Helen Hayes Awards Resident Design
These Helen Hayes Awards are given annually for excellence in production design for professional theatres in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. These awards are given only for resident productions.
Choreography and Musical Direction
Outstanding Choreography in a Resident Production
- 1993 Dianne McIntyre - In Living Colors -
- * Linda Garner Miller - H.M.S. Pinafore -
- * Marcia Milgrom Dodge - Of Thee I Sing -
- * Robert Biederman - 2-2-Tango -
- * Roy Anthony Arauz - Female Hitchikers - Consenting Adults Theatre Company
- 1994 Mike Malone - Spunk -
- * Charles Augins - Five Guys Named Moe - Ford's Theatre
- * David Leong - Julius Caesar - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Jim Corti - Dancing TROLLat Lughnasa - Arena Stage
- 1996 Patdro Harris - Bessie's Blues - The Studio Theatre
- * Brad Waller - Richard III - Folger Shakespeare Library
- * Dianne McIntyre - I Could Stop on a Dime and Get Ten Cents Change - Theater of the First Amendment
- * Karma Camp - Cabaret - Signature Theatre
- * Mike Malone - Black Nativity - The Kennedy Center
- 1999 Debbie Allen - Brothers of the Knight - The Kennedy Center
- * Charles Augins - The Fix - Signature Theatre in association with Cameron Mackintosh
- * Ilona Kessell - West Side Story - Toby's Dinner Theatre
- * Irina Tsikurishvili - The Little Tragedies - Stanislavsky Theater Studio
- * Karma Camp - Nijinsky's Last Dance - Signature Theatre
- * Mark Minnick - Godspell - West End Dinner Theatre
- 2000 Irina Tsikurishvili - The Idiot - Stanislavsky Theater Studio
- * Baayork Lee - Animal Crackers - Arena Stage
- * Ilona Kessell - Follies - Toby's Dinner Theatre
- * Ilona Kessell - State Fair - Toby's Dinner Theatre
- * Mark Minnick - West Side Story - West End Dinner Theatre
- * Patdro Harris - Slam! - The Studio Theatre
- 2001 Irina Tsikurishvili - Faust - Stanislavsky Theater Studio
- * Debbie Allen - Dreams - The Kennedy Center
- * Ilona Kessell - 42nd Street - Toby's Dinner Theatre
- * Jodi Moccia - The Rhythm Club - Signature Theatre
- * Mark Minnick - Bandstand 2000 - West End Dinner Theatre
- * Mercedes Ellington - Play On! - Arena Stage
- 2002 Ilona Kessell - Damn Yankees - Toby's Dinner Theatre
- * Ilona Kessell - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - Toby's Dinner Theatre
- * Irina Tsikurishvili - Don Quixote - Stanislavsky Theater Studio
- * Marlies Yearby - The Oedipus Plays - Shakespeare Theatre
- * Septime Webre - Coyote Builds America - Arena Stage
- 2003 Irina Tsikurishvili - Hamlet - Synetic Theater
- * Baayork Lee - South Pacific - Arena Stage
- * Ilona Kessell - The Jazz Singer - Toby's Dinner Theatre
- * Irina Tsikurishvili - Host and Guest - Synetic Theater
- * Kelly Parsley - Tales from Ovid - The Theater Alliance
- * Mark Minnick - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - West End Dinner Theatre
- * Sam Elmore - Tales from Ovid - The Theater Alliance
Outstanding Musical Direction in a Resident Production
- 1998 Jon Kalbfleisch - Sunday in the Park With George - Arena Stage
- Jon Kalbfleisch - Sunday in the Park With George - Signature Theatre
- * Buck Brown - Hair, The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical - The Studio Theatre Secondstage
- * Dan Sticco - Old Wicked Songs - The Studio Theatre
- * Douglas Lawler - It's a Wonderful Life - Toby's Dinner Theatre
- * Michael Rice - Working - Signature Theatre
- 1999 Anderson Edwards - Thunder Knocking on the Door - Arena Stage
- * Buck Brown - Kerouac - The Studio Theatre Secondstage
- * Douglas Lawler - Hot Nostalgia II - Toby's Dinner Theatre
- * George Fulginiti-Shakar - Mad About the Bard - Folger Shakespeare Library
- * Jon Kalbfleisch - A Little Night Music - Signature Theatre
- * Jon Kalbfleisch - The Fix - Signature Theatre in association with Cameron Mackintosh
- 2000 Kevin Campbell - The Dark Kalamazoo - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- * Danny Kosarin - Guys and Dolls - Arena Stage
- * George Fulginiti-Shakar - Animal Crackers - Arena Stage
- * Jon Kalbfleisch - Sweeney Todd - Signature Theatre
- * William Knowles - Slam! - The Studio Theatre
- 2001 Jason Robert Brown - Dinah Was - Arena Stage
- William Knowles - Dinah Was - Arena Stage
- * David Maddox - Sing Down the Moon: Appalachian Wonder Tales - Theater of the First Amendment
- * Deborah Wicks La Puma - Crack Between the Worlds: the goddess returns - The Studio Theatre Secondstage
- * J. Leonard Oxley - Play On! - Arena Stage
- * Jay Crowder - Side Show - Signature Theatre
- 2002 Jon Kalbfleisch - Grand Hotel - Signature Theatre
- * Dianne Adams McDowell - Constant Star - Arena Stage
- * Dwight Andrews - Blues in the Night - Arena Stage
- * George Fulginiti-Shakar - The Oedipus Plays - Shakespeare Theatre
- * Jon Kalbfleisch - Putting it Together - Signature Theatre
- * Larry Edward Vote - The Pirates of Penzance - Interact Theatre Company
- 2003 Rob Berman - Sunday in the Park With George - The Kennedy Center
