Year
|
Winner
|
Nominated
|
1981
|
Brent Carver,
Bent
|
|
1982
|
John Evans, True West
|
|
1983
|
R. H. Thomson, Hand to Hand
|
|
1984
|
Douglas Rain, The Dining Room
|
|
1985
|
Heath Lamberts,
Cyrano de Bergerac
|
|
1986
[2]
|
Stephen Ouimette, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea
|
|
1987
[3]
|
Stephen Ouimette, B-Movie: The Play
|
|
1988
[4]
|
Geordie Johnson, I Am Yours
|
|
1989
[5]
|
Graham Greene,
Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing
|
|
1990
|
Stuart Hughes,
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
|
|
1991
|
Jim Mezon, Burn This
|
|
1992
|
Rod Beattie,
The Wingfield Trilogy
|
|
1993
[6]
|
Hardee T. Lineham,
Richard III
|
|
1994
|
Tom McCamus, Abundance
|
|
1995
[7]
|
Nigel Shawn Williams,
Six Degrees of Separation
|
|
1996
|
Heath Lamberts, One for the Pot
|
|
1997
|
John Dolan, Oliver Twist
|
|
1998
|
Eric Peterson, The Designated Mourner
|
|
1999
|
David Fox,
The Drawer Boy
|
|
2000
|
Diego Matamoros, Endgame
|
|
2001
|
Conleth Hill, Stones in His Pockets
|
|
2002
|
Tony Nardi, The Lesson
|
|
2003
|
Richard McMillan, Through the Eyes
|
|
2004
|
William Hutt, No Man's Land
|
|
2005
|
Rick Miller, Bigger Than Jesus
|
|
2006
|
Shawn Doyle, A Number
|
|
2007
|
Daniel MacIvor, Here Lies Henry
|
|
2008
|
Joseph Ziegler, The Time of Your Life
|
|
2009
|
Waawaate Fobister, Agokwe
|
|
2010
|
Diego Matamoros,
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
|
|
2011
|
Joseph Ziegler,
Death of a Salesman
|
|
2012
[8]
|
Nigel Shawn Williams,
Topdog/Underdog
|
|
2013
|
Tom Rooney, Someone Else
|
|
2014
|
Bruce Dow, Pig
|
|
2015
|
Kawa Ada, Accidental Death of an Anarchist
|
|
2016
|
Anand Rajaram, Mustard
|
|
2017
|
André Sills,
"Master Harold"...and the Boys
|
|
2018
|
Kim Coates,
Jerusalem
|
|