Benson - Crazy for You - The National Theatre Julie Harris - Lucifer's Child - The Kennedy Center Teri Bibb - The Phantom of the Opera - The Kennedy Center 1993 Julie Harris - Lettice & Lovage - The National Theatre Charlotte Cornwell - Richard III - The Kennedy Center Linda Balgord - Aspects of Love - The Kennedy Center Melody Kay - The Secret Garden - The Kennedy Center Roberta Maxwell - Lettice & Lovage - The National Theatre Vanita Harbour - Once on This Island - The Kennedy Center 1994 Debra Monk - 3 Hotels - The Kennedy Center Lorna Luft - Guys and Dolls - The Kennedy Center Marlo Thomas - Six Degrees of Separation - The National Theatre Melissa Errico - My Fair Lady - The National Theatre Valerie Wright - The World Goes 'Round - The Kennedy Center 1995 Eileen Atkins - A Room of One's Own - Arena Stage Caroline Aaron - The Sisters Rosensweig - The Kennedy Center Jennifer C. Paz - Miss Saigon - The Kennedy Center Lynn Redgrave - Shakespeare for My Father - Ford's Theatre Suzanne Burden - The Winter's Tale - The Kennedy Center 1996 Zoe Caldwell - Master Class - The Kennedy Center Beverly Ward - Crazy for You - The Kennedy Center Carol Channing - Hello, Dolly! - The Kennedy Center Chita Rivera - Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Musical - The National Theatre Marian Seldes - Three Tall Women - The Kennedy Center 1997 Lizan Mitchell - Having Our Say - The Kennedy Center Micki Grant - Having Our Say - The Kennedy Center Cee-Cee Harshaw - Nomathemba - The Kennedy Center Irene Molloy - Whistle Down the Wind - The National Theatre Uta Hagen - Mrs. Klein - The Kennedy Center Valerie Wright - Damn Yankees - The Kennedy Center 1998 Anna Deavere Smith - Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 - Ford's Theatre Simone - Rent - The National Theatre Belle Calaway - Chicago - The National Theatre Jasmine Guy - Chicago - The National Theatre LisaGay Hamilton - Valley Song - The Kennedy Center and the Mark Taper Forum 1999 Jane Lapotaire - All is True, or, the Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII - The Kennedy Center B.J. Crosby - Dreamgirls - The Kennedy Center Darlesia Cearcy - Ragtime - The National Theatre Joanne Pearce - Cymbeline - The Kennedy