TMA Awards
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The TMA Awards, established in 1991, are presented annually by the Theatrical Management Association
in recognition of creative excellence and outstanding work in United Kingdom theatres. In 2011, the ceremony was renamed as the Theatre Awards UK.
Frances Barber for That Face
- a Sheffield Theatres production
Jonathan Pryce
for The Caretaker
at Liverpool Everyman - a Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse production
Maggie Steed for Hay Fever at West Yorkshire Playhouse – a West Yorkshire Playhouse production
Ayesha Antoine for My Wonderful Day at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough – a Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough production
Ryan Sampson for Brighton Beach Memoirs
- a Watford Palace Theatre Production
Ray Fearon for A Raisin in the Sun
- a Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester production
Spur of the Moment
by Anya Reiss
at The Royal Court
Mrs Reynolds and the Ruffian by Gary Owen
- a Watford Palace Theatre Production
Punk Rock
by Simon Stephens
– a Lyric Hammersmith
and Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester production.
The Snail and the Whale - a production by Cahoots NI in association with the Grand Opera House, Belfast
Pobby and Dingan- a Catherine Wheels Theatre Company production, in association with Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh
Toro! Toro! - a Salisbury Playhouse production in the Salberg Studio of the Salisbury Playhouse
Sweeney Todd
- a Dundee Rep Ensemble production, at Dundee Rep.
Oh! What a Lovely War
- Northern Stage’s production on tour.
Ensemble: The Hired Man- an Octagon Theatre Bolton production.
David Birrell for Sweeney Todd a Dundee Rep Ensemble production, at Dundee Rep.
Ensemble: Oh! What a Lovely War
- Northern Stage’s production on tour.
Michelle Crook for Oklahoma!
- UK Productions at the Liverpool Empire.
Alex Ferns for The Little Shop of Horrors
- a Menier Chocolate Factory
production with the Churchill Theatre, Bromley and Jamie Hendry
, on tour.
Louise Plowright for Irving Berlin’s White Christmas the Musical. A Michael Rose Limited, Chris Moreno & Mayflower Theatre, Southampton presentation of a Theatre Royal Plymouth Production.
Mike Brookes and Simon Banham for The Persians - a National Theatre Wales production.
Lizzie Clachan for Far Away
- a Bristol Old Vic
production at Bristol Old Vic.
Alex Lowde for The Elephant Man - a Dundee Rep Ensemble production, at Dundee Rep.
Chris Davey for Dial M for Murder
– a West Yorkshire Playhouse and Fiery Angel production and for Beyond the Horizon – a Royal & Derngate, Northampton production.
James Farncombe for Ghost Stories – a Lyric Hammersmith and Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Production.
Guy Hoare for A Christmas Carol – a Birmingham Repertory Theatre and West Yorkshire Playhouse co-production.
Michael Buffong for A Raisin in the Sun - a Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester production.
Rachel O’Riordan for the Lyric Theatre, Belfast’s The Absence of Women
Laurie Sansom for Beyond the Horizon and Spring Storm - Royal & Derngate, Northampton productions.
Kursk
– A Young Vic and Fuel co-production: Sound and Fury’s Kursk at the Young Vic and on tour.
The Hypochondriac – a Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and English Touring Theatre production.
The Empire
– a Royal Court Theatre and Drum Theatre Plymouth production.
Danza Contemporanea de Cuba for Mambo 3XX1 by George Cespédes. Mambo 3XX1 was co-commissioned by Dance Consortium, DanceEast and Sadler’s Wells.
The Mark Morris Dance Group for L’allegro, Il Pensero Ed Il Moderato.
The dancers of Scottish Ballet for William Forsythe’s Workwithinwork.
Glyndebourne’s production of Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd
Opera North’s production of Ruddigore.
