Helen Hayes Awards Resident Acting

Lead Acting

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Resident Production

• 1985 Francois de la Giroday - Man and Superman - Arena Stage
• * Kevin Donovan - Cloud 9 - Arena Stage
• * Richard Bauer - Enter a Free Man - Olney Theatre
• * Stanley Anderson - Lydie Breeze - New Playwrights' Theatre
• * Tom Toner - The Gin Game - Olney Theatre
• 1986 Thomas Schall - Fool for Love - Round House Theatre
• * Grover Gardner - Looking Glass - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Grover Gardner - Metamorphosis - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Mark Jaster - The Man Who Killed the Buddha - Round House Theatre
• * Richard Bauer - Tartuffe - Arena Stage
• * Steven Dawn - Extremities - Source Theatre Company
• 1987 Howie Seago - Ajax - American National Theatre
• * Casey Biggs - The Taming of the Shrew - Arena Stage
• * Doug Brown - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - The Studio Theatre
• * Howard Shalwitz - Christmas on Mars - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * John Wylie - The Miser - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Michael Willis - New York Mets - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Simon Brooking - Still Life - The Studio Theatre
• 1988 Michael Judge - How I Got That Story - Source Theatre Company
• * Bill Grimmett - The Blood Knot - American Showcase Theatre
• * Casey Biggs - All the King's Men - Arena Stage
• * Grover Gardner - Harvey - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Michael Chaban - As Is - The Studio Theatre
• * Nat Benchley - The Blood Knot - American Showcase Theatre
• * T J Edwards - As Is - The Studio Theatre
• 1989 Michael Willis - The Boys Next Door - Round House Theatre
• * Brian Bedford - The Merchant of Venice - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Brian Hemmingsen - Endgame - Scena Theatre
• * Floyd King - The Mystery of Irma Vep - The Studio Theatre
• * Stanley Anderson - Enrico IV - Arena Stage
• * Tom Hewitt - Ring Round the Moon - Arena Stage
• 1990 David Marks - Briar Patch - Arena Stage
• * Harry R. Tate - Bluesman - Source Theatre Company
• * Jerry Whiddon - Heathen Valley - Round House Theatre
• * Richard Bauer - The Man Who Came to Dinner - Arena Stage
• * Richard Bauer - The Return of Herbert Bracewell - Olney Theatre
• * Stanley Anderson - A Walk in the Woods - Arena Stage
• 1991 Luis Ramos - Stand-Up Tragedy - Arena Stage
• * Avery Brooks - Othello - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Denis Arndt - Juno and the Paycock - Arena Stage
• * Lawrence Redmond - Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune - The Studio Theatre
• * Philip Goodwin - The Puppetmaster of Łódź - The Studio Theatre
• * Robert Prosky - Our Town - Arena Stage
• * Stacy Keach - Richard III - The Shakespeare Theatre
• 1992 Floyd King - A Tale of Two Cities - The Studio Theatre
• *Daniel R. Escobar - Psycho Beach Party - Source Theatre Company
• *Hugo Medrano - El Protagonista - GALA Hispanic Theatre
• * James Whitmore - Will Rogers' USA - Ford's Theatre
• * Mphela Makgoba - The Island - American Showcase Theatre
• * Richard Bauer - I'm Not Rappaport - Olney Theatre
• * Richard Pilcher - A Poster of the Cosmos - Potomac Theatre Project
• * T J Edwards - Hamlet - Washington Shakespeare Company

  Outstanding Lead Actor in a Resident Play

• 1993 Richard Bauer - School for Wives - Arena Stage
• * Floyd King - Troilus and Cressida - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Henry Strozier - The Father - Arena Stage
• * Jerry Whiddon - Joe Egg - Round House Theatre
• * Philip Goodwin - The Lisbon Traviata - The Studio Theatre
• * Tom Hulce - Hamlet - The Shakespeare Theatre
• 1994 Hugo Medrano - El Beso de la Mujer Ara1a - GALA Hispanic Theatre
• * Doug Brown - Mooi Street Moves - MetroStage
• * Hugh Nees - La B te - Source Theatre Company
• * Ken Ruta - Shadowlands - Olney Theatre
• * Richard Thomas - Richard II - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Wallace Acton - Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love - Signature Theatre
• 1995 Robert Prosky - The Price - Arena Stage
• * Derek Smith - Henry IV - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Jerry Whiddon - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Round House Theatre
• * Jon Tindle - The Swan - Round House Theatre
• * Ramon Melindez Moses - Otabenga - Signature Theatre
• * Rob Leo Roy - The Food Chain - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Wallace Acton - The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me - Freedom Stage
• 1996 Wallace Acton - The Pitchfork Disney - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Conrad Feininger - A Tale of the Wolf - The Washington Stage Guild
• * Harry Hamlin - Henry V - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Ian Price - Private Lives - Folger Shakespeare Library
• * Ian Price - Private Lives - InterAct Theatre Company
• * Rick Hammerly - Me and Jezebel - MetroStage
• * Stacy Keach - Macbeth - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Wendell Wright - I Am a Man - Arena Stage
• 1997 David Fendig - Travesties - Washington Shakespeare Company
• * Edward Gero - Broken Glass - The Rep Stage Company
• * Floyd King - Quills - Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Hoard Shalwitz - The Gigli Concert - Wool Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Henry Strozier - Dance of Death - Arena Stage
• * Jonathan Tindle - Talking Heads - The Studio Theatre
• * Jerry Whidden - An Almost Holy Picture - Round House Theatre
• 1998 Edward Gero - Skylight - The Studio Theatre
• * Bill Largess - An Ideal Husband - The Washington Stage Guild
• * Jason Patrick Bowcutt - Never the Sinner - Rep Stage
• * Jason Patrick Bowcutt - Never the Sinner - Signature Theatre
• * Patrick Stewart - Othello - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Peter Goldfarb - Old Wicked Songs - The Studio Theatre
• * Richard Thompson - Look Back in Anger - The Studio Theatre
• * Ted van Griethuysen - The Tempest - The Shakespeare Theatre
• 1999 Ted van Griethuysen - The Steward of Christendom - The Studio Theatre
• * Bill Largess - Man and Superman - The Washington Stage Guild
• * Jeremy Davidson - Nijinsky's Last Dance - Signature Theatre
• * Max Robinson - ' - The Studio Theatre
• * Thomas W. Jones II - Waiting for Godot - The Studio Theatre
• * Wallace Acton - Peer Gynt - The Shakespeare Theatre
• 2000 Rick Foucheux - Edmond - Source Theatre Company
• * Edward Gero - Nixon's Nixon - Round House Theatre
• * Faran Tahir - Indian Ink - The Studio Theatre
• * Hal Holbrook - The Merchant of Venice - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * L. Peter Callender - Oak and Ivy - Arena Stage
• * Rick Hammerly - ' - Signature Theatre
• 2001 Philip Goodwin - Timon of Athens - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Bruce Nelson - The Mystery of Irma Vep - Rep Stage
• * Christopher Lane - Therese Raquin - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
• * Floyd King - Vigil - The Studio Theatre
• * James Brown-Orleans - "Master Harold"...and the Boys - The Studio Theatre
• * John Emmert - Strange Interlude - Washington Shakespeare Company
• * Rick Foucheux - Hughie - The Washington Stage Guild and Source Theatre Company
• 2002 Nigel Reed - The Judas Kiss - Rep Stage Company
• * Bruce Alan Rauscher - The Andersonville Trial - American Century Theatre
• * Conrad Feininger - A Skull in Connemara - Washington Stage Guild
• * Jack Willis - Of Mice and Men - Arena Stage
• * Ted van Griethuysen - The Invention of Love - Studio Theatre
• * Tom Story - The Invention of Love - Studio Theatre
• * Wallace Acton - Hamlet - Shakespeare Theatre
• 2003 Jon Cohn - The Taste of Fire - Charter Theatre
• * Christopher Lane - The Swan - Rep Stage
• * Doug Brown - Hambone - The Studio Theatre
• * Gerry Bamman - Shakespeare, Moses, and Joe Papp - Round House Theatre
• * Rick Foucheux - Oleanna - Source Theatre
• * Ted Koch - True West - Arena Stage

