Nominations / Actress (Featured Role - Play)

Kara Young

Tala Ashe

Jessica Hecht

Marjan Neshat

Fina Strazza

Kara Young

Quincy Tyler Bernstine

Juliana Canfield

Celia Keenan-Bolger

Sarah Pidgeon

Miriam Silverman

Nikki Crawford

Crystal Lucas-Perry

Katy Sullivan

Kara Young

Phylicia Rashad

Uzo Aduba

Rachel Dratch

Kenita R. Miller

Julie White

Kara Young

Lois Smith

Jane Alexander

Chalia La Tour

Annie McNamara

Cora Vander Broek

Celia Keenan-Bolger

Fionnula Flanagan

Kristine Nielsen

Julie White

Ruth Wilson

Laurie Metcalf, Edward Albee's Three Tall Women

Susan Brown, Angels in America

Noma Dumezweni, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two

Deborah Findlay, The Children

Denise Gough, Angels in America

Cynthia Nixon, Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes

Johanna Day, Sweat

Jayne Houdyshell, A Doll's House, Part 2

Condola Rashad, A Doll's House, Part 2

Michelle Wilson, Sweat

Jayne Houdyshell, The Humans

Pascale Armand, Eclipsed

Megan Hilty, Noises Off

Andrea Martin, Noises Off

Saycon Sengbloh, Eclipsed

Annaleigh Ashford, You Can't Take It with You

Patricia Clarkson, The Elephant Man

Lydia Leonard, Wolf Hall Parts One & Two

Sarah Stiles, Hand to God

Julie White, Airline Highway

Sophie Okonedo, A Raisin in the Sun

Sarah Greene, The Cripple of Inishmaan

Celia Keenan-Bolger, The Glass Menagerie

Anika Noni Rose, A Raisin in the Sun

Mare Winningham, Casa Valentina

Judith Light, The Assembled Parties

Carrie Coon, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Shalita Grant, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Judith Ivey, The Heiress

Condola Rashad, The Trip to Bountiful

Judith Light, Other Desert Cities

Linda Emond, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

Spencer Kayden, Don't Dress for Dinner

Celia Keenan-Bolger, Peter and the Starcatcher

Condola Rashad, Stick Fly

Ellen Barkin, The Normal Heart

Edie Falco, The House of Blue Leaves

Judith Light, Lombardi

Joanna Lumley, La Bête

Elizabeth Rodriguez, The Motherf**ker with the Hat

Scarlett Johansson, A View from the Bridge

Maria Dizzia, In the Next Room or the vibrator play

Rosemary Harris, The Royal Family

Jessica Hecht, A View from the Bridge

Jan Maxwell, Lend Me a Tenor

Angela Lansbury, Blithe Spirit

Hallie Foote, Dividing the Estate

Jessica Hynes, The Norman Conquests

Marin Ireland, Reasons to Be Pretty

Amanda Root, The Norman Conquests

Rondi Reed, August: Osage County

Sinead Cusack, Rock 'n' Roll

Mary McCormack, Boeing-Boeing

Laurie Metcalf, November

Martha Plimpton, Top Girls

Jennifer Ehle, The Coast of Utopia

Xanthe Elbrick, Coram Boy

Dana Ivey, Butley

Jan Maxwell, Coram Boy

Martha Plimpton, The Coast of Utopia

Frances de la Tour, The History Boys

Tyne Daly, Rabbit Hole

Jayne Houdyshell, Well

Alison Pill, The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Zoë Wanamaker, Awake and Sing!

Adriane Lenox, Doubt

Mireille Enos, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Heather Goldenhersh, Doubt

Dana Ivey, The Rivals

Amy Ryan, A Streetcar Named Desire

Audra McDonald, A Raisin in the Sun

Essie Davis, Jumpers

Sanaa Lathan, A Raisin in the Sun

Margo Martindale, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Daphne Rubin-Vega, Anna in the Tropics

