The Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards, commonly referred to as the MEN or M.E.N. Awards, recognise excellence in live British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 theatre

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

. They are administered by the Manchester Evening News

Manchester Evening News

The Manchester Evening News is a regional daily newspaper covering Greater Manchester in the United Kingdom. It is published every day except Sunday and is owned by Trinity Mirror plc following its sale by Guardian Media Group in early 2010. It has an average daily circulation of 90,973 copies...

, and are presented at an annual ceremony in Manchester

Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. The awards are for regional and West End

West End theatre

West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...

 productions, with the majority presented for the high profile commercial productions seen in the large theatres of Manchester, commonly known as "Theatreland".

History and significance

The awards were established in 1981, with the first ceremony held in a conference room of the former MEN building on Deansgate

Deansgate

Deansgate is a main road through the city centre of Manchester, England. It runs roughly north–south in a near straight route through the western part of the city centre and is the longest road in the city centre at over one mile long....

. The ceremony is now held at the Crowne Plaza Midland Hotel.

Since 1988, the award ceremony has been broadcast on UK

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 national television and includes songs from the nominated musicals, as well as video clips of, or presentations about, nominated plays. Audience size for the telecast is generally well below that of other awards shows, but the programme reaches an affluent audience. Presenters have included Sally Lindsay

Sally Lindsay

Sally Lindsay is an English actress best known for playing the role of Shelley Unwin in the long-running ITV1 Soap opera Coronation Street...

, Denise Welch

Denise Welch

Jacqueline Denise Healy is an English actress, dancer and television presenter.-Early life:Denise Welch was born in Ebchester, County Durham, to father Vin and mother Ann and has a younger sister Debbie...

, Jane McDonald

Jane McDonald

Jane McDonald is a British singer, actress and media personality and broadcaster, who first became famous following her appearance on the BBC docusoap The Cruise...

, Julian Clary

Julian Clary

Julian Peter McDonald Clary is an English comedian and novelist, known for his deliberately stereotypical camp style, with a heavy reliance on innuendo and double entendre.-Early life and education:...

, Jenny Eclair and John Thomson.

The awards have gained in prestige over the last several years, thanks to high profile recipients such as Sir Ian McKellen

Ian McKellen

Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE is an English actor. He has received a Tony Award, two Academy Award nominations, and five Emmy Award nominations. His work has spanned genres from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction...

 and Sir Cameron Mackintosh

Cameron Mackintosh

Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh is a British theatrical producer notable for his association with many commercially successful musicals. At the height of his success in 1990, he was described as being "the most successful, influential and powerful theatrical producer in the world" by the New York...

, who was awarded a special lifetime achievement award in 2000. The MEN award is generally regarded as the theatre's equivalent of the British Academy Film Awards

British Academy Film Awards

The British Academy Film Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts . It is the British counterpart of the Oscars. As of 2008, it has taken place in the Royal Opera House, having taken over from the flagship Odeon cinema on Leicester Square...

, awarded for excellence in film.

The awards are billed as the 'Oliviers

Laurence Olivier Awards

The Laurence Olivier Award is presented annually by the Society of London Theatre to recognise excellence in professional theatre. Named after the renowned British actor Laurence Olivier, they are given for West End shows and other productions staged in London...

 of the North'.

In summer 2011, Manchester Evening News ended its association with the awards and disbanded the panel, blaming the "challenging economic climate". The 2010 awards had already dropped the ceremony to reduce costs, instead announcing the winners in a special supplement to the daily newspaper.

A group of former panel members announced in October 2011 that they were to continue the awards as an independent body under the name Manchester Theatre Awards.

Judging

The awards are judged by a diverse panel of judges from various areas of the entertainment industry and press, including the Manchester Evening News' own team of reviewers, the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

, The Stage

The Stage

The Stage is a weekly British newspaper founded in 1880, available nationally and published on Thursdays. Covering all areas of the entertainment industry but focused primarily on theatre, it contains news, reviews, opinion, features and other items of interest, mainly to those who work within the...

, Granada Television

Granada Television

Granada Television is the ITV contractor for North West England. Based in Manchester since its inception, it is the only surviving original ITA franchisee from 1954 and is ITV's most successful....

