Tony_Award_for_Best_Featured_Actress_in_a_Play

Tony Award for
Best Featured Actress in a Play
Tony Award for ; Best Featured Actress in a Play
	2023 recipient: Miriam Silverman
Description	Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Location	United States New York City
Presented by	American Theatre Wing, The Broadway League
Currently held by	Miriam Silverman for The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (2023)
Website	TonyAwards.com

Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play

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The Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actresses for quality supporting roles in a Broadway play. The awards are named after Antoinette Perry, an American actress who died in 1946. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, to "honor the best performances and stage productions of the previous year."^[1]

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Originally called the "Tony Award for Actress, Supporting or Featured (Dramatic)," Patricia Neal first won the award at the inception of the ceremony for her portrayal of Regina Hubbard in Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest. Before 1956, nominees' names were not made public:^[2] the change was made by the awards committee to "have a greater impact on theatregoers".^[3] The award was renamed in 1976, when Shirley Knight became the first winner under the new title for her role as Carla in Robert Patrick's Kennedy's Children. Its most recent recipient is Miriam Silverman, for the role of Mavis Parodus Bryson, in The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window.

Six actresses (Christine Baranski, Judith Ivey, Judith Light, Swoosie Kurtz, Audra McDonald, and Frances Sternhagen) hold the record for most awards in this category, each with two total. Portrayals of Ruth Younger in A Raisin in the Sun and Mavis Parodus Bryson in The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window have won twice. Supporting actresses in two of three plays in Neil Simon's Eugene trilogy (Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound) were nominated for the Tony, and featured actresses in six parts of August Wilson's The Pittsburgh Cycle have also been nominated for the award.

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Year	Actress	Play	Role(s)
1947 (1st)
1947 (1st)	Patricia Neal	Another Part of the Forest	Regina Hubbard
1949 (3rd)
1949 (3rd)	Shirley Booth	Goodbye, My Fancy	Grace Woods

Year	Actress	Play	Role(s)	Ref.
1951 (5th)
1951 (5th)	Maureen Stapleton	The Rose Tattoo	Serafina Delle Rose
1952 (6th)
1952 (6th)	Marian Winters	I Am a Camera	Natalia Landauer
1953 (7th)
1953 (7th)	Beatrice Straight	The Crucible	Elizabeth Proctor
1954 (8th)
1954 (8th)	Jo Van Fleet	The Trip to Bountiful	Jessie Mae Watts
1955 (9th)
1955 (9th)	Patricia Jessel	Witness for the Prosecution	Romaine
1956 (10th)
	Una Merkel	The Ponder Heart	Edna Earle Ponder	^[4]
	Diane Cilento	Tiger at the Gates	Helen of Troy
	Anne Jackson	Middle of the Night	The Daughter
	Elaine Stritch	Bus Stop	Grace Hoylard
1957 (11th)
	Peggy Cass	Auntie Mame	Agnes Gooch	^[5]
	Anna Massey	The Reluctant Debutante	Jane Broadbent
	Beryl Measor	Separate Tables	Pat Cooper
	Mildred Natwick	The Waltz of the Toreadors	Mme. St. Pé
	Phyllis Neilson-Terry	Separate Tables	Mrs. Railton-Bell
	Diana Van der Vlis	The Happiest Millionaire	Cordelia Biddle
1958 (12th)
	Anne Bancroft	Two for the Seesaw	Gittel Mosca	^[6]
	Brenda De Banzie	The Entertainer	Phoebe Rice
	Joan Blondell	The Rope Dancers	Mrs. Farrow
	Mary Fickett	Sunrise at Campobello	Eleanor Roosevelt
	Eileen Heckart	The Dark at the Top of the Stairs	Lottie Lacey
1959 (13th)
	Julie Newmar	The Marriage-Go-Round	Katrin Sveg	^[7]
	Maureen Delany	God and Kate Murphy	Carrie Donovan
	Dolores Hart	The Pleasure of His Company	Jessica Poole
	Nan Martin	J.B.	Sarah
	Bertice Reading	Requiem for a Nun	Nancy Mannigoe

