1. Jamie Lloyd, Sunset Blvd.
2. David Cromer, Dead Outlaw
3. George C. Wolfe, Gypsy
4. Michael Arden, Maybe Happy Ending
5. Robert Hastie, Operation Mincemeat
6. Christopher Gattelli, Death Becomes Her
7. Saheem Ali, Buena Vista Social Club
8. Matthew Bourne, Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends
9. Tina Landau, Floyd Collins
10. Scott Ellis, Pirates! The Penzance Musical
11. Susan Stroman, Smash
12. Alex Timbers, Just in Time
13. Whitney White, The Last Five Years
14. Jerry Mitchell, BOOP! The Musical
15. Lear deBessonet, Once Upon a Mattress
16. Sergio Trujillo, Real Women Have Curves: The Musical
17. Michael Mayer, Swept Away
18. Tina Landau, Redwood
19. Christopher Renshaw, A Wonderful World
20. Phillip William McKinley, Elf
21. Rupert Goold, Tammy Faye