  Outstanding Actor in a Resident Musical

• 1986 Romain Fruge - Baby - Olney Theatre
• * J. Fred Shiffman - March of the Falsettos - The Studio Theatre
• * James W. Sudik - Little Me - Ford's Theatre
• * Stephen Wade - Banjo Dancing - Arena Stage
• 1992 Pedro Porro - Sweeney Todd - Signature Theatre
• * Casey Biggs - A Wonderful Life - Arena Stage
• * Jesse Foreman - Damn Yankees - Harlequin Dinner Theatre
• * Michael L. Forrest - Sweeney Todd - Signature Theatre
• * Richard Bauer - A Wonderful Life - Arena Stage
• 1994 Steve Cramer - The Pirates of Penzance - Interact Theatre Company
• * Floyd King - Show Me Where the Good Times Are - Olney Theatre
• * Floyd King - The Pirates of Penzance - Interact Theatre Company
• * Michael L. Forrest - The Pirates of Penzance - Interact Theatre Company
• * Reggie Kelly - Five Guys Named Moe - Ford's Theatre

  Outstanding Lead Actor in a Resident Musical

• 1989 Charles Janasz - The Cocoanuts - Arena Stage
• * Casey Biggs - Elmer Gantry - Ford's Theatre
• * Martin Vidnovic - Side by Side by Sondheim - Olney Theatre
• * Mitchell Greenberg - The Cocoanuts - Arena Stage
• * Robert C. Torri - La Cage aux Folles - Harlequin Dinner Theatre
• * Stephen Mellor - The Cocoanuts - Arena Stage
• 1990 Evan Pappas - Lucky Stiff - Olney Theatre
• * Edward Gero - The Beggar's Opera - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * John Scherer - On the Town - Arena Stage
• * Paul Binotto - On the Town - Arena Stage
• * Stephen Wade - On the Way Home - Arena Stage
• 1991 David Garrison - Merrily We Roll Along - Arena Stage
• Scott Morgan - Children With Stones - Source Theatre Company
• * Grover Gardner - The Rocky Horror Show - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Johnny Holliday - Me and My Girl - Harlequin Dinner Theatre
• * Stephen Schmidt - The Rocky Horror Show - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Victor Garber - Merrily We Roll Along - Arena Stage
• 1993 J. Fred Shiffman - Falsettoland - The Studio Theatre
• * Gary Beach - Of Thee I Sing - Arena Stage
• * Michael L. Forrest - Tintypes - Round House Theatre
• * Patrick Cassidy - Conrack - Ford's Theatre
• * Steve Cramer - Closer Than Ever - The Rose Organization
• * Steve Cramer - H.M.S. Pinafore - Interact Theatre Company
• 1995 Ross Lehman - Hot Mikado - Ford's Theatre
• * Brion Dinges - Capote at Yaddo - The Studio Theatre Secondstage
• * Michael L. Forrest - Iolanthe - Interact Theatre Company
• * Pedro Porro - Iolanthe - Interact Theatre Company
• * Pedro Porro - The Sweet Revenge of Louisa May - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
• 1996 Steven Cupo - Cabaret - Signature Theatre
• * Jeff Hairston - Standup Shakespeare - Folger Shakespeare Library
• * John Dossett - Elmer Gantry - Ford's Theatre
• * Scott Morgan - Noel and Gertie - MetroStage
• * Steve Cramer - H.M.S. Pinafore - Interact Theatre Company
• 1997 Lewis Cleale - Passion - Signature Theatre
• * D'Monroe - Torn From the Headlines - Everyday Theatre
• * D'Monroe - Torn From the Headlines - The African Continuum Theatre Company
• * Michael Sharp - Side by Side by Sondheim - MetroStage
• * Paul Binotto - Candide - Arena Stage
• * Steve Cramer - The Mikado - Interact Theatre Company
• * Thomas W. Jones II - Hip 2: Birth of the Boom - The Studio Theatre
• 1998 Lawrence Redmond - No Way to Treat a Lady - Signature Theatre
• * Jason Gilbert - Hair, The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical - The Studio Theatre Secondstage
• * Sal Viviano - Sunday in the Park With George - Arena Stage
• * Sal Viviano - Sunday in the Park With George - Signature Theatre
• * Stephen Schmidt - It's a Wonderful Life - Toby's Dinner Theatre
• * Steven Cupo - The Harvey Milk Show - Source Theatre Company
• * Tim Brierley - Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Purloined Patience or The Scandal at the D'Oyly Carte - Interact Theatre Company
• 1999 Stephen Bienskie - The Fix - Signature Theatre in association with Cameron Mackintosh
• * Psalmayene 24 - The Hip Hop Nightmares of Jujube Brown - The African Continuum Theatre Company
• * Floyd King - Mad About the Bard - Folger Shakespeare Library
• * Peter Jay Fernandez - Thunder Knocking on the Door - Arena Stage
• * Rob McQuay - Godspell - Round House Theatre
• 2000 Anthony Cummings - Eleanor: An American Love Story - Ford's Theatre
• * Frank Ferrante - Animal Crackers - Arena Stage
• * Maurice Hines - Guys and Dolls - Arena Stage
• * Norm Lewis - Sweeney Todd - Signature Theatre
• * Tim Brierley - The Very Model of a Major Merry Music Hall - Interact Theatre Company