- * Daniel Sticco - Bat Boy: The Musical - The Studio Theatre Secondstage
- * George Fulginiti-Shakar - South Pacific - Arena Stage
- * Johnathan Tunick - Company - The Kennedy Center
- * Larry Blank - Sweeney Todd - The Kennedy Center
- * Paul Raiman - The Gospel According to Fishman - Signature Theatre
- * Stephen Wade - Polk County - Arena Stage
- 2011 George Fulginiti-Shakar - Oklahoma! - Arena Stage
- *Jon Kalbfleisch - Sunset Boulevard - Signature Theatre
- *Fred Lassen - Sycamore Trees - Signature Theatre
- *Konstantine Lortkipandze - Othello - Synetic Theater
- *Doug Peck - Candide - Shakespeare Theatre Company
- *Paul Sportelli - The Light in the Piazza - Arena Stage
- *James Sugg - Orestes, A Tragic Romp - Folger Theatre
Outstanding Musical Director of a Resident Musical
- 1996 Dave Ferguson - Bessie's Blues - The Studio Theatre
- * Jack Bashkow - Standup Shakespeare - Folger Shakespeare Library
- * Jon Kalbfleisch - Cabaret - Signature Theatre
- * Larry Edward Vote - H.M.S. Pinafore - Interact Theatre Company
- * Tony Booker - Black Nativity - The Kennedy Center
Production Design
Outstanding Costume Design in a Resident Production
- 1985 Marjorie Slaiman - Man and Superman - Arena Stage
- * Anne Hould-Ward - King Lear - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Jared Aswegan - The Tempest - Arena Stage
- * John Carver Sullivan - Much Ado About Nothing - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Laura Crow - Cloud 9 - Arena Stage
- * Marjorie Slaiman - Happy End - Arena Stage
- 1986 Holly Cole - The Merry Wives of Windsor - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Elizabeth Covey - A Midsummer Night's Dream - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Kate Corbley - The Miss Firecracker Contest - Olney Theatre
- * Kurt Wilhelm - The Count of Monte Cristo - American National Theatre
- * Marjorie Slaiman - Women and Water - Arena Stage
- * Miruna Boruzescu - Tartuffe - Arena Stage
- 1987 Martin Pakledinaz - The Piggy Bank - Arena Stage
- * Mark Pirolo - The Cherry Orchard - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Martin Pakledinaz - The Taming of the Shrew - Arena Stage
- * Rosemary Pardee - The Water Engine - Round House Theatre
- * William Schroder - The Miser - The Shakespeare Theatre
- 1988 Rosemary Pardee - Filthy Rich - Round House Theatre
- * Jane Greenwood - The Winter's Tale - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Marjorie Slaiman - Heartbreak House - Arena Stage
- * Marjorie Slaiman - Light Up the Sky - Arena Stage
- * Martin Pakledinaz - All's Well That Ends Well - The Shakespeare Theatre
- 1989 William Pucilowsky - The Constant Wife - The Washington Stage Guild
- * Marjorie Slaiman - Enrico IV - Arena Stage
- * Martin Pakledinaz - The Cocoanuts - Arena Stage
- * Smaranda Branescu - Macbeth - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Smaranda Branescu - Six Characters in Search of an Author - Arena Stage
- * Susan Hirschfeld - The Merchant of Venice - The Shakespeare Theatre
- 1990 Jane Schloss Phelan - Heathen Valley - Round House Theatre
- * Ellen McCartney - The Beggar's Opera - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Marjorie Slaiman - The Man Who Came to Dinner - Arena Stage
- * Martin Pakledinaz - Twelfth Night - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Rosemary Pardee - Lucky Stiff - Round House Theatre
- * Zack Brown - On the Town - Arena Stage
- 1991 Martin Pakledinaz - Mary Stuart - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Catherine Zuber - The Merry Wives of Windsor - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Marjorie Slaiman - Juno and the Paycock - Arena Stage
- * Merrily Murray-Walsh - Richard III - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Paul Tazewell - The Caucasian Chalk Circle - Arena Stage
- * Ric Thomas Rice - Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune - The Studio Theatre
- 1992 Barbra Kravitz - Pygmalion - Arena Stage
- * Barbra Kravitz - Saint Joan - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Don Newcomb - The Women - The Studio Theatre
- * Martin Pakledinaz - King Lear - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Regula Schmid - Amor de Don Perlimplin con Belisa en su Jardin - GALA Hispanic Theatre
- 1993 Paul Tazewell - The African Company Presents "Richard III" - Arena Stage
- * Catherine Zuber - Hamlet - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Lynnie Raybuck - Frankenstein - Washington Shakespeare Company
- * Marjorie Slaiman - Of Thee I Sing - Arena Stage
- * Martin Pakledinaz - Much Ado About Nothing - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Paul Tazewell - The Way of the World - Arena Stage
- 1994 Reggie Ray - Spunk - The Studio Theatre
- * Howard Vincent Kurtz - Strindberg in Hollywood - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- * Marina Draghici - It's the Truth - Arena Stage
- * Rosemary Pardee - Lend Me a Tenor - Olney Theatre
- * Theresa Chevine - Vampires Lesbians of Sodom and Sleeping Beauty or Coma - Fourth Wall Productions
