Theatre Elizabeth Ashley - Sweet Bird of Youth - The Shakespeare Theatre Halo Wines - Holiday Memories - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts Holly Twyford - Much Ado About Nothing - Folger Shakespeare Library Judith Hawking - Lovers and Executioners - Arena Stage Tana Hicken - The Lion in Winter - Round House Theatre and Everyman Theatre 2000 Isabel Keating - Indian Ink - The Studio Theatre Deirdre Lovejoy - How I Learned to Drive - Arena Stage Holly Twyford - The Desk Set - The Studio Theatre Jane Beard - The Turn of the Screw - Round House Theatre Nancy Robinette - The Beauty Queen of Leenane - The Studio Theatre Petronia Paley - The Trojan Women - The Shakespeare Theatre Sarah Marshall - The Dead Monkey - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company 2001 Lee Mikeska Gardner - A House in The Country - Charter Theatre Halo Wines - Collected Stories - Theater J Holly Twyford - Chesapeake - Source Theatre Company Kate Norris - Strange Interlude - Washington Shakespeare Company Tana Hicken - The Glass Menagerie - Round House Theatre and Everyman Theatre Valerie Leonard - Therese Raquin - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts 2002 Jenifer Deal - The Muckle Man - Source Theatre Company Judith Light - Hedda Gabler - Shakespeare Theatre Kate Eastwood Norris - Intimate Exchanges - Source Theatre Company Kelly McAndrew - Holiday - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts Lucy Newman-Williams - Macbeth - Folger Theatre 2003 Holly Twyford - The Shape of Things - The Studio Theatre Holly Twyford - Oleanna - Source Theatre Kamilah Forbes - Chain - The African Continuum Theatre Company Kelly McGillis - The Duchess of Malfi - The Shakespeare Theatre Lee Mikeska Gardner - The Taste of Fire - Charter Theatre Nance Williamson - The Misanthrope - Arena Stage Tana Hicken - The Belle of Amherst - Rep Stage Outstanding Actress in a Resident Musical 1986 Janet Aldrich - Forbidden Broadway - Marquee Lounge/Omni Shoreham Ann Johnson - March of the Falsettos - The Studio Theatre Carol Dilley - Little Me - Ford's Theatre Liz Larsen - Baby - Olney Theatre 1992 Donna Migliaccio - Sweeney Todd - Signature Theatre Brigid Brady - A Wonderful Life - Arena Stage Gabrielle Dunmyer - Damn Yankees - Harlequin Dinner Theatre Susan Bender - Sweeney Todd - Signature Theatre 1994 Lorraine Serabian - Show Me Where the Good Times