Year	Actress	Play	Role(s)	Ref.
1960 (14th)
	Anne Revere	Toys in the Attic	Anna Berniers	^[8]
	Leora Dana	The Best Man	Alice Russell
	Jane Fonda	There Was a Little Girl	Toni Newton
	Sarah Marshall	Goodbye Charlie	Rusty Mayerling
	Juliet Mills	Five Finger Exercise	Pamela Harrington
1961 (15th)
	Colleen Dewhurst	All the Way Home	Mary Follet	^[9]
	Eileen Heckart	Invitation to a March	DeeDee Grogan
	Tresa Hughes	The Devil's Advocate	Nina Sanduzzi
	Rosemary Murphy	Period of Adjustment	Dorothea Bates
1962 (16th)
	Elizabeth Ashley	Take Her, She's Mine	Mollie Michaelson	^[10]
	Zohra Lampert	Look: We've Come Through	Jennifer Lewison
	Janet Margolin	Daughter of Silence	Anna Albertini
	Pat Stanley	Sunday in New York	Eileen Taylor
1963 (17th)
	Sandy Dennis	A Thousand Clowns	Sandra Markowitz	^[11]
	Melinda Dillon	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Honey
	Alice Ghostley	The Beauty Part	Various Characters
	Zohra Lampert	Mother Courage and Her Children	Kattrin
1964 (18th)
	Barbara Loden	After the Fall	Maggie	^[12]
	Rosemary Murphy	Any Wednesday	Dorothea Cleves
	Kate Reid	Dylan	Caitlin Thomas
	Diana Sands	Blues for Mister Charlie	Juanita
1965 (19th)
	Alice Ghostley	The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window	Mavis Parodus Bryson	^[13]
	Rae Allen	Traveller Without Luggage	Juliette
	Alexandra Berlin	All in Good Time	Violet Fitton
	Carolan Daniels	Slow Dance on the Killing Ground	Rosie
1966 (20th)
	Zoe Caldwell	Slapstick Tragedy	Polly	^[14]
	Glenda Jackson	Marat/Sade	Charlotte Corday
	Mairin D. O'Sullivan	Philadelphia, Here I Come!	Madge Mulhern
	Brenda Vaccaro	Cactus Flower	Toni Simmons
1967 (21st)
	Marian Seldes	A Delicate Balance	Julia	^[15]
	Camila Ashland	Black Comedy	Miss Furnival
	Brenda Forbes	The Loves of Cass McGuire	Trilbe Costello
	Maria Tucci	The Rose Tattoo	Rose Dell Rose
1968 (22nd)
	Zena Walker	A Day in the Death of Joe Egg	Sheila	^[16]
	Pert Kelton	Spofford	Mrs. Punck
	Ruth White	The Birthday Party	Meg
	Eleanor D. "Siddy" Wilson	The Weekend	Mrs. Andrews
1969 (23rd)
	Jane Alexander	The Great White Hope	Eleanor Bachman	^[17]
	Diane Keaton	Play It Again, Sam	Linda Christie
	Lauren Jones	Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?	Linda
	Anna Manahan	Lovers	Hanna Wilson