Welsh National Opera’s production of Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg
Anna Francolini
for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
at Royal & Derngate Northampton
Irene Macdougall for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Dundee Rep
Marc Warren
for The Pillowman
at The Curve, Leicester
Samuel West
for ENRON
, A Headlong, Chichester Festival Theatre and Royal Court Theatre
production at Chichester Festival Theatre
Claire Price for Mary Stuart at Clwyd Theatr Cymru
Adam Gillen
for the Royal Exchange Theatre Company’s A Taste of Honey
Eileen O’Brien for When We Are Married at West Yorkshire Playhouse
ENRON by Lucy Prebble
, a Headlong, Chichester Festival Theatre and Royal Court Theatre production at Chichester Festival Theatre
King Pelican by Chris Goode at Theatre Royal, Plymouth
Mercury Theatre and Theate 503’s The Lifesavers by Fraser Grace at The Mercury, Colchester
For The Best Presented by the Unicorn Theatre
in collaboration with Mark Storor and Anna Ledgard
Heidi: A Goat’s Tale a new adaptation by Andrew Pollard
, Northern Broadsides on tour
TAG’s Museum of Dreams on tour
Spend Spend Spend at Watermill, Newbury
Spring Awakening
at Lyric Hammersmith
The Ambassador Theatre Group’s West Side Story
on tour
Alexandra Silber for Carousel, Stanhope Productions, Michael Edwards & Carole Winter, Tiger/WSZ, Stevens-O'Boyle, and Tulchin/Bartner/Ambassador Theatre Group in association with The Churchill, Bromley on tour
Ryan O’Donnell for Quadrophenia, Bill Schultz, Ina Meibach and the Theatre Royal Plymouth in association with Industrial Language Ltd on tour
Allan Stewart for Jolson and Co, King’s Edinburgh and Churchill, Bromley on tour
Kirsty Hoiles for Spend Spend Spend at the Watermill, Newbury
Carly Bawden for Evita, Bill Kenwright by special arrangement with The Really Useful Group, on tour
Lauren Hood for Carousel, Stanhope Productions, Michael Edwards & Carole Winter, Tiger/WSZ, Stevens-O'Boyle, and Tulchin/Bartner/Ambassador Theatre Group in association with The Churchill, Bromley on tour
Michael Pavelka for The Merchant of Venice, Watermill Theatre and Propellor on tour
Stuart Laing for Les Parents Terribles at Dundee Rep
Ferdia Murphy for The Home Place, Lyric Theatre, Belfast at Grand Opera House
Daniella Beattie for The Wicked Lady at New Victoria Newcastle Under Lyme
James Farncombe for Private Fears in Public Places
at Royal & Derngate, Northampton
Tim Mitchell for A Month in the Country at Salisbury Playhouse
Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett for Othello
, Frantic Assembly and Theatre Royal Plymouth in collaboration with Royal and Derngate, Northampton on tour
David Leddy for Sub Rosa, Fire Exit and Citizen’s Theatre Co-production at the Citizen’s, Glasgow
Dawn Walton for the Eclipse Theatre’s The Hounding of David Oluwale on tour
Noel Coward
’s Brief Encounter, David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers and Cineworld present The Kneehigh Theatre Production in a co production with Royal and Derngate Northampton
The Tempest
, Royal Shakespeare Company and Baxter Theatre Company South Africa
Waiting for Godot
, Theatre Royal Haymarket Company in partnership with Duncan C Weldon Productions Ltd
Glyndebourne for an outstanding 75th Anniversary season
Sarah Connolly for her performances in Opera North’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi and Glyndebourne’s Giulio Cesare and Tristan und Isolde
David McVicar, for his productions of Cosi fan tutte and La traviata at Scottish Opera
The dancers of English National Ballet
, who showed new strength and interpretative skills across a range of repertory
Rambert Dance Company's production of Hush
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Pomp and Circumstances
The Theatre, Chipping Norton
Theatre Royal Stratford East for its Musical Theatre Training Programme
Corn Exchange, Newbury
Schools Theatre Support Group
Chichester Festival Theatre
Nicolas Kent
Theatrical Management Association
The Theatrical Management Association, founded in 1894, is the UK’s pre-eminent association for companies and organisations involved professionally in the production and presentation of the performing arts. The Theatrical Management Association has presented the TMA Awards annually since 1991....
in recognition of creative excellence and outstanding work in United Kingdom theatres. In 2011, the ceremony was renamed as the Theatre Awards UK.
2010 nominees and winners
- Best Performance In A Play
Frances Barber for That Face
That Face
That Face is a two-act play written by Polly Stenham. It premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London on 26 April 2007, directed by Jeremy Herrin. The play was revived at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End in 2008, opening on 1 May...
- a Sheffield Theatres production
Jonathan Pryce
Jonathan Pryce
Jonathan Pryce, CBE is a Welsh stage and film actor and singer. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and meeting his longtime partner English actress Kate Fahy in 1974, he began his career as a stage actor in the 1970s...
for The Caretaker
The Caretaker
The Caretaker is a play by Harold Pinter. It was first published by both Encore Publishing and Eyre Methuen in 1960. The sixth play that Pinter wrote for stage or television production, it was his first significant commercial success...
at Liverpool Everyman - a Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse production
Maggie Steed for Hay Fever at West Yorkshire Playhouse – a West Yorkshire Playhouse production
Ayesha Antoine for My Wonderful Day at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough – a Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough production
Ryan Sampson for Brighton Beach Memoirs
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Brighton Beach Memoirs is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon, the first chapter in what is known as his Eugene trilogy. It precedes Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound.-Characters:*Eugene Morris Jerome, almost 15...
