2004
2006 
Production and Director
The Best Production award for 2005 goes to the Stratford Festival of Canada's Measure for Measure, an imaginatively realized horror show of pulsating lights, throbbing music and graphic depictions of prostitutes and strippers contrasting against storm troopers and police brutality.
In a close race, the Best Director award for 2005 goes to Richard Monette for his sensitive and insightful portrait of Edward II at the Stratford Festival of Canada, edging out Leon Rubin for the modern neon problem play Measure for Measure, also at the Stratford Festival.
Performance
The Best Actress award for 2005 goes to Dana Green as Isabella in Measure for Measure at the Stratford Festival of Canada. Green's Isabella - articulate, impassioned, and beautiful - is a deeply sympathetic heroine in a nightmare world.
The Best Actor award for 2005 goes to Phillip Earl Johnson in the title role of Macbeth at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. Johnson's multi-layered thane is a fearless soldier, passionate husband and ambitious politician who becomes anguished with possibilities and ultimately descends into helpless horror.
The Best Supporting Actor award for 2005 goes to Robert Petkoff as Mercutio in Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Romeo and Juliet. Petkoff's Mercutio prances and prowls with muscular ease, delivering a stirring jolt of theatricality.
The Best Supporting Actress award for 2005 goes to Peggy Roeder as the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Roeder's Nurse is a whirlwind of impassioned exclamations and fervid pontifications.
Technicals
The Best Scenic Design award for 2005 goes to John Pennoyer at the Stratford Festival of Canada's Measure for Measure, for his ingenious doubling of decadent sexual apparatus - suspended hoop, stripper poles - as prison cages and dungeon torture devices.
The Best Costume Design award for 2005 goes to Candice Donnelly for the colorful array of textures and fabrics within Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Romeo and Juliet.
The Best Lighting Design award for 2005 goes to Michael Vieira for the neon glow and seedy urban smolder in Measure for Measure at the Stratford Festival of Canada.
The Best Sound and Music Design award for 2005 goes to Jim Neil for the Stratford Festival of Canada's Measure for Measure. Dizzyingly loud stripper music and club beats contrast sharply with the sound of police helicopters and bullhorn commands.