The Studio Theatre 2001 Joe Calarco – Side Show – Signature Theatre David Petrarca – Dinah Was – Arena Stage Eric Schaeffer – The Rhythm Club – Signature Theatre Jerry Whiddon – You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown – Round House Theatre Mary Hall Surface – Sing Down the Moon: Appalachian Wonder Tales – Theater of the First Amendment Sheldon Epps – Play On! – Arena Stage 2002 Mary Hall Surface – Perseus Bayou – Theatre of the First Amendment Catherine Flye – The Pirates of Penzance – Interact Theatre Company Darryl V. Jones – Spunk – African Continuum Theatre Company Eric D. Schaeffer – Putting it Together – Signature Theatre Kenny Leon – Blues in the Night – Arena Stage Toby Orenstein – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Toby's Dinner Theatre 2003 Christopher Ashley – Sweeney Todd – The Kennedy Center Toby Orenstein – Jekyll & Hyde The Musical – Toby's Dinner Theatre Eric Schaeffer – Sunday in the Park with George – The Kennedy Center Eric Schaeffer – The Gospel According to Fishman – Signature Theatre Kyle Donnelly – Polk County – Arena Stage Molly Smith – South Pacific – Arena Stage Writing Best New Play 1985 The Beautiful Lady – New Playwrights' Theatre Burial Customs – New Playwrights' Theatre The Shady Side – Source Theatre Outstanding New Play 1986 Ralph Hunt – Metamorphosis – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Alex Finlayson – Ladies' Side – Source Theatre Company Jr.,Paul J. Donnelly – After My Own Heart – New Playwrights' Theatre Phoef Sutton – Thin Wall – New Playwrights' Theatre 1987 T J Edwards – New York Mets – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Julie Jensen – Stray Dogs – Arena Stage 1988 T J Edwards – National Defense – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Bari Biern, Fred Anzevino, Paula Burns, Roberta Gasbarre, Roy Barber – A Dance Against Darkeness: Living With AIDS – D.C. Cabaret Ron Wood – Four Men from Annapolis – Touchstone Theatre Company 1989 Larry L. King – The Night Hank Williams Died – New Playwrights' Theatre David Henry Hwang – M. Butterfly – The National Theatre David Lemos – More Than Names – New Playwrights' Theatre Heather McDonald – The Rivers and Ravines – Arena Stage John Bishop – Elmer Gantry – Ford's Theatre The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play 1990 Deborah Pryor – Briar Patch – Arena Stage Aaron Sorkin –