- a Watford Palace Theatre Production
Ray Fearon for A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959. The title comes from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes...
- a Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester production
- Best New Play
Spur of the Moment
Spur of the Moment
“Spur of the Moment″ is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.-Synopsis:A young woman, Anne, is engaged to be married to a respectable investment broker, while rebellious David Mitchell is trying to get her to elope with him...
by Anya Reiss
Anya Reiss
Anya Reiss is an award-winning British playwright who has also voiced ambitions to become an actress. She is the youngest playwright ever to have had a play staged in London....
at The Royal Court
Royal Court Theatre
The Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is noted for its contributions to modern theatre...
Mrs Reynolds and the Ruffian by Gary Owen
Gary Owen
Gary Owen may refer to:* Gary Owen , Welsh snooker player* Gary Owen , English footballer* Gary Owen , Welsh playwright* Gary Owens , American disc jockey and voice actor...
- a Watford Palace Theatre Production
Punk Rock
Punk Rock (play)
Punk Rock is a play by the British playwright Simon Stephens which premiered at the Royal Exchange in 2009 and transferred to the Lyric Hammersmith directed by Sarah Frankcom...
by Simon Stephens
Simon Stephens
Simon Stephens is an English playwright.Hailing originally from Stockport, Greater Manchester, he is now an increasingly significant voice in English theatre. His plays are often humane explorations of family life...
– a Lyric Hammersmith
Lyric Hammersmith
The Lyric Theatre, also known as the Lyric Hammersmith, is a theatre on King Street, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, which takes pride in its original, "groundbreaking" productions....
and Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester production.
- The Equity Award for Best Show for Children and Young People
The Snail and the Whale - a production by Cahoots NI in association with the Grand Opera House, Belfast
Pobby and Dingan- a Catherine Wheels Theatre Company production, in association with Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh
Toro! Toro! - a Salisbury Playhouse production in the Salberg Studio of the Salisbury Playhouse
- Best Musical Production
Sweeney Todd
Sweeney Todd
Sweeney Todd is a fictional character who first appeared as then antagonist of the Victorian penny dreadful The String of Pearls and he was later introduced as an antihero in the broadway musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and its film adaptation...
- a Dundee Rep Ensemble production, at Dundee Rep.
Oh! What a Lovely War
Oh! What a Lovely War
Oh! What a Lovely War is a musical film based on the stage musical Oh, What a Lovely War! originated by Charles Chilton as a radio play, The Long Long Trail in December 1961, and transferred to stage by Gerry Raffles in partnership with Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop created in 1963,...
- Northern Stage’s production on tour.
- Britain’s Got Bhangra at Theatre Royal Stratford East - produced by Theatre Royal Stratford East and RIFCO Arts in association with Warwick Arts Centre.
- Best Performance in a Musical
Ensemble: The Hired Man- an Octagon Theatre Bolton production.
David Birrell for Sweeney Todd a Dundee Rep Ensemble production, at Dundee Rep.
Ensemble: Oh! What a Lovely War
Oh! What a Lovely War
Oh! What a Lovely War is a musical film based on the stage musical Oh, What a Lovely War! originated by Charles Chilton as a radio play, The Long Long Trail in December 1961, and transferred to stage by Gerry Raffles in partnership with Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop created in 1963,...
- Northern Stage’s production on tour.
- Best Supporting Performance in a Musical
Michelle Crook for Oklahoma!
Oklahoma!
Oklahoma! is the first musical written by composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs. Set in Oklahoma Territory outside the town of Claremore in 1906, it tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance...
- UK Productions at the Liverpool Empire.
Alex Ferns for The Little Shop of Horrors
The Little Shop of Horrors
The Little Shop of Horrors is a 1960 American comedy film directed by Roger Corman. Written by Charles B. Griffith, the film is a farce about an inadequate young florist's assistant who cultivates a plant that feeds on human flesh and blood. The film's concept is thought to be based on a 1932...
- a Menier Chocolate Factory
Menier Chocolate Factory
The Menier Chocolate Factory is an award-winning 180 seat fringe studio theatre, restaurant and gallery. It is located in a former 1870s Menier Chocolate Company factory in Southwark Street, a major street in the London Borough of Southwark, central south London, England. The theatre stages plays...
production with the Churchill Theatre, Bromley and Jamie Hendry
Jamie Hendry
-Education:Hendry attended St Paul's School before graduating from Warwick University in 2006.-Career:After initially working for Sonia Friedman Productions, he launched is own company, Jamie Hendry Productions, in 2008....