- * Tom Broecker - Richard II - The Shakespeare Theatre
- 1995 Howard Vincent Kurtz - Dream of a Common Language - Theater of the First Amendment
- * Jess Goldstein - Hot Mikado - Ford's Theatre
- * Patricia Zipprodt - The School for Scandal - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Paul Tazewell - The Odyssey - Arena Stage
- * Paul Tazewell - The Revengers' Comedies - Arena Stage
- * Reggie Ray - God's Trombones - DC ART/WORKS
- 1996 Anita Stewart - Love's Labor's Lost - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Lindsay W. Davis - A Month in the Country - Arena Stage
- * Paul Tazewell - The Matchmaker - Arena Stage
- * Reggie Ray - Black Nativity - The Kennedy Center
- * Rosemary Pardee - When We Are Married - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
- 1997 Martin Pakledinaz - Volpone - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Andrew V. Yelusich - All's Well That Ends Well - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Paul Tazewell - Blithe Spirit - Arena Stage
- * Robin Stapley - Quills - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- * Rosemary Pardee - The Mikado - Interact Theatre Company
- * Zack Brown - Candide - Arena Stage
- 1998 Jane Greenwood - Mourning Becomes Electra - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Jane Shafer - The Wizard of Oz - Toby's Dinner Theatre
- * Jule Emerson - The Importance of Being Earnest - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
- * Patricia Zipprodt - Sunday in the Park With George - Arena Stage
- * Patricia Zipprodt - Sunday in the Park With George - Signature Theatre
- * Rosemary Pardee - The Rehearsal - Round House Theatre
- 1999 Paul Tazewell - Peer Gynt - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Anne Kennedy - The Fix - Signature Theatre in association with Cameron Mackintosh
- * Natasha Djukic - Quartet - Open Theatre/TUTA
- * Reggie Ray - The Old Settler - The Studio Theatre
- * Robert Perdziola - A Woman of No Importance - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Robin Stapley - Camille - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
- 2000 Helen Q. Huang - Indian Ink - The Studio Theatre
- * Alessandra D'Ovidio - La Dama Boba - GALA Hispanic Theatre
- * Justine Scherer - Renard the Fox - Le Neon Theatre
- * Martin Pakledinaz - The Merchant of Venice - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Paul Tazewell - The Women - Arena Stage
- * Zack Brown - The Royal Family - Arena Stage
- 2001 Robert Perdziola - The Country Wife - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Anne Kennedy - Side Show - Signature Theatre
- * Debra Bauer - Blue - Arena Stage
- * Howard Tsvi Kaplan - Man of La Mancha - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
- * Murell Horton - Camino Real - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Rosemary Pardee - The Great White Hope - Arena Stage
- 2002 Robert Perdziola - Don Carlos - Shakespeare Theatre
- * Jelena Vukmirovic - Perseus Bayou - Theatre of the First Amendment
- * Justine Light and Lucas Maroney - God of Vengeance - Rorschach Theatre
- * Lindsay W. Davis - Agamemnon and His Daughters - Arena Stage
- * Murell Horton - Hedda Gabler - Shakespeare Theatre
- * Susan E. Mickey - Blues in the Night - Arena Stage
- 2003 Jelena Vukmirovic and Marie Schneggenberger - Mississippi Pinocchio - Theater of the First Amendment
- * Alessandra D'Ovidio - La Verdad Sospechosa - Gala Hispanic Theatre
- * Catherine Zuber - Much Ado about Nothing - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Catherine Zuber - The Winter's Tale - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Deborah M. Dryden - The Misanthrope - Arena Stage
- * Mariana Fernandez - La Verdad Sospechosa - Gala Hispanic Theatre
- * Robert Perdziola - The Duchess of Malfi - The Shakespeare Theatre
- 2004 Paul Tazewell - Camelot - Arena Stage
- * Jess Goldstein - Shakespeare in Hollywood - Arena Stage
- * Constance Hoffman - A Midsummer Night's Dream - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Robert Perdziola - Follies - Signature Theatre
- * Robert Perdziola - The Rivals - Signature Theatre
- 2005 Gregg Barnes - Allegro - Signature Theatre
- * Mara Blumenfeld - Pericles - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Zack Brown - The Importance of Being Earnest - Arena Stage
- * Robert Perdziola - Cyrano - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Emilio Sosa - Señor Discretion Himself - Arena Stage
- * Kate Turner-Walker - The Two Gentlemen of Verona - Folger Theatre
- 2006 Robert Perdziola - Lady Windermere's Fan - Shakespeare Theatre Company
- * Zack Brown - Comedy of Errors - Shakespeare Theatre Company
- * Jess Goldstein - Othello - Shakespeare Theatre Company
- * Murell Horton - Lorenzaccio - Shakespeare Theatre Company
- * Anne Kennedy - Urenetown - Signature Theatre
- * Rosemary Pardee - Camille - Round House Theatre
- * James Schuette - Intimations for Saxophone - Arena Stage
