– Signature Theatre Jim Stone – Julius Caesar – Washington Shakespeare Company Joe Dowling – She Stoops to Conquer – Arena Stage Joy Zinoman – When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout – The Studio Theatre Max Mayer – My Children! My Africa! – Arena Stage Stuart Ross – Forever Plaid – Ford's Theatre Tazewell Thompson – Jar the Floor – Arena Stage 1994 Michael Kahn – Mother Courage and Her Children – The Shakespeare Theatre Catherine Flye – The Pirates of Penzance – Interact Theatre Company Dorothy Neumann – Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love – Signature Theatre Eric D. Schaeffer – Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love – Signature Theatre Kyle Donnelly – Dancing at Lughnasa – Arena Stage Ron Himes – Spunk – The Studio Theatre Van Riley – Porcelain – Consenting Adults Theatre Company Outstanding Director of a Resident Play 1993 Michael Kahn – Hamlet – The Shakespeare Theatre Bill Alexander – Troilus and Cressida – The Shakespeare Theatre Howard Shalwitz – Kvetch – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company John Going – The Lisbon Traviata – The Studio Theatre Kyle Donnelly – The School for Wives – Arena Stage Lee Mikeska Gardner – Life During Wartime – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company 1995 Michael Kahn – Henry IV – The Shakespeare Theatre Douglas C. Wager – The Revengers' Comedies – Arena Stage Heather McDonald – Dream of a Common Language – Theater of the First Amendment Howard Shalwitz – Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Lee Mikeska Gardner – Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Nick Olcott – All in the Timing – Round House Theatre 1996 Douglas C. Wager – Long Day's Journey Into Night – Arena Stage Daniel DeRaey – Escape from Happiness – Round House Theatre Donald Douglass – I Am a Man – Arena Stage Joy Zinoman – Three Sisters – The Studio Theatre Michael Kahn – Henry V – The Shakespeare Theatre Rob Bundy – The Pitchfork Disney – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company 1997 Michael Kahn – Henry VI – The Shakespeare Theatre Douglas C. Wager – Arcadia – Arena Stage Howard Shalwitz – Quills – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company JoAnne Akalaitis – Dance of Death – Arena Stage Joe Banno – Cymbeline – Washington Shakespeare Company Thomas W. Jones II – Two Trains Running