Quills - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company 1998 Howell Binkley - The Tempest - The Shakespeare Theatre Allen Lee Hughes - Sunday in the Park With George - Arena Stage Allen Lee Hughes - Sunday in the Park With George - Signature Theatre Howell Binkley - Mourning Becomes Electra - The Shakespeare Theatre Jeff Hill - Never the Sinner - Rep Stage Jeff Hill - Never the Sinner - Signature Theatre Marianne Meadows - Old Wicked Songs - The Studio Theatre 1999 Daniel MacLean Wagner - Nijinsky's Last Dance - Signature Theatre Dan Covey - Dangerous Liaisons - Rep Stage Dan Covey - Dangerous Liaisons - Source Theatre Company Daniel MacLean Wagner - The Fix - Signature Theatre in association with Cameron Mackintosh Howell Binkley - Peer Gynt - The Shakespeare Theatre Howell Binkley - Sweet Bird of Youth - The Shakespeare Theatre Michael Giannitti - Seven Guitars - The Studio Theatre 2000 Jay A. Herzog - Ambrosio - Rep Stage Dan Covey - Edmond - Source Theatre Company Daniel MacLean Wagner - A Midsummer Night's Dream - The Shakespeare Theatre Daniel MacLean Wagner - Sweeney Todd - Signature Theatre Howell Binkley - The Merchant of Venice - The Shakespeare Theatre Marianne Meadows - The Adding Machine - Washington Jewish Theatre 2001 Dan Covey - The Tempest - Folger Theatre Allen Lee Hughes - K2 - Arena Stage Dan Covey - Leaving the Summer Land - Tribute Productions Daniel MacLean Wagner - Therese Raquin - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts Jonathan Blandin - Available Light - Signature Theatre Jonathan Blandin - The Mystery of Irma Vep (a penny dreadful) - Rep Stage 2002 Chris Parry - Don Carlos - Shakespeare Theatre Dan Covey - Macbeth - Folger Theatre Marcus Dilliard - The Oedipus Plays - Shakespeare Theatre Marianne Meadows - The Chosen - Theatre J Nancy Schertler - Tom Walker - Arena Stage Pavel Dobrusky - Agamemnon and His Daughters - Arena Stage 2003 Howell Binkley - Sweeney Todd - The Kennedy Center Amy Appleyard - The Duchess of Malfi - The Shakespeare Theatre Chris Lee - Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Signature Theatre Daniel MacLean Wagner - Gospel According to Fishman - Signature Theatre Howell Binkley - Sunday in the Park With George - The Kennedy Center Jonathan Blandin - The Weir - Round House Theatre 2004 Daniel MacLean Wagner - "The Drawer Boy" - Round House Theatre