- 2007 Catherine Zuber - Love's Labor's Lost - Shakespeare Theatre Company
- * Toni-Leslie James - 3 Mo' Divas - Arena Stage
- * Anna R. Oliver - Don Juan - Shakespeare Theatre Company
- * Robert Perdziola - The Beaux' Stratagem - Shakespeare Theatre Company
- * Kate Turner-Walker - A Midsummer Night's Dream - Folger Theatre
- 2008 Reggie Ray - Souvenir, A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins - Studio Theatre
- * Murell Horten- Edward II - Shakespeare Theatre Company
- * Jennifer Moeller - Tamburlaine - Shakespeare Theatre Company
- * Anastasia Ryurikov Simes - Macbeth - Synetic Theater
- * Paul Tazewell - Carnival! - The Kennedy Center
Outstanding Lighting Design in a Resident Production
- 1985 Daniel MacLean Wagner - My Sister in This House - The Studio Theatre
- * Allen Lee Hughes - Passion Play - Arena Stage
- * Frances Aronson - Happy End - Arena Stage
- * Frances Aronson - The Tempest - Arena Stage
- * Nancy Schertler - Lydie Breeze - New Playwrights' Theatre
- * Stuart Duke - King Lear - The Shakespeare Theatre
- 1986 James F. Ingalls - The Count of Monte Cristo - American National Theatre
- * Allen Lee Hughes - Women and Water - Arena Stage
- * Beverly Emmons - Tartuffe - Arena Stage
- * Richard Winkler - A Midsummer Night's Dream - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Stuart Duke - A Walk Out of Water - The Studio Theatre
- * Stuart Duke - Othello - The Shakespeare Theatre
- 1987 James F. Ingalls - Ajax - American National Theatre
- * Beverly Emmons - The Wild Duck - Arena Stage
- * Daniel MacLean Wagner - The Birthday Party - The Studio Theatre
- * Frances Aronson - Measure for Measure - Arena Stage
- * Nancy Schertler - Old Times - Arena Stage
- * Nancy Schertler - Romeo and Juliet - The Shakespeare Theatre
- 1988 Daniel MacLean Wagner - The Entertainer - The Studio Theatre
- * Allen Lee Hughes - All the King's Men - Arena Stage
- * Daniel MacLean Wagner - As Is - The Studio Theatre
- * Nancy Schertler - Crime and Punishment - Arena Stage
- * Nancy Schertler - The Winter's Tale - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Richard H. Young - Filthy Rich - Round House Theatre
- 1989 Allen Lee Hughes - Six Characters in Search of an Author - Arena Stage
- * Daniel MacLean Wagner - Eleemosynary - Horizons Theatre
- * Daniel MacLean Wagner - On the Verge or The Geography of Yearning - Round House Theatre
- * Nancy Schertler - Aunt Dan & Lemon - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- * Nancy Schertler - Playboy of the West Indies - Arena Stage
- * Stephen Strawbridge - Macbeth - The Shakespeare Theatre
- 1990 Allen Lee Hughes - A Midsummer Night's Dream - Arena Stage
- * Allen Lee Hughes - On the Town - Arena Stage
- * Daniel MacLean Wagner - The Beggar's Opera - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Nancy Schertler - A Lie of the Mind - Arena Stage
- * Nancy Schertler - The Glass Menagerie - Arena Stage
- * Nancy Schertler - Twelfth Night - The Shakespeare Theatre
- 1991 Howell Binkley - Richard III - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Allen Lee Hughes - Juno and the Paycock - Arena Stage
- * Christopher Townsend - Angel - No-Neck Monsters Theatre Company
- * Daniel MacLean Wagner - Frankie and Johnnie in the Clair de Lune - The Studio Theatre
- * Donald Holder - Stand-Up Tragedy - Arena Stage
- * Nancy Schertler - The Caucasian Chalk Circle - Arena Stage
- 1992 Daniel MacLean Wagner - When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout - The Studio Theatre
- * David R. Zemmels - Bloody Poetry - Washington Shakespeare Company
- * Howell Binkley - King Lear - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * John Burchett - Sweeney Todd - Signature Theatre
- * Nancy Schertler - The Time of Your Life - Arena Stage
- * Thomas F. Donahue - Odd Jobs - Round House Theatre
- 1993 Howell Binkley - Hamlet - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Daniel MacLean Wagner - Prelude to a Kiss - Olney Theatre
- * David R. Zemmels - The Einstein Project - Theater of the First Amendment
- * Nancy Schertler - In Living Colors - Theater of the First Amendment
- * Nancy Schertler - Troilus and Cressida - The Shakespeare Theatre
- 1994 Deirdre Kelly Lavrakas - El Beso de la Mujer Ara1a - GALA Hispanic Theatre
- Kim Peter Kovac - El Beso de la Mujer Ara1a - GALA Hispanic Theatre
- * Daniel MacLean Wagner - Shadowlands - Olney Theatre
- * Daniel MacLean Wagner - The Comedy of Errors - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Daniel Schrader - Two Rooms - Round House Theatre
- * Kim Peter Kovac - Our Country's Good - Signature Theatre
- 1995 Daniel MacLean Wagner - Someone Who'll Watch Over Me - The Studio Theatre
- * Allen Lee Hughes - The Odyssey - Arena Stage
- * Howell Binkley - Henry IV - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Martha Mountain - Dream of a Common Language - Theater of the First Amendment
- * Nancy Schertler - A Small World - Arena Stage