Michele Pawk, Hollywood Arms

Christine Ebersole, Dinner at Eight

Linda Emond, Life (x) 3

Kathryn Meisle, Tartuffe

Marian Seldes, Dinner at Eight

Katie Finneran, Noises Off

Kate Burton, The Elephant Man

Elizabeth Franz, Morning's at Seven

Estelle Parsons, Morning's at Seven

Frances Sternhagen, Morning's at Seven

Viola Davis, King Hedley II

Johanna Day, Proof

Penny Fuller, Neil Simon's The Dinner Party

Marthe Keller, Judgment at Nuremberg

Michele Lee, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife

Blair Brown, Copenhagen

Frances Conroy, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan

Amy Ryan, Uncle Vanya

Helen Stenborg, Waiting in the Wings

Sarah Woodward, The Real Thing

Elizabeth Franz, Death of a Salesman

Claire Bloom, Electra

Samantha Bond, Amy's View

Dawn Bradfield, The Lonesome West

Anna Manahan, The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Enid Graham, Honour

Linda Lavin, The Diary of Anne Frank

Julyana Soelistyo, Golden Child

Lynne Thigpen, An American Daughter

Helen Carey, London Assurance

Dana Ivey, The Last Night of Ballyhoo

Celia Weston, The Last Night of Ballyhoo

Audra McDonald, Master Class

Viola Davis, Seven Guitars

Michele Shay, Seven Guitars

Lois Smith, Buried Child

Frances Sternhagen, The Heiress

Suzanne Bertish, The Moliere Comedies

Cynthia Nixon, Indiscretions

Mercedes Ruehl, The Shadow Box

Jane Adams, An Inspector Calls

Debra Monk, Picnic

Jeanne Paulsen, The Kentucky Cycle

Anne Pitoniak, Picnic

Debra Monk, Redwood Curtain

Kathleen Chalfant, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches

Marcia Gay Harden, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches

Anne Meara, Anna Christie

Brid Brennan, Dancing at Lughnasa

Rosaleen Linehan, Dancing at Lughnasa

Cynthia Martells, Two Trains Running

Dearbhla Molloy, Dancing at Lughnasa

Irene Worth, Lost in Yonkers

Amelia Campbell, Our Country's Good

Kathryn Erbe, The Speed of Darkness

J. Smith-Cameron, Our Country's Good

Margaret Tyzack, Lettice and Lovage

Polly Holliday, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

S. Epatha Merkerson, The Piano Lesson

Lois Smith, The Grapes of Wrath

Christine Baranski, Rumors

Joanne Camp, The Heidi Chronicles

Tovah Feldshuh, Lend Me a Tenor

Penelope Ann Miller, Our Town

L. Scott Caldwell, Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Kimberleigh Aarn, Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Kate Nelligan, Serious Money

Kimberly Scott, Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Mary Alice, Fences

Annette Bening, Coastal Disturbances

Phyllis Newman, Broadway Bound

Carole Shelley, Stepping Out

Swoosie Kurtz, The House of Blue Leaves

Stockard Channing, The House of Blue Leaves

Bethel Leslie, Long Day's Journey Into Night

Zoë Wanamaker, Loot

Judith Ivey, Hurlyburly

Joanna Gleason, Joe Egg

Theresa Merritt, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Sigourney Weaver, Hurlyburly

Christine Baranski, The Real Thing

Jo Henderson, Play Memory

Dana Ivey, Heartbreak House

Deborah Rush, Noises Off

Judith Ivey, Steaming

Elizabeth Franz, Brighton Beach Memoirs

Roxanne Hart, Passion

Margaret Tyzack, All's Well That Ends Well

Amanda Plummer, Agnes of God

Judith Anderson, Medea

Mia Dillon, Crimes of the Heart

Mary Beth Hurt, Crimes of the Heart

Swoosie Kurtz, Fifth of July

Maureen Stapleton, The Little Foxes

Jessica Tandy, Rose

Zoë Wanamaker, Piaf

Dinah Manoff, I Ought to be in Pictures

Maureen Anderman, The Lady from Dubuque

Pamela Burrell, Strider

Lois de Banzie, Morning's at Seven

Joan Hickson, Bedroom Farce

Laurie Kennedy, Man and Superman

Susan Littler, Bedroom Farce

Mary-Joan Negro, Wings

Ann Wedgeworth, Chapter Two

Starletta DuPois, The Mighty Gents

Swoosie Kurtz, Tartuffe

Marian Seldes, Deathtrap

Trazana Beverley, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf

Patricia Elliott, The Shadow Box

Rose Gregorio, The Shadow Box

Mary McCarty, Anna Christie

Shirley Knight, Kennedy's Children

Mary Beth Hurt, Trelawny of the 'Wells'

