuffe – Source Theatre Company
Kim Rubinstein – Baby with the Bathwater – Round House Theatre
Leslie Bravman Jacobson – Eleemosynary – Horizons Theatre
Michael Kahn – Macbeth – The Shakespeare Theatre
1990 Michael Kahn – Twelfth Night – The Shakespeare Theatre
Douglas C. Wager – On the Town – Arena Stage
Douglas C. Wager – The Man who Came to Dinner – Arena Stage
Edward Morgan – Heathen Valley – Round House Theatre
Howard Shalwitz – The Dead Monkey – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
John Going – Lucky Stiff – Olney Theatre
1991 Max Mayer – Stand-Up Tragedy – Arena Stage
Joe Dowling – Juno and the Paycock – Arena Stage
Joy Zinoman – Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune – The Studio Theatre
Michael Kahn – Richard III – The Shakespeare Theatre
Michael Kahn – The Merry Wives of Windsor – The Shakespeare Theatre
Tazewell Thompson – Fences – Arena Stage
1992 Eric D. Schaeffer – Sweeney Todd – Signature Theatre
Jim Stone – Julius Caesar – Washington Shakespeare Company
Joe Dowling – She Stoops to Conquer – Arena Stage
Joy Zinoman – When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout – The Studio Theatre
Max Mayer – My Children! My Africa! – Arena Stage
Stuart Ross – Forever Plaid – Ford's Theatre
Tazewell Thompson – Jar the Floor – Arena Stage
1994 Michael Kahn – Mother Courage and Her Children – The Shakespeare Theatre
Catherine Flye – The Pirates of Penzance – Interact Theatre Company
Dorothy Neumann – Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love – Signature Theatre
Eric D. Schaeffer – Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love – Signature Theatre
Kyle Donnelly – Dancing at Lughnasa – Arena Stage
Ron Himes – Spunk – The Studio Theatre
Van Riley – Porcelain – Consenting Adults Theatre Company
Outstanding Director of a Resident Play
1993 Michael Kahn – Hamlet – The Shakespeare Theatre
Bill Alexander – Troilus and Cressida – The Shakespeare Theatre
Howard Shalwitz – Kvetch – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
John Going – The Lisbon Traviata – The Studio Theatre
Kyle Donnelly – The School for Wives – Arena Stage
Lee Mikeska Gardner – Life During Wartime – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
1995 Michael Kahn – Henry IV – The Shakespeare Theatre
Douglas C. Wager – The Revengers' Comedies – Arena Stage
Heather McDonald – Dream of a Common Language – Theater of the First Amendment
Howard Shalwitz – Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Lee Mikeska Gardner – Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Nick Olcott – All in the Timing – Round House Theatre
1996 Douglas C. Wager – Long Day's Journey Into Night – Arena Stage
Daniel DeRaey – Escape from Happiness – Round House Theatre
Donald Douglass – I Am a Man – Arena Stage
Joy Zinoman – Three Sisters – The Studio Theatre
Michael Kahn – Henry V – The Shakespeare Theatre
Rob Bundy – The Pitchfork Disney – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
1997 Michael Kahn – Henry VI – The Shakespeare Theatre
Douglas C. Wager – Arcadia – Arena Stage
Howard Shalwitz – Quills – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
JoAnne Akalaitis – Dance of Death – Arena Stage
Joe Banno – Cymbeline – Washington Shakespeare Company
Thomas W. Jones II – Two Trains Running – The Studio Theatre
1998 Joe Banno – Romeo and Juliet – Folger Shakespeare Library
Ethan McSweeny – Never the Sinner – Rep Stage
Ethan McSweeny – Never the Sinner – Signature Theatre
Kasi Campbell – Travels With My Aunt – Rep Stage
Mark A. Rhea – Translations – The Keegan Theatre
Michael Kahn – Mourning Becomes Electra – The Shakespeare Theatre
Serge Seiden – Old Wicked Songs – The Studio Theatre
1999 Joe Calarco – Nijinsky's Last Dance – Signature Theatre
Douglas C. Wager – You Can't Take It with You – Arena Stage
Michael Kahn – Peer Gynt – The Shakespeare Theatre
Seret Scott – The Old Settler – The Studio Theatre
Thomas W. Jones II – Seven Guitars – The Studio Theatre
Zeljko Djukic – Quartet – Open Theatre/TUTA
2000 Joy Zinoman – Indian Ink – The Studio Theatre
Andrei Malaev-Babel – The Idiot – Stanislavsky Theater Studio
Hugo Medrano – La Dama Boba – GALA Hispanic Theatre
Joe Banno – Edmond – Source Theatre Company
