– 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