- 1996 Howell Binkley - Macbeth - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Daniel MacLean Wagner - A Streetcar Named Desire - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
- * Daniel MacLean Wagner - Conversations with My Father - The Studio Theatre
- * Daniel MacLean Wagner - The Passion of Dracula - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
- * Howell Binkley - Henry V - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Nancy Schertler - The Waiting Room - Arena Stage
- 1997 Daniel MacLean Wagner - Broken Glass - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
- Daniel MacLean Wagner - Broken Glass - The Rep Stage Company
- * Ayun Fedorcha - La Chunga - GALA Hispanic Theatre
- * Daniel MacLean Wagner - Passion - Signature Theatre
- * James F. Ingalls - Antony and Cleopatra - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Jennifer Tipton - Dance of Death - Arena Stage
- * Marianne Meadows - Quills - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- 1998 Howell Binkley - The Tempest - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Allen Lee Hughes - Sunday in the Park With George - Arena Stage
- * Allen Lee Hughes - Sunday in the Park With George - Signature Theatre
- * Howell Binkley - Mourning Becomes Electra - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Jeff Hill - Never the Sinner - Rep Stage
- * Jeff Hill - Never the Sinner - Signature Theatre
- * Marianne Meadows - Old Wicked Songs - The Studio Theatre
- 1999 Daniel MacLean Wagner - Nijinsky's Last Dance - Signature Theatre
- * Dan Covey - Dangerous Liaisons - Rep Stage
- * Dan Covey - Dangerous Liaisons - Source Theatre Company
- * Daniel MacLean Wagner - The Fix - Signature Theatre in association with Cameron Mackintosh
- * Howell Binkley - Peer Gynt - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Howell Binkley - Sweet Bird of Youth - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Michael Giannitti - Seven Guitars - The Studio Theatre
- 2000 Jay A. Herzog - Ambrosio - Rep Stage
- * Dan Covey - Edmond - Source Theatre Company
- * Daniel MacLean Wagner - A Midsummer Night's Dream - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Daniel MacLean Wagner - Sweeney Todd - Signature Theatre
- * Howell Binkley - The Merchant of Venice - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Marianne Meadows - The Adding Machine - Washington Jewish Theatre
- 2001 Dan Covey - The Tempest - Folger Theatre
- * Allen Lee Hughes - K2 - Arena Stage
- * Dan Covey - Leaving the Summer Land - Tribute Productions
- * Daniel MacLean Wagner - Therese Raquin - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
- * Jonathan Blandin - Available Light - Signature Theatre
- * Jonathan Blandin - The Mystery of Irma Vep - Rep Stage
- 2002 Chris Parry - Don Carlos - Shakespeare Theatre
- * Dan Covey - Macbeth - Folger Theatre
- * Marcus Dilliard - The Oedipus Plays - Shakespeare Theatre
- * Marianne Meadows - The Chosen - Theatre J
- * Nancy Schertler - Tom Walker - Arena Stage
- * Pavel Dobrusky - Agamemnon and His Daughters - Arena Stage
- 2003 Howell Binkley - Sweeney Todd - The Kennedy Center
- * Amy Appleyard - The Duchess of Malfi - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Chris Lee - Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Signature Theatre
- * Daniel MacLean Wagner - Gospel According to Fishman - Signature Theatre
- * Howell Binkley - Sunday in the Park With George - The Kennedy Center
- * Jonathan Blandin - The Weir - Round House Theatre
- 2004 Daniel MacLean Wagner - "The Drawer Boy" - Round House Theatre
- * Dan Covey - "The Return to Morality" - Rep Stage
- * Dan Covey - "Slaughter City" - Theater Alliance
- * Chris Lee - "Follies" - Signature Theatre
- * Mark McCullough - "Richard III" - Shakespeare Theatre Company
- 2005 Daniel MacLean Wagner - "The Diary of Anne Frank" - Round House Theatre
- * Dan Covey - "Mary's Wedding" - Theater Alliance
- * Dan Covey - "Merlin and the Cave of Dreams" - Imagination Stage
- * T.J. Gerckens - "Pericles" - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Tim Mitchell - "Henry IV, Part 1" - Shakespeare Theatre Company
- * Tim Mitchell - "Henry IV, Part 2" - Shakespeare Theatre Company
- 2006 - "The Tempest" - Shakespeare Theatre Company
- * Colin K. Bills - "A Clean House" - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- * Dan Covey - "Hannah & Martin" - Theater J
- * Allen Lee Hughes - "Comedy of Errors" - Shakespeare Theatre Company
- * Chris Lee - "Urinetown" - Signature Theatre
- * - "Oliver!" - Olney Theatre Center
- * - "Othello" - Shakespeare Theatre Company
- * Daniel MacLean Wagner - "Camille" - Round House Theatre
- 2007 - "The Elephant Man" - Olney Theatre Center
- * Colin K. Bills - "The Dybbuk" - Synetic Theater and Theater J
- * Colin K. Bills - "Frankenstein" - Synetic Theater as part of The Kennedy Center’s Prelude Festival
- * John Hoey - "Measure for Measure" - Folger Theatre
- * - "An Enemy of the People" - Shakespeare Theatre Company
Outstanding Set Design in a Resident Production
- 1985 Lewis Folden - Lydie Breeze - New Playwrights' Theatre
