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