, on tour.
Louise Plowright for Irving Berlin’s White Christmas the Musical. A Michael Rose Limited, Chris Moreno & Mayflower Theatre, Southampton presentation of a Theatre Royal Plymouth Production.
Mike Brookes and Simon Banham for The Persians - a National Theatre Wales production.
Lizzie Clachan for Far Away
Far Away (play)
Far Away is a 2000 play by British playwright Caryl Churchill. The play has four characters: Harper, Young Joan, Joan, and Todd and is based on the premise of a world in which everything in nature is at war. It is published by Nick Hern Books-Plot summary:...
- a Bristol Old Vic
Bristol Old Vic
The Bristol Old Vic is a theatre company based at the Theatre Royal, King Street, in Bristol, England. The theatre complex includes the 1766 Theatre Royal, which claims to be the oldest continually-operating theatre in England, along with a 1970s studio theatre , offices and backstage facilities...
production at Bristol Old Vic.
Alex Lowde for The Elephant Man - a Dundee Rep Ensemble production, at Dundee Rep.
- Best Lighting Design
Chris Davey for Dial M for Murder
Dial M for Murder
Dial M for Murder is a 1954 American thriller film adapted from a successful stage play by Frederick Knott, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, and Robert Cummings. The movie was released by the Warner Bros...
– a West Yorkshire Playhouse and Fiery Angel production and for Beyond the Horizon – a Royal & Derngate, Northampton production.
James Farncombe for Ghost Stories – a Lyric Hammersmith and Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Production.
Guy Hoare for A Christmas Carol – a Birmingham Repertory Theatre and West Yorkshire Playhouse co-production.
- Best Director
Michael Buffong for A Raisin in the Sun - a Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester production.
Rachel O’Riordan for the Lyric Theatre, Belfast’s The Absence of Women
Laurie Sansom for Beyond the Horizon and Spring Storm - Royal & Derngate, Northampton productions.
Kursk
Kursk (play)
Kursk is a play produced by the theatre company Sound and Fury, written by the British playwright Bryony Lavery, and directed by Mark Espiner and Dan Jones...
– A Young Vic and Fuel co-production: Sound and Fury’s Kursk at the Young Vic and on tour.
The Hypochondriac – a Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and English Touring Theatre production.
The Empire
The Empire (play)
The Empire is a 2010 play by British playwright DC Moore set during the War in Afghanistan. It was first staged at the Royal Court Theatre in London directed by Mike Bradwell. The production was critically acclaimed...
– a Royal Court Theatre and Drum Theatre Plymouth production.
- Achievement in Dance
Danza Contemporanea de Cuba for Mambo 3XX1 by George Cespédes. Mambo 3XX1 was co-commissioned by Dance Consortium, DanceEast and Sadler’s Wells.
The Mark Morris Dance Group for L’allegro, Il Pensero Ed Il Moderato.
The dancers of Scottish Ballet for William Forsythe’s Workwithinwork.
- Achievement in Opera
Glyndebourne’s production of Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd
Opera North’s production of Ruddigore.
Welsh National Opera’s production of Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg
2009 nominees and winners
- Best Performance in a Play
Anna Francolini
Anna Francolini
Anna Francolini is an English actress of the stage and screen. She was born in Chertsey, Surrey and studied theatre at the University of Warwick...
for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a short book by novelist Muriel Spark, the best known of her works. It first saw publication in The New Yorker magazine and was published as a book by Macmillan in 1961. The character of Miss Jean Brodie brought Spark international fame and brought her into the...
at Royal & Derngate Northampton
Irene Macdougall for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Dundee Rep
Marc Warren
Marc Warren
Marc Warren is an English actor, known for his British television roles as Danny Blue in Hustle, Dougie Raymond in The Vice and Dominic Foy in State of Play.-Career:...
for The Pillowman
The Pillowman
The Pillowman is a 2003 play by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. It received its first public reading in an early version at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 1995...
at The Curve, Leicester
Samuel West
Samuel West
Samuel Alexander Joseph West is an English actor and theatre director. He is perhaps best known for his role in Howards End and his work on stage. He also starred in the award-winning play ENRON...
for ENRON
Enron
Enron Corporation was an American energy, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas. Before its bankruptcy on December 2, 2001, Enron employed approximately 22,000 staff and was one of the world's leading electricity, natural gas, communications, and pulp and paper companies, with...
