I Sing – Arena Stage Joy Zinoman – Falsettoland – The Studio Theatre Mary Hall Surface – Tintypes – Round House Theatre Ron O'Leary – Closer Than Ever – The Rose Organization 1995 David H. Bell – Hot Mikado – Ford's Theatre Catherine Flye – Iolanthe – Interact Theatre Company Eric D. Schaeffer – Into the Woods – Signature Theatre Eric D. Schaeffer – Wings – Signature Theatre Mike Malone – God's Trombones – DC ART/WORKS 1996 James A. Petosa – Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris – Olney Theatre Center for the Arts Thomas W. Jones II – Bessie's Blues – The Studio Theatre Catherine Flye – H.M.S. Pinafore – Interact Theatre Company Eric D. Schaeffer – Cabaret – Signature Theatre Mike Malone – Black Nativity – The Kennedy Center 1997 Eric D. Schaeffer – Passion – Signature Theatre Catherine Flye – The Mikado – Interact Theatre Company Douglas C. Wager – Candide – Arena Stage Eric D. Schaeffer – The Rink – Signature Theatre Marsha A. Jackson-Randolph – Hip 2: Birth of the Boom – The Studio Theatre 1998 Keith Alan Baker – Hair, The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical – The Studio Theatre Secondstage Catherine Flye – Down at the Old Bull & Bush – Interact Theatre Company Catherine Flye – Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Purloined Patience or The Scandal at the D'Oyly Carte – Interact Theatre Company Eric D. Schaeffer – Sunday in the Park with George – Arena Stage Eric D. Schaeffer – Sunday in the Park with George – Signature Theatre Toby Orenstein – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Toby's Dinner Theatre 1999 Jesse Berger – Marat/Sade – Washington Shakespeare Company Carole Lehan – Children of Eden – Toby's Dinner Theatre Toby Orenstein – Children of Eden – Toby's Dinner Theatre Catherine Flye – Great Expectations, the Musical – Interact Theatre Company Eric D. Schaeffer – The Fix – Signature Theatre in association with Cameron Mackintosh Keith Glover – Thunder Knocking on the Door – Arena Stage 2000 Douglas C. Wager – Animal Crackers – Arena Stage Charles Randolph-Wright – Guys and Dolls – Arena Stage Eric D. Schaeffer – Sweeney Todd – Signature Theatre Jack Marshall – The Cradle Will Rock – The American Century Theater Mary Hall Surface – Grimm Tales – Theater of the First Amendment Thomas W. Jones II – Slam! –