• 2001 Dwayne Nitz - Sing Down the Moon: Appalachian Wonder Tales - Theater of the First Amendment
• * Bobby Smith - Evita - Toby's Dinner Theatre
• * Jeremy Kushnier - The Rhythm Club - Signature Theatre
• * Rich Affannato - Floyd Collins - Signature Theatre
• * Tim Martin Gleason - The Rhythm Club - Signature Theatre
• * Will Gartshore - Floyd Collins - Signature Theatre
• 2002 Brian Childers - Danny & Sylvia: A Musical Love Story - American Century Theatre
• * Bárbaro Marín - Raices Cubanas 2 - GALA Hispanic Theatre
• * Jason Gilbert - Putting It Together - Signature Theatre
• * Michael Rupert - A New Brain - Studio Theatre
• * Will Gartshore - Grand Hotel - Signature Theatre
• 2003 Rick Hammerly - Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Signature Theatre
• * Brian Stokes Mitchell - Sweeney Todd - The Kennedy Center
• * John Barrowman - Company - The Kennedy Center
• * Patrick O'Neill - - The Studio Theatre Secondstage
• * Raúl Esparza - Sunday in the Park With George - The Kennedy Center
• * Russell Sunday - Jekyll & Hyde The Musical - Toby's Dinner Theatre

  Outstanding Lead Actress in a Resident Production

• 1985 Halo Wines - Cloud 9 - Arena Stage
• * Karen Trott - The Beautiful Lady - New Playwrights' Theatre
• * Marcia Gay Harden - Crimes of the Heart - Olney Theatre
• * Mary Ellen Nester - Top Girls - Horizons Theatre
• * Mikel Lambert - Much Ado About Nothing - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Sarah Marshall - My Sister in This House - The Studio Theatre
• 1986 Randy Danson - The Good Person of Szechwan - Arena Stage
• * Carole Myers - Miss Lulu Bett - Horizons Theatre
• * Halo Wines - night, Mother - Arena Stage
• * Janet Bryant - Fool for Love - Round House Theatre
• * Katherine Squire - A Walk Out of Water - The Studio Theatre
• * Marcia Gay Harden - The Miss Firecracker Contest - Olney Theatre
• * Mercedes McCambridge - night, Mother - Arena Stage
• 1987 Tana Hicken - Old Times - Arena Stage
• * Annette Helde - Landscape of the Body - The Studio Theatre
• * June Hansen - The Birthday Party - The Studio Theatre
• * Kathy Yarman - Sally and Marsha - Round House Theatre
• * Mary Ellen Nester - Dorothy - New Arts Theatre
• * Nancy Robinette - Christmas on Mars - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Tana Hicken - The Wild Duck - Arena Stage
• 1988 Grainne Cassidy - Savage in Limbo - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Candy Buckley - All the King's Men - Arena Stage
• * Elizabeth DuVall - To Clothe the Naked - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Jennifer Mendenhall - Savage in Limbo - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Nancy Robinette - Harvey - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Tana Hicken - Heartbreak House - Arena Stage
• 1989 Jennifer Mendenhall - Aunt Dan and Lemon - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Brigid Cleary - The House of Blue Leaves - Olney Theatre
• * Franchelle Stewart Dorn - Macbeth - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Grainne Cassidy - Sharon and Billy - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Kelly McGillis - The Merchant of Venice - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Shirley Knight - The Cherry Orchard - Arena Stage
• 1990 Kelly McGillis - Twelfth Night - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Carolyn Swift - Talking Things Over With Chekhov - American Showcase Theatre
• * Lily Knight - A Lie of the Mind - Arena Stage
• * Marissa Copeland - Briar Patch - Arena Stage
• * Sarah Marshall - The Dead Monkey - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• 1991 Pat Carroll - The Merry Wives of Windsor - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Dale Stein - A Fresh of Breath Air - Smallbeer Theatre Company
• * June Hansen - Happy Days - The Washington Stage Guild
• * Kim Hamilton - Fences - Arena Stage
• * Nancy Paris - Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune - The Studio Theatre
• * Tana Hicken - Juno and the Paycock - Arena Stage
• 1992 Nancy Robinette - Fat Men in Skirts - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Carolyn Swift - Love and Anger - Round House Theatre
• * Crystal Laws Green - Jar the Floor - Arena Stage
• * June Hansen - When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout - The Studio Theatre
• * Robin Morse - My Children! My Africa! - Arena Stage
• * Sarah Marshall - When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout - The Studio Theatre