- * John Arnone - Happy End - Arena Stage
- * Loren Sherman - Passion Play - Arena Stage
- * Russell Metheny - King Lear - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Russell Metheny - My Sister in This House - The Studio Theatre
- * William Barclay - Much Ado About Nothing - The Shakespeare Theatre
- 1986 Russell Metheny - A Walk Out of Water - The Studio Theatre
- * George Tsypin - The Count of Monte Cristo - American National Theatre
- * John Arnone - The Good Person of Setzuan - Arena Stage
- * Patricia Woodbridge - Isn't It Romantic - Arena Stage
- * Radu Boruzescu - Tartuffe - Arena Stage
- * Russell Metheny - March of the Falsettos - The Studio Theatre
- 1987 Radu Boruzescu - The Wild Duck - Arena Stage
- * George Tsypin - Idiot's Delight - American National Theatre
- * Jane Williams Flank - Sally and Marsha - Round House Theatre
- * John Arnone - The Piggy Bank - Arena Stage
- * Richard H. Young - The Water Engine - Round House Theatre
- * Russell Metheny - Slab Boys - The Studio Theatre
- 1988 Russell Metheny - All's Well That Ends Well - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Jane Williams Flank - Filthy Rich - Round House Theatre
- * Karl Eigsti - Heartbreak House - Arena Stage
- * Matthew Cooper - Marathon '33 - Horizons Theatre
- * Russell Metheny - North Shore Fish - The Studio Theatre
- * Russell Metheny - The Entertainer - The Studio Theatre
- 1989 Russell Metheny - Eleemosynary - Horizons Theatre
- * Adrianne Lobel - Playboy of the West Indies - Arena Stage
- * Liviu Ciulei - Six Characters in Search of an Author - Arena Stage
- * Michael Yeargan - Macbeth - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Thomas Lynch - The Cocoanuts - Arena Stage
- 1990 James Kronzer - The Return of Herbert Bracewell - Olney Theatre
- * Derek McLane - Twelfth Night - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * John Arnone - Nothing Sacred - Arena Stage
- * Russell Metheny - Principia Scriptoriae - The Studio Theatre
- * Russell Metheny - The Common Pursuit - The Studio Theatre
- * Zack Brown - On the Town - Arena Stage
- 1991 Frank Hallinan-Flood - Juno and the Paycock - Arena Stage
- * Derek McLane - Richard III - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Jane Williams Flank - Rebel Armies Deep Into Chad - Round House Theatre
- * Michael Layton - Made in Bangkok - The Studio Theatre
- * Russell Metheny - The Secret Rapture - Olney Theatre
- 1992 Lou Stancari - Sweeney Todd - Signature Theatre
- * Frank Hallinan-Flood - She Stoops to Conquer - Arena Stage
- * Hal Crawford - Ardiente Paciencia - GALA Hispanic Theatre
- * James Kronzer - Apocalyptic Butterflies - Round House Theatre
- * James Kronzer - Love and Anger - Round House Theatre
- * Russell Metheny - The Women - The Studio Theatre
- 1993 James Kronzer - The Lisbon Traviata - The Studio Theatre
- * Derek McLane - Much Ado About Nothing - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * James Kronzer - Prelude to a Kiss - Olney Theatre
- * Jr.,Joseph B. Musumeci - Elektra - Round House Theatre
- * Lou Stancari - Assassins - Signature Theatre
- * Lou Stancari - Billy Nobody - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- 1994 Linda Buchanan - Dancing at Lughnasa - Arena Stage
- * Frank Hallinan-Flood - Julius Caesar - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * James Kronzer - Criminals in Love - Round House Theatre
- * James Wolk - Lettice and Lovage - Folger Shakespeare Library
- * James Wolk - Lettice and Lovage - Interact Theatre Company
- * Russell Metheny - The Caretaker - The Studio Theatre
- * Russell Metheny - The Comedy of Errors - The Shakespeare Theatre
- 1995 James Kronzer - Dream of a Common Language - Theater of the First Amendment
- * Derek McLane - The Doctor's Dilemma - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * James Kronzer - Someone Who'll Watch Over Me - The Studio Theatre
- * James Kronzer - The Night of the Iguana - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
- * Lou Stancari - Into the Woods - Signature Theatre
- * Loy Arcenas - Misalliance - Arena Stage
- 1996 James Kronzer - Conversations with My Father - The Studio Theatre
- * James Kronzer - A Streetcar Named Desire - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
- * James Kronzer - The Pitchfork Disney - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- * Lou Stancari - Cabaret - Signature Theatre
- * Ming Cho Lee - Macbeth - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Russell Metheny - Three Sisters - The Studio Theatre
- 1997 John Conklin - Dance of Death - Arena Stage
- * Daniel Conway - subUrbia - The Studio Theatre
- * James Kronzer - Broken Glass - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
- * James Kronzer - Broken Glass - The Rep Stage Company
- * Lou Stancari - Passion - Signature Theatre
- * Michael Yeargan - Antony and Cleopatra - The Shakespeare Theatre
- 1998 Tony Cisek - Things That Break - Theater of the First Amendment
- * James Kronzer - Love! Valour! Compassion! - The Studio Theatre