Year	Actress	Play	Role(s)	Ref.
1970 (24th)
	Blythe Danner	Butterflies Are Free	Jill Tanner	^[18]
	Alice Drummond	The Chinese and Dr. Fish	Mrs. Lee
	Eileen Heckart	Butterflies Are Free	Mrs. Baker
	Linda Lavin	Last of the Red Hot Lovers	Elaine Navazio
1971 (25th)
	Rae Allen	And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little	Fleur Stein	^[19]
	Lili Darvas	Les Blancs	Madame Neilsen
	Joan Van Ark	The School for Wives	Agnes
	Mona Washbourne	Home	Marian
1972 (26th)
	Elizabeth Wilson	Sticks and Bones	Harriet	^[20]
	Cara Duff-MacCormick	Moonchildren	Shelly
	Mercedes McCambridge	The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks	Lucy Lake
	Frances Sternhagen	The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window	Mavis Parodus Bryson
1973 (27th)
	Leora Dana	The Last of Mrs. Lincoln	Elizabeth Edwards	^[21]
	Maya Angelou	Look Away	Elizabeth Keckley
	Katherine Helmond	The Great God Brown	Margaret
	Penelope Windust	Elizabeth I	Elizabeth I
1974 (28th)
	Frances Sternhagen	The Good Doctor	Various Characters	^[22]
	Regina Baff	Veronica's Room	Susan
	Fionnula Flanagan	Ulysses in Nighttown	Various Characters
	Charlotte Moore	Chemin de Fer	Sophie
	Roxie Roker	The River Niger	Mattie Williams
1975 (29th)
	Rita Moreno	The Ritz	Googie Gomez	^[23]
	Linda Miller	Black Picture Show	Jane
	Geraldine Page	Absurd Person Singular	Marion
	Carole Shelley	Absurd Person Singular	Jane
	Elizabeth Spriggs	London Assurance	Lady Gay Spanker
	Frances Sternhagen	Equus	Dora Strang
1976 (30th)
	Shirley Knight	Kennedy's Children	Carla	^[24]
	Mary Beth Hurt	Trelawny of the 'Wells'	Rose Trewlawny
	Lois Nettleton	They Knew What They Wanted	Amy
	Meryl Streep	27 Wagons Full of Cotton	Flora Meighan
1977 (31st)
	Trazana Beverley	For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf	Lady in Red	^[25]
	Patricia Elliott	The Shadow Box	Beverly
	Rose Gregorio	The Shadow Box	Agnes
	Mary McCarty	Anna Christie	Marthy Owen
1978 (32nd)
	Ann Wedgeworth	Chapter Two	Faye Medwick	^[26]
	Starletta DuPois	The Mighty Gents	Rita
	Swoosie Kurtz	Tartuffe	Mariane
	Marian Seldes	Deathtrap	Myra Bruhl
1979 (33rd)
	Joan Hickson	Bedroom Farce	Delia	^[27]
	Laurie Kennedy	Man and Superman	Violet Robinson
	Susan Littler	Bedroom Farce	Kate
	Mary-Joan Negro	Wings	Amy

Year	Actress	Play	Role(s)	Ref.
1980 (34th)
	Dinah Manoff	I Ought to Be in Pictures	Libby Tucker	^[28]
	Maureen Anderman	The Lady from Dubuque	Carol
	Pamela Burrell	Strider	Various Characters
	Lois de Banzie	Morning's at Seven	Myrtle Brown
1981 (35th)
	Swoosie Kurtz	Fifth of July	Gwen Landis	^[29]
	Maureen Stapleton	The Little Foxes	Birdie Hubbard
	Jessica Tandy	Rose	Rose's Mother
	Zoë Wanamaker	Piaf	Tione
1982 (36th)
	Amanda Plummer	Agnes of God	Agnes	^[30]
	Judith Anderson	Medea	The Nurse
	Mia Dillon	Crimes of the Heart	Babe MaGrath Botrelle
	Mary Beth Hurt	Crimes of the Heart	Meg MaGrath
1983 (37th)
	Judith Ivey	Steaming	Josie	^[31]
	Elizabeth Franz	Brighton Beach Memoirs	Kate Jerome
	Roxanne Hart	Passion	Kate
	Margaret Tyzack	All's Well That Ends Well	Countess of Rossillion
1984 (38th)
	Christine Baranski	The Real Thing	Charlotte	^[32]
	Jo Henderson	Play Memory	Ruth MacMillan
	Dana Ivey	Heartbreak House	Lady Utterword
	Deborah Rush	Noises Off	Brooke Ashton
1985 (39th)
	Judith Ivey	Hurlyburly	Bonnie	^[33]
	Joanna Gleason	A Day in the Death of Joe Egg	Pam
	Theresa Merritt	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Ma Rainey
	Sigourney Weaver	Hurlyburly	Darlene
1986 (40th)
	Swoosie Kurtz	The House of Blue Leaves	Bananas Shaughnessy	^[34]
	Stockard Channing	The House of Blue Leaves	Bunny Flingus
	Bethel Leslie	Long Day's Journey into Night	Mary Tyrone
	Zoë Wanamaker	Loot	Fay
1987 (41st)
	Mary Alice	Fences	Rose Maxson	^[35]
	Annette Bening	Coastal Disturbances	Holly Dancer
	Phyllis Newman	Broadway Bound	Blanche Morton
	Carole Shelley	Stepping Out	Maxine
1988 (42nd)
	L. Scott Caldwell	Joe Turner's Come and Gone	Bertha Holly	^[36]
	Kimberleigh Aarn	Joe Turner's Come and Gone	Mattie Cambell
	Kate Nelligan	Serious Money	Various Characters
	Kimberly Scott	Joe Turner's Come and Gone	Molly Cunningham
1989 (43rd)
	Christine Baranski	Rumors	Chris Gorman	^[37]
	Joanne Camp	The Heidi Chronicles	Various Characters
	Tovah Feldshuh	Lend Me a Tenor	Maria Merelli
	Penelope Ann Miller	Our Town	Emily Webb