, the University of Manchester

University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a "red brick" university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group...

 and casting agencies.

Trophy

The MEN Award trophy consists of the Greek Comedy and Tragedy masks, a mix of bronze and brass, with a nickel plating on the outside; a black acrylic glass base, and the nickel-plated pewter swivel.

Categories

The awards are presented across a range of categories covering plays, musicals, dance, opera and affiliate theatre. The awards for Best Actor In A British Soap, Best Actress In A British Soap and Performance Of The Year were voted for by readers of the Manchester Evening News

Manchester Evening News

The Manchester Evening News is a regional daily newspaper covering Greater Manchester in the United Kingdom. It is published every day except Sunday and is owned by Trinity Mirror plc following its sale by Guardian Media Group in early 2010. It has an average daily circulation of 90,973 copies...

.

Named awards include:

• Biza Award - an award designed to encourage new and up and coming talent with financial support. Prior to 2008 this award was named the Alpha Award after its then-sponsor, Alpha Airport Shopping.
• Horniman Award - awarded to people or institutions who have made a unique contribution to the repertory
  Repertory
  Repertory or rep, also called stock in the United States, is a term used in Western theatre and opera.A repertory theatre can be a theatre in which a resident company presents works from a specified repertoire, usually in alternation or rotation...
  
   theatre movement. It is named after theatre manager and patron Annie Horniman
  Annie Horniman
  Annie Elizabeth Fredericka Horniman CH was an English theatre patron and manager. She established the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and founded the first regional repertory theatre company in Britain at the Gaiety Theatre in Manchester. She encouraged the work of new writers and playwrights, including...
  
  , who established the first ever repertory theatre company in the United Kingdom at the Gaiety Theatre
  Gaiety Theatre, Manchester
  The Gaiety Theatre, Manchester was a theatre in Manchester, England. It was opened in 1884 and demolished in 1959. It replaced a previous Gaiety Theatre on the site which had been destroyed by fire....
  
   in Manchester.

2008

• Best Actress In A Leading Role: Maxine Peake
  Maxine Peake
  Maxine Peake is an English stage, film and television actress known for playing Veronica in Channel 4's Manchester-based drama series Shameless, Twinkle in Victoria Wood's sitcom Dinnerladies, and, most recently, barrister Martha Costello in BBC legal drama Silk.-Early life:Peake is the second of...
  
  
• Best Actor In A Leading Role: David Fielder
• Best Actress In A Supporting Role: Denise Black
  Denise Black
  Denise Black is an English actress, best known for playing Denise Osbourne in the ITV1 soap Coronation Street and Hazel Tyler in Channel 4 TV's Queer As Folk in 1999 and 2000, written by Russell T Davies. After attending Portsmouth's Girls Public Day School, she studied Psychology at London...
  
  
• Best Actor In A Supporting Role: Paul Simpson
• Best Actress In A Visiting Production: Michelle Terry
  Michelle Terry
  Michelle Terry is an English actress and writer, known for her work on stage and for portraying Sara in the television pilot Reunited.-Background:Terry is from Weston-super-Mare...
  
  
• Best Actor In A Visiting Production: Andrew Buchan
  Andrew Buchan
  -Early life:Buchan was born in Stockport, Greater Manchester, and brought up in the suburb of Lostock in Bolton. He attended the nearby Rivington and Blackrod High School in Horwich....
  
  
• Best Performance In A Fringe Production: Ruth Evans
• Best Performance in a Studio Production: William Ash
  William Ash (actor)
  William Ash, is a British TV and film actor.-Career:His appearances include Making Out ,Mad About Mambo, Lilies, Burn It, All the King's Men, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Doctor Who and more recently Hush and Waterloo Road. He began his career in the ITV series Where the Heart Is...
  
