Best Resident Production

• 1985 Cloud 9 - Arena Stage
  • The Beautiful Lady - New Playwrights' Theatre
  • Lydie Breeze - New Playwrights' Theatre
  • Man and Superman - Arena Stage
  • My Sister in This House - The Studio Theatre

Outstanding Production in a Resident Play

• 1987 The Miser - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • Christmas on Mars - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
    Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
    Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is a non-profit theatre company located at 641 D Street NW in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It produces new plays which it believes to be edgy, challenging, and thought-provoking...
    
    
  • Romeo and Juliet - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • Slab Boys - The Studio Theatre
  • The Birthday Party - The Studio Theatre
  • The Wild Duck - Arena Stage
    Arena Stage
    Arena Stage is a not-for-profit regional theater based in Southwest Washington, D.C. Its declared mission"is to produce huge plays of all that is passionate, exuberant, profound, deep and dangerous in the American spirit. Arena has broad shoulders and a capacity to produce anything from vast epics...
    
    
  • Torch Song Trilogy - Castle Arts Center

Outstanding Resident Production

• 1988 The Crucible
  The Crucible
  The Crucible is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists...
  
  - Arena Stage
  • All the King's Men
    All the King's Men
    All the King's Men is a novel by Robert Penn Warren first published in 1946. Its title is drawn from the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. In 1947 Warren won the Pulitzer Prize for All the King's Men....
    
    - Arena Stage
  • As Is - The Studio Theatre
  • Filthy Rich - Round House Theatre
  • Noises Off
    Noises Off
    Noises Off is a 1982 play by English playwright Michael Frayn. The idea for it was born in 1970, when Frayn was standing in the wings watching a performance of Chinamen, a farce that he had written for Lynn Redgrave...
    
    - Olney Theatre
  • Savage in Limbo
    Savage in Limbo
    Savage In Limbo is a 1984 play by American playwright John Patrick Shanley. The play follows the tragicomic lives of a group of losers who frequent a seedy Bronx bar....
    
    - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• 1989 Six Characters in Search of an Author
  Six Characters in Search of an Author
  Six Characters in Search of an Author is a play by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello.The play is a satirical tragicomedy. It was first performed in 1921 at the Teatro Valle in Rome, to a very mixed reception, with shouts from the audience of "Manicomio!" .Subsequently the play enjoyed a much...
  
  - Arena Stage
  • Baby with the Bathwater - Round House Theatre
  • Eleemosynary - Horizons Theatre
  • Macbeth
    Macbeth
    The Tragedy of Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607...
    
    - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • The Cherry Orchard
    The Cherry Orchard
    The Cherry Orchard is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's last play. It premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. Chekhov intended this play as a comedy and it does contain some elements of farce; however, Stanislavski insisted on...
    
    - Arena Stage
  • The Colored Museum - The Studio Theatre
• 1990 Heathen Valley - Round House Theatre
  • Bluesman - Source Theatre Company
  • The Day Room - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
    Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
    Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is a non-profit theatre company located at 641 D Street NW in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It produces new plays which it believes to be edgy, challenging, and thought-provoking...
    
    
  • The Dead Monkey - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
    Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
    Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is a non-profit theatre company located at 641 D Street NW in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It produces new plays which it believes to be edgy, challenging, and thought-provoking...
    
    
  • The Man Who Came to Dinner - Arena Stage
  • Twelfth Night - The Shakespeare Theatre
• 1991 Stand-Up Tragedy - Arena Stage
  • Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune - The Studio Theatre
  • Juno and the Paycock - Arena Stage
  • Richard III
    Richard III (play)
    Richard III is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1591. It depicts the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of Richard III of England. The play is grouped among the histories in the First Folio and is most often classified...
    
    - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • The Caucasian Chalk Circle - Arena Stage
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor
    The Merry Wives of Windsor
    The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed to have been written prior to 1597. It features the fat knight Sir John Falstaff, and is Shakespeare's only play to deal exclusively with contemporary Elizabethan era English middle class life...
    
    - The Shakespeare Theatre
• 1992 My Children! My Africa! - Arena Stage
  • Fat Men in Skirts - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • Jar the Floor - Arena Stage
  • Psycho Beach Party
    Psycho Beach Party
    Psycho Beach Party is a 2000 Comedy horror film based on the off-Broadway play of the same name, directed by Robert Lee King. Charles Busch wrote both the original play and the screenplay...
    
    - Source Theatre Company
  • She Stoops to Conquer
    She Stoops to Conquer
    She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by the Irish author Oliver Goldsmith, son of an Anglo-Irish vicar, first performed in London in 1773. The play is a great favourite for study by English literature and theatre classes in Britain and the United States. It is one of the few plays from the 18th...
    
    - Arena Stage
  • When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout - The Studio Theatre

Outstanding Resident Play

• 1986 Execution of Justice - Arena Stage
  • Fool for Love - Round House Theatre
  • Tartuffe
    Tartuffe
    Tartuffe is a comedy by Molière. It is one of his most famous plays.-History:Molière wrote Tartuffe in 1664...
    
    - Arena Stage
  • The Foreigner - Olney Theatre
  • The Good Person of Setzuan - Arena Stage
• 1993 Hamlet
  Hamlet
  The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
  
  - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • Elektra (play) - Round House Theatre
  • Kvetch - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • Life During Wartime - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • The Lisbon Traviata - The Studio Theatre
  • The School for Wives - Arena Stage
• 1994 Dancing at Lughnasa
  Dancing at Lughnasa
  Dancing at Lughnasa is a 1990 play by dramatist Brian Friel set in Ireland's County Donegal in August 1936 in the fictional town of Ballybeg. It is a memory play told from the point of view of the adult Michael Evans, the narrator...
  
  - Arena Stage
  • Free Will and Wanton Lust - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • Mother Courage and Her Children
    Mother Courage and Her Children
    Mother Courage and Her Children is a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht with significant contributions from Margarete Steffin...
    
    - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • Porcelain - Consenting Adults Theatre Company
  • Richard II
    Richard II (play)
    King Richard the Second is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to be written in approximately 1595. It is based on the life of King Richard II of England and is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by some scholars as the Henriad, followed by three plays concerning Richard's...
    
    - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love
    Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love
    Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love is a 1989 stage play written by Canadian playwright Brad Fraser. Set in Edmonton, Alberta, the comedy-drama follows the lives of several sexually frustrated "thirty-somethings" who try to learn the meaning of love — during a time in which...
    
    - Signature Theatre
• 1995 Dream of a Common Language - Theater of the First Amendment
  • Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • Henry IV
    Henry IV, Part 1
    Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It is the second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the successive reigns of Richard II, Henry IV , and Henry V...
    
    - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • The Price
    The Price
    The Price may refer to:* The Price , by Arthur Miller* The Price , by Jim Starlin* The Price by Neil Gaiman, originally published in his book Smoke and Mirrors...
    
