America - Arena Stage 2003 Irina Tsikurishvili - Hamlet - Synetic Theater Baayork Lee - South Pacific - Arena Stage Ilona Kessell - The Jazz Singer - Toby's Dinner Theatre Irina Tsikurishvili - Host and Guest - Synetic Theater Kelly Parsley - Tales from Ovid - The Theater Alliance Mark Minnick - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - West End Dinner Theatre Sam Elmore - Tales from Ovid - The Theater Alliance Outstanding Musical Direction in a Resident Production 1998 Jon Kalbfleisch - Sunday in the Park With George - Arena Stage Jon Kalbfleisch - Sunday in the Park With George - Signature Theatre Buck Brown - Hair, The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical - The Studio Theatre Secondstage Dan Sticco - Old Wicked Songs - The Studio Theatre Douglas Lawler - It's a Wonderful Life - Toby's Dinner Theatre Michael Rice - Working - Signature Theatre 1999 Anderson Edwards - Thunder Knocking on the Door - Arena Stage Buck Brown - Kerouac - The Studio Theatre Secondstage Douglas Lawler - Hot Nostalgia II - Toby's Dinner Theatre George Fulginiti-Shakar - Mad About the Bard - Folger Shakespeare Library Jon Kalbfleisch - A Little Night Music - Signature Theatre Jon Kalbfleisch - The Fix - Signature Theatre in association with Cameron Mackintosh 2000 Kevin Campbell - The Dark Kalamazoo - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Danny Kosarin - Guys and Dolls - Arena Stage George Fulginiti-Shakar - Animal Crackers - Arena Stage Jon Kalbfleisch - Sweeney Todd - Signature Theatre William Knowles - Slam! - The Studio Theatre 2001 Jason Robert Brown - Dinah Was - Arena Stage William Knowles - Dinah Was - Arena Stage David Maddox - Sing Down the Moon: Appalachian Wonder Tales - Theater of the First Amendment Deborah Wicks La Puma - Crack Between the Worlds: the goddess returns - The Studio Theatre Secondstage J. Leonard Oxley - Play On! - Arena Stage Jay Crowder - Side Show - Signature Theatre 2002 Jon Kalbfleisch - Grand Hotel - Signature Theatre Dianne Adams McDowell - Constant Star - Arena Stage Dwight Andrews - Blues in the Night - Arena Stage George Fulginiti-Shakar - The Oedipus Plays - Shakespeare Theatre Jon Kalbfleisch - Putting it Together - Signature Theatre Larry Edward Vote - The Pirates of Penzance - Interact Theatre Company 2003 Rob Berman - Sunday in the Park With George - The Kennedy Center Daniel Sticco -