  
• Best Production: Waiting for Godot
• Best Studio Production: Doctor Korczak's Example
• Best Visiting Production: Black Watch
• Best International Production: Chinese Acrobatic Swan Lake
• Best Musical: West Side Story
• Best Opera: Macbeth
• Best Dance: Don Quixote
• Best Family Show: James And The Giant Peach
• Best New Play: A Dog Called Redemption
• Best Design: Oh What a Lovely War
• Special Entertainment Award: Afrika! Afrika!
• Biza Award: The Company Music Theatre
• Horniman Award: The Green Room

2007

• Best Actress In A Leading Role: Phillipa Peake
• Best Actor In A Leading Role: Elliot Cowan
  Elliot Cowan
  Elliot Cowan is an English actor, known for portraying Corporal Jem Poynton in Ultimate Force, Mr Darcy in Lost in Austen and Ptolemy in the 2004 film Alexander.-Background:...
  
  
• Best Actor In A Supporting Role: Eamonn Owens
• Best Actor In A Visiting Production: Cory English
  Cory English
  Cory English , is an American actor.Born into a blue collar family in upstate New York, Cory was the youngest of four boys. Cory attended Wayne Central in Ontario, New York...
  
  
• Best Production: Someone Who'll Watch Over Me
• Best International Production: Monkey: Journey To The West
• Best Musical: The Producers
• Best Opera: Roberto Devereux'
• Best Dance: The Three Musketeers
• Best Family Show: James And The Giant Peach
• Best New Play: And Did Those Feet
• Best Design: Henry V
• Special Entertainment Award: The Pianist
• Alpha Award: Studio Salford
• Horniman Award: Caroline Clegg

2006

• Best Actress In A Leading Role: Raquel Cassidy
  Raquel Cassidy
  Raquel Josephine Dominic Cassidy is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her television roles as Susan Gately in Teachers , the Home Office Junior Minister Jo Porter in Party Animals, and Mel in Lead Balloon, as well as her various stage works.-Filmography:-Selected...
  
  
• Best Actor In A Leading Role: Ben Keaton
  Ben Keaton
  Ben Keaton is an Irish actor who appeared as Jeff Brannigan in ITV soap opera Emmerdale. He appeared in BBC's Casualty playing the part of Spencer between 1999-2002. He also appeared in the Channel 4's Irish comedy Father Ted, "Think Fast, Father Ted"...
  
  
• Best Actress In A Supporting Role: Janet Henfrey
  Janet Henfrey
  Janet E. A. Henfrey is a British stage and television actress. Best known in the USA for playing Mrs. Bale on As Time Goes By, which is still rerun weekly on PBS stations, and for her role as the schoolteacher in the 1986 BBC Dennis Potter serial The Singing Detective...
  
  
• Best Actor In A Supporting Role: Wyllie Longmore
• Best Actress In A Visiting Production: Cathy Tyson
  Cathy Tyson
  Catherine "Cathy" Tyson is an English stage, film and television actress.-Early life:The daughter of a Trinidadian barrister father and an English social worker mother, Tyson and her family moved to Liverpool when she was approximately two years old.-Career:Tyson attended the Everyman Youth...
  
  
• Best Actor In A Visiting Production: Ian McKellen
  Ian McKellen
  Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE is an English actor. He has received a Tony Award, two Academy Award nominations, and five Emmy Award nominations. His work has spanned genres from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction...
  
  
• Best Performance In A Fringe Production: Sue Jaynes, Caroline Harding, Candida Gubbins and Kath Burlinson
• Best Performance In A Studio Production: Cast of The Flags
• Best Fringe Production: The Judgement Of Mr. Jenkins
• Best Studio Production: The Flags
• Best Visiting Production: The Cut
• Best International Production: Slava's Snowshow
• Best Musical: Miss Saigon
• Best Opera: La Traviata
• Best Dance: Edward Scissorhands
• Best Comedy: Alan B'Stard
• Best Family Show: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• Best Design: The Flags
• Best Newcomer: Sian Haslock
• Best Production: Blonde Bombshells Of 1943

2005

• Best Actress In A Leading Role: Siobhan Finneran
  Siobhan Finneran
  Siobhan Finneran is an English television and film actress from Oldham in Lancashire, England.-Career:Siobhan's first major role was as Rita in the 1986 film, Rita, Sue and Bob Too. Since 2007 she has played Janice in ITV's popular comedy drama Benidorm, appearing in all 4 series and both specials...
  
