Cameron Mackintosh Psalmayene 24 - The Hip Hop Nightmares of Jujube Brown - The African Continuum Theatre Company Floyd King - Mad About the Bard - Folger Shakespeare Library Peter Jay Fernandez - Thunder Knocking on the Door - Arena Stage Rob McQuay - Godspell - Round House Theatre 2000 Anthony Cummings - Eleanor: An American Love Story - Ford's Theatre Frank Ferrante - Animal Crackers - Arena Stage Maurice Hines - Guys and Dolls - Arena Stage Norm Lewis - Sweeney Todd - Signature Theatre Tim Brierley - The Very Model of a Major Merry Music Hall - Interact Theatre Company 2001 Dwayne Nitz - Sing Down the Moon: Appalachian Wonder Tales - Theater of the First Amendment Bobby Smith - Evita - Toby's Dinner Theatre Jeremy Kushnier - The Rhythm Club - Signature Theatre Rich Affannato - Floyd Collins - Signature Theatre Tim Martin Gleason - The Rhythm Club - Signature Theatre Will Gartshore - Floyd Collins - Signature Theatre 2002 Brian Childers - Danny & Sylvia: A Musical Love Story - American Century Theatre Bárbaro Marín - Raices Cubanas 2 (Cuban Roots 2) - GALA Hispanic Theatre Jason Gilbert - Putting It Together - Signature Theatre Michael Rupert - A New Brain - Studio Theatre Will Gartshore - Grand Hotel - Signature Theatre 2003 Rick Hammerly - Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Signature Theatre Brian Stokes Mitchell - Sweeney Todd - The Kennedy Center John Barrowman - Company - The Kennedy Center Patrick O'Neill - Bat Boy: The Musical - The Studio Theatre Secondstage Raúl Esparza - Sunday in the Park With George - The Kennedy Center Russell Sunday - Jekyll & Hyde The Musical - Toby's Dinner Theatre Outstanding Lead Actress in a Resident Production 1985 Halo Wines - Cloud 9 - Arena Stage Karen Trott - The Beautiful Lady - New Playwrights' Theatre Marcia Gay Harden - Crimes of the Heart - Olney Theatre Mary Ellen Nester - Top Girls - Horizons Theatre Mikel Lambert - Much Ado About Nothing - The Shakespeare Theatre Sarah Marshall - My Sister in This House - The Studio Theatre 1986 Randy Danson - The Good Person of Szechwan - Arena Stage Carole Myers - Miss Lulu Bett - Horizons Theatre Halo Wines - 'night, Mother - Arena Stage Janet Bryant - Fool for Love - Round House Theatre Katherine Squire - A Walk Out of Water -