New Playwrights' Theatre Barbara Klein - Top Girls - Horizons Theatre Brigid Cleary - Enter a Free Man - Olney Theatre Elizabeth DuVall - The Wake of Jamey Foster - The Studio Theatre Peggy Cosgrave - Crimes of the Heart - Olney Theatre 1986 Erika Bogren - A Walk Out of Water - The Studio Theatre Brigid Cleary - The Miss Firecracker Contest - Olney Theatre Isabell Monk - Tartuffe - Arena Stage Katherine Leaske - Tartuffe - Arena Stage Ramona Rhoades - The Knight From Olmedo - GALA Hispanic Theatre Tana Hicken - Execution of Justice - Arena Stage 1987 Pat Carroll - Romeo and Juliet - The Shakespeare Theatre Barbara Rappaport - Johnny Bull - Horizons Theatre Heather Ehlers - The Philadelphia Story - Arena Stage Joan Kelley - Beyond Therapy - Source Theatre Company Mikel Lambert - The Miser - The Shakespeare Theatre Sybil Lines - The Cherry Orchard - The Shakespeare Theatre 1988 Franchelle Stewart Dorn - The Winter's Tale - The Shakespeare Theatre Francine Beers - Light Up the Sky - Arena Stage Mary Ellen Nester - Savage in Limbo - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Muriel Smallwood - The Entertainer - The Studio Theatre Nancy Paris - North Shore Fish - The Studio Theatre 1989 Sarah Marshall - Baby With the Bathwater - Round House Theatre June Hansen - An Ideal Husband - The Washington Stage Guild Kathryn Kelley - The Glass Menagerie - New Playwrights' Theatre Lilia Skala - Les Blancs - Arena Stage Michaeleen O'Neil - Safe Sex - Source Theatre Company Patricia Connolly - Ring Round the Moon - Arena Stage 1990 Kaia Calhoun - Heathen Valley - Round House Theatre Jennifer Mendenhall - The Common Pursuit - The Studio Theatre June Hansen - Blithe Spirit - The Washington Stage Guild Lynnie Raybuck - Happy Birthdays - Smallbeer Theatre Company Sarah Marshall - Briar Patch - Arena Stage Tana Hicken - The Man Who Came to Dinner - Arena Stage 1991 Robin Baxter - West Memphis Mojo - The Studio Theatre Beverly Cosham - Rebel Armies Deep Into Chad - Round House Theatre Franchelle Stewart Dorn - Mary Stuart - The Shakespeare Theatre Grainne Cassidy - Zero Positive - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Halo Wines - You Can't Take It With You - Olney Theatre Oni Faida Lampley - Rebel Armies Deep Into Chad - Round House Theatre 1992 Marilyn Coleman -