Feininger - A Tale of the Wolf - The Washington Stage Guild Harry Hamlin - Henry V - The Shakespeare Theatre Ian Price - Private Lives - Folger Shakespeare Library Ian Price - Private Lives - InterAct Theatre Company Rick Hammerly - Me and Jezebel - MetroStage Stacy Keach - Macbeth - The Shakespeare Theatre Wendell Wright - I Am a Man - Arena Stage 1997 David Fendig - Travesties - Washington Shakespeare Company Edward Gero - Broken Glass - The Rep Stage Company Floyd King - Quills - Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company Hoard Shalwitz - The Gigli Concert - Wool Mammoth Theatre Company Henry Strozier - Dance of Death - Arena Stage Jonathan Tindle - Talking Heads - The Studio Theatre Jerry Whidden - An Almost Holy Picture - Round House Theatre 1998 Edward Gero - Skylight - The Studio Theatre Bill Largess - An Ideal Husband - The Washington Stage Guild Jason Patrick Bowcutt - Never the Sinner - Rep Stage Jason Patrick Bowcutt - Never the Sinner - Signature Theatre Patrick Stewart - Othello - The Shakespeare Theatre Peter Goldfarb - Old Wicked Songs - The Studio Theatre Richard Thompson - Look Back in Anger - The Studio Theatre Ted van Griethuysen - The Tempest - The Shakespeare Theatre 1999 Ted van Griethuysen - The Steward of Christendom - The Studio Theatre Bill Largess - Man and Superman - The Washington Stage Guild Jeremy Davidson - Nijinsky's Last Dance - Signature Theatre Max Robinson - Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde - The Studio Theatre Thomas W. Jones II - Waiting for Godot - The Studio Theatre Wallace Acton - Peer Gynt - The Shakespeare Theatre 2000 Rick Foucheux - Edmond - Source Theatre Company Edward Gero - Nixon's Nixon - Round House Theatre Faran Tahir - Indian Ink - The Studio Theatre Hal Holbrook - The Merchant of Venice - The Shakespeare Theatre L. Peter Callender - Oak and Ivy - Arena Stage Rick Hammerly - Angels in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches - Signature Theatre 2001 Philip Goodwin - Timon of Athens - The Shakespeare Theatre Bruce Nelson - The Mystery of Irma Vep (a penny dreadful) - Rep Stage Christopher Lane - Therese Raquin - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts Floyd King - Vigil - The Studio Theatre James Brown-Orleans - "Master Harold"...and the Boys - The Studio Theatre John Emmert