When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout - The Studio Theatre Outstanding Lead Actress in a Resident Play 1993 Franchelle Stewart Dorn - The Visit - Arena Stage Cathy Simpson - Boesman and Lena - American Showcase Theatre Halo Wines - Mrs. Klein - Arena Stage Jewell Robinson - A Song at Twilight - The Washington Stage Guild Naomi Jacobson - Kvetch - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Sarah Marshall - Elektra - Round House Theatre 1994 Pat Carroll - Mother Courage and Her Children - The Shakespeare Theatre Amy Waddell - Spunk - The Studio Theatre Catherine Flye - Shirley Valentine - Interact Theatre Company Kerry Waters - Free Will and Wanton Lust - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Sarah Marshall - Criminals in Love - Round House Theatre 1995 Ellen Karas - The Revengers' Comedies - Arena Stage Jane Beard - Dream of a Common Language - Theater of the First Amendment Lee Mikeska Gardner - Patient A - Freedom Stage Nancy Robinette - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Round House Theatre Naomi Jacobson - Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Nobu McCarthy - The Wash - The Studio Theatre Ruby Dee - Flyin' West - The Kennedy Center 1996 Tana Hicken - Long Day's Journey Into Night - Arena Stage Afi McClendon - Holiday Heart - Arena Stage Helen Carey - Macbeth - The Shakespeare Theatre Nancy Robinette - Escape from Happiness - Round House Theatre Naomi Jacobson - Scenes from an Execution - Potomac Theatre Project Sarah Marshall - Escape from Happiness - Round House Theatre 1997 Nancy Robinette - Better Living - Round House Theatre Helen Carey - Henry VI - The Shakespeare Theatre Jane Beard - One Shoe Off - Round House Theatre Michelle Shupe - Cymbeline - Washington Shakespeare Company Nancy Robinette - The Obituary Bowl - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Pamela Nyberg - Blithe Spirit - Arena Stage Phylicia Rashad - Blues for an Alabama Sky - Arena Stage 1998 Holly Twyford - Romeo and Juliet - Folger Shakespeare Library Cam Magee - An Ideal Husband - The Washington Stage Guild Jenny Bacon - Molly Sweeney - Arena Stage Kelly McGillis - Mourning Becomes Electra - The Shakespeare Theatre Sarah Marshall - Sylvia - The Studio Theatre Tana Hicken - Ghosts - Arena Stage 1999 S. Epatha Merkerson - The Old Settler - The Studio