    - Arena Stage
  • The Revengers' Comedies - Arena Stage
• 1996 The Pitchfork Disney - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • Escape from Happiness - Round House Theatre
  • Henry V
    Henry V (play)
    Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to be written in approximately 1599. Its full titles are The Cronicle History of Henry the Fifth and The Life of Henry the Fifth...
    
    - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • I Am a Man - Arena Stage
  • Long Day's Journey Into Night
    Long Day's Journey Into Night
    Long Day's Journey Into Night is a 1956 drama in four acts written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. The play is widely considered to be his masterwork...
    
    - Arena Stage
  • The Three Sisters - The Studio Theatre
• 1997 Two Trains Running - The Studio Theatre
  • Arcadia
    Arcadia (play)
    Arcadia is a 1993 play by Tom Stoppard concerning the relationship between past and present and between order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge...
    
    - Arena Stage
  • Henry VI
    Henry VI, part 1
    Henry VI, Part 1 or The First Part of Henry the Sixt is a history play by William Shakespeare, and possibly Thomas Nashe, believed to have been written in 1591, and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England...
    
    - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • Quills
    Quills
    Quills is a 2000 period film directed by Philip Kaufman and adapted from the Obie award-winning play by Doug Wright, who also wrote the original screenplay. Inspired by the life and work of the Marquis de Sade, Quills re-imagines the last years of the Marquis' incarceration in the insane asylum at...
    
    - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • Volpone
    Volpone
    Volpone is a comedy by Ben Jonson first produced in 1606, drawing on elements of city comedy, black comedy and beast fable...
    
    - The Shakespeare Theatre
• 1998 Mourning Becomes Electra
  Mourning Becomes Electra
  Mourning Becomes Electra is a play cycle written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. The play premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theatre on 26 October 1931 where it ran for 150 performances before closing in March 1932...
  
  - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • Never the Sinner - Rep Stage
  • Never the Sinner - Signature Theatre
  • Old Wicked Songs - The Studio Theatre
  • Romeo and Juliet
    Romeo and Juliet
    Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...
    
    - Folger Shakespeare Library
  • The Tempest
    The Tempest
    The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place,...
    
    - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • Travels With My Aunt
    Travels with My Aunt
    Travels with My Aunt is a novel written by English author Graham Greene.The novel follows the travels of Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, and his eccentric Aunt Augusta as they find their way across Europe, and eventually even further afield...
    
    - Rep Stage
• 1999 Nijinsky's Last Dance - Signature Theatre
  • Much Ado About Nothing
    Much Ado About Nothing
    Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy written by William Shakespeare about two pairs of lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero....
    
    - Folger Shakespeare Library
  • Peer Gynt
    Peer Gynt
    Peer Gynt is a five-act play in verse by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen, loosely based on the fairy tale Per Gynt. It is the most widely performed Norwegian play. According to Klaus Van Den Berg, the "cinematic script blends poetry with social satire and realistic scenes with surreal ones"...
    
    - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • Seven Guitars - The Studio Theatre
  • The Old Settler - The Studio Theatre
  • You Can't Take It With You
    You Can't Take It with You
    You Can't Take It with You is a comedic play in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The original production of the play opened at the Booth Theater on December 14, 1936, and played for 837 performances...
    
    - Arena Stage
• 2000 Indian Ink - The Studio Theatre
  • Edmond - Source Theatre Company
  • How I Learned to Drive
    How I Learned To Drive
    How I Learned to Drive is a play written by American playwright Paula Vogel. The play premiered on March 16, 1997 off-broadway at the Vineyard Theatre...
    
    - Arena Stage
  • King John - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • The Dead Monkey - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• 2001 The Glass Menagerie
  The Glass Menagerie
  The Glass Menagerie is a four-character memory play by Tennessee Williams. Williams worked on various drafts of the play prior to writing a version of it as a screenplay for MGM, to whom Williams was contracted...
  
  - Round House Theatre and Everyman Theatre
  • Collected Stories - Theater J
  • Heaven - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • MASTER HAROLD ... and the boys - The Studio Theatre
  • Romeo and Juliet
    Romeo and Juliet
    Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...
    
    - Folger Theatre
  • The Country Wife
    The Country Wife
    The Country Wife is a Restoration comedy written in 1675 by William Wycherley. A product of the tolerant early Restoration period, the play reflects an aristocratic and anti-Puritan ideology, and was controversial for its sexual explicitness even in its own time. The title itself contains a lewd pun...
    
    - The Shakespeare Theatre
• 2002 Home - Round House Theatre
  • Don Carlos
    Don Carlos
    Don Carlos is a five-act grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French language libretto by Camille du Locle and Joseph Méry, based on the dramatic play Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien by Friedrich Schiller...
    
    - Shakespeare Theatre
  • Jitney - Studio Theatre
  • Major Barbara - Washington Stage Guild
  • The Andersonville Trial - American Century Theatre
  • The Invention of Love - Studio Theatre
• 2003 Hamlet
  Hamlet
  The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
  
  - Synetic Theater
  • Born Guilty - Theater J
  • Host and Guest - Synetic Theater
  • She Stoops to Conquer
    She Stoops to Conquer
    She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by the Irish author Oliver Goldsmith, son of an Anglo-Irish vicar, first performed in London in 1773. The play is a great favourite for study by English literature and theatre classes in Britain and the United States. It is one of the few plays from the 18th...
    
    - Folger Theatre
  • The Little Foxes
    The Little Foxes
    The Little Foxes is a 1939 play by Lillian Hellman. Its title comes from Chapter 2, Verse 15 in the Song of Solomon in the King James version of the Bible, which reads, "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes." Set in a small town in Alabama in...
    
    - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • The Weir - Round House Theatre

Outstanding Production in a Resident Musical

• 1987 Quilters - Castle Arts Center
  • Beehive - Arena Stage
  • Hot Mikado - Ford's Theatre
  • Little Shop of Horrors - Olney Theatre

Outstanding Resident Musical

• 1986 March of the Falsettos - The Studio Theatre
  • A Chorus Line
    A Chorus Line
    A Chorus Line is a 1975 musical about Broadway dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line. The book was authored by James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante, lyrics were written by Edward Kleban, and music was composed by Marvin Hamlisch....
    
    - Harlequin Dinner Theatre
  • Baby - Olney Theatre
  • Little Me
    Little Me
    Little Me was the parody "confessional" self-indulgent autobiography of "Belle Poitrine" , subtitled The Intimate Memoirs of the Great Star of Stage, Screen and Television, by Patrick Dennis, who had achieved a great success with Auntie Mame...
    
    - Ford's Theatre
• 1988 A ... My Name is Alice - Horizons Theatre
  • 42nd Street
    42nd Street (musical)
    42nd Street is a musical with a book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, lyrics by Al Dubin, and music by Harry Warren. The 1980 Broadway production, directed by an ailing Gower Champion and orchestrated by Philip J. Lang, won the Tony Award for Best Musical and became a long-running hit...
    