- * James Kronzer - Old Wicked Songs - The Studio Theatre
- * John Arnone - The Tempest - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Ming Cho Lee - Mourning Becomes Electra - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Zack Brown - Sunday in the Park With George - Arena Stage
- * Zack Brown - Sunday in the Park With George - Signature Theatre
- 1999 Tony Cisek - Much Ado About Nothing - Folger Shakespeare Library
- * Daniel Conway - Seven Guitars - The Studio Theatre
- * James Kronzer - The Merry Wives of Windsor - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Lou Stancari - The Fix - Signature Theatre in association with Cameron Mackintosh
- * Thomas Lynch - You Can't Take It With You - Arena Stage
- * Tony Cisek - Pericles - Washington Shakespeare Company
- 2000 Daniel Conway - Ambrosio - Rep Stage
- * Daniel Conway - The Desk Set - The Studio Theatre
- * Lou Stancari - Sweeney Todd - Signature Theatre
- * Ming Cho Lee - The Merchant of Venice - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Russell Metheny - Indian Ink - The Studio Theatre
- * Tony Cisek - Communicating Doors - Round House Theatre
- 2001 Tony Cisek - Leaving the Summer Land - Tribute Productions
- * James Kronzer - Collected Stories - Theater J
- * James Leonard Joy - Blue - Arena Stage
- * Lou Stancari - The Mystery of Irma Vep - Rep Stage
- * Ming Cho Lee - K2 - Arena Stage
- * Russell Metheny - bash: latterday plays - The Studio Theatre
- * Walt Spangler - Timon of Athens - The Shakespeare Theatre
- 2002 Ming Cho Lee - Don Carlos - Shakespeare Theatre
- * Tony Cisek - The Judas Kiss - Rep Stage Company
- * Daniel Conway - Jitney - Studio Theatre
- * Greg Mitchell - American Mara: The Ugly Girlfriend - Bald Spot Theatre
- * James Kronzer - In the Garden - Signature Theatre
- * Pavel Dobrusky - Agamemnon and His Daughters - Arena Stage
- 2003 Hugh Landwehr - The Little Foxes - The Shakespeare Theatre
- James Kronzer - Shakespeare, Moses, and Joe Papp - Round House Theatre
- * Debra Booth - Hambone - The Studio Theatre
- * Jos B. Musumeci - The Weir - Round House Theatre
- * Loy Arcenas - True West - Arena Stage
- * Walt Spangler - The Duchess of Malfi - The Shakespeare Theatre
Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Play or Musical
- 1990 Neil McFadden - Heathen Valley - Round House Theatre
- * David Crandall - The Stick Wife - Horizons Theatre
- * Mark Menna - Bluesman - Source Theatre Company
- * Susan R. White - A Lie of the Mind - Arena Stage
- * Susan R. White - On the Town - Arena Stage
- 1991 Susan R. White - Stand-Up Tragedy - Arena Stage
- * Gil Thompson - West Memphis Mojo - The Studio Theatre
- * Jerzy Sapieyevski - Richard III -
- * Neil McFadden - Zero Positive - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- * Susan R. White - Angel - No-Neck Monsters Theatre Company
- 1992 David Crandall - Hamlet - Washington Shakespeare Company
- * David Crandall - Ardiente Paciencia - GALA Hispanic Theatre
- * David Crandall - Julius Caesar - Washington Shakespeare Company
- * Edward Morgan and Neil McFadden - The Illusion - Round House Theatre
- * Susan R. White - The Seagull - Arena Stage
- 1993 Jens McVoy - The Einstein Project - Theater of the First Amendment
- * Adam Wernick - Hamlet - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Robin M. Heath - The Father with The Stronger - Arena Stage
- * Ron Ursano - African Tourist - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- * Susan R. White - The Visit - Arena Stage
- 1994 Keith Thomas - Julius Caesar - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Adam Wernick - Richard II - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * David Maddox and Robin M. Heath - Edward II - Washington Shakespeare Company
- * David Maddox - Porcelain - Consenting Adults Theatre Company
- * George Fulginiti-Shakar - The Comedy of Errors - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Rob Milburn - Dancing at Lughnasa - Arena Stage
- 1995 Richard Woodbury - Wings - Signature Theatre
- * Klimchak - No Exit - Le Neon French-American Theatre
- * David E. Smith - The Revengers' Comedies - Arena Stage
- * Mark K. Anduss - Dream of a Common Language - Theater of the First Amendment
- * Neil McFadden - The Swan - Round House Theatre
- 1996 Daniel Schrader - The Pitchfork Disney - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- * Ben Zastrow - Marisol - Potomac Theatre Project
- * David Maddox and Gil Thompson - Rhinoceros - The Studio Theatre
- * John Gottlieb and Mitchell Greenhill - The Waiting Room - Arena Stage
- * Ron Ursano/The Chroma Group - On the Open Road - The Actors' Theatre of Washington
- 1997 Bruce Odland - Dance of Death - Arena Stage
- * Daniel Schrader - Cymbeline - Washington Shakespeare Company
- * David Maddox - The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay - Theater of the First Amendment
- * Rob Milburn - The Miser - Arena Stage