Michael Kahn – King John – The Shakespeare Theatre
Molly Smith – How I Learned to Drive – Arena Stage
Paata Tsikurishvili – The Idiot – Stanislavsky Theater Studio
2001 Donald Hicken – The Glass Menagerie – Round House Theatre and Everyman Theatre
Howard Shalwitz – Heaven – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Jim Petosa – Collected Stories – Theater J
Joe Calarco – Shakespeare's R & J – Folger Theatre
Kasi Campbell – The Lonesome West – Rep Stage
Michael Kahn – Timon of Athens – The Shakespeare Theatre
Thomas W. Jones II – MASTER HAROLD ... and the boys – The Studio Theatre
2002 Thomas Jones – Home – Round House Theatre
John MacDonald – Major Barbara – Washington Stage Guild
Joy Zinoman – Far East – Studio Theatre
Joy Zinoman – The Invention of Love – Studio Theatre
Michael Kahn – Don Carlos – Shakespeare Theatre
Molly Smith – Agamemnon and His Daughters – Arena Stage
2003 Paata Tsikurishvili – Hamlet – Synetic Theater
Doug Hughes – The Little Foxes – The Shakespeare Theatre
John Vreeke – Born Guilty – Theater J
Joy Zinoman – Prometheus – The Studio Theatre
Nick Olcott – The Weir – Round House Theatre
Paata Tsikurishvili – Host and Guest – Synetic Theater
Outstanding Director of a Resident Musical
1993 Eric D. Schaeffer – Assassins – Signature Theatre
Douglas C. Wager – Of Thee I Sing – Arena Stage
Joy Zinoman – Falsettoland – The Studio Theatre
Mary Hall Surface – Tintypes – Round House Theatre
Ron O'Leary – Closer Than Ever – The Rose Organization
1995 David H. Bell – Hot Mikado – Ford's Theatre
Catherine Flye – Iolanthe – Interact Theatre Company
Eric D. Schaeffer – Into the Woods – Signature Theatre
Eric D. Schaeffer – Wings – Signature Theatre
Mike Malone – God's Trombones – DC ART/WORKS
1996 James A. Petosa – Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris – Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
Thomas W. Jones II – Bessie's Blues – The Studio Theatre
Catherine Flye – H.M.S. Pinafore – Interact Theatre Company
Eric D. Schaeffer – Cabaret – Signature Theatre
Mike Malone – Black Nativity – The Kennedy Center
1997 Eric D. Schaeffer – Passion – Signature Theatre
Catherine Flye – The Mikado – Interact Theatre Company
Douglas C. Wager – Candide – Arena Stage
Eric D. Schaeffer – The Rink – Signature Theatre
Marsha A. Jackson-Randolph – Hip 2: Birth of the Boom – The Studio Theatre
1998 Keith Alan Baker – Hair, The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical – The Studio Theatre Secondstage
Catherine Flye – Down at the Old Bull & Bush – Interact Theatre Company
Catherine Flye – Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Purloined Patience or The Scandal at the D'Oyly Carte – Interact Theatre Company
Eric D. Schaeffer – Sunday in the Park with George – Arena Stage
Eric D. Schaeffer – Sunday in the Park with George – Signature Theatre
Toby Orenstein – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Toby's Dinner Theatre
1999 Jesse Berger – Marat/Sade – Washington Shakespeare Company
Carole Lehan – Children of Eden – Toby's Dinner Theatre
Toby Orenstein – Children of Eden – Toby's Dinner Theatre
Catherine Flye – Great Expectations, the Musical – Interact Theatre Company
Eric D. Schaeffer – The Fix – Signature Theatre in association with Cameron Mackintosh
Keith Glover – Thunder Knocking on the Door – Arena Stage
2000 Douglas C. Wager – Animal Crackers – Arena Stage
Charles Randolph-Wright – Guys and Dolls – Arena Stage
Eric D. Schaeffer – Sweeney Todd – Signature Theatre
Jack Marshall – The Cradle Will Rock – The American Century Theater
Mary Hall Surface – Grimm Tales – Theater of the First Amendment
Thomas W. Jones II – Slam! – The Studio Theatre
2001 Joe Calarco – Side Show – Signature Theatre
David Petrarca – Dinah Was – Arena Stage
Eric Schaeffer – The Rhythm Club – Signature Theatre
Jerry Whiddon – You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown – Round House Theatre
Mary Hall Surface – Sing Down the Moon: Appalachian Wonder Tales – Theater of the First Amendment
Sheldon Epps – Play On! – Arena Stage
2002 Mary Hall Surface – Perseus Bayou – Theatre of the First Amendment
Catherine Flye – The Pirates of Penzance – Interact Theatre Company
Darryl V. Jones – Spunk – African Continuum Theatre Company