  
• Best Actor in A Leading Role: Rolf Saxon
  Rolf Saxon
  Rolf Saxon , is an American actor living in London.Saxon was born in Alexandria, Virginia. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, England where he was awarded the Gold Medal on his graduation, and also studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco,...
  
  
• Best Actress In A Supporting Role: Eileen O'Brien
• Best Actor In A Supporting Role: David Fleeshman
• Best Actress In A Visiting Production: Seroca Davis
• Best Actor In A Visiting Production: Ben Chaplin
  Ben Chaplin
  Ben Chaplin , is an English actor.-Early life:Chaplin, the youngest of four children, was born in London, the son of Cynthia , a drama teacher, and Peter Greenwood, an engineer. He took his stage name after his mother's maiden name. He was raised in Windsor, Berkshire, England and attended Hurtwood...
  
  
• Best Performance In A Fringe Production: Jenni Howarth-Williams
• Best Performance In A Studio Production: Alexander Campbell
• Best Newcomer: Oliver Lee
  Oliver Lee (actor)
  Oliver Lee is a British actor first known for his role as gay teenager Josh Jones in the television series Hollyoaks: In the City...
  
  
• Best Production: The Beauty Queen
• Best Studio Production: Iron
• Best Fringe Production: Moving Pictures
• Best Visiting Production: This Is How It Goes
• Best International Production: Saltimbanco
• Best Musical: My Fair Lady
• Best Opera: La Cenerentola
• Best Dance: CandoCo
• Best Comedy: Little Britain Live
• Best New Play: On the Shore of the Wide World
• Best Design: Beautiful Thing
• Best Special Entertainment: Macbeth
• Horniman Award: Ian Smith and Neil Smith

2004

• Best Actress In A Leading Role: Denise Welch
  Denise Welch
  Jacqueline Denise Healy is an English actress, dancer and television presenter.-Early life:Denise Welch was born in Ebchester, County Durham, to father Vin and mother Ann and has a younger sister Debbie...
  
  
• Best Actor In A Leading Role: O-T Fagbenle
• Best Actress In A Supporting Role: Barbara Marten
  Barbara Marten
  Barbara Marten is a British actress.Barbara went to drama school as a teenager and says that it actually put her off becoming an actress. She trained as a teacher and taught for two years before being drawn back to the stage. After becoming involved with a theatre group in Coventry, Barbara joined...
  
  
• Best Actor In A Supporting Role: Leigh Symonds
• Best Performance In A Fringe Production: "Johnathon Pram", aka Ben Faulks
• Best Performance In A Studio Production:
• Best Performance In A Visiting Production: Ian McDiarmid
  Ian McDiarmid
  Ian McDiarmid is a Scottish theatre actor and director, who has also made sporadic appearances on film and television.McDiarmid has had a successful career in theatre; he has been cast in many plays, while occasionally directing others and although he has appeared mostly in theatrical productions,...
  
  
• Best Newcomer: Andrew Garfield
  Andrew Garfield
  Andrew Russell Garfield is an American-English actor who has appeared in radio, theatre, film, and television. His early roles include the films Lions for Lambs, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, and Boy A, which garnered him the 2007 BAFTA Television Award for "Best Actor".Garfield achieved...
  
  
• Best Production: A Conversation
• Best Fringe Production: Coyote on a Fence
• Best Visiting Production: Henry IV
• Best Musical: Taboo
• Best Opera: The Dwarf and Il Tabarro
• Best Dance: Play Without Words
• Best Comedy: Bill Bailey
  Bill Bailey
  Bill Bailey is an English comedian, musician and actor. As well as his extensive stand-up work, Bailey is well known for his appearances on Black Books, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Have I Got News for You, and QI.Bailey was listed by The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy in...
  
  
• Best Design: Perfect
• Best Special Entertainment: A Strange (And Unexpected) Event
• Alpha Award: 24:7 Theatre Festival
• Best Actress In A British Soap: Kate Ford
  Kate Ford
  Kate Connerty is a British actress best known for playing the role of Tracy Barlow in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 2002 to 2007. Kate returned to Coronation Street on Christmas Eve 2010....
  
