Theatre Allen Lee Hughes - Passion Play - Arena Stage Frances Aronson - Happy End - Arena Stage Frances Aronson - The Tempest - Arena Stage Nancy Schertler - Lydie Breeze - New Playwrights' Theatre Stuart Duke - King Lear - The Shakespeare Theatre 1986 James F. Ingalls - The Count of Monte Cristo - American National Theatre Allen Lee Hughes - Women and Water - Arena Stage Beverly Emmons - Tartuffe - Arena Stage Richard Winkler - A Midsummer Night's Dream - The Shakespeare Theatre Stuart Duke - A Walk Out of Water - The Studio Theatre Stuart Duke - Othello - The Shakespeare Theatre 1987 James F. Ingalls - Ajax - American National Theatre Beverly Emmons - The Wild Duck - Arena Stage Daniel MacLean Wagner - The Birthday Party - The Studio Theatre Frances Aronson - Measure for Measure - Arena Stage Nancy Schertler - Old Times - Arena Stage Nancy Schertler - Romeo and Juliet - The Shakespeare Theatre 1988 Daniel MacLean Wagner - The Entertainer - The Studio Theatre Allen Lee Hughes - All the King's Men - Arena Stage Daniel MacLean Wagner - As Is - The Studio Theatre Nancy Schertler - Crime and Punishment - Arena Stage Nancy Schertler - The Winter's Tale - The Shakespeare Theatre Richard H. Young - Filthy Rich - Round House Theatre 1989 Allen Lee Hughes - Six Characters in Search of an Author - Arena Stage Daniel MacLean Wagner - Eleemosynary - Horizons Theatre Daniel MacLean Wagner - On the Verge or The Geography of Yearning - Round House Theatre Nancy Schertler - Aunt Dan & Lemon - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Nancy Schertler - Playboy of the West Indies - Arena Stage Stephen Strawbridge - Macbeth - The Shakespeare Theatre 1990 Allen Lee Hughes - A Midsummer Night's Dream - Arena Stage Allen Lee Hughes - On the Town - Arena Stage Daniel MacLean Wagner - The Beggar's Opera - The Shakespeare Theatre Nancy Schertler - A Lie of the Mind - Arena Stage Nancy Schertler - The Glass Menagerie - Arena Stage Nancy Schertler - Twelfth Night - The Shakespeare Theatre 1991 Howell Binkley - Richard III - The Shakespeare Theatre Allen Lee Hughes - Juno and the Paycock - Arena Stage Christopher Townsend - Angel - No-Neck Monsters Theatre Company Daniel MacLean Wagner - Frankie and Johnnie in the Clair de Lune - The