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Year	Actress	Play	Role(s)	Ref.
1990 (44th)
	Margaret Tyzack	Lettice and Lovage	Lotte Schoen	^[38]
	Polly Holliday	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Big Mama Pollitt
	S. Epatha Merkerson	The Piano Lesson	Berniece
	Lois Smith	The Grapes of Wrath	Ma Joad
1991 (45th)
	Irene Worth	Lost in Yonkers	Grandma Kurnitz	^[39]
	Amelia Campbell	Our Country's Good	Various Characters
	Kathryn Erbe	The Speed of Darkness	Mary
	J. Smith-Cameron	Our Country's Good	Various Characters
1992 (46th)
	Brid Brennan	Dancing at Lughnasa	Agnes	^[40]
	Rosaleen Linehan	Dancing at Lughnasa	Kate Mundy
	Cynthia Martells	Two Trains Running	Risa
	Dearbhla Molloy	Dancing at Lughnasa	Maggie Mundy
1993 (47th)
	Debra Monk	Redwood Curtain	Geneva	^[41]
	Kathleen Chalfant	Angels in America: Millennium Approaches	Hannah Pitt, et al.
	Marcia Gay Harden	Angels in America: Millennium Approaches	Harper Pitt, et al.
	Anne Meara	Anna Christie	Marthy Owen
1994 (48th)
	Jane Adams	An Inspector Calls	Sheila Birling	^[42]
	Debra Monk	Picnic	Rosemary Sydney
	Jeanne Paulson	The Kentucky Cycle	Various Characters
	Anne Pitoniak	Picnic	Helen Potts
1995 (49th)
	Frances Sternhagen	The Heiress	Lavinia Penniman	^[43]
	Suzanne Bertish	The Molière Comedies	Lisette
	Cynthia Nixon	Indiscretions	Madeleine Ozeray
	Mercedes Ruehl	The Shadow Box	Beverly
1996 (50th)
	Audra McDonald	Master Class	Sharon Graham	^[44]
	Viola Davis	Seven Guitars	Vera
	Michele Shay	Seven Guitars	Louise
	Lois Smith	Buried Child	Hallie
1997 (51st)
	Lynne Thigpen	An American Daughter	Dr. Judith B. Kaufman	^[45]
	Helen Carey	London Assurance	Lady Gay Spanker
	Dana Ivey	The Last Night of Ballyhoo	Boo Levy
	Celia Weston	The Last Night of Ballyhoo	Reba Freitag
1998 (52nd)
	Anna Manahan	The Beauty Queen of Leenane	Mags Folan	^[46]
	Enid Graham	Honour	Sophie
	Linda Lavin	The Diary of Anne Frank	Petronella van Daan
	Julyana Soelistyo	Golden Child	Eng Ahn
1999 (53rd)
	Elizabeth Franz	Death of a Salesman	Linda Loman	^[47]
	Claire Bloom	Electra	Clytemnestra
	Samantha Bond	Amy's View	Amy Thomas
	Dawn Bradfield	The Lonesome West	Girleen Kelleher

