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2018 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Nathan Lane, Angels in America

Anthony Boyle, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two

Michael Cera, Lobby Hero

Brian Tyree Henry, Lobby Hero

David Morse, Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh
2017 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Michael Aronov, Oslo

Danny DeVito, Arthur Miller's The Price

Nathan Lane, The Front Page

Richard Thomas, Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes

John Douglas Thompson, August Wilson's Jitney
2016 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Reed Birney, The Humans

Bill Camp, Arthur Miller's The Crucible

David Furr, Noises Off

Richard Goulding, King Charles III

Michael Shannon, Long Day's Journey Into Night
2015 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Richard McCabe, The Audience

Matthew Beard, Skylight

K. Todd Freeman, Airline Highway

Alessandro Nivola, The Elephant Man

Nathaniel Parker, Wolf Hall Parts One & Two

Micah Stock, It's Only a Play
2014 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Mark Rylance, Twelfth Night

Reed Birney, Casa Valentina

Paul Chahidi, Twelfth Night

Stephen Fry, Twelfth Night

Brian J. Smith, The Glass Menagerie
2013 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Courtney B. Vance, Lucky Guy

Danny Burstein, Golden Boy

Richard Kind, The Big Knife

Billy Magnussen, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Tony Shalhoub, Golden Boy
2012 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Christian Borle, Peter and the Starcatcher

Michael Cumpsty, End of the Rainbow

Tom Edden, One Man, Two Guvnors

Andrew Garfield, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

Jeremy Shamos, Clybourne Park
2011 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

John Benjamin Hickey, The Normal Heart

Mackenzie Crook, Jerusalem

Billy Crudup, Arcadia

Arian Moayed, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

Yul Vázquez, The Motherf**ker with the Hat
2010 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Eddie Redmayne, Red

David Alan Grier, Race

Stephen McKinley Henderson, Fences

Jon Michael Hill, Superior Donuts

Stephen Kunken, Enron
2009 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Roger Robinson, Joe Turner's Come and Gone

John Glover, Waiting for Godot

Zach Grenier, 33 Variations

Stephen Mangan, The Norman Conquests

Paul Ritter, The Norman Conquests
2008 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Jim Norton, The Seafarer

Bobby Cannavale, Mauritius

Raul Esparza, The Homecoming

Conleth Hill, The Seafarer

David Pittu, Is He Dead?
2007 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Billy Crudup, The Coast of Utopia

Anthony Chisholm, Radio Golf

Ethan Hawke, The Coast of Utopia

John Earl Jelks, Radio Golf

Stark Sands, Journey's End
2006 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Ian McDiarmid, Faith Healer

Samuel Barnett, The History Boys

Domhnall Gleeson, The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Mark Ruffalo, Awake and Sing!

Pablo Schreiber, Awake and Sing!
2005 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Liev Schreiber, Glengarry Glen Ross

Alan Alda, Glengarry Glen Ross

Gordon Clapp, Glengarry Glen Ross

David Harbour, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Michael Stuhlbarg, The Pillowman
2004 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Brían F. O'Byrne, Frozen

Tom Aldredge, Twentieth Century

Ben Chaplin, The Retreat from Moscow

Aidan Gillen, The Caretaker

Omar Metwally, Sixteen Wounded

Brían F. O'Byrne, Frozen
2003 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Denis O'Hare, Take Me Out

Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Long Day's Journey into Night

Robert Sean Leonard, Long Day's Journey into Night

Daniel Sunjata, Take Me Out
2002 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Frank Langella, Fortune's Fool

Brian Murray, The Crucible

William Biff McGuire, Morning's at Seven

Sam Robards, The Man Who Had All the Luck

Stephen Tobolowsky, Morning's at Seven
2001 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Robert Sean Leonard, The Invention of Love

Charles Brown, King Hedley II

Larry Bryggman, Proof

Michael Hayden, Judgment at Nuremberg

Ben Shenkman, Proof
2000 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Roy Dotrice, A Moon for the Misbegotten

Kevin Chamberlin, Dirty Blonde

Daniel Davis, Wrong Mountain

Derek Smith, The Green Bird

Bob Stillman, Dirty Blonde
1999 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Frank Wood, Side Man

Kevin Anderson, Death of a Salesman

Finbar Lynch, Not About Nightingales

Howard Witt, Death of a Salesman
1998 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Tom Murphy, The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Brían F. O'Byrne, The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Sam Trammell, Ah, Wilderness!