    - Harlequin Dinner Theatre
  • A Dance Against Darkenss: Living With AIDS - D.C. Cabaret
• 1989 The Cocoanuts
  The Cocoanuts
  The Cocoanuts is the first feature-length Marx Brothers film, produced by Paramount Pictures. The musical comedy stars the four Marx Brothers, Oscar Shaw, Mary Eaton, and Margaret Dumont. Produced by Walter Wanger and the first sound movie to credit more than one director , and was adapted to the...
  
  - Arena Stage
  • Elmer Gantry - Ford's Theatre
  • Sanctuary D.C. - No-Neck Monsters Theatre Company
  • Side by Side by Sondheim - Olney Theatre
  • The Gifts of the Magi - The Studio Theatre
• 1990 Lucky Stiff - Olney Theatre
  • Don't Let This Dream Go (A Musical Celebration of Mahalia Jackson) - Ford's Theatre
  • On the Town - Arena Stage
  • Pins and Needles - Washington Jewish Theatre
  • The Beggar's Opera
    The Beggar's Opera
    The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch. It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today...
    
    - The Shakespeare Theatre
• 1991 The Rocky Horror Show
  The Rocky Horror Show
  The Rocky Horror Show is a long-running British horror comedy stage musical, which opened in London on 19 June 1973. It was written by Richard O'Brien, produced and directed by Jim Sharman. It came eighth in a BBC Radio 2 listener poll of the "Nation's Number One Essential Musicals"...
  
  - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • Amahl and the Night Visitors
    Amahl and the Night Visitors
    Amahl and the Night Visitors is an opera in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti with an original English libretto by the composer. It was commissioned by NBC and first performed by the NBC Opera Theatre on December 24, 1951, in New York City at NBC studio 8H in Rockefeller Center, where it was broadcast...
    
    - The Kennedy Center
  • Children with Stones - Source Theatre Company
  • Me and My Girl
    Me and My Girl
    Me and My Girl is a musical with book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose and music by Noel Gay. It takes place in the late 1930s in Hampshire, Mayfair, and Lambeth....
    
    - Harlequin Dinner Theatre
  • Merrily We Roll Along
    Merrily We Roll Along (musical)
    Merrily We Roll Along is a musical with a book by George Furth and lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim. It is based on the 1934 play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart....
    
    - Arena Stage
• 1992 Sweeney Todd
  Sweeney Todd (musical)
  Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1979 musical thriller with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and libretto by Hugh Wheeler. The musical is based on the 1973 play Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Christopher Bond....
  
  - Signature Theatre
  • A Wonderful Life - Arena Stage
  • Damn Yankees
    Damn Yankees
    Damn Yankees is a musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop and music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story is a modern retelling of the Faust legend set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League...
    
    - Harlequin Dinner Theatre
  • Forever Plaid - Ford's Theatre
• 1993 Assassins
  Assassins (musical)
  Assassins is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by John Weidman, based on an idea by Charles Gilbert, Jr. It uses the premise of a murderous carnival game to produce a revue-style portrayal of men and women who attempted to assassinate Presidents of the United States...
  
  - Signature Theatre
  • Closer Than Ever - The Rose Organization
  • Executive Leverage - Source Theatre Company
  • Falsettoland - The Studio Theatre
  • Of Thee I Sing
    Of Thee I Sing
    Of Thee I Sing is a musical with a score by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. The musical lampoons American politics; the story concerns John P. Wintergreen, who runs for President of the United States on the "love" platform...
    
    - Arena Stage
• 1994 The Pirates of Penzance
  The Pirates of Penzance
  The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The opera's official premiere was at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City on 31 December 1879, where the show was well received by both audiences...
  
  - Interact Theatre Company
  • Five Guys Named Moe - Ford's Theatre
  • Show Me Where the Good Times Are - Olney Theatre
• 1995 Into the Woods
  Into the Woods
  Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It debuted in San Diego at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986, and premiered on Broadway in 1987. Bernadette Peters' performance as the Witch and Joanna Gleason's portrayal of the Baker's Wife brought acclaim...
  
  - Signature Theatre
  • God's Trombones - DC ART/WORKS '(based on the poetry book of the same name
  • Hot Mikado - Ford's Theatre
  • Iolanthe
    Iolanthe
    Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It is one of the Savoy operas and is the seventh collaboration of the fourteen between Gilbert and Sullivan....
    
    - Interact Theatre Company
  • Wings - Signature Theatre
• 1996 Bessie's Blues - The Studio Theatre
  • Black Nativity - The Kennedy Center
  • Cabaret
    Cabaret (musical)
    Cabaret is a musical based on a book written by Christopher Isherwood, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The 1966 Broadway production became a hit and spawned a 1972 film as well as numerous subsequent productions....
    
    - Signature Theatre
  • H.M.S. Pinafore
    H.M.S. Pinafore
    H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the Opera Comique in London, England, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical...
    
    - Interact Theatre Company
  • Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
• 1997 Passion
  Passion (musical)
  Passion is a musical adapted from Ettore Scola's film Passione d'Amore . The book is by James Lapine, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Central subjects include obsession, beauty, power, manipulation, passion, illness, and love...
  
  - Signature Theatre
  • Candide
    Candide (operetta)
    Candide is an operetta with music composed by Leonard Bernstein, based on the novella of the same name by Voltaire. The operetta was first performed in 1956 with a libretto by Lillian Hellman; but since 1974 it has been generally performed with a book by Hugh Wheeler which is more faithful to...
    
    - Arena Stage
  • Hip 2: Birth of the Boom - The Studio Theatre
  • The Mikado
    The Mikado
    The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations...
    
    - Interact Theatre Company
  • The Rink - Signature Theatre
  • Torn From the Headlines - Everyday Theatre
  • Torn From the Headlines - The African Continuum Theatre Company
• 1998 Hair, The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical
  Hair (musical)
  Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement...
  
  - The Studio Theatre Secondstage
  • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
    Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
    Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly...
    
    - Toby's Dinner Theatre
  • No Way to Treat a Lady - Signature Theatre
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Purloined Patience or The Scandal at the D'Oyly Carte - Interact Theatre Company
  • Sunday in the Park with George
    Sunday in the Park with George
    Sunday in the Park with George is a 1984 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The musical was inspired by the painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat...
    
    - Arena Stage
  • Sunday in the Park with George
    Sunday in the Park with George
    Sunday in the Park with George is a 1984 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The musical was inspired by the painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat...
    
    - Signature Theatre
• 1999 Thunder Knocking on the Door - Arena Stage
  • A Little Night Music
    A Little Night Music
    A Little Night Music is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Inspired by the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, it involves the romantic lives of several couples. Its title is a literal English translation of the German name for Mozart's Serenade...
    
