Past Recipients: 2004-Present
| Year | Recipient | Role | Play |
| 2023 | Linda Lavin | Callen | You Will Get Sick |
| Francis Guinan | Fred | Downstate | |
| 2022 | Betsy Aidem | ||
| Austin Pendleton | |||
| 2019 | Andre De Shields | Hermes | Hadestown |
| Marylouise Burke | Mom | True West | |
| 2018 | Margaret Colin | Carousel | |
| Michael Potts | Iceman Cometh | ||
| 2017 | Anthony Chisholm | Jitney | |
| Barbara Barrie | Helene Berman | Significant Other | |
| 2016 | Lois Smith & | Annie Baker’s John / The Crucible | |
| Bill Camp | |||
| 2015 | Julie Halston | You Can't Take It With You | |
| Brad Oscar | Something Rotten! | ||
| 2014 | Peter Maloney | Outside Mullingar | |
| Mare Winningham | Casa Valentina | ||
| 2013 | Lewis J. Stadlen | The Nace/ Checkers | |
| Kristine Nielsen | Sonia | Vanya And Sonia And Masha And Spike | |
| 2012 | Patrick Page | Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark | |
| Laila Robins | The Lady From Dubuque | ||
| 2011 | Deidre O'Connell | In The Wake | |
| Reed Birney | A Small Fire & Tigers Be Still | ||
| 2010 | Helen Stenborg | Vigil | |
| Stephen McKinley Henderson | Fences | ||
| 2009 | Lynn Cohen | Chasing Manet | |
| Roger Robinson | Joe Turner's Come And Gone | ||
| 2008 | Hallie Foote | Dividing The Estate | |
| David Rasche | Dr. Dorn | The Seagull | |
| 2007 | Mary Louise Wilson | Edith Bouvier Beale | Grey Gardens |
| David Margulies | Rabbi Stephen Wise & Raymond | The Accomplices & All That I Will Ever Be | |
| 2006 | Jayne Houdyshell | Ann | Well |
| Jim Dale | Mr. Peachum | The Threepenny Opera | |
| 2005 | Dana Ivey | Mrs. Malaprop | The Rivals |
| Larry Bryggman | Romance & Twelve Angry Men | ||
| 2004 | Margo Martindale | Big Mama | Cat On A Hot In Roof |
| Tom Aldredge | Matthew Clark | Twentieth Century |