Year	Actress	Play	Role(s)	Ref.
2000 (54th)
	Blair Brown	Copenhagen	Margrethe Bohr	^[48]
	Frances Conroy	The Ride Down Mt. Morgan	Theo
	Amy Ryan	Uncle Vanya	Sonya Serebryakova
	Helen Stenborg	Waiting in the Wings	Sarita Myrtle
	Sarah Woodward	The Real Thing	Charlotte
2001 (55th)
	Viola Davis	King Hedley II	Tonya	^[49]
	Johanna Day	Proof	Claire
	Penny Fuller	The Dinner Party	Gabrielle Buonocelli
	Marthe Keller	Judgment at Nuremberg	Mme. Bertholt
	Michele Lee	The Tale of the Allergist's Wife	Lee Green
2002 (56th)
	Katie Finneran	Noises Off	Brooke Ashton	^[50]
	Kate Burton	The Elephant Man	Madge Kendal
	Elizabeth Franz	Morning's at Seven	Aaronetta Gibbs
	Estelle Parsons		Cora Swanson
	Frances Sternhagen		Ida Bolton
2003 (57th)
	Michele Pawk	Hollywood Arms	Louise	^[51]
	Christine Ebersole	Dinner at Eight	Toledo
	Linda Emond	Life x 3	Inez
	Kathryn Meisle	Tartuffe	Elmire
	Marian Seldes	Dinner at Eight	Carlotta Vance
2004 (58th)
	Audra McDonald	A Raisin in the Sun	Ruth Younger	^[52]
	Essie Davis	Jumpers	Dotty
	Sanaa Lathan	A Raisin in the Sun	Beneatha Younger
	Margo Martindale	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Big Momma Pollitt
	Daphne Rubin-Vega	Anna in the Tropics	Conchita
2005 (59th)
	Adriane Lenox	Doubt	Mrs. Muller	^[53]
	Mireille Enos	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Honey
	Heather Goldenhersh	Doubt	Sister James
	Dana Ivey	The Rivals	Mrs. Malaprop
	Amy Ryan	A Streetcar Named Desire	Stella Kowalski
2006 (60th)
	Frances de la Tour	The History Boys	Mrs. Lintott	^[54]
	Tyne Daly	Rabbit Hole	Nat
	Jayne Houdyshell	Well	Ann Kron
	Alison Pill	The Lieutenant of Inishmore	Mairead
	Zoë Wanamaker	Awake and Sing!	Bessie Berger
2007 (61st)
	Jennifer Ehle	The Coast of Utopia	Liubov / Natalie Herzen / Malwida von Meysenbug	^[55]
	Xanthe Elbrick	Coram Boy	Young Alexander / Ashbrook / Aaron
	Dana Ivey	Butley	Edna Shaft
	Jan Maxwell	Coram Boy	Mrs. Lynch
	Martha Plimpton	The Coast of Utopia	Varenka / Natasha Tuchkov / Natasha Tuchkov Ogarev
2008 (62nd)
	Rondi Reed	August: Osage County	Mattie Fae Aiken	^[56]
	Sinéad Cusack	Rock 'n' Roll	Eleanor
	Mary McCormack	Boeing-Boeing	Gretchen
	Laurie Metcalf	November	Clarice Bernstein
	Martha Plimpton	Top Girls	Angie
2009 (63rd)
	Angela Lansbury	Blithe Spirit	Madame Arcati	^[57]
	Hallie Foote	Dividing the Estate	Mary Jo Gordon
	Jessica Hynes	The Norman Conquests	Annie
	Marin Ireland	reasons to be pretty	Steph
	Amanda Root	The Norman Conquests	Sarah