    - Signature Theatre
  • Brothers of the Knight - The Kennedy Center
  • Marat/Sade
    Marat/Sade
    The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade , almost invariably shortened to Marat/Sade, is a 1963 play by Peter Weiss...
    
    - Washington Shakespeare Company
  • The Fix - Signature Theatre in association with Cameron Mackintosh
• 2000 Animal Crackers
  Animal Crackers (theatre)
  Animal Crackers is a musical with music and lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby and a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. The musical starred the Marx Brothers.-Productions and background:...
  
  - Arena Stage
  • Grimm Tales - Theater of the First Amendment
  • Guys and Dolls - Arena Stage
  • Slam! - The Studio Theatre
  • Sweeney Todd
    Sweeney Todd (musical)
    Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1979 musical thriller with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and libretto by Hugh Wheeler. The musical is based on the 1973 play Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Christopher Bond....
    
    - Signature Theatre
  • The Cradle Will Rock
    The Cradle Will Rock
    The Cradle Will Rock is a 1937 musical by Marc Blitzstein. Originally a part of the Federal Theatre Project, it was directed by Orson Welles, and produced by John Houseman. The show was recorded and released on seven 78-rpm discs in 1938, making it the first cast album recording.The musical is a...
    
    - The American Century Theater
• 2001 Side Show - Signature Theatre
  • Dinah Was - Arena Stage
  • Play On! - Arena Stage
  • Sing Down the Moon: Appalachian Wonder Tales - Theater of the First Amendment
  • The Rhythm Club - Signature Theatre
  • You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
    You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
    You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a 1967 musical comedy with music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, based on the characters created by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz in his comic strip Peanuts...
    
    - Round House Theatre
• 2002 Blues in the Night - Arena Stage
  • A New Brain - Studio Theatre
  • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
    Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
    Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly...
    
    - Toby's Dinner Theatre
  • Perseus Bayou - Theatre of the First Amendment
  • Putting it Together - Signature Theatre
  • Spunk - African Continuum Theatre Company
• 2003 Sweeney Todd
  Sweeney Todd (musical)
  Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1979 musical thriller with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and libretto by Hugh Wheeler. The musical is based on the 1973 play Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Christopher Bond....
  
  - The Kennedy Center
  • Jekyll & Hyde The Musical - Toby's Dinner Theatre
  • Polk County - Arena Stage
  • South Pacific
    South Pacific (musical)
    South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The story draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, weaving together characters and elements from several of its...
    
    - Arena Stage
  • Sunday in the Park with George
    Sunday in the Park with George
    Sunday in the Park with George is a 1984 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The musical was inspired by the painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat...
    
    - The Kennedy Center
  • The Gospel According to Fishman - Signature Theatre

Outstanding Director of a Resident Production

• 1985 Gary Pearle - Cloud 9 - Arena Stage
  • Dorothy Neumann - Top Girls
    Top Girls
    Top Girls is a 1982 play by Caryl Churchill. It is about a woman named Marlene, a career-driven woman who is employed at the 'Top Girls' employment agency. The play examines issues of gender discrimination present in the Thatcherite society that it is set in...
    
    - Horizons Theatre
  • Douglas C. Wager - Man and Superman
    Man and Superman
    Man and Superman is a four-act drama, written by George Bernard Shaw in 1903. The series was written in response to calls for Shaw to write a play based on the Don Juan theme. Man and Superman opened at The Royal Court Theatre in London on 23 May 1905, but with the omission of the 3rd Act...
    
    - Arena Stage
  • Elinor Renfield - Passion Play
    Passion play
    A Passion play is a dramatic presentation depicting the Passion of Jesus Christ: his trial, suffering and death. It is a traditional part of Lent in several Christian denominations, particularly in Catholic tradition....
    
    - Arena Stage
  • Elizabeth Swados
    Elizabeth Swados
    Elizabeth Swados is an American writer, composer, musician, and theatre director. While some of her subject matter is humorous, such as her satirical look at Ronald Reagan, Rap Master Ronnie, and Doonesbury - both collaborations with Garry Trudeau - much of her work deals with dark issues such as...
    
     - The Beautiful Lady - New Playwrights' Theatre
  • Joy Zinoman - My Sister in This House - The Studio Theatre
• 1986 Douglas C. Wager - Execution of Justice - Arena Stage
  • Garland Wright - The Good Person of Setzuan - Arena Stage
  • Leslie Bravman Jacobson - Miss Lulu Bett
    Miss Lulu Bett
    Miss Lulu Bett is a 1920 novel by American writer Zona Gale, and later adapted for the stage. Gale received the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her work...
    
    - Horizons Theatre
  • Lucian Pintilie - Tartuffe
    Tartuffe
    Tartuffe is a comedy by Molière. It is one of his most famous plays.-History:Molière wrote Tartuffe in 1664...
    
    - Arena Stage
  • Peter Sellars - The Count of Monte Cristo
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas. It is often considered to be, along with The Three Musketeers, Dumas's most popular work. He completed the work in 1844...
    
    - American National Theatre
  • Susann Brinkley - Fool for Love - Round House Theatre
• 1987 John Going - The Miser - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • Dorothy Neumann - Johnny Bull - Horizons Theatre
  • Douglas C. Wager - The Taming of the Shrew
    The Taming of the Shrew
    The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1591.The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself...
    
    - Arena Stage
  • Gillian Drake - The Water Engine - Round House Theatre
  • Joy Zinoman - Slab Boys - The Studio Theatre
  • Lucian Pintilie - The Wild Duck
    The Wild Duck
    The Wild Duck is an 1884 play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.-Plot:The first act opens with a dinner party hosted by Håkon Werle, a wealthy merchant and industrialist. The gathering is attended by his son, Gregers Werle, who has just returned to his father's home following a self-imposed...
    
    - Arena Stage
  • Michael Kahn - Romeo and Juliet
    Romeo and Juliet
    Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...
    
    - The Shakespeare Theatre
• 1988 Zelda Fichandler
  Zelda Fichandler
  Zelda Fichandler is an American stage producer, director, and educator, best known as cofounder and longtime artistic director of the Arena Stage theatre in Washington, D.C....
  
   - The Crucible
  The Crucible
  The Crucible is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists...
  
  - Arena Stage
  • Douglas C. Wager - All the King's Men
    All the King's Men
    All the King's Men is a novel by Robert Penn Warren first published in 1946. Its title is drawn from the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. In 1947 Warren won the Pulitzer Prize for All the King's Men....
    
    - Arena Stage
  • James C. Nicola - Filthy Rich - Round House Theatre
  • John Going - Noises Off
    Noises Off
    Noises Off is a 1982 play by English playwright Michael Frayn. The idea for it was born in 1970, when Frayn was standing in the wings watching a performance of Chinamen, a farce that he had written for Lynn Redgrave...
    
    - Olney Theatre
  • Leslie Bravman Jacobson - A ... My Name is Alice - Horizons Theatre
  • Michael Kahn - All's Well That Ends Well
    All's Well That Ends Well
    All's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1604 and 1605, and was originally published in the First Folio in 1623....
    
    - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • Yuri Lyubimov - Crime and Punishment
    Crime and Punishment
    Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume. This is the second of Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his...
    
    - Arena Stage
• 1989 Liviu Ciulei - Six Characters in Search of an Author
  Six Characters in Search of an Author
  Six Characters in Search of an Author is a play by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello.The play is a satirical tragicomedy. It was first performed in 1921 at the Teatro Valle in Rome, to a very mixed reception, with shouts from the audience of "Manicomio!" .Subsequently the play enjoyed a much...
  
  - Arena Stage
  • Douglas C. Wager - The Cocoanuts
    The Cocoanuts
    The Cocoanuts is the first feature-length Marx Brothers film, produced by Paramount Pictures. The musical comedy stars the four Marx Brothers, Oscar Shaw, Mary Eaton, and Margaret Dumont. Produced by Walter Wanger and the first sound movie to credit more than one director , and was adapted to the...
    
    - Arena Stage
  • Joe Banno - Tartuffe
    Tartuffe
    Tartuffe is a comedy by Molière. It is one of his most famous plays.-History:Molière wrote Tartuffe in 1664...
    
    - Source Theatre Company
  • Kim Rubinstein - Baby with the Bathwater - Round House Theatre
  • Leslie Bravman Jacobson - Eleemosynary - Horizons Theatre
  • Michael Kahn - Macbeth
    Macbeth
    The Tragedy of Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607...
    
    - The Shakespeare Theatre
• 1990 Michael Kahn - Twelfth Night - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • Douglas C. Wager - On the Town - Arena Stage
  • Douglas C. Wager - The Man who Came to Dinner - Arena Stage
  • Edward Morgan - Heathen Valley - Round House Theatre
  • Howard Shalwitz - The Dead Monkey - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • John Going - Lucky Stiff - Olney Theatre
• 1991 Max Mayer - Stand-Up Tragedy - Arena Stage
  • Joe Dowling - Juno and the Paycock - Arena Stage
  • Joy Zinoman - Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune - The Studio Theatre
  • Michael Kahn - Richard III
    Richard III (play)
    Richard III is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1591. It depicts the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of Richard III of England. The play is grouped among the histories in the First Folio and is most often classified...
    
    - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • Michael Kahn - The Merry Wives of Windsor
    The Merry Wives of Windsor
    The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed to have been written prior to 1597. It features the fat knight Sir John Falstaff, and is Shakespeare's only play to deal exclusively with contemporary Elizabethan era English middle class life...
    
    - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • Tazewell Thompson - Fences - Arena Stage
• 1992 Eric D. Schaeffer - Sweeney Todd
  Sweeney Todd (musical)
  Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1979 musical thriller with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and libretto by Hugh Wheeler. The musical is based on the 1973 play Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Christopher Bond....
  
  - Signature Theatre
  • Jim Stone - Julius Caesar
    Julius Caesar (play)
    The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, also known simply as Julius Caesar, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It portrays the 44 BC conspiracy against...
    
    - Washington Shakespeare Company
  • Joe Dowling - She Stoops to Conquer
    She Stoops to Conquer
    She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by the Irish author Oliver Goldsmith, son of an Anglo-Irish vicar, first performed in London in 1773. The play is a great favourite for study by English literature and theatre classes in Britain and the United States. It is one of the few plays from the 18th...
    
    - Arena Stage
  • Joy Zinoman - When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout - The Studio Theatre
  • Max Mayer - My Children! My Africa! - Arena Stage
  • Stuart Ross - Forever Plaid - Ford's Theatre
  • Tazewell Thompson - Jar the Floor - Arena Stage
• 1994 Michael Kahn - Mother Courage and Her Children
  Mother Courage and Her Children
  Mother Courage and Her Children is a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht with significant contributions from Margarete Steffin...
  
  - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • Catherine Flye - The Pirates of Penzance
    The Pirates of Penzance
    The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The opera's official premiere was at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City on 31 December 1879, where the show was well received by both audiences...
    
    - Interact Theatre Company
  • Dorothy Neumann - Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love - Signature Theatre
  • Eric D. Schaeffer - Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love - Signature Theatre
  • Kyle Donnelly - Dancing at Lughnasa
    Dancing at Lughnasa
    Dancing at Lughnasa is a 1990 play by dramatist Brian Friel set in Ireland's County Donegal in August 1936 in the fictional town of Ballybeg. It is a memory play told from the point of view of the adult Michael Evans, the narrator...
    
    - Arena Stage
  • Ron Himes - Spunk - The Studio Theatre
  • Van Riley - Porcelain - Consenting Adults Theatre Company

Outstanding Director of a Resident Play

• 1993 Michael Kahn - Hamlet
  Hamlet
  The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
  
  - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • Bill Alexander - Troilus and Cressida
    Troilus and Cressida
    Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. It was also described by Frederick S. Boas as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. The play ends on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus...
    
    - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • Howard Shalwitz - Kvetch - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • John Going - The Lisbon Traviata - The Studio Theatre
  • Kyle Donnelly - The School for Wives - Arena Stage
  • Lee Mikeska Gardner - Life During Wartime - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• 1995 Michael Kahn - Henry IV
  Henry IV, Part 1
  Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It is the second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the successive reigns of Richard II, Henry IV , and Henry V...
  
  - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • Douglas C. Wager - The Revengers' Comedies - Arena Stage
  • Heather McDonald - Dream of a Common Language - Theater of the First Amendment
  • Howard Shalwitz - Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • Lee Mikeska Gardner - Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • Nick Olcott - All in the Timing - Round House Theatre
• 1996 Douglas C. Wager - Long Day's Journey Into Night
  Long Day's Journey Into Night
  Long Day's Journey Into Night is a 1956 drama in four acts written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. The play is widely considered to be his masterwork...
  
  - Arena Stage
  • Daniel DeRaey - Escape from Happiness - Round House Theatre
  • Donald Douglass - I Am a Man - Arena Stage
  • Joy Zinoman - Three Sisters
    Three Sisters (play)
    Three Sisters is a play by Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov, perhaps partially inspired by the situation of the three Brontë sisters, but most probably by the three Zimmermann sisters in Perm...
    
    - The Studio Theatre
  • Michael Kahn - Henry V
    Henry V (play)
    Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to be written in approximately 1599. Its full titles are The Cronicle History of Henry the Fifth and The Life of Henry the Fifth...
    
    - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • Rob Bundy - The Pitchfork Disney - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• 1997 Michael Kahn - Henry VI
  Henry VI, part 1
  Henry VI, Part 1 or The First Part of Henry the Sixt is a history play by William Shakespeare, and possibly Thomas Nashe, believed to have been written in 1591, and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England...
  
  - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • Douglas C. Wager - Arcadia
    Arcadia (play)
    Arcadia is a 1993 play by Tom Stoppard concerning the relationship between past and present and between order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge...
    
