| Year | Production | Author | Producers | Ref. |
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| 2000 | Dinner with Friends | Donald Margulies | Roundabout Theatre Company, Mitchell Maxwell, Mark Balsam, Ted Tulchin, Victoria Maxwell, Mari Nakachi and Steven Tulchin | [3] |
| 2001 |
| Jitney | August Wilson | Second Stage Theatre | [4] |
| The Play About the Baby | Edward Albee | Elizabeth Ireland McCann, Daryl Roth, Terry Allen Kramer, Fifty Second Street Productions, Robert Bartner, Stanley Kaufel |
| Proof | David Auburn | Manhattan Theatre Club |
| Ten Unknowns | Jon Robin Baitz | Lincoln Center Theatre |
| The Unexpected Man | Yasmina Reza | Julian Schlossberg, Ben Sprecher, Ted Tulchin and William P. Miller |
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| 2002 |
| The Carpetbagger's Children | Horton Foote | Lincoln Center Theater | [5] |
| The Dazzle | Richard Greenberg | Roundabout Theatre Company |
| Homebody/Kabul | Tony Kushner | New York Theatre Workshop |
| Metamorphoses | Mary Zimmerman | Second Stage Theatre |
| The Shape of Things | Neil LaBute | Susan Quint Gallin, Sandy Gallin, Stuart Thompson, Ben Sprecher and USA/OSTAR Theatricals |
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| 2003 |
| Dublin Carol | Conor McPherson | Atlantic Theater Company | [6] |
| Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme | Frank McGuinness | Lincoln Center Theater |
| Our Lady of 121st Street | Stephen Adly Guirgis | John Gould Rubin, Ira Pittelman, Robyn Goodman, Ruth Hendel, Daryl Roth, LAByrinth Theater Company |
| Take Me Out | Richard Greenberg | The Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival and Donmar Warehouse |
| 2004 |
| Bug | Tracy Letts | Scott Morfee, Amy Danis, Mark Johannes, in association with PlanetEarth Partners | [7] |
| Frozen | Bryony Lavery | MCC Theater |
| The Long Christmas Ride Home | Paula Vogel | Vineyard Theatre |
| Small Tragedy | Craig Lucas | Playwrights Horizons |
| Valhalla | Paul Rudnick | New York Theatre Workshop |
| 2005 |
| Doubt | John Patrick Shanley | Manhattan Theatre Club | [8] |
| After Ashley | Gina Gionfriddo | Vineyard Theatre |
| Going to St. Ives | Lee Blessing | Primary Stages |
| Intimate Apparel | Lynn Nottage | Roundabout Theatre Company |
| Orson's Shadow | Austin Pendleton | PlanetEarth Partners and Scott Morfee |
| 2006 |
| The Lieutenant of Inishmore | Martin McDonagh | Atlantic Theater Company | [9] |
| The Paris Letter | Jon Robin Baitz | Roundabout Theatre Company |
| Red Light Winter | Adam Rapp | Scott Rudin, Paramount Pictures, Robyn Goodman, Roger Berlind, and Stuart Thompson |
| The Ruby Sunrise | Rinne Groff | The Public Theater |
| 2007 |
| Stuff Happens | David Hare | The Public Theater | [10] |
| The Busy World Is Hushed | Keith Bunin | Playwrights Horizons |
| Dying City | Christopher Shinn | Lincoln Center Theater |
| Indian Blood | A.R. Gurney | Primary Stages |
| 2008 |
| Betrayed | George Packer | Culture Project | [11] |
| Blackbird | David Harrower | Manhattan Theatre Club |
| The Brothers Size | Tarell Alvin McCraney | The Public Theater, in association with The Foundry Theatre |
| New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656 | David Ives | Classic Stage Company, by special arrangement with Bob Boyett |
| Opus | Michael Hollinger | Primary Stages |
| 2009 |
| Ruined | Lynn Nottage | Manhattan Theatre Club and Goodman Theatre | [12] |
| Animals Out of Paper | Rajiv Joseph | Second Stage Theatre |
| Becky Shaw | Gina Gionfriddo | Second Stage Theatre |
| The Good Negro | Tracey Scott Wilson | The Public Theater in association with Dallas Theater Center |
| The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928) | Text by William Faulkner | Created by Elevator Repair Service, produced by New York Theatre Workshop and Elevator Repair Service |