  
• Best Actor In A British Soap: Simon Gregson
  Simon Gregson
  Simon Gregson is an English actor. He is known for being a cast member of the British soap opera Coronation Street in which he has played Steve McDonald since 1989....
  
  
• Performance Of The Year: Brian Conley
  Brian Conley
  Brian Conley is an English comedian, television presenter, singer and actor. At the peak of his television career, he was the highest-paid male television personality in the UK. Outside of television, he is best known for his frequent portrayals of Buttons in pantomime versions of...
  
  

2003

• Best Actress In A Leading Role: Emma Lowndes
  Emma Lowndes
  Emma Lowndes is an English actress, known for portraying Bella Gregson in Cranford and Mary Rivers in Jane Eyre.-Background:Raised in Irlam, Salford, Lowndes attended Irlam Primary School and Urmston Grammar, where she was Head Girl. She studied English at the University of York before training at...
  
  
• Best Actor In A Leading Role: Paul Webster
• Best Actress In A Supporting Role: Kerry Pears
• Best Actor In A Supporting Role: Russell Dixon
• Best Actress In A Visiting Production: Karen Drury
• Best Actor In A Visiting Production: George Costigan
  George Costigan
  -Early life:Costigan was born in Portsmouth and grew up in Irlams o' th' Height and Weaste in Salford. He attended St. Augustine's C of E Primary School on Bolton Road in Pendlebury, then Wardley Grammar School on Mardale Avenue in Wardley near Swinton.-Career:...
  
   and Matthew Kelly
  Matthew Kelly
  Matthew Kelly is an English television presenter and Olivier-award winning actor. Having been trained as a theatre actor, he first came to public prominence as a television presenter of ITV light entertainment shows such as You Bet! and Stars in Their Eyes...
  
  
• Best Performance In A Fringe Production: Segun
• Best Performance In A Studio Production:
• Best Newcomer: Viktoria Kay
• Best Production: Translations
• Best Fringe Production: Shoot the Crow
• Best Visiting Production: 1984
• Best International Production:
• Best Musical: Chicago
• Best Opera: Maria Padilla
• Best Dance: Triple Bill
• Best Comedy: Peter Kay
  Peter Kay
  Peter John Kay is an English comedian, writer, actor, director and producer. His work includes That Peter Kay Thing , Phoenix Nights , Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere , Britain's Got the Pop Factor... and other independent productions which have included two sell out tours.-Early career:Peter Kay...
  
  
• Best New Play: You Hang Up First
• Best Design: Bro-9
• Best Special Entertainment: Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes

2002

• Best Actress In A Leading Role: Zoe Henry
  Zoe Henry
  Zoe Henry is a British actress, who has had roles in the three main soap operas on British TV, Coronation Street, EastEnders and Emmerdale....
  
  
• Best Actor In A Leading Role: Ben Keaton
  Ben Keaton
  Ben Keaton is an Irish actor who appeared as Jeff Brannigan in ITV soap opera Emmerdale. He appeared in BBC's Casualty playing the part of Spencer between 1999-2002. He also appeared in the Channel 4's Irish comedy Father Ted, "Think Fast, Father Ted"...
  
  
• Best Actress In A Supporting Role: Rachel Pickup
  Rachel Pickup
  Rachel Pickup is a British theatre, television and film actress. She was born in London on 15 July 1973.She got a place at the National Youth Theatre under the artistic directorship of Edward Wilson and subsequently won a place at RADA....
  
  
• Best Actor In A Supporting Role: Stephen Scott
• Best Actress In A Visiting Production: Diana Quick
  Diana Quick
  -Life:Quick was born in London, England. She grew up in Dartford, Kent, the third of a dentist's four children. She was educated at Dartford Grammar School for Girls, Kent. She was greatly aided by her English teacher, Miss Davis, who encouraged her to pursue acting...
  
  
• Best Actor In A Visiting Production: Timothy West
  Timothy West
  Timothy Lancaster West, CBE is an English film, stage and television actor.-Career:West's craggy looks ensured a career as a character actor rather than a leading man. He began his career as an Assistant Stage Manager at the Wimbledon Theatre in 1956, and followed this with several seasons of...
  