    - Arena Stage
  • Howard Shalwitz - Quills
    Quills
    Quills is a 2000 period film directed by Philip Kaufman and adapted from the Obie award-winning play by Doug Wright, who also wrote the original screenplay. Inspired by the life and work of the Marquis de Sade, Quills re-imagines the last years of the Marquis' incarceration in the insane asylum at...
    
    - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • JoAnne Akalaitis - Dance of Death - Arena Stage
  • Joe Banno - Cymbeline
    Cymbeline
    Cymbeline , also known as Cymbeline, King of Britain or The Tragedy of Cymbeline, is a play by William Shakespeare, based on legends concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobelinus. Although listed as a tragedy in the First Folio, modern critics often classify Cymbeline as a romance...
    
    - Washington Shakespeare Company
  • Thomas W. Jones II - Two Trains Running - The Studio Theatre
• 1998 Joe Banno - Romeo and Juliet
  Romeo and Juliet
  Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...
  
  - Folger Shakespeare Library
  • Ethan McSweeny - Never the Sinner - Rep Stage
  • Ethan McSweeny - Never the Sinner - Signature Theatre
  • Kasi Campbell - Travels With My Aunt
    Travels with My Aunt
    Travels with My Aunt is a novel written by English author Graham Greene.The novel follows the travels of Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, and his eccentric Aunt Augusta as they find their way across Europe, and eventually even further afield...
    
    - Rep Stage
  • Mark A. Rhea - Translations
    Translations
    Translations is a three-act play by Irish playwright Brian Friel written in 1980. It is set in Baile Beag , a small village at the heart of 19th century agricultural Ireland...
    
    - The Keegan Theatre
  • Michael Kahn - Mourning Becomes Electra
    Mourning Becomes Electra
    Mourning Becomes Electra is a play cycle written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. The play premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theatre on 26 October 1931 where it ran for 150 performances before closing in March 1932...
    
    - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • Serge Seiden - Old Wicked Songs - The Studio Theatre
• 1999 Joe Calarco - Nijinsky's Last Dance - Signature Theatre
  • Douglas C. Wager - You Can't Take It with You
    You Can't Take It with You
    You Can't Take It with You is a comedic play in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The original production of the play opened at the Booth Theater on December 14, 1936, and played for 837 performances...
    
    - Arena Stage
  • Michael Kahn - Peer Gynt
    Peer Gynt
    Peer Gynt is a five-act play in verse by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen, loosely based on the fairy tale Per Gynt. It is the most widely performed Norwegian play. According to Klaus Van Den Berg, the "cinematic script blends poetry with social satire and realistic scenes with surreal ones"...
    
    - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • Seret Scott - The Old Settler - The Studio Theatre
  • Thomas W. Jones II - Seven Guitars - The Studio Theatre
  • Zeljko Djukic - Quartet - Open Theatre/TUTA
• 2000 Joy Zinoman - Indian Ink - The Studio Theatre
  • Andrei Malaev-Babel - The Idiot
    The Idiot (novel)
    The Idiot is a novel written by 19th century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published serially in The Russian Messenger between 1868 and 1869. The Idiot is ranked beside some of Dostoyevsky's other works as one of the most brilliant literary achievements of the "Golden Age" of...
    
    - Stanislavsky Theater Studio
  • Hugo Medrano - La Dama Boba - GALA Hispanic Theatre
  • Joe Banno - Edmond - Source Theatre Company
  • Michael Kahn - King John - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • Molly Smith - How I Learned to Drive
    How I Learned To Drive
    How I Learned to Drive is a play written by American playwright Paula Vogel. The play premiered on March 16, 1997 off-broadway at the Vineyard Theatre...
    
    - Arena Stage
  • Paata Tsikurishvili - The Idiot
    The Idiot (novel)
    The Idiot is a novel written by 19th century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published serially in The Russian Messenger between 1868 and 1869. The Idiot is ranked beside some of Dostoyevsky's other works as one of the most brilliant literary achievements of the "Golden Age" of...
    
    - Stanislavsky Theater Studio
• 2001 Donald Hicken - The Glass Menagerie
  The Glass Menagerie
  The Glass Menagerie is a four-character memory play by Tennessee Williams. Williams worked on various drafts of the play prior to writing a version of it as a screenplay for MGM, to whom Williams was contracted...
  
  - Round House Theatre and Everyman Theatre
  • Howard Shalwitz - Heaven - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • Jim Petosa - Collected Stories - Theater J
  • Joe Calarco - Shakespeare's R & J
    Romeo and Juliet
    Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...
    
    - Folger Theatre
  • Kasi Campbell - The Lonesome West - Rep Stage
  • Michael Kahn - Timon of Athens
    Timon of Athens
    The Life of Timon of Athens is a play by William Shakespeare about the fortunes of an Athenian named Timon , generally regarded as one of his most obscure and difficult works...
    
    - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • Thomas W. Jones II - MASTER HAROLD ... and the boys - The Studio Theatre
• 2002 Thomas Jones - Home - Round House Theatre
  • John MacDonald - Major Barbara - Washington Stage Guild
  • Joy Zinoman - Far East - Studio Theatre
  • Joy Zinoman - The Invention of Love - Studio Theatre
  • Michael Kahn - Don Carlos
    Don Carlos
    Don Carlos is a five-act grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French language libretto by Camille du Locle and Joseph Méry, based on the dramatic play Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien by Friedrich Schiller...
    
    - Shakespeare Theatre
  • Molly Smith - Agamemnon and His Daughters - Arena Stage
• 2003 Paata Tsikurishvili - Hamlet
  Hamlet
  The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
  
  - Synetic Theater
  • Doug Hughes - The Little Foxes
    The Little Foxes
    The Little Foxes is a 1939 play by Lillian Hellman. Its title comes from Chapter 2, Verse 15 in the Song of Solomon in the King James version of the Bible, which reads, "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes." Set in a small town in Alabama in...
    
    - The Shakespeare Theatre
  • John Vreeke - Born Guilty - Theater J
  • Joy Zinoman - Prometheus - The Studio Theatre
  • Nick Olcott - The Weir - Round House Theatre
  • Paata Tsikurishvili - Host and Guest - Synetic Theater

Outstanding Director of a Resident Musical

• 1993 Eric D. Schaeffer - Assassins
  Assassins (musical)
  Assassins is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by John Weidman, based on an idea by Charles Gilbert, Jr. It uses the premise of a murderous carnival game to produce a revue-style portrayal of men and women who attempted to assassinate Presidents of the United States...
  
  - Signature Theatre
  • Douglas C. Wager - Of Thee I Sing
    Of Thee I Sing
    Of Thee I Sing is a musical with a score by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. The musical lampoons American politics; the story concerns John P. Wintergreen, who runs for President of the United States on the "love" platform...
    