, A Headlong, Chichester Festival Theatre and Royal Court Theatre
Royal Court Theatre
The Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is noted for its contributions to modern theatre...
production at Chichester Festival Theatre
- Best Supporting Performance in a Play
Claire Price for Mary Stuart at Clwyd Theatr Cymru
Adam Gillen
Adam Gillen
Adam Gillen is a British actor. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2007. In 2009 he was nominated for a TMA Award for Best Supporting Performance in a play for the Royal Exchange Theatre Company’s A Taste of Honey. In 2011 he appeared as Moses in The School for Scandal, in a...
for the Royal Exchange Theatre Company’s A Taste of Honey
Eileen O’Brien for When We Are Married at West Yorkshire Playhouse
- Best New Play
ENRON by Lucy Prebble
Lucy Prebble
Lucy Prebble is a British playwright. She is the author of the plays The Sugar Syndrome and ENRON and the television series Secret Diary of a Call Girl.-Biography:...
, a Headlong, Chichester Festival Theatre and Royal Court Theatre production at Chichester Festival Theatre
King Pelican by Chris Goode at Theatre Royal, Plymouth
Mercury Theatre and Theate 503’s The Lifesavers by Fraser Grace at The Mercury, Colchester
For The Best Presented by the Unicorn Theatre
Unicorn Theatre
The Unicorn Theatre is a producer of professional theatre for children in Britain. It is based in a RIBA Award–winning centre in Tooley Street, in the London Borough of Southwark, opened in 2005...
in collaboration with Mark Storor and Anna Ledgard
Heidi: A Goat’s Tale a new adaptation by Andrew Pollard
Andrew Pollard
Professor Andrew Pollard is Director of ESCalate, the Education Subject Centre of the UK's Higher Education Academy at the University of Bristol, and supports research impact at the Institute of Education, University of London. He chairs the Education Sub-panel for the 2014 Research Excellence...
, Northern Broadsides on tour
TAG’s Museum of Dreams on tour
- Best Musical
Spend Spend Spend at Watermill, Newbury
Spring Awakening
Spring Awakening
Spring Awakening is a rock musical adaptation of the controversial 1892 German play of the same title by Frank Wedekind. It features music by Duncan Sheik and a book and lyrics by Steven Sater. Set in late-19th century Germany, it concerns teenagers who are discovering the inner and outer tumult of...
at Lyric Hammersmith
Lyric Hammersmith
The Lyric Theatre, also known as the Lyric Hammersmith, is a theatre on King Street, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, which takes pride in its original, "groundbreaking" productions....
The Ambassador Theatre Group’s West Side Story
West Side Story
West Side Story is an American musical with a script by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and choreographed by Jerome Robbins...
on tour
Alexandra Silber for Carousel, Stanhope Productions, Michael Edwards & Carole Winter, Tiger/WSZ, Stevens-O'Boyle, and Tulchin/Bartner/Ambassador Theatre Group in association with The Churchill, Bromley on tour
Ryan O’Donnell for Quadrophenia, Bill Schultz, Ina Meibach and the Theatre Royal Plymouth in association with Industrial Language Ltd on tour
Allan Stewart for Jolson and Co, King’s Edinburgh and Churchill, Bromley on tour
- Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical
Kirsty Hoiles for Spend Spend Spend at the Watermill, Newbury
Carly Bawden for Evita, Bill Kenwright by special arrangement with The Really Useful Group, on tour
Lauren Hood for Carousel, Stanhope Productions, Michael Edwards & Carole Winter, Tiger/WSZ, Stevens-O'Boyle, and Tulchin/Bartner/Ambassador Theatre Group in association with The Churchill, Bromley on tour
- Best Set Design
Michael Pavelka for The Merchant of Venice, Watermill Theatre and Propellor on tour
Stuart Laing for Les Parents Terribles at Dundee Rep
Ferdia Murphy for The Home Place, Lyric Theatre, Belfast at Grand Opera House
- Best Lighting Design
Daniella Beattie for The Wicked Lady at New Victoria Newcastle Under Lyme
James Farncombe for Private Fears in Public Places
Private Fears in Public Places
Private Fears in Public Places is a 2004 play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. The bleakest play written by Ayckbourn for many years, it intimately follows a few days in the lives of six characters, in four tightly-interwoven stories through 54 scenes.In 2006, it was made into a film Cœurs,...
at Royal & Derngate, Northampton
Tim Mitchell for A Month in the Country at Salisbury Playhouse
Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett for Othello
Othello
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565...
, Frantic Assembly and Theatre Royal Plymouth in collaboration with Royal and Derngate, Northampton on tour
David Leddy for Sub Rosa, Fire Exit and Citizen’s Theatre Co-production at the Citizen’s, Glasgow
Dawn Walton for the Eclipse Theatre’s The Hounding of David Oluwale on tour
- Best Touring Production
Noel Coward
Noël Coward
Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...