Max Wright, Ivanov
1997 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Owen Teale, A Doll's House

Terry Beaver, The Last Night of Ballyhoo

Brian Murray, The Little Foxes

William Biff McGuire, The Young Man From Atlanta
1996 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Seven Guitars

James Gammon, Buried Child

Roger Robinson, Seven Guitars

Reg Rogers, Holiday
1995 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

John Glover, Love! Valour! Compassion!

Stephen Bogardus, Love! Valour! Compassion!

Anthony Heald, Love! Valour! Compassion!

Jude Law, Indiscretions
1994 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Jeffrey Wright, Angels in America: Perestroika

Larry Bryggman, Picnic

David Marshall Grant, Angels in America: Perestroika

Gregory Itzin, The Kentucky Cycle
1993 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Stephen Spinella, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches

Robert Sean Leonard, Candida

Joe Mantello, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches

Zakes Mokae, The Song of Jacob Zulu
1992 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Larry Fishburne, Two Trains Running

Roscoe Lee Browne, Two Trains Running

Zeljko Ivanek, Two Shakespearean Actors

Tony Shalhoub, Conversations With My Father
1991 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Kevin Spacey, Lost in Yonkers

Adam Arkin, I Hate Hamlet

Dylan Baker, La Bête

Stephen Lang, The Speed of Darkness
1990 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Charles Durning, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Rocky Carroll, The Piano Lesson

Terry Kinney, The Grapes of Wrath

Gary Sinise, The Grapes of Wrath
1989 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Boyd Gaines, The Heidi Chronicles

Peter Frechette, Eastern Standard

Eric Stoltz, Our Town

Gordon Joseph Weiss, Ghetto
1988 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

B.D. Wong, M. Butterfly

Michael Gough, Breaking the Code

Lou Liberatore, Burn This

Delroy Lindo, Joe Turner's Come and Gone
1987 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

John Randolph, Broadway Bound

Frankie R. Faison, Fences

Jamey Sheridan, All My Sons

Courtney B. Vance, Fences
1986 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

John Mahoney, The House of Blue Leaves

Peter Gallagher, Long Day's Journey Into Night

Charles Keating, Loot

Joseph Maher, Loot
1985 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Barry Miller, Biloxi Blues

Charles S. Dutton, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

William Hurt, Hurlyburly

Edward Petherbridge, Strange Interlude
1984 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Joe Mantegna, Glengarry Glen Ross

Philip Bosco, Heartbreak House

Robert Prosky, Glengarry Glen Ross

Douglas Seale, Noises Off
1983 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Matthew Broderick, Brighton Beach Memoirs

Zeljko Ivanek, Brighton Beach Memoirs

George N. Martin, Plenty

Stephen Moore, All's Well That Ends Well
1982 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Zakes Mokae, 'Master Harold'...and the Boys

Richard Kavanaugh, The Hothouse

Edward Petherbridge, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

David Threlfall, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1981 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Brian Backer, The Floating Light Bulb

Tom Aldredge, The Little Foxes

Adam Redfield, A Life

Shepperd Strudwick, To Grandmother's House We Go
1980 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

David Rounds, Morning's at Seven

David Dukes, Bent

George Hearn, Watch on the Rhine

Earle Hyman, The Lady from Dubuque

Joseph Maher, Night and Day
1979 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Michael Gough, Bedroom Farce

Bob Balaban, The Inspector General

Joseph Maher, Spokesong

Edward James Olmos, Zoot Suit
1978 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Lester Rawlins, Da

Morgan Freeman, The Mighty Gents

Victor Garber, Deathtrap

Cliff Gorman, Chapter Two
1977 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Jonathan Pryce, Comedians

Bob Dishy, Sly Fox

Joe Fields, The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel

Laurence Luckinbill, The Shadow Box
1976 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Edward Herrmann, Mrs. Warren's Profession