    - 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
    Iolanthe
    Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It is one of the Savoy operas and is the seventh collaboration of the fourteen between Gilbert and Sullivan....
    
    - Interact Theatre Company
  • Eric D. Schaeffer - Into the Woods
    Into the Woods
    Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It debuted in San Diego at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986, and premiered on Broadway in 1987. Bernadette Peters' performance as the Witch and Joanna Gleason's portrayal of the Baker's Wife brought acclaim...
    
    - 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
    H.M.S. Pinafore
    H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the Opera Comique in London, England, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical...
    
    - Interact Theatre Company
  • Eric D. Schaeffer - Cabaret
    Cabaret (musical)
    Cabaret is a musical based on a book written by Christopher Isherwood, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The 1966 Broadway production became a hit and spawned a 1972 film as well as numerous subsequent productions....
    
    - Signature Theatre
  • Mike Malone - Black Nativity - The Kennedy Center
• 1997 Eric D. Schaeffer - Passion
  Passion (musical)
  Passion is a musical adapted from Ettore Scola's film Passione d'Amore . The book is by James Lapine, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Central subjects include obsession, beauty, power, manipulation, passion, illness, and love...
  
  - Signature Theatre
  • Catherine Flye - The Mikado
    The Mikado
    The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations...
    
    - Interact Theatre Company
  • Douglas C. Wager - Candide
    Candide
    Candide, ou l'Optimisme is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best ; Candide: or, The Optimist ; and Candide: or, Optimism...
    
    - 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
  Hair (musical)
  Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement...
  
  - 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
    Sunday in the Park with George
    Sunday in the Park with George is a 1984 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The musical was inspired by the painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat...
    
    - Arena Stage
  • Eric D. Schaeffer - Sunday in the Park with George
    Sunday in the Park with George
    Sunday in the Park with George is a 1984 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The musical was inspired by the painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat...
    
    - Signature Theatre
  • Toby Orenstein - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
    Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
    Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly...
    
    - Toby's Dinner Theatre
• 1999 Jesse Berger - Marat/Sade
  Marat/Sade
  The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade , almost invariably shortened to Marat/Sade, is a 1963 play by Peter Weiss...
  
  - Washington Shakespeare Company
  • Carole Lehan - Children of Eden
    Children of Eden
    Children of Eden is a two-act musical play with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by John Caird. The musical is based on the Book of Genesis. Act I tells the story of Adam and Eve, Cain, and Abel, and Act II deals with Noah and the Flood...
    
    - Toby's Dinner Theatre
  • Toby Orenstein - Children of Eden
    Children of Eden
    Children of Eden is a two-act musical play with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by John Caird. The musical is based on the Book of Genesis. Act I tells the story of Adam and Eve, Cain, and Abel, and Act II deals with Noah and the Flood...
    
    - Toby's Dinner Theatre
  • Catherine Flye - Great Expectations
    Great Expectations
    Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens. It was first published in serial form in the publication All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It has been adapted for stage and screen over 250 times....
    
    , 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
  Animal Crackers (theatre)
  Animal Crackers is a musical with music and lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby and a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. The musical starred the Marx Brothers.-Productions and background:...
  
  - Arena Stage
  • Charles Randolph-Wright - Guys and Dolls - Arena Stage
  • Eric D. Schaeffer - Sweeney Todd
    Sweeney Todd (musical)
    Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1979 musical thriller with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and libretto by Hugh Wheeler. The musical is based on the 1973 play Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Christopher Bond....
    
    - Signature Theatre
  • Jack Marshall - The Cradle Will Rock
    The Cradle Will Rock
    The Cradle Will Rock is a 1937 musical by Marc Blitzstein. Originally a part of the Federal Theatre Project, it was directed by Orson Welles, and produced by John Houseman. The show was recorded and released on seven 78-rpm discs in 1938, making it the first cast album recording.The musical is a...
    
    - The American Century Theater
  • Mary Hall Surface - Grimm Tales - Theater of the First Amendment
  • Thomas W. Jones II - Slam! - 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
    You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
    You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a 1967 musical comedy with music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, based on the characters created by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz in his comic strip Peanuts...
    
    - 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
    The Pirates of Penzance
    The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The opera's official premiere was at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City on 31 December 1879, where the show was well received by both audiences...
    
    - Interact Theatre Company
  • Darryl V. Jones - Spunk - African Continuum Theatre Company
  • Eric D. Schaeffer - Putting it Together - Signature Theatre
  • Kenny Leon
    Kenny Leon
    Kenny Leon is an African-American director notable for his work on Broadway and in regional theater. His success on Broadway has made him one of its foremost African-American directors....
    
     - Blues in the Night - Arena Stage
  • Toby Orenstein - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
    Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
    Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly...
    
    - Toby's Dinner Theatre
• 2003 Christopher Ashley
  Christopher Ashley
  Christopher Ashley is a stage director. Since 2007, he has been the artistic director of the La Jolla Playhouse.In 1997, he completed The Drama League program for directors....
  
   - Sweeney Todd
  Sweeney Todd (musical)
  Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1979 musical thriller with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and libretto by Hugh Wheeler. The musical is based on the 1973 play Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Christopher Bond....
  
  - The Kennedy Center
• Toby Orenstein - Jekyll & Hyde The Musical - Toby's Dinner Theatre
  • Eric Schaeffer - Sunday in the Park with George
    Sunday in the Park with George
    Sunday in the Park with George is a 1984 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The musical was inspired by the painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat...
    
    - The Kennedy Center
  • Eric Schaeffer - The Gospel According to Fishman - Signature Theatre
  • Kyle Donnelly - Polk County - Arena Stage
  • Molly Smith - South Pacific
    South Pacific (musical)
    South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The story draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, weaving together characters and elements from several of its...
    
    - Arena Stage

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 - A Few Good Men - The Kennedy Center
  • Bruce Clarke - Bluesman - Source Theatre Company
  • Nick Olcott - A Turn of the Screw - The Washington Stage Guild
  • Queen Esther Marrow - Don't Let This Dream Go (A Musical Celebration of Mahalia Jackson) - Ford's Theatre
  • Stephen Wade - On the Way Home - Arena Stage
• 1991 Oni Faida Lampley - Mixed Babies - The Washington Stage Guild
  • Cornerstone Theater Company - The Video Store Owner's Significant Other - American Playwrights Theatre
  • Barbara McConagha - Mother's Day - Source Theatre Company
  • Dale Stein - A Fresh of Breath Air - Smallbeer Theatre Company
  • Nick Mathwick - Waiting for Marge - Smallbeer Theatre Company
  • Roy Barber - Children With Stones - Source Theatre Company
  • Stuart Browne - Angel - No-Neck Monsters Theatre Company
• 1992 Cheryl L. West - Before It Hits Home - Arena Stage
  • Ari Roth - Born Guilty - Arena Stage
  • Chandler Burr - Exquisite - Consenting Adults Theatre Company
  • Christi Stewart-Brown - Do Not Use If Seal Is Broken - Consenting Adults Theatre Company
  • Nick Olcott - Aspern Papers - The Washington Stage Guild
  • Sherry Kramer
    Sherry Kramer
    Sherry Kramer is an American playwright, born in Springfield, Missouri. Kramer attended Wellesley College, as an undergraduate, and earned two masters degrees from the University of Iowa.-Career:Kramer's plays include:...
    