Eric D. Schaeffer – Putting it Together – Signature Theatre
Kenny Leon – Blues in the Night – Arena Stage
Toby Orenstein – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Toby's Dinner Theatre
2003 Christopher Ashley – Sweeney Todd – The Kennedy Center
Toby Orenstein – Jekyll & Hyde The Musical – Toby's Dinner Theatre
Eric Schaeffer – Sunday in the Park with George – The Kennedy Center
Eric Schaeffer – The Gospel According to Fishman – Signature Theatre
Kyle Donnelly – Polk County – Arena Stage
Molly Smith – South Pacific – Arena Stage
1985 The Beautiful Lady – New Playwrights' Theatre
Burial Customs – New Playwrights' Theatre
The Shady Side – Source Theatre
Outstanding New Play
1986 Ralph Hunt – Metamorphosis – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Alex Finlayson – Ladies' Side – Source Theatre Company
Jr.,Paul J. Donnelly – After My Own Heart – New Playwrights' Theatre
Phoef Sutton – Thin Wall – New Playwrights' Theatre
1987 T J Edwards – New York Mets – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Julie Jensen – Stray Dogs – Arena Stage
1988 T J Edwards – National Defense – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Bari Biern, Fred Anzevino, Paula Burns, Roberta Gasbarre, Roy Barber – A Dance Against Darkeness: Living With AIDS – D.C. Cabaret
Ron Wood – Four Men from Annapolis – Touchstone Theatre Company
1989 Larry L. King – The Night Hank Williams Died – New Playwrights' Theatre
David Henry Hwang – M. Butterfly – The National Theatre
David Lemos – More Than Names – New Playwrights' Theatre
Heather McDonald – The Rivers and Ravines – Arena Stage
John Bishop – Elmer Gantry – Ford's Theatre
The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play
1990 Deborah Pryor – Briar Patch – Arena Stage
Aaron Sorkin – A Few Good Men – The Kennedy Center
Bruce Clarke – Bluesman – Source Theatre Company
Nick Olcott – A Turn of the Screw – The Washington Stage Guild
Queen Esther Marrow – Don't Let This Dream Go (A Musical Celebration of Mahalia Jackson) – Ford's Theatre
Stephen Wade – On the Way Home – Arena Stage
1991 Oni Faida Lampley – Mixed Babies – The Washington Stage Guild
Cornerstone Theater Company – The Video Store Owner's Significant Other – American Playwrights Theatre
Barbara McConagha – Mother's Day – Source Theatre Company
Dale Stein – A Fresh of Breath Air – Smallbeer Theatre Company
Nick Mathwick – Waiting for Marge – Smallbeer Theatre Company
Roy Barber – Children With Stones – Source Theatre Company
Stuart Browne – Angel – No-Neck Monsters Theatre Company
1992 Cheryl L. West – Before It Hits Home – Arena Stage
Ari Roth – Born Guilty – Arena Stage
Chandler Burr – Exquisite – Consenting Adults Theatre Company
Christi Stewart-Brown – Do Not Use If Seal Is Broken – Consenting Adults Theatre Company
Nick Olcott – Aspern Papers – The Washington Stage Guild
Sherry Kramer – David's Redhaired Death – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Steve Carter – Spiele '36 or The Fourth Medal – Theater of the First Amendment
1993 Lucy Tom Lehrer – Those Sweet Caresses – Source Theatre Company
Christi Stewart-Brown – Morticians in Love – Consenting Adults Theatre Company
Christi Stewart-Brown – Three More Sisters – Consenting Adults Theatre Company
Drury L. Pifer – African Tourist – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Stanley Rutherford – Billy Nobody – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
1994 Nicky Silver – Free Will and Wanton Lust – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Aubrey Wertheim – Make Way for Dyklings – Consenting Adults Theatre Company
Aubrey Wertheim – Make Way for Dyklings – District of Columbia Arts Center
Drury L. Pifer – Strindberg in Hollywood – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Harry Kondoleon – Half Off – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Janusz Glowacki – Antigone in New York – Arena Stage
Karen L.B. Evans – My Girlish Days – MetroStage
1995 Chris White – Rhythms – Horizons Theatre
Diane Ney – Great Hunger – Consenting Adults Theatre Company
John Strand – Otabenga – Signature Theatre
Mustapha Matura – A Small World – Arena Stage
Nicky Silver – The Food Chain – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