’s Brief Encounter, David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers and Cineworld present The Kneehigh Theatre Production in a co production with Royal and Derngate Northampton
The Tempest
The Tempest
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place,...
, Royal Shakespeare Company and Baxter Theatre Company South Africa
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for someone named Godot to arrive. Godot's absence, as well as numerous other aspects of the play, have led to many different interpretations since the play's...
, Theatre Royal Haymarket Company in partnership with Duncan C Weldon Productions Ltd
- Achievement in Opera
Glyndebourne for an outstanding 75th Anniversary season
Sarah Connolly for her performances in Opera North’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi and Glyndebourne’s Giulio Cesare and Tristan und Isolde
David McVicar, for his productions of Cosi fan tutte and La traviata at Scottish Opera
- Achievement in Dance
The dancers of English National Ballet
English National Ballet
English National Ballet is a classical ballet company founded by Dame Alicia Markova and Sir Anton Dolin and based at Markova House in South Kensington, London, England. Along with the Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and Scottish Ballet, it is one of the four major ballet companies in Great...
, who showed new strength and interpretative skills across a range of repertory
Rambert Dance Company's production of Hush
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Pomp and Circumstances
- The Stage Award of Special Achievement in Regional Theatre
The Theatre, Chipping Norton
Theatre Royal Stratford East for its Musical Theatre Training Programme
Corn Exchange, Newbury
Schools Theatre Support Group
Chichester Festival Theatre
- The Special Award of Individual Achievement
Nicolas Kent
Nicolas Kent
-Life:Attending Stowe School and studying English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, he directed his first play - Look Back in Anger by John Osbourne - whilst still at university before becoming a trainee director at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1967...
Past winning productions
| Year | Best New Play | Best Musical | Best Show for Children and Young People | Achievement in Dance | Achievement in Opera |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | The Pitman Painters by Lee Hall Lee Hall Lee Hall may refer to:People:* Lee Hall , US lawyer and animal rights activist* Lee Hall , English playwright and screenwriter* Lee Hall , news anchor for WEEK-TV in Peoria, Illinois... at Live Theatre, Newcastle |
‘’Once Upon a Time at the Adelphi’’ at the Playhouse, Liverpool | ‘’Looking for JJ’’ adapted from Anne Cassidy’s novel by Marcus Romer at the Pilot Theatre | Theatre-Rites & Arthur Pita for ‘’Mischief’’ | ’’Opera North’’ for its summer Shakespeare season |
| 2007 | That Face by Polly Stenham Polly Stenham Polly Stenham is an award-winning English playwright best known for her play That Face, which she wrote when she was only 19 years old.-Background:... at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court Royal Court Theatre The Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is noted for its contributions to modern theatre... |
Sunshine on a Leith at Dundee Rep | Citizens’ Theatre/Tag’s Yellow Moon (The Ballad Of Leila And Lee) at the Citizens’, Glasgow and tour | Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Stravinsky! A Celebration 2007 | Opera North’s Peter Grimes |
| 2006 | Rubenstein Kiss by James Phillips at Hampstead Theatre | Road To Nowhere at the Lyric Hammersmith | National Theatre of Scotland and Improbable's The Wolves In The Walls on tour | Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo for their hilarious blend of low comedy and high glamour that lampoons and celebrates the golden age of classical ballet | Welsh National Opera's Mazeppa |
| 2005 | Pyrenees by David Greig Tron Theatre Company and Paines Plough | How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying at the Festival Theatre, Chichester | Alice's Adventures In Wonderland at Bristol Old Vic | Mark Baldwin for the creation of Constant Speed and the high calibre of his artistic directorship of Rambert Dance Company | The Partnership of Vladimir Jurowski and Richard Jones for Welsh National Operas Wozzeck |
| 2004 | The Sugar Syndrome by Lucy Prebble at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs | The Hired Man book by Melvyn Bragg, music and lyrics by Howard Goodall, by arrangement with The Really Useful Group Ltd at Salisbury Playhouse | Arthur, The Story Of A King, Wee Stories & The Scottish Touring Consortium co-created by Andy Cannon, Iain Johnstone and David Trouton | Scottish Ballet for sure-footed modernisation under Ashley Page and dynamic performances | Opera North for its Eight Little Greats Season at Leeds and on tour |