     - David's Redhaired Death - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
    Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
    Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is a non-profit theatre company located at 641 D Street NW in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It produces new plays which it believes to be edgy, challenging, and thought-provoking...
    
    
  • Steve Carter - Spiele '36 or The Fourth Medal - Theater of the First Amendment
• 1993 Lucy Tom Lehrer - Those Sweet Caresses - Source Theatre Company
  • Christi Stewart-Brown - Morticians in Love - Consenting Adults Theatre Company
  • Christi Stewart-Brown - Three More Sisters - Consenting Adults Theatre Company
  • Drury L. Pifer - African Tourist - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • Stanley Rutherford - Billy Nobody - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• 1994 Nicky Silver - Free Will and Wanton Lust - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • Aubrey Wertheim - Make Way for Dyklings - Consenting Adults Theatre Company
  • Aubrey Wertheim - Make Way for Dyklings - District of Columbia Arts Center
  • Drury L. Pifer - Strindberg in Hollywood - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • Harry Kondoleon - Half Off - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • Janusz Glowacki
    Janusz Glowacki
    Janusz Głowacki is a Polish-American author and screenwriter.Głowacki wrote the screenplay for Andrzej Wajda's Polowanie na muchy and co-wrote the screenplay of the popular Polish movie Rejs , released in 1970.He emigrated in 1981 to New York City in the wake of the imposition of...
    
     - Antigone in New York - Arena Stage
  • Karen L.B. Evans - My Girlish Days - MetroStage
• 1995 Chris White - Rhythms - Horizons Theatre
  • Diane Ney - Great Hunger - Consenting Adults Theatre Company
  • John Strand - Otabenga - Signature Theatre
  • Mustapha Matura - A Small World - Arena Stage
  • Nicky Silver - The Food Chain - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
• 1996 Amy Freed - The Psychic Life of Savages - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • Charisma - A Night with Jackie "Moms" Mabley - American Theatre Project
  • Adam Long, Austin Tichenor, Reed Martin - The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) - The Kennedy Center
  • Dianne McIntyre - I Could Stop on a Dime and Get Ten Cents Change - Theater of the First Amendment
  • Ernest Joselovitz - Catskills Tzimmis - Theater J
  • Susan Altman - Out of the Whirlwind - American Theatre Project
• 1997 Jennifer L. Nelson - Torn From the Headlines - Everyday Theatre
• Jennifer L. Nelson - Torn From the Headlines - The African Continuum Theatre Company
  • Allyson Currin - Amstel in Tel Aviv - Source Theatre Company
  • Barbara McConagha - The Obituary Bowl - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • Didier Rousselet, Monica Neagoy, Susan Haedicke - The Man Who Laughs - Le Neon French-American Theatre Company
  • Ron O'Leary - They Never Said a Word - The Rose Organization
• 1998 Nick Olcott - Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Purloined Patience or The Scandal at the D'Oyly Carte - Interact Theatre Company
  • Carole Lehan, Jim Petosa - Look! We Have Come Through! - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
  • Norman Allen - Melville Slept Here - Signature Theatre
  • Regina Porter - Tripping Through the Car House - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • Sherry Kramer - Things That Break - Theater of the First Amendment
• 1999 John Strand - Lovers and Executioners - Arena Stage
  • Caleen Sinnette Jennings - Playing Juliet/Casting Othello - Folger Shakespeare Library
  • Caleen Sinnette Jennings - Playing Juliet/Casting Othello - Source Theatre Company
  • Christi Stewart-Brown - The Gene Pool - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • Lisa Loomer - Expecting Isabel - Arena Stage
  • Norman Allen - Nijinsky's Last Dance - Signature Theatre
  • Norman Allen - Waiting In Tobolsk: the Children of the Last Tsar - Moonlight Theatre Company
• 2000 Karen Zacar as - The Sins of Sor Juana - Theater of the First Amendment
  • Caleen Sinnette Jennings - Inns & Outs - Source Theatre Company
  • Chris Stezin - Hoboken Station - Charter Theatre
  • Oni Faida Lampley - The Dark Kalamazoo - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • Robert Alexander - The Last Orbit of Billy Mars - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • Sam Schwartz, Jr. - Courting Chris - The Church Street Theater
  • Sam Schwartz, Jr. - Courting Chris - The Theater Alliance
• 2001 Peter Coy - A House in the Country - Charter Theatre
  • Ari Roth - Life in Refusal - Theater J
  • Chad Beguelin, Matthew Sklar - The Rhythm Club - Signature Theatre
  • Charles Randolph-Wright - Blue - Arena Stage
  • David Lindsay-Abaire - Wonder of the World - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
    Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
    Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is a non-profit theatre company located at 641 D Street NW in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It produces new plays which it believes to be edgy, challenging, and thought-provoking...
    
    
  • David Maddox, Mary Hall Surface - Sing Down the Moon: Appalachian Wonder Tales - Theater of the First Amendment
• 2002 Norman Allen - In the Garden - Signature Theatre
  • David Maddox, Mary Hall Surface - Perseus Bayou - Theatre of the First Amendment
  • Martha King De Silva - Stretch Marks - Charter Theatre
  • Paul D'Andrea - Nathan the Wise - Theatre of the First Amendment
  • Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa - The Muckle Man - Source Theatre Company
• 2003 Ernie Joselovitz - Shakespeare, Moses, and Joe Papp - Round House Theatre
  • Allyson Currin - Church of the Open Mind - Charter Theatre
  • Craig Wright - Recent Tragic Events - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
    Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
    Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is a non-profit theatre company located at 641 D Street NW in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It produces new plays which it believes to be edgy, challenging, and thought-provoking...
    
    
  • John Strand - The Diaries - Signature Theatre
  • Joshua Ford - Miklat - Theater J
  • Paul Donnelly - The Taste of Fire - Charter Theatre

The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Musical

• 2003 Dorothy Waring, Kathy Madison, Kyle Donnelly, Stephen Wade, Zora Neale Hurston - Polk County - Arena Stage
  • David Maddox, Mary Hall Surface - Mississippi Pinocchio - Theater of the First Amendment
  • Thomas W. Jones, II - Harlem Rose, A Love Song to Langston Hughes - MetroStage
  • Thomas W. Jones, II - Three Sistahs - MetroStage
  • Janet Pryce, William Hubbard - Three Sistahs - MetroStage
  • Michael Lazar, Richard Oberacker - The Gospel According to Fishman - Signature Theatre
  • Norman Allen - The Christmas Carol Rag - Signature Theatre

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