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Nominations / Actor (Featured Role - Play)
2023 / Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Brandon Uranowitz
For
Leopoldstadt
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Jordan E. Cooper
For
Ain't No Mo'
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Samuel L. Jackson
For
August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson
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Arian Moayed
For
A Doll's House
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David Zayas
For
Cost of Living
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2022 / Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
For
Take Me Out
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Alfie Allen
For
Hangmen
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Chuck Cooper
For
Trouble in Mind
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Ron Cephas Jones
For
Clyde's
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Michael Oberholtzer
For
Take Me Out
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Jesse Williams
For
Take Me Out
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2020 / Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
David Alan Grier
For
A Soldier's Play
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Ato Blankson-Wood
For
Slave Play
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James Cusati-Moyer
For
Slave Play
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John Benjamin Hickey
For
The Inheritance
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Paul Hilton
For
The Inheritance
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2019 / Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Bertie Carvel
For
Ink
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Robin De Jesús
For
The Boys in the Band
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Gideon Glick
For
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Brandon Uranowitz
For
Burn This
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Benjamin Walker
For
Arthur Miller’s All My Sons
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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)
Arthur Kennedy,
Death of a Salesman