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