Barry Bostwick, They Knew What They Wanted

Gabriel Dell, Lamppost Reunion

Daniel Seltzer, Knock Knock
1975 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Frank Langella, Seascape

Larry Blyden, Absurd Person Singular

Leonard Frey, The National Health

Philip Locke, Sherlock Holmes

George Rose, My Fat Friend

Dick Anthony Williams, Black Picture Show
1974 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Ed Flanders, A Moon for the Misbegotten

René Auberjonois, The Good Doctor

Douglas Turner Ward, The River Niger

Dick Anthony Williams, What the Wine-Sellers Buy
1973 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

John Lithgow, The Changing Room

Barnard Hughes, Much Ado About Nothing

John McMartin, Don Juan

Hayward Morse, Butley
1972 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Vincent Gardenia, The Prisoner of Second Avenue

Douglas Rain, Vivat! Vivat Regina!

Lee Richardson, Vivat! Vivat Regina!

Joe Silver, Lenny
1971 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Paul Sand, Story Theatre

Ronald Radd, Abelard and Heloise

Donald Pickering, Conduct Unbecoming

Ed Zimmermann, The Philanthropist
1970 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Ken Howard, Child's Play

Joseph Bova, The Chinese and Dr. Fish

Dennis King, A Patriot for Me
1969 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Al Pacino, Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?

Richard Castellano, Lovers and Other Strangers

Anthony Roberts, Play It Again, Sam

Louis Zorich, Hadrian VII
1968 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

James Patterson, The Birthday Party

Paul Hecht, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Brian Murray, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

John Wood, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
1967 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Ian Holm, The Homecoming

Clayton Corzatte, The School for Scandal

Stephen Elliot, Marat/Sade

Sydney Walker, The Wild Duck
1966 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Patrick Magee, Marat/Sade

Burt Brinckerhoff, Cactus Flower

A. Larry Haines, Generation

Eamon Kelly, Philadelphia, Here I Come!
1965 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Jack Albertson, The Subject was Roses

Murray Hamilton, Absence of a Cello

Martin Sheen, The Subject Was Roses

Clarence Williams, III, Slow Dance on the Killing Ground
1964 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Hume Cronyn, Hamlet

Lee Allen, Marathon '33

Michael Dunn, The Ballad of the Sad Café

Larry Gates, A Case of Libel
1963 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Alan Arkin, Enter Laughing

Barry Gordon, A Thousand Clowns

Paul Rogers, Photo Finish

Frank Silvera, The Lady of the Camellias
1962 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Walter Matthau, A Shot in the Dark

Godfrey M. Cambridge, Purlie Victorious

Joseph Campanella, A Gift of Time

Paul Sparer, Ross
1961 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Martin Gable, Big Fish, Little Fish

Philip Bosco, The Rape of the Belt

Eduardo Ciannelli, The Devil's Advocate

George Grizzard, Big Fish, Little Fish
1960 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Roddy McDowell, The Fighting Cock

Warren Beatty, A Loss of Roses

Harry Guardino, One More River

Rip Torn, Sweet Bird of Youth

Lawrence Winters, The Long Dream
1959 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Charlie Ruggles, The Pleasure of His Company

Marc Connelly, Tall Story

George Grizzard, The Disenchanted

Walter Matthau, Once More, With Feeling

Robert Morse, Say, Darling

George Scott, Comes a Day
1958 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Henry Jones, Sunrise At Campobello

Sig Arno, Time Remembered

Theodore Bikel, The Rope Dancers

Pat Hingle, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

George Relph, The Entertainer
1957 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Frank Conroy, The Potting Shed

Eddie Mayehoff, A Visit To A Small Planet

William Podmore, Separate Tables

Jason Robards, Jr., Long Day's Journey Into Night
1956 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Ed Begley, Inherit the Wind

Anthony Franciosa, A Hatful of Rain

Andy Griffith, Not Time for Sergeants

Anthony Quayle, Tamburlaine the Great

Fritz Weaver, The Chalk Garden
1955 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Francis L. Sullivan, Witness for the Prosecution
1954 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

John Kerr, Tea and Sympathy
1953 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

John Williams, Dial M for Murder
1952 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

John Cromwell, Point of No Return
1951 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)

Eli Wallach, The Rose Tattoo
1949 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)