| 2003 | The Breathing House by Peter Arnott, Royal Lyceum Theatre Company, Edinburgh | Sweet Charity book by Neil Simon, msuic by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fileds, based on the original screenplay by Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinellis and Ennio Flaiano. Produced for the Broadway stage by Fryer, Carr and Harris, conceived, staged and choreographed by Bob Fosse, by arrangement with Music Scope (UK) and Stage Musicals Ltd., at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield | Tom's Midnight Garden adapted by David Wood from Phillippa Pearce's book, Library Theatre Company, Manchester | George Piper Dances' Critics' Choice ****** programme | Tristan Und Isolde at Glyndebourne |
| 2002 | Gagarin Way by Gregory Burke, Traverse Theatre Company in association with the National Theatre Studio on tour | Fiddler On The Roof book by Joseph Stein, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, produced on the New York stage by Harold Prince, original New York stage production directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins, a Watermill West Berkshire Playhouse production | Lifeboat by Nicola McCartney, Catherine Wheels Theatre Company in association with Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh on tour | Christopher Hampson for Double Concerto, an outstanding new ballet in a fine year for repertory at English National Ballet | Scottish Opera for Die Walkre and Siegfried |
| 2001 | Splendour by Abi Morgan, Paines Plough in association with the Peter Wolff Theatre Trust on tour | The Gondoliers by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, adapted by John Doyle at The Watermill West Berkshire Playhouse | The Unicorn Theatre's Tom's Midnight Garden by David Wood adapted from the book by Philippa Pearce, incidental music Stephen McNeff | Rambert Dance Company for their performance of Mats Ek's She Was Black | Richard Jones, Vladimir Jurowski and the Company for Welsh National Opera's production of The Queen Of Spades |
| 2000 | Larkin With Women by Ben Brown Ben Brown (playwright) Ben Brown is a British playwright. When interviewed about The Promise, his 2010 play about the Balfour Declaration, he said that he had grown up in North London with a non-observant Jewish father.-Works:... at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough |
Anonymous Society based on the music of Jacques Brel, created by Andrew Wale and Perrin Allen with English lyrics by Andrew Wale, based on translation by Helen Lea, produced by Start at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith | Under The Apple Tree devised by Paul Harman, Philip Harrison and David Tarkenter for ctc on tour | Tamara Rojo for her outstanding performances for English National Ballet | Anja Silja, Amanda Roocroft and Jir Belohlvek for leading Glyndebourne's revival of Jenufa |
| 1999 | The Palace Theatre Watford production of The Late Middle Classes by Simon Gray, subsequently toured nationally by the Ambassador Theatre Group | Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Tamasha Theatre Company's Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings And A Funeral adapted by Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon-Smith, music arranged by Barrie Bignold, English lyrics by Shaun McCarthy at Birmingham Repertory Theatre | The Young Vic Theatre Company's Arabian Nights adapted and directed by Dominic Cooke at the Young Vic and now on tour, in association with Warwick Arts Centre and Darren Ockert Productions | Lez Brotherston for Northern Ballet Theatre's Carmen, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Giselle, Dracula and A Christmas Carol | Scottish Opera, especially for its outstanding productions of Der Rosenkavalier and Macbeth |
| 1998 | Frozen by Bryony Lavery at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre | Spend Spend Spend! by Steve Brown and Justin Greene inspired by the life of Viv Nicholson, from the book by Viv Nicholson and Stephen Smith at West Yorkshire Playhouse | Oxford Stage Company's Junk by Melvyn Burgess, adapted by John Retallack | David Bintley for the choreography of Edward II, for mounting the Balanchine bill and for reviving Dame Ninette de Valois' The Prospect Before Us for Birmingham Royal Ballet | Welsh National Opera for Billy Budd and The Coronation Of Poppea |
| 1997 | Popcorn by Ben Elton, a co-production between Nottingham Playhouse and West Yorkshire Playhouse | Divorce Me Darling book, music and lyrics by Sandy Wilson at Chichester Festival Theatre | Beauty And The Beast, directed and written by Laurence Boswell at the Young Vic Theatre, London | The dancers of Rambert Dance Company for their performances in Airs, Eidolon, Port For Angels and Stream | The cast and production of Scottish Opera's Idomeneo |
| 1996 | Divine Right by Peter Whelan at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre | By Jeeves by Alan Ayckbourn and Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the Jeeves stories by P G Wodehouse at the Stephen Joseph Theatre , Scarborough | Peter Pan by J M Barrie adapted by Matthew Warchus at West Yorkshire Playhouse | ||
