2005

Chris Houston, The Price, Aurora Theatre
Cliff Carruthers, Dollys West's Kitchen, TheatreWorks
Garth Hemphill, The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, American Conservatory Theater
Mark Bennett, Our Town, Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Norman Kern, Charlie Cox Runs with Scissors, Marin Theatre Company (winner)

2004

2003

Garth Hemphill, American Buffalo, American Conservatory Theater
Garth Hemphill, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, American Conservatory Theater
Jake Rodriguez, The Death of Meyerhold, Shotgun Players
Jeff Mockus, Mary’s Wedding, San Jose Repertory Theatre
Michael Roth, Suddenly Last Summer, Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Norman Kern, Syncopation, Marin Theatre Company

2002

Cliff Caruthers, The Seagull, California Shakespeare Festival
Norman Kern, The Music Lesson, Marin Theatre Company (winner)
Garth Hemphill, Night and Day, American Conservatory Theater
Matthew Spiro, Homebody/Kabul, Berkeley Repertory Theatre (winner)
Don Seaver, The Hairy Ape, Marin Theatre Company

2001

C. Jason Reinier, Oil!, Word for Word (winner)
David Reyes, Winesburg, Ohio, Word for Word & Shotgun Players (winner)
Matthew Spiro, The Laramie Project, Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Matthew Spiro, The Oresteia, Berkeley Repertory Theatre
David Van Tieghem, Nocturne, Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Will Waghorn, Sewing Lessons, Strangefruit Theatre Ensemble

2000

Victor Avdienko, The Taming of the Shrew, California Shakespeare Festival
Norman Kern, The Woman in Black, Marin Theatre Company (winner)
Matthew Spiro, The Green Bird, Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Garth Hemphill, The Invention of Love, American Conservatory Theatre
Scott De Turk, Mornings at Seven, Marin Theatre Company
Robert Arturo Ramirez, The Grapes of Wrath, TheatreWorks