Lois Nettleton, They Knew What They Wanted

Meryl Streep, 27 Wagons Full of Cotton

Rita Moreno, The Ritz

Linda Miller, Black Picture Show

Gerladine Page, Absurd Person Singular

Carole Shelley, Absurd Person Singular

Elizabeth Spriggs, London Assurance

Frances Sternhagen, Equus

Frances Sternhagen, The Good Doctor

Regina Baff, Veronica's Room

Fionnula Flanagan, Ulysses in Nighttown

Charlotte Moore, Chemin de Fer

Roxie Roker, The River Niger

Leora Dana, The Last of Mrs. Lincoln

Maya Angelou, Look Away

Katherine Helmond, The Great God Brown

Penelope Windust, Elizabeth I

Elizabeth Wilson, Sticks and Bones

Cara Duff-MacCormick, Moonchildren

Mercedes McCambridge, The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks

Frances Sternhagen, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window - Revival

Rae Allen, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little

Lili Darvas, Les Blancs

Joan Van Ark, The School for Wives

Mona Washbourne, Home

Blythe Danner, Butterflies Are Free

Alice Drummond, The Chinese and Dr. Fish

Eileen Heckart, Butterflies Are Free

Linda Lavin, Last of the Red Hot Lovers

Jane Alexander, The Great White Hope

Diane Keaton, Play It Again, Sam

Lauren Jones, Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?

Anna Manahan, Lovers

Zena Walker, Joe Egg

Pert Kelton, Spofford

Ruth White, The Birthday Party

Eleanor Wilson, Weekend

Marian Seldes, A Delicate Balance

Camila Ashland, Black Comedy

Brenda Forbes, The Loves of Cass McGuire

Maria Tucci, The Rose Tattoo

Zoe Caldwell, Slapstick Tragedy

Glenda Jackson, Marat/Sade

Mairin D. O'Sullivan, Philadelphia, Here I Come!

Brenda Vaccaro, Cactus Flower

Alice Ghostley, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

Rae Allen, Traveller Without Luggage

Alexandra Berlin, All in Good Time

Carolan Daniels, Slow Dance on the Killing Ground

Barbara Loden, After the Fall

Rosemary Murphy, Any Wednesday

Kate Reid, Dylan

Diana Sands, Blues for Mister Charlie

Sandy Dennis, A Thousand Clowns

Melinda Dillon, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Alice Ghostley, The Beauty Part

Zohra Lampert, Mother Courage and Her Children

Elizabeth Ashley, Take Her, She's Mine

Zohra Lampert, Look: We've Come Through

Janet Margolin, Daughter of Silence

Pat Stanly, Sunday in New York

Colleen Dewhurst, All the Way Home

Eileen Heckart, Invitation to a March

Tresa Hughes, The Devil's Advocate

Rosemary Murphy, Period of Adjustment

Anne Revere, Toys in the Attic

Leora Dana, The Best Man

Jane Fonda, There Was a Little Girl

Sarah Marshall, Goodbye, Charlie

Juliet Mills, Five Finger Exercise

Julie Newmar, The Marriage-Go-Round

Maureen Delany, God and Kate Murphy

Dolores Hart, The Pleasure of His Company

Nan Martin, J.B.

Bertice Reading, Requiem for a Nun

Anne Bancroft, Two For The Seesaw

Brenda de Banzie, The Entertainer

Joan Blondell, The Rope Dancers

Mary Fickett, Sunrise At Campobello

Eileen Heckart, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

Peggy Cass, Auntie Mame

Anna Massey, The Reluctant Debutante

Beryl Measor, Separate Tables

Mildred Natwick, The Waltz Of The Toreadors

Phyllis Neilson-Terry, Separate Tables

Diana Van Der Vlis, The Happiest Millionaire

Una Merkel, The Ponder Heart

Diane Cilento, Tiger at the Gates

Anne Jackson, Middle of the Night

Elaine Stritch, Bus Stop

Patricia Jessel, Witness for the Prosecution

Jo Van Fleet, The Trip to Bountiful

Beatrice Straight, The Crucible

Marian Winters, I Am a Camera

Maureen Stapleton, The Rose Tattoo

Shirley Booth, Goodbye, My Fancy

Patricia Neal, Another Part of the Forrest