Kellogg's steepest competition for this category is herself: 1998 saw Kellogg grab audiences with her performances as the dowdy Irish mother and accidental revolutionary in Radio Free Theater's Freedom of the City and as a leather- and fishnet-clad S&M psychic in Outward Spiral's Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love. Nurse Ratched, though, is the part of a lifetime, and Kellogg used the role in Fifty Foot Penguin Theater's production to turn out the performance of the year. Her Ratched's frozen smiles, haughty glances, and impeccable posture conveyed the perfect blend of compassion tinged with malevolence. And Kellogg's complete unraveling as she lost control of the inmates revealed the flawed psyche behind the medically sanctioned sadism. Her Ratched exemplified a need for authoritarian dominance that withered the story's inmates...and the audience.