Strozier - A Month in the Country - Arena Stage Casey Biggs - Long Day's Journey Into Night - Arena Stage Floyd King - Love's Labor's Lost - The Shakespeare Theatre J. Fred Shiffman - Rhinoceros - The Studio Theatre Jarlath Conroy - Henry V - The Shakespeare Theatre Rainn Wilson - Long Day's Journey Into Night - Arena Stage 1997 Wallace Acton - Henry VI - The Shakespeare Theatre Donald Griffin - Two Trains Running - The Studio Theatre J. Fred Shiffman - The Miser - Arena Stage Philip Goodwin - Volpone - The Shakespeare Theatre Ted van Griethuysen - Volpone - The Shakespeare Theatre Wallace Acton - Volpone - The Shakespeare Theatre 1998 Robert Sella - Mourning Becomes Electra - The Shakespeare Theatre Christopher Henley - Bent - Washington Shakespeare Company Christopher Lane - Romeo & Juliet - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts J. Fred Shiffman - Sylvia - The Studio Theatre James Brown-Orleans - A Saroyan Celebration - The American Century Theater Marty Lodge - The Rehearsal - Round House Theatre 1999 J. Fred Shiffman - Lovers and Executioners - Arena Stage Bruce Nelson - The Triumph of Love - Washington Shakespeare Company Donald Griffin - Seven Guitars - The Studio Theatre Everett Quinton - The Merry Wives of Windsor - The Shakespeare Theatre Frederick Strother - Seven Guitars - The Studio Theatre Marty Lodge - Criminal Genius - Round House Theatre Nick Olcott - Dead Funny - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company 2000 Christopher Lane - Equus - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts Christopher Henley - Entertaining Mr. Sloane - Washington Shakespeare Company Craig Wallace - Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika - Signature Theatre Doug Brown - The Last Orbit of Billy Mars - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Floyd King - A Midsummer Night's Dream - The Shakespeare Theatre Marty Lodge - The Beauty Queen of Leenane - The Studio Theatre Paul Morella - Angels in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches - Signature Theatre 2001 Ted van Griethuysen - Timon of Athens - The Shakespeare Theatre Brian McMonagle - Too True To Be Good - The Washington Stage Guild Carlos Castillo - El burlador de Sevilla y convivado de piedra (Don Juan of Seville) - GALA Teatro Hispano Christopher Marlowe Roche - The Importance of Being Earnest - Source Theatre Company David Jourdan - Twelve Angry Men - The Keegan Theatre Edward Gero -