| 1995 | Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, adapted by Harry Gibson, at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow | Moll Flanders book by Claire Luckham (from the novel by Daniel Defoe), lyrics by Paul Leigh (original lyrics by Claire Luckham and Chris Bond), music by George Stiles (based on tunes of the period) at the Theatre Royal, York | The Red Balloon by Albert Lamorisse, book and lyrics by Anthony Clark, music by Mark Vibrans at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre | ||
| 1994 | Hated Nightfall by Howard Barker, co-produced by the Royal Court and the Wrestling School, on tour | Assassins music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by John Weidman from an original idea by Charles Gilbert Junior at the Library Theatre, Manchester | Two Weeks With The Queen adapted by Mary Morris from the novel by Morris Gleitzman, coproduced by the Royal National Theatre and the Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round, Scarborough | ||
| 1993 | Lost In Yonkers by Neil Simon, presented by Duncan C Weldon, on tour | Me And My Girl book and lyrics by L Arthur Rose and Douglas Furber, music by Noel Gay, a Richard Armitage/Noel Gay Organisation production presented by Pola Jones and Farworlds Ltd, on tour | The Royal National Theatre's production of Mr A's Amazing Maze Plays written and directed by Alan Ayckbourn, on tour | ||
| 1992 | The Choice by Claire Luckham at Salisbury Playhouse | Into The Woods music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine at the Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich | The Magic Storybook by Renata Allen, Oxford Stage Company and Oxford Playhouse | ||
| 1991 | Donny Boy by Robin Glendinning at Manchester Royal Exchange | Sweeney Todd music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler at Oldham Coliseum | Monty Moonbeam's Magnificent Mission by Christopher Lillicrap and Jeanette Ranger at the Swan Theatre, Worcester |
Past winning performers
| Year | Best Performance in a Play | Best Supporting Performance in a Play | Best Performance in a Musical | Best Supporting Performance in a Musical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Brenda Blethyn for the Royal Exchange Theatre Company’s The Glass Menagerie | Kate O’Flynn for the Royal Exchange Theatre Company’s The Children’S Hour | Brian Conley for The Music Man at Chichester Festival Theatre | Martin Ball for Mary Poppins on tour |
| 2007 | Patrick Stewart for Macbeth at Chichester Festival Theatre produced in association with Duncan C Weldon and Paul Elliot | Meg Fraser for All My Sons at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh | Henry Goodman for Sheffield Theatres’ Fiddler On The Roof at the Crucible | Anne Louise Ross for Sunshine On Leith at Dundee Rep |
| 2006 | Greg Hicks for Tamburlaine at Bristol Old Vic | Tom Brooke for The Long And The Short And The Tall at the Lyceum, Sheffield | Junix Inocian for Pacific Overtures at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester | Nicole Faraday for Bad Girls The Musical at West Yorkshire Playhouse |
| 2005 | Ian McDiarmid for Lear at the Crucible, Sheffield | Jimmy Akingbola for Blue/Orange at the Crucible, Sheffield | Anna-Jane Casey for Mack And Mabel at the Watermill | Mark Tracie Bennett for the Royal Exchange Theatre Companys Sex, Chips & Rock N Roll |
Past winning creatives
| Year | Best Director | Best Set Design | Best Lighting Design | Special Award for Individual Achievement | Special Award for Achievement in Regional Theatre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Michael Boyd for The Histories at RSC Stratford-Upon-Avon | Mike Britton for Lady From The Sea at Birmingham Rep | The Royal Exchange Theatre Company’s The Children’S Hour designed by Mick Hughes | Bill Kenwright | Latitude Festival |
| 2007 | Tim Supple for A Midsummer Night’S Dream on tour | Chloe Lamford for Small Miracle at the Mercury, Colchester | Matthew Bourne | Bruntwood Group - for their year round charitable work and key contributions off stage | |
| 2006 | Nina Raine for Unprotected at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool | Robert Innes Hopkins for Promise, Promises at the Crucible, Sheffield | Thelma Holt | English Youth Ballet | |
| 2005 | Michael Grandage for Don Carlos at the Crucible, Sheffield | Faustus set design by Laura Hopkins at Northampton Theatre Royal | The Mackintosh Foundation | ||
| 2004 | Anna Mackmin for Cloud Nine a Sheffield Theatres production at the Crucible | Liz Ascroft for the Royal Exchange Theatre Company's The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice | The Playhouse Theatre, Derry | ||
| 2003 | David Farr for A Midsummer Night's Dream at Bristol Old Vic | Julian Croch, Phil Eddols, Colin Grenfell and Stephen Snell for The Hanging Man, Improbable Theatre in co-production wit West Yorkshire Playhouse, Wexner Center for the Arts, the Walker Art Center, the Lyric Hammersmith and Weiner Festwochen in association with Pomegrante Arts | The Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond, North Yorkshire | ||
| 2002 | Emma Rice for Kneehigh Theatre's The Red Shoes on tour | Simon Higlett for Elizabeth Rex at Birmingham Repertory Theatre produced in association with Duncan C. Weldon