Year	Actress	Play	Role(s)	Ref.
2010 (64th)
	Scarlett Johansson	A View from the Bridge	Catherine	^[58]
	Maria Dizzia	In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)	Mrs. Daldry
	Rosemary Harris	The Royal Family	Fanny Cavendish
	Jessica Hecht	A View from the Bridge	Beatrice Carbone
	Jan Maxwell	Lend Me a Tenor	Maria Merelli
2011 (65th)
	Ellen Barkin	The Normal Heart	Dr. Emma Brookner	^[59]
	Edie Falco	The House of Blue Leaves	Bananas Shaughnessy
	Judith Light	Lombardi	Marie Lombardi
	Joanna Lumley	La Bête	The Princess
	Elizabeth Rodriguez	The Motherfucker with the Hat	Veronica
2012 (66th)
	Judith Light	Other Desert Cities	Silda Grauman	^[60]
	Linda Emond	Death of a Salesman	Linda Loman
	Spencer Kayden	Don't Dress for Dinner	Suzette
	Celia Keenan-Bolger	Peter and the Starcatcher	Molly Aster
	Condola Rashād	Stick Fly	Cheryl
2013 (67th)
	Judith Light	The Assembled Parties	Faye	^[61]
	Carrie Coon	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Honey
	Shalita Grant	Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike	Cassandra
	Judith Ivey	The Heiress	Lavinia Penniman
	Condola Rashad	The Trip to Bountiful	Thelma
2014 (68th)
	Sophie Okonedo	A Raisin in the Sun	Ruth Younger	^[62]
	Sarah Greene	The Cripple of Inishmaan	Helen McCormack
	Celia Keenan-Bolger	The Glass Menagerie	Laura Wingfield
	Anika Noni Rose	A Raisin in the Sun	Beneatha Younger
	Mare Winningham	Casa Valentina	Rita
2015 (69th)
	Annaleigh Ashford	You Can't Take It with You	Essie Carmichael^[63]
	Patricia Clarkson	The Elephant Man	Madge Kendal
	Lydia Leonard	Wolf Hall Parts One & Two	Anne Boleyn
	Sarah Stiles	Hand to God	Jessica
	Julie White	Airline Highway	Tanya
2016 (70th)
	Jayne Houdyshell	The Humans	Deirdre Blake	^[64]
	Pascale Armand	Eclipsed	Bessie
	Megan Hilty	Noises Off	Brooke Ashton
	Andrea Martin	Noises Off	Dotty Otley
	Saycon Sengbloh	Eclipsed	Helena
2017 (71st)
	Cynthia Nixon	The Little Foxes	Birdie Hubbard	^[65]
	Johanna Day	Sweat	Tracey
	Jayne Houdyshell	A Doll's House, Part 2	Anne Marie
	Condola Rashād	A Doll's House, Part 2	Emmy Helmer
	Michelle Wilson	Sweat	Tracey
2018 (72nd)
	Laurie Metcalf	Three Tall Women	B	^[66]
	Susan Brown	Angels in America	Hannah Pitt, et al.
	Noma Dumezweni	Harry Potter and the Cursed Child	Hermione Granger
	Deborah Findlay	The Children	Hazel
	Denise Gough	Angels in America	Harper Pitt, et al.
2019 (73rd)
	Celia Keenan-Bolger	To Kill a Mockingbird	Scout Finch	^[67]
	Fionnula Flanagan	The Ferryman	Aunt Maggie Far Away
	Kristine Nielsen	Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus	Janice
	Julie White	Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus	Carol
	Ruth Wilson	King Lear	Cordelia / Fool

Year	Actress	Play	Role(s)	Ref.
2020 (74th)
	Lois Smith	The Inheritance	Margaret	^[68]
	Jane Alexander	Grand Horizons	Nancy
	Chalia La Tour	Slave Play	Teá
	Annie McNamara	Slave Play	Alana
	Cora Vander Broek	Linda Vista	Jules
2022 (75th)
	Phylicia Rashad	Skeleton Crew	Faye	^[69]
	Uzo Aduba	Clyde's	Clyde
	Rachel Dratch	POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive	Stephanie
	Kenita R. Miller	for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf	Lady in Red
	Julie White	POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive	Harriet
	Kara Young	Clyde's	Letitia
2023 (76th)
	Miriam Silverman	The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window	Mavis Parodus Bryson	^[70]
	Nikki Crawford	Fat Ham	Tedra
	Crystal Lucas-Perry	Ain't No Mo'	Passenger #5
	Katy Sullivan	Cost of Living	Ani
	Kara Young	Cost of Living	Jessie