  Outstanding Lead Actress in a Resident Play

• 1993 Franchelle Stewart Dorn - The Visit - Arena Stage
• * Cathy Simpson - Boesman and Lena - American Showcase Theatre
• * Halo Wines - Mrs. Klein - Arena Stage
• * Jewell Robinson - A Song at Twilight - The Washington Stage Guild
• * Naomi Jacobson - Kvetch - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Sarah Marshall - Elektra - Round House Theatre
• 1994 Pat Carroll - Mother Courage and Her Children - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Amy Waddell - Spunk - The Studio Theatre
• * Catherine Flye - Shirley Valentine - Interact Theatre Company
• * Kerry Waters - Free Will and Wanton Lust - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Sarah Marshall - Criminals in Love - Round House Theatre
• 1995 Ellen Karas - The Revengers' Comedies - Arena Stage
• * Jane Beard - Dream of a Common Language - Theater of the First Amendment
• * Lee Mikeska Gardner - Patient A - Freedom Stage
• * Nancy Robinette - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Round House Theatre
• * Naomi Jacobson - Goodnight Desdemona - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Nobu McCarthy - The Wash - The Studio Theatre
• * Ruby Dee - Flyin' West - The Kennedy Center
• 1996 Tana Hicken - Long Day's Journey Into Night - Arena Stage
• * Afi McClendon - Holiday Heart - Arena Stage
• * Helen Carey - Macbeth - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Nancy Robinette - Escape from Happiness - Round House Theatre
• * Naomi Jacobson - Scenes from an Execution - Potomac Theatre Project
• * Sarah Marshall - Escape from Happiness - Round House Theatre
• 1997 Nancy Robinette - Better Living - Round House Theatre
• * Helen Carey - Henry VI - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Jane Beard - One Shoe Off - Round House Theatre
• * Michelle Shupe - Cymbeline - Washington Shakespeare Company
• * Nancy Robinette - The Obituary Bowl - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Pamela Nyberg - Blithe Spirit - Arena Stage
• * Phylicia Rashad - Blues for an Alabama Sky - Arena Stage
• 1998 Holly Twyford - Romeo and Juliet - Folger Shakespeare Library
• * Cam Magee - An Ideal Husband - The Washington Stage Guild
• * Jenny Bacon - Molly Sweeney - Arena Stage
• * Kelly McGillis - Mourning Becomes Electra - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Sarah Marshall - Sylvia - The Studio Theatre
• * Tana Hicken - Ghosts - Arena Stage
• 1999 S. Epatha Merkerson - The Old Settler - The Studio 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 Are - Olney Theatre
• * Donna Migliaccio - The Pirates of Penzance - Interact Theatre Company
• * Megan Lawrence - Company - Signature Theatre
• * Robin Baxter - Show Me Where the Good Times Are - Olney Theatre
• * Susan Bender - The Pirates of Penzance - Interact Theatre Company

  Outstanding Lead Actress in a Resident Musical

• 1989 Kim Criswell - Side by Side by Sondheim - Olney Theatre
• * Deidra L. Johnson - Sanctuary D.C. - No-Neck Monsters Theatre Company
• * Jane Pesci-Townsend - Revenge of Mrs. Foggybottom - Marquee Lounge/Omni Shoreham
• * Karen Akers - Side Side Sondheim - Olney Theatre
• * Sharon Scruggs - Elmer Gantry - Ford's Theatre
• 1990 Adriane Lenox - On the Town - Arena Stage
• * Debra Tidwell - Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill - The Studio Theatre
• * Franchelle Stewart Dorn - The Beggar's Opera - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Lorraine Serabian - Lucky Stiff - Olney Theatre
• * Queen Esther Marrow - Don't Let This Dream Go - Ford's Theatre
• * Tia Speros - Lucky Stiff - Olney Theatre
• 1991 Nanna Ingvarsson - The Rocky Horror Show - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Becky Ann Baker - Merrily We Roll Along - Arena Stage
• * Liz Donohoe Weber - Me and My Girl - Harlequin Dinner Theatre
• * Robin Baxter - The Rocky Horror Show - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Suzanna Guzman - Amahl and the Night Visitors - The Kennedy Center
• 1993 Rebecca Rice - In Living Colors - Theater of the First Amendment
• * Catherine Flye - "Joyce" The Music and Magic of Joyce Grenfell - Interact Theatre Company
• * Catherine Flye - "Joyce" The Music and Magic of Joyce Grenfell - The Washington Stage Guild
• * Holly Twyford - Her Aching Heart - Consenting Adults Theatre Company
• * Jane Pesci-Townsend - Closer Than Ever - The Rose Organization
• * Pam Bierly-Stewart - Closer Than Ever - The Rose Organization
• 1995 Dana Krueger - Wings - Signature Theatre
• * April Harr - Into the Woods - Signature Theatre
• * Barbara McCullogh - The Sweet Revenge of Louisa May - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
• * Donna Migliaccio - Into the Woods - Signature Theatre
• * Karen Culliver - The Sweet Revenge of Louisa May - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
• 1996 Dahd Sfeir - Mano a Mano - GALA Hispanic Theatre
• * Bernardine Mitchell - Bessie's Blues - The Studio Theatre
• * Megan Lawrence - Cabaret - Signature Theatre
• * Sarah Marshall - Wanted - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Sharon Scruggs - Elmer Gantry - Ford's Theatre
• 1997 Anne Kanengeiser - Passion - Signature Theatre
• * Anita Hollander - The Fifth Season - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
• * Eileen Ward - The Mikado - Interact Theatre Company
• * Patricia Pearce Gentry - The Rink - Signature Theatre
• * Rebecca Baxter - Candide - Arena Stage
• * Sherri L. Edelen - The Rink - Signature Theatre
• 1998 Liz Larsen - Sunday in the Park With George - Arena Stage
• Liz Larsen - Sunday in the Park With George - Signature Theatre
• * Carole Lehan - It's a Wonderful Life - Toby's Dinner Theatre
• * Cathy Mundy - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - Toby's Dinner Theatre
• * Stephanie Waters - The Wizard of Oz - Toby's Dinner Theatre
• * Tracie Nicole Thoms - Hair, The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical - The Studio Theatre Secondstage
• 1999 Marva Hicks - Thunder Knocking on the Door - Arena Stage
• * Janine Gulisano - West Side Story - Toby's Dinner Theatre
• * Linda Balgord - The Fix - Signature Theatre in association with Cameron Mackintosh
• * Maureen Kerrigan - Lady in the Dark - The American Century Theater
• * Patricia Pearce Gentry - A Little Night Music - Signature Theatre
• 2000 Anne Kanengeiser - Eleanor: An American Love Story - Ford's Theatre
• * Alexandra Foucard - Guys and Dolls - Arena Stage
• * Chandra Currelley - Slam! - The Studio Theatre
• * Donna Migliaccio - Sweeney Todd - Signature Theatre
• * Sherie Scott - Over & Over - Signature Theatre
• 2001 Sherri L. Edelen - Side Show - Signature Theatre
• * Alexandra Foucard - Play On! - Arena Stage
• * Amy Goldberger - Side Show - Signature Theatre
• * E. Faye Butler - Dinah Was - Arena Stage
• * Janine Gulisano - Brigadoon - West End Dinner Theatre
• * Lauren Kennedy - The Rhythm Club - Signature Theatre
• 2002 Bernardine Mitchell - Blues in the Night - Arena Stage
• * Deidra LaWan Starnes - SPUNK - African Continuum Theatre Company
• * Donna Migliaccio - Gypsy - Signature Theatre
• * Jane Pesci-Townsend - Putting it Together - Signature Theatre
• * Janine Gulisano - Danny & Sylvia: A Musical Love Story - American Century Theatre
• * Peggy Yates - She Loves Me - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
• 2003 Christine Baranski - Sweeney Todd - The Kennedy Center
• * E. Faye Butler - The Gospel According to Fishman - Signature Theatre
• * Harriett D. Foy - Polk County - Arena Stage
• * Janine Gulisano - Jekyll & Hyde The Musical - Toby's Dinner Theatre
• * Kate Baldwin - South Pacific - Arena Stage
• * Melissa Errico - Sunday in the Park With George - The Kennedy Center

