| 2001–present | - Paul Gemignani (2001)
- Julie Harris / Robert Whitehead (2002)
- Cy Feuer /Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam on Broadway (2003)
- James M. Nederlander (2004)
- Edward Albee (2005)
- Sarah Jones /Harold Prince (2006)
- No Award (2007)
- Robert Russell Bennett /Stephen Sondheim (2008)
- Jerry Herman (2009)
- Alan Ayckbourn /Marian Seldes (2010)
- Athol Fugard / Philip J. Smith (2011)
- Actors' Equity Association /Hugh Jackman (2012)
- Bernard Gersten /Ming Cho Lee / Paul Libin (2013)
- Jane Greenwood (2014)
- John Cameron Mitchell /Tommy Tune (2015)
- Sheldon Harnick /Marshall W. Mason /National Endowment for the Arts / Miles Wilkin (2016)
- James Earl Jones (2017)
- John Leguizamo /Andrew Lloyd Webber /Chita Rivera /Bruce Springsteen (2018)
- Rosemary Harris /Marin Mazzie /Terrence McNally /Sonny Tilders and Creature Technology Company / Jason Michael Webb /Harold Wheeler (2019)
- The Broadway Advocacy Coalition /David Byrne'sAmerican Utopia /Freestyle Love Supreme /Graciela Daniele (2020/21)
- Angela Lansbury /James C. Nicola (2022)
- Joel Grey /John Kander (2023)
- Jack O'Brien /George C. Wolfe /Alex Edelman /Abe Jacob / Nikiya Mathis (2024)
- Harvey Fierstein / Marco Paguia, David Oquendo, Renesito Avich, Gustavo Schartz, Javier Días, Román Diaz, Mauricio Herrera, Jesus Ricardo, Eddie Venegas, Hery Paz, and Leonardo Reyna / Jamie Harrison, Chris Fisher, Gary Beestone, and Edward Pierce (2025)
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