- The Odyssey - Arena Stage Paul Tazewell - The Revengers' Comedies - Arena Stage Reggie Ray - God's Trombones - DC ART/WORKS 1996 Anita Stewart - Love's Labor's Lost - The Shakespeare Theatre Lindsay W. Davis - A Month in the Country - Arena Stage Paul Tazewell - The Matchmaker - Arena Stage Reggie Ray - Black Nativity - The Kennedy Center Rosemary Pardee - When We Are Married - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts 1997 Martin Pakledinaz - Volpone - The Shakespeare Theatre Andrew V. Yelusich - All's Well That Ends Well - The Shakespeare Theatre Paul Tazewell - Blithe Spirit - Arena Stage Robin Stapley - Quills - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Rosemary Pardee - The Mikado - Interact Theatre Company Zack Brown - Candide - Arena Stage 1998 Jane Greenwood - Mourning Becomes Electra - The Shakespeare Theatre Jane Shafer - The Wizard of Oz - Toby's Dinner Theatre Jule Emerson - The Importance of Being Earnest - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts Patricia Zipprodt - Sunday in the Park With George - Arena Stage Patricia Zipprodt - Sunday in the Park With George - Signature Theatre Rosemary Pardee - The Rehearsal - Round House Theatre 1999 Paul Tazewell - Peer Gynt - The Shakespeare Theatre Anne Kennedy - The Fix - Signature Theatre in association with Cameron Mackintosh Natasha Djukic - Quartet - Open Theatre/TUTA Reggie Ray - The Old Settler - The Studio Theatre Robert Perdziola - A Woman of No Importance - The Shakespeare Theatre Robin Stapley - Camille - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts 2000 Helen Q. Huang - Indian Ink - The Studio Theatre Alessandra D'Ovidio - La Dama Boba - GALA Hispanic Theatre Justine Scherer - Renard the Fox - Le Neon Theatre Martin Pakledinaz - The Merchant of Venice - The Shakespeare Theatre Paul Tazewell - The Women - Arena Stage Zack Brown - The Royal Family - Arena Stage 2001 Robert Perdziola - The Country Wife - The Shakespeare Theatre Anne Kennedy - Side Show - Signature Theatre Debra Bauer - Blue - Arena Stage Howard Tsvi Kaplan - Man of La Mancha - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts Murell Horton - Camino Real - The Shakespeare Theatre Rosemary Pardee - The Great White Hope - Arena Stage 2002 Robert Perdziola - Don Carlos - Shakespeare Theatre Jelena Vukmirovic - Perseus Bayou - Theatre