- * Scott Burgess - Quills - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- 1998 Scott Burgess - Romeo and Juliet - Folger Shakespeare Library
- * David Maddox - Never the Sinner - Rep Stage
- * David Maddox - Never the Sinner - Signature Theatre
- * David Maddox - Things That Break - Theater of the First Amendment
- * Gil Thompson - Old Wicked Songs - The Studio Theatre
- * Gregory Brian and Mitch Finegold - The Fall of the House of Usher -
- * Scott Burgess - Travels With My Aunt - Rep Stage
- 1999 David Maddox - Nijinsky's Last Dance - Signature Theatre
- * Brian D. Keating - Neville's Island - Rep Stage
- * Gil Thompson and Scott Burgess - Seven Guitars - The Studio Theatre
- * Neil McFadden - Jack & Jill - Round House Theatre
- * Red Ramona - The Merry Wives of Windsor - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Scott W. Edwards and Timothy M. Thompson - You Can't Take It With You - Arena Stage
- 2000 Gil Thompson and Ronobir Lahiri - Indian Ink - The Studio Theatre
- * David Maddox - Grimm Tales - Theater of the First Amendment
- * Ltd.,Ron Ursano/The Chroma Group - Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika - Signature Theatre
- * Mark K. Anduss - The Last Orbit of Billy Mars - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- * Neil McFadden - The Dead Monkey - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- * Scott Burgess - The Adding Machine - Washington Jewish Theatre
- 2001 Scott Burgess - The Tempest - Folger Theatre
- * Brian Keating - Floyd Collins - Signature Theatre
- * Brian Keating - In The Absence of Spring - Signature Theatre
- * Hana Sellers - Wonder of the World - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- * Scott Burgess - The Mystery of Irma Vep - Rep Stage
- 2002 Daniel Portaix - Les Cloisons - Le Neon Theatre
- * Fabian Obispo - Agamemnon and His Daughters - Arena Stage
- * Gil Thompson - The Invention of Love - Studio Theatre
- * Mark K. Anduss - Andromeda Shack - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- * Martin Desjardins - Hamlet - Shakespeare Theatre
- * Tony Angelini - Home - Round House Theatre
- 2003 Mark Anduss - Tiny Alice - Washington Shakespeare Company
- * Adam Wernick - The Diaries - Signature Theatre
- * David McKeever - Scotland Road - Olney Theatre Center for the Arts
- * David McKeever - The After-Dinner Joke - Potomac Theatre Project
- * Paata Tsikurishvili - Host and Guest - Synetic Theater
- * Scott Burgess - Knoyugogh - Little Globe Theater
- * Scott Burgess - Othello - Folger Theatre
- 2004 Martin Desjardins - A Midsummer Night's Dream - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Martin Desjardins - Richard III - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Scott Burgess - Elizabeth the Queen - Folger Theatre
- * Chas Marsh - The Dazzle - Rep Stage
- * Neil McFadden - The Drawer Boy - Round House Theatre
- * Ryan Rumery - Thief River - Theatre Alliance
- 2005 Martin Desjardins - The Diary of Anne Frank - Round House Theatre
- * Martin Desjardins - MacBeth - The Shakespeare Theatre
- * Mark K Anduss - Mary's Wedding - Theatre Alliance
- * Irakli Kavsadze - The Master and Margarita - Synetic Theatre
- * Ron Oshima - Porcelain - Tsunami Theatre Company
- * Paata Tskurishvili - The Master and Margarita - Synetc Theatre
- 2006 Martin Desjardins - columbinus - Round House Theatre
- * Martin Desjardins- Othello - Shakespeare Theatre Company
- * Michael Bodeen - The Tempest - Shakespeare Theatre Company
- * Rob Milburn - The Tempest - Shakespeare Theatre Company
- * Dan Murphy - Moby Dick Rehearsed - The American Century Theatre
- * Darron L West - Imitations for Saxophone - Arena Stage
- 2007 Matthew M Nielson - A Prayer For Owen Meany - Round House Theatre
- * Martin Desjardins - An Enemy of the People - Shakespeare Theatre Company
- * Irakli Kavsadze - Frankenstein - Synetic Theatre/Kennedy Center Prelude Festival
- * Neil McFadden - A Midsummer Night's Dream - Folger Theatre
- * Michael Roth - The Persians - Shakespeare Theatre Company
- * Paata Tsikurishvili - Frankenstein - Synetic Theatre/Kennedy Center Prelude Festival
- 2008 Irakli Kavsadze - MacBeth - Synetic Theatre
- * Jeremy Lee - The Studio - Signature Theatre
- * Matthew M Nielson - Nest - Signature Theatre
- * Matthew M Nielson - the unmentionables - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- * Ryan Rumery - Vigils - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- * Gil Thompson - Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins - Studio Theatre
- * Paata Tsikurishvili - MacBeth - Synetic Theatre
- 2009 Matthew M Nielson - 1984 - Catalyst Theater
- * Karin Graybash - MacBeth - Folger Theatre and Two River Theatre Company
- * Irakli Kavsadze - Romeo and Juliet - Synetic Theatre Mainstage
- * Konstantine Lortkipanidze - Romeo and Juliet - Synetic Theatre Mainstage
- * Neil McFadden - Boom - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- * Ryan Rumery - Stunning - Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company
- * Kenny Wollesen - MacBeth - Folger Theatre and Two River Theatre Company