  Outstanding Performer in a Resident Musical

• 1987 Frank Kopyc - Hot Mikado - Ford's Theatre
• * Andrea Frierson - Beehive - Arena Stage
• * Helena-Joyce Wright - Hot Mikado - Ford's Theatre
• * Kirsti Carnahan - Little Shop of Horrors - Olney Theatre
• * Magda Nova - Beehive - Arena Stage
• 1988 Sandra Bowie - A... My Name is Alice - Horizons Theatre
• * Barbara Rappaport - A... My Name is Alice - Horizons Theatre
• * Karlah Hamilton - 42nd Street - Harlequin Dinner Theatre
• * Kathleen Goldpaugh - A... My Name is Alice - Horizons Theatre
• * Serge Seiden - A Dance Against Darkness: Living With AIDS - D.C. Cabaret

  Supporting Acting

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Resident Production

• * 1985 Floyd King - King Lear - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * John Leonard - The Tempest - Arena Stage
• * Mark Hammer - Cloud 9 - Arena Stage
• * Richard Bauer - Man and Superman - Arena Stage
• * Scott Harlan - Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? - Olney Theatre
• * Steven Dawn - Lydie Breeze - New Playwrights' Theatre
• 1986 Patrick Richwood - The Foreigner - Olney Theatre
• * Brian Hemmingsen - Last Days at the Dixie Girl Cafe - Horizons Theatre
• * Edward Gero - Othello - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Edward Gero - The Merry Wives of Windsor - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Floyd King - The Merry Wives of Windsor - The Shakespeare Theatre
• 1987 Stanley Anderson - The Piggy Bank - Arena Stage
• * Christopher Hurt - Automatic Pilot - Horizons Theatre
• * Floyd King - The Miser - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Henry Strozier - The Philadelphia Story - Arena Stage
• * Mark Hammer - The Wild Duck - Arena Stage
• * Michael Chaban - Torch Song Trilogy - Castle Arts Center
• 1988 Floyd King - All's Well That Ends Well - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Alan Wade - No End of Blame - Potomac Theatre Project
• * Bill Whitaker - Translations - The Washington Stage Guild
• * Kyle Prue - National Defense - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Stanley Anderson - The Crucible - Arena Stage
• * Steven LeBlanc - Filthy Rich - Round House Theatre
• 1989 Edward Gero - Macbeth - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Christopher Hurt - On the Verge or The Geography of Yearning - Round House Theatre
• * Ernie Meier - Baby With the Bathwater - Round House Theatre
• * John Michael Higgins - The Butterfingers Angel, Mary and Joseph, Herod the Nut and the Slaughter of 12 Hit Carols in a Pear Tree - Olney Theatre
• * L. Peter Callender - Playboy of the West Indies - Arena Stage
• * Philip Goodwin - The Merchant of Venice - The Shakespeare Theatre
• 1990 Philip Goodwin - Twelfth Night - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * David Marks - A Lie of the Mind - Arena Stage
• * Grover Gardner - The Dead Monkey - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Louis A. Lotorto - The Tempest - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Ted van Griethuysen - As You Like It - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Timmy Ray James - Heathen Valley - Round House Theatre
• 1991 Jarlath Conroy - Juno and the Paycock - Arena Stage
• * David Marks - You Can't Take It With You - Olney Theatre
• * Leland Orser - The Secret Rapture - Olney Theatre
• * Lewis J. Stadlen - The Caucasian Chalk Circle - Arena Stage
• * Ted van Griethuysen - Mary Stuart - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Willy Corpus - Made in Bangkok - The Studio Theatre
• 1992 Ted van Griethuysen - Saint Joan - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Hugh Nees - The Illusion - Round House Theatre
• * Jack Ryland - King Lear - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Jon Tindle - Mrs. Warren's Profession - The Washington Stage Guild
• * Michael Willis - Mud People - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Wally Taylor - Before It Hits Home - Arena Stage

  Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Resident Play

• 1993 Floyd King - The Lisbon Traviata - The Studio Theatre
• * Nick Olcott - Faith Healer - Scena Theatre
• * Rob Leo Roy - Kvetch - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Teagle F. Bougere - Trinidad Sisters - Arena Stage
• * Ted van Griethuysen - Hamlet - The Shakespeare Theatre
• 1994 Edward Gero - Richard II - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Bob Amaral - The Brothers Karamazov - Arena Stage
• * Jason Kravits - Free Will and Wanton Lust - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * John Neville-Andrews - Shadowlands - Olney Theatre
• * Kryztov Lindquist - La B te - Source Theatre Company
• * Philip Goodwin - Julius Caesar - The Shakespeare Theatre
• 1995 Edward Gero - Henry IV - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * David Sabin - Henry IV - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Jason Kravits - All in the Timing - Round House Theatre
• * Rainn Wilson - The Revengers' Comedies - Arena Stage
• * T J Edwards - Misalliance - Arena Stage
• 1996 Henry Strozier - A Month in the Country - Arena Stage
• * Casey Biggs - Long Day's Journey Into Night - Arena Stage
• * Floyd King - Love's Labor's Lost - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * J. Fred Shiffman - Rhinoceros - The Studio Theatre
• * Jarlath Conroy - Henry V - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Rainn Wilson - Long Day's Journey Into Night - Arena Stage
• 1997 Wallace Acton - Henry VI - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Donald Griffin - Two Trains Running - The Studio Theatre
• * J. Fred Shiffman - The Miser - Arena Stage
• * Philip Goodwin - Volpone - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Ted van Griethuysen - Volpone - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Wallace Acton - Volpone - The Shakespeare Theatre
• 1998 Robert Sella - Mourning Becomes Electra - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Christopher Henley - Bent - Washington Shakespeare Company
• * Christopher Lane - Romeo & Juliet - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
• * J. Fred Shiffman - Sylvia - The Studio Theatre
• * James Brown-Orleans - A Saroyan Celebration - The American Century Theater
• * Marty Lodge - The Rehearsal - Round House Theatre
• 1999 J. Fred Shiffman - Lovers and Executioners - Arena Stage
• * Bruce Nelson - The Triumph of Love - Washington Shakespeare Company
• * Donald Griffin - Seven Guitars - The Studio Theatre
• * Everett Quinton - The Merry Wives of Windsor - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Frederick Strother - Seven Guitars - The Studio Theatre
• * Marty Lodge - Criminal Genius - Round House Theatre
• * Nick Olcott - Dead Funny - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• 2000 Christopher Lane - Equus - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
• * Christopher Henley - Entertaining Mr. Sloane - Washington Shakespeare Company
• * Craig Wallace - Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika - Signature Theatre
• * Doug Brown - The Last Orbit of Billy Mars - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Floyd King - A Midsummer Night's Dream - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Marty Lodge - The Beauty Queen of Leenane - The Studio Theatre
• * Paul Morella - Angels in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches - Signature Theatre
• 2001 Ted van Griethuysen - Timon of Athens - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Brian McMonagle - Too True To Be Good - The Washington Stage Guild
• * Carlos Castillo - El burlador de Sevilla y convivado de piedra - GALA Teatro Hispano
• * Christopher Marlowe Roche - The Importance of Being Earnest - Source Theatre Company
• * David Jourdan - Twelve Angry Men - The Keegan Theatre
• * Edward Gero - bash: latterday plays - The Studio Theatre
• * Rick Foucheux - Heaven - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• 2002 Helmar Augusttus Cooper - Jitney - Studio Theatre
• * Bruce Nelson - Fuddy Meers - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * David Marks - The Rivals - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
• * Doug Brown - Fuddy Meers - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Michael Glenn - Major Barbara - Washington Stage Guild
• * Roger Kraus - The Judas Kiss - Rep Stage Company
• 2003 Michael Ray Escamilla - Recent Tragic Events - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Andrew Long - The Duchess of Malfi - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Bruce Nelson - Faith Healer - Rep Stage
• * David Sabin - The Little Foxes - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Donald Carrier - The Duchess of Malfi - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Robert Hogan - A Moon for the Misbegotten - Arena Stage

  Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Resident Musical

• 1993 Richard Bauer - Of Thee I Sing - Arena Stage
• * Buzz Mauro - Assassins - Signature Theatre
• * Michael L. Forrest - Cabaret - Washington Jewish Theatre
• * Romain Fruge - Falsettoland - The Studio Theatre
• * Sean Baldwin - Assassins - Signature Theatre
• 1995 Christopher A. Flint - Into the Woods - Signature Theatre
• * Anthony Bryan - God's Trombones - DC ART/WORKS
• * Lawrence Hamilton - Hot Mikado - Ford's Theatre
• * Steve Cramer - Iolanthe - Interact Theatre Company
• * Wallace Acton - Wings - Signature Theatre
• 1996 David A. St. Louis - Bessie's Blues - The Studio Theatre
• * David James - Pirates of Penzance - Burn Brae Dinner Theatre
• * J. Fred Shiffman - Wanted - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Lawrence Redmond - Cabaret - Signature Theatre
• * LeRoi Simmons - Black Nativity - The Kennedy Center
• 2002 Michael Sharp - Grand Hotel - Signature Theatre
• * Andrew Wynn - The Pirates of Penzance - Interact Theatre Company
• * Gary Marshall Dieter - Forever Plaid - Toby's Dinner Theatre
• * Paul Takacs - Perseus Bayou - Theatre of the First Amendment
• * Steven Tipton - The Pirates of Penzance - Interact Theatre Company
• 2003 Ted L. Levy - Hot Mikado - Ford's Theatre
• * Brad Anderson - South Pacific - Arena Stage
• * Clinton Derricks-Carroll - Polk County - Arena Stage
• * J. Fred Shiffman - Privates on Parade - The Studio Theatre
• * Lawrence Redmond - South Pacific - Arena Stage
• * Mark Price - Sweeney Todd - The Kennedy Center

  Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Resident Production

• 1985 Tami Tappan - Lydie Breeze - New Playwrights' Theatre
• * Barbara Klein - Top Girls - Horizons Theatre
• * Brigid Cleary - Enter a Free Man - Olney Theatre
• * Elizabeth DuVall - The Wake of Jamey Foster - The Studio Theatre
• * Peggy Cosgrave - Crimes of the Heart - Olney Theatre
• 1986 Erika Bogren - A Walk Out of Water - The Studio Theatre
• * Brigid Cleary - The Miss Firecracker Contest - Olney Theatre
• * Isabell Monk - Tartuffe - Arena Stage
• * Katherine Leaske - Tartuffe - Arena Stage
• * Ramona Rhoades - The Knight From Olmedo - GALA Hispanic Theatre
• * Tana Hicken - Execution of Justice - Arena Stage
• 1987 Pat Carroll - Romeo and Juliet - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Barbara Rappaport - Johnny Bull - Horizons Theatre
• * Heather Ehlers - The Philadelphia Story - Arena Stage
• * Joan Kelley - Beyond Therapy - Source Theatre Company
• * Mikel Lambert - The Miser - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Sybil Lines - The Cherry Orchard - The Shakespeare Theatre
• 1988 Franchelle Stewart Dorn - The Winter's Tale - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Francine Beers - Light Up the Sky - Arena Stage
• * Mary Ellen Nester - Savage in Limbo - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Muriel Smallwood - The Entertainer - The Studio Theatre
• * Nancy Paris - North Shore Fish - The Studio Theatre
• 1989 Sarah Marshall - Baby With the Bathwater - Round House Theatre
• * June Hansen - An Ideal Husband - The Washington Stage Guild
• * Kathryn Kelley - The Glass Menagerie - New Playwrights' Theatre
• * Lilia Skala - Les Blancs - Arena Stage
• * Michaeleen O'Neil - Safe Sex - Source Theatre Company
• * Patricia Connolly - Ring Round the Moon - Arena Stage
• 1990 Kaia Calhoun - Heathen Valley - Round House Theatre
• * Jennifer Mendenhall - The Common Pursuit - The Studio Theatre
• * June Hansen - Blithe Spirit - The Washington Stage Guild
• * Lynnie Raybuck - Happy Birthdays - Smallbeer Theatre Company
• * Sarah Marshall - Briar Patch - Arena Stage
• * Tana Hicken - The Man Who Came to Dinner - Arena Stage
• 1991 Robin Baxter - West Memphis Mojo - The Studio Theatre
• * Beverly Cosham - Rebel Armies Deep Into Chad - Round House Theatre
• * Franchelle Stewart Dorn - Mary Stuart - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Grainne Cassidy - Zero Positive - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Halo Wines - You Can't Take It With You - Olney Theatre
• * Oni Faida Lampley - Rebel Armies Deep Into Chad - Round House Theatre
• 1992 Marilyn Coleman - Jar the Floor - Arena Stage
• * Cathy Simpson - spell #7: geechee jibara quick magic trance for technologically stressed third world people - The Studio Theatre
• * Desiree Marie - Fat Men in Skirts - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Jennifer Mendenhall - When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout - The Studio Theatre
• * Jessica May - Psycho Beach Party - Source Theatre Company
• * Sandra Reaves-Phillips - Before It Hits Home - Arena Stage

  Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Resident Play

• 1993 Francesca Buller - Hamlet - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Carol Monda - Morticians in Love - Consenting Adults Theatre Company
• * Carolyn Pasquantonio - The Miracle Worker - Olney Theatre
• * Gillian Holt - Table Settings - Theater J
• * June Hansen - Joe Egg - Round House Theatre
• * Roz Fox - Shakin' the Mess Outta Misery - Source Theatre Company
• 1994 Mary Vreeland - Mother Courage and Her Children - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Kate Buddeke - Dancing at Lughnasa - Arena Stage
• * Mary Tucker - Red Scare on Sunset - Source Theatre Company
• * Naomi Jacobson - Free Will and Wanton Lust - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Tana Hicken - It's the Truth - Arena Stage
• * Tana Hicken - Summer and Smoke - Arena Stage
• 1995 Naomi Jacobson - Dream of a Common Language - Theater of the First Amendment
• * Jennifer Mendenhall - Goodnight Desdemona - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * June Hansen - The Revengers' Comedies - Arena Stage
• * Mary Tucker - Jeffrey - Source Theatre Company
• * Roz Fox - Wedding Band - Round House Theatre
• * Tana Hicken - The Revengers' Comedies - Arena Stage
• 1996 June Kyoko Lu - The Waiting Room - Arena Stage  
• *Paula Gruskiewicz - It's Only a Play - MetroStage
• *Marcia Gardner - Poor Super Man - Signature Theatre
• *Mary Teresa Fortuna - The Pitchfork Disney - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• *Isabel Dada - Dona Rosita la Soltera o el Lenguaje de las Flores - GALA Hispanic Theatre  
• 1997 Helen Carey - Volpone - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Deidrie N. Henry - Blues for an Alabama Sky - Arena Stage
• * Lisa Newman-Williams - A Cheever Evening - Source Theatre Company
• * Mary Teresa Fortuna - Quills - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Megan Morgan - Four Dogs and a Bone - Signature Theatre
• * Tana Hicken - Arcadia - Arena Stage
• 1998 Franchelle Stewart Dorn - Mourning Becomes Electra - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Franchelle Stewart Dorn - Othello - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Laurena Mullins - Anna Karenina - The Washington Stage Guild
• * Lisa Newman-Williams - Psychopathia Sexualis - Source Theatre Company
• * Rana Kay - 5 July - Washington Shakespeare Company
• * Rhea Seehorn - The Big Slam - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• 1999 Rena Cherry Brown - A Delicate Balance - The American Century Theater
• * Gretchen Cleevely - Dimly Perceived Threats to the System - Arena Stage
• * Holly Twyford - The Steward of Christendom - The Studio Theatre
• * Lynda Grav_tt - The Old Settler - The Studio Theatre
• * Nancy Robinette - Freedomland - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Sarah Ripard - Dangerous Liaisons - Rep Stage
• * Sarah Ripard - Dangerous Liaisons - Source Theatre Company
• 2000 June Hansen - Indian Ink - The Studio Theatre
• * Jewell Robinson - Inns & Outs - Source Theatre Company
• * Lee Mikeska Gardner - Stanley - Potomac Theatre Project
• * Naomi Jacobson - Mere Mortals - Round House Theatre
• * Rachel Gardner - In Good Company: The Power Edition - Horizons Theatre
• * Sarah Marshall - How I Learned to Drive - Arena Stage
• 2001 Jewell Robinson - Blue - Arena Stage
• * Jenifer Deal - Dancing at Lughnasa - The Keegan Theatre
• * Kerri Rambow - A House in The Country - Charter Theatre
• * Kerri Rambow - The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told - Source Theatre Company
• * Nancy Robinette - Wonder of the World - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Sarah Marshall - Betty's Summer Vacation - The Studio Theatre
• 2002 Mia Whang - Far East - Studio Theatre
• * Catherine Flye - Rapture - MetroStage
• * Crystal Fox - Home - Round House Theatre
• * Lynn Chavis - Home - Round House Theatre
• * Sarah Fox - Love & Yearning in the Not-for-Profits and Other Marital Distractions - Theatre J
• * Tina Fabrique - Constant Star - Arena Stage
• 2003 Nancy Robinette - The Little Foxes - The Shakespeare Theatre
• * Catherine Flye - She Stoops to Conquer - Folger Theatre
• * Dori Legg - Recent Tragic Events - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• * Menchu Esteban - La Verdad Sospechosa - Gala Hispanic Theatre
• * Susan Lynskey - The Laramie Project - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
• * Tana Hicken - The Winter's Tale - The Shakespeare Theatre

  Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Resident Musical

• 1993 Ella Mitchell - Conrack - Ford's Theatre
• * Ann Johnson - Falsettoland - The Studio Theatre
• * Donna Migliaccio - Assassins - Signature Theatre
• * La Shayla Logan - Conrack - Ford's Theatre
• * Sherri L. Edelen - Assassins - Signature Theatre
• 1995 Megan Lawrence - Into the Woods - Signature Theatre
• * Beth Clark - Iolanthe - Interact Theatre Company
• * Loretta Devine - Hot Mikado - Ford's Theatre
• * Robin Baxter - Hot Mikado - Ford's Theatre
• * Suzanne Genz - Wings - Signature Theatre
• 1996 Roz White - Bessie's Blues - The Studio Theatre
• * Eileen Ward - Hello, Dolly! - Toby's Dinner Theatre
• * Karlah Hamilton - First Lady Suite - Signature Theatre
• * Monique Lorraine Midgette - Beehive - Toby's Dinner Theatre
• * Patricia Pearce Gentry - Cabaret - Signature Theatre
• 2002 Kadejah Oni Higdon - SPUNK - African Continuum Theatre Company
• * Andrea Frierson-Toney - A New Brain - Studio Theatre
• * Deanna Harris - Gypsy - Signature Theatre
• * Jane Pesci-Townsend - The Pirates of Penzance - Interact Theatre Company
• * Sherri L. Edelen - She Loves Me - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
• 2003 Lori Tan Chinn - South Pacific - Arena Stage
• * Alice Ripley - Company - The Kennedy Center
• * Lauri Kraft - Bat Boy: The Musical - The Studio Theatre Secondstage
• * Mariani Ebert - Brasil: as coisas do samba - Gala Hispanic Theatre
• * Perri Gaffney - Polk County - Arena Stage
• * Ta'rea Campbell - The Gospel According to Fishman - Signature Theatre

  Outstanding Supporting Performer in a Resident Musical

• 1998 David James - The Wizard of Oz - Toby's Dinner Theatre
• * Albert Coia - Down at the Old Bull & Bush - Interact Theatre Company
• * Donna Migliaccio - No Way to Treat a Lady - Signature Theatre
• * Kate Kiley - Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Purloined Patience or The Scandal at the D'Oyly Carte - Interact Theatre Company
• * Kit Halliday - The Harvey Milk Show - Source Theatre Company
• * Lawrence Redmond - Working - Signature Theatre
• 1999 Sal Mistretta - The Fix - Signature Theatre in association with Cameron Mackintosh
• * Donna Migliaccio - A Little Night Music - Signature Theatre
• * Doug Eskew - Thunder Knocking on the Door - Arena Stage
• * Jason Gilbert - Lady in the Dark - The American Century Theater
• * Rhea Seehorn - Marat/Sade - Washington Shakespeare Company
• * Robb McKindles - A Little Night Music - Signature Theatre
• 2000 Christopher Michael Bauer - Slam! - The Studio Theatre
• * Carla Della Torre - West Side Story - West End Dinner Theatre
• * John J. Kaczynski - Sweeney Todd - Signature Theatre
• * Peggy Yates - Dreams from a Summer House - Rep Stage
• * Steve Routman - Eleanor: An American Love Story - Ford's Theatre
• * Wayne W. Pretlow - Guys and Dolls - Arena Stage
• 2001 Eric Jordan Young - Side Show - Signature Theatre
• * Carla J. Hargrove - Dinah Was - Arena Stage
• * Harriett D. Foy - Reunion, A Musical Epic in Miniature - Ford's Theatre
• * J.J. Kaczynski - You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown - Round House Theatre
• * Mark Jaster - The Fantasticks - Round House Theatre
• * Nikki Crawford - Play On! - Arena Stage