  
• Best Performance In A Fringe Production: Oliver Dimsdale
  Oliver Dimsdale
  Oliver Dimsdale is an English actor, known for portraying Louis Trevelyan in the BBC TV serial He Knew He Was Right.-Background:...
  
  
• Best Performance In A Studio Production:
• Best Newcomer: Naomi Frederick
• Best Production: The Memory Of Water
• Best Fringe Production: The Irish Giant
• Best Visiting Production: To Kill A Mockingbird
• Best Musical: Beauty and the Beast
• Best Opera: Tamerlano
• Best Dance: Dance Theater of Harlem
• Best Comedy: Ross Noble
  Ross Noble
  Ross Markham Noble is an English stand-up comedian, brought up in Cramlington, Northumberland, England.Noble rose to mainstream popularity through making appearances on British television, particularly interviews and on celebrity quiz shows such as Have I Got News for You...
  
  
• Best New Play: 52 Degrees South
• Best Design: Kenny Miller and Phil Davies for Ten Rillington Place
• Best Special Entertainment: Disney On Ice presents Beauty And The Beast
• Horniman Award: The Library Theatre
• Best Actress In A British Soap: Sue Nicholls
  Sue Nicholls
  Susan Frances Harmar Nicholls is an English actress, best known today for her long-running role as Audrey Roberts in British soap opera Coronation Street.-Early life:...
  
  
• Best Actor In A British Soap: Brian Capron
  Brian Capron
  Brian Capron, born 11 February 1947 at Eye in Suffolk, is a British actor, who trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art . His father was an Algerian pilot, of French descent, who died in a plane crash before Brian was born....
  
  
• Performance Of The Year: Pete Postlethwaite
  Pete Postlethwaite
  Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE, was an English stage, film and television actor.After minor television appearances including in The Professionals, Postlethwaite's first success came with the film Distant Voices, Still Lives in 1988. He played a mysterious lawyer, Mr...
  
  

2001

• Best Actress In A Leading Role: Helen Schlesinger
• Best Actor In A Leading Role: Adam Sims
• Best Actress In A Supporting Role: Mary Cunningham
• Best Actor In A Supporting Role: Warren Katz
• Best Actress In A Visiting Production: Maureen Beattie
• Best Actor In A Visiting Production: Cast of Art
• Best Performance In A Fringe Production: Noma Dumuzweni
• Best Newcomer: Peter England
• Best Production: Snake in Fridge
• Best Fringe Production: Tiny Dynamite
• Best Visiting Production: Lord of the Flies
• Best Musical: Saturday Night Fever
• Best Opera: Falstaff
• Best Dance: The Nutcracker
• Best Comedy: Dave Gorman
  Dave Gorman
  David James Gorman is an English author, stand-up comedian and presenter. He has performed comedy shows on stage in which he tells stories of extreme adventures and presents the evidence to the audience in order to prove to them that they are true stories...
  
  
• Best New Play: Snake in Fridge
• Best Design Team: Steve Brown, Johanna Bryant, and Jason Taylor
• Best Special Entertainment: Cirque Du Soleil
• Best Actress In A British Soap: Georgia Taylor
  Georgia Taylor
  Georgia Taylor is an English actress, known for her role as Toyah Battersby in Coronation Street and currently for playing Ruth Winters on Casualty. She was born in Wigan, Greater Manchester....
  
  
• Best Actor In A British Soap: Steven Pinder
  Steven Pinder
  Steven Pinder is an actor.-Early life:Pinder was born on March 30, 1960, and comes from a small family with just one younger sister, Catherine, who is 11 years younger and works in agriculture. He grew up on Downham Avenue in Great Harwood...
  
  
• Performance Of The Year: Amanda Donohoe
  Amanda Donohoe
  Amanda Donohoe is an English film and television actress. She is known for her 1980s relationship with popstar Adam Ant and her later work on television — including L.A. Law and Emmerdale — and her roles in successful movies including Liar, Liar.-Early life:Donohoe was born in London, the daughter...