1996 Amy Freed – The Psychic Life of Savages – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Charisma – A Night with Jackie "Moms" Mabley – American Theatre Project
Adam Long, Austin Tichenor, Reed Martin – The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) – The Kennedy Center
Dianne McIntyre – I Could Stop on a Dime and Get Ten Cents Change – Theater of the First Amendment
Ernest Joselovitz – Catskills Tzimmis – Theater J
Susan Altman – Out of the Whirlwind – American Theatre Project
1997 Jennifer L. Nelson – Torn From the Headlines – Everyday Theatre
Jennifer L. Nelson – Torn From the Headlines – The African Continuum Theatre Company
Allyson Currin – Amstel in Tel Aviv – Source Theatre Company
Barbara McConagha – The Obituary Bowl – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Didier Rousselet, Monica Neagoy, Susan Haedicke – The Man Who Laughs – Le Neon French-American Theatre Company
Ron O'Leary – They Never Said a Word – The Rose Organization
1998 Nick Olcott – Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Purloined Patience or The Scandal at the D'Oyly Carte – Interact Theatre Company
Carole Lehan, Jim Petosa – Look! We Have Come Through! – Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
Norman Allen – Melville Slept Here – Signature Theatre
Regina Porter – Tripping Through the Car House – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Sherry Kramer – Things That Break – Theater of the First Amendment
1999 John Strand – Lovers and Executioners – Arena Stage
Caleen Sinnette Jennings – Playing Juliet/Casting Othello – Folger Shakespeare Library
Caleen Sinnette Jennings – Playing Juliet/Casting Othello – Source Theatre Company
Christi Stewart-Brown – The Gene Pool – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Lisa Loomer – Expecting Isabel – Arena Stage
Norman Allen – Nijinsky's Last Dance – Signature Theatre
Norman Allen – Waiting In Tobolsk: the Children of the Last Tsar – Moonlight Theatre Company
2000 Karen Zacar as – The Sins of Sor Juana – Theater of the First Amendment
Caleen Sinnette Jennings – Inns & Outs – Source Theatre Company
Chris Stezin – Hoboken Station – Charter Theatre
Oni Faida Lampley – The Dark Kalamazoo – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Robert Alexander – The Last Orbit of Billy Mars – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Sam Schwartz, Jr. – Courting Chris – The Church Street Theater
Sam Schwartz, Jr. – Courting Chris – The Theater Alliance
2001 Peter Coy – A House in the Country – Charter Theatre
Ari Roth – Life in Refusal – Theater J
Chad Beguelin, Matthew Sklar – The Rhythm Club – Signature Theatre
Charles Randolph-Wright – Blue – Arena Stage
David Lindsay-Abaire – Wonder of the World – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
David Maddox, Mary Hall Surface – Sing Down the Moon: Appalachian Wonder Tales – Theater of the First Amendment
2002 Norman Allen – In the Garden – Signature Theatre
David Maddox, Mary Hall Surface – Perseus Bayou – Theatre of the First Amendment
Martha King De Silva – Stretch Marks – Charter Theatre
Paul D'Andrea – Nathan the Wise – Theatre of the First Amendment
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa – The Muckle Man – Source Theatre Company
2003 Ernie Joselovitz – Shakespeare, Moses, and Joe Papp – Round House Theatre
Allyson Currin – Church of the Open Mind – Charter Theatre
Craig Wright – Recent Tragic Events – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
John Strand – The Diaries – Signature Theatre
Joshua Ford – Miklat – Theater J
Paul Donnelly – The Taste of Fire – Charter Theatre
The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Musical
2003 Dorothy Waring, Kathy Madison, Kyle Donnelly, Stephen Wade, Zora Neale Hurston – Polk County – Arena Stage
David Maddox, Mary Hall Surface – Mississippi Pinocchio – Theater of the First Amendment
Thomas W. Jones, II – Harlem Rose, A Love Song to Langston Hughes – MetroStage
Thomas W. Jones, II – Three Sistahs – MetroStage
Janet Pryce, William Hubbard – Three Sistahs – MetroStage
Michael Lazar, Richard Oberacker – The Gospel According to Fishman – Signature Theatre
Norman Allen – The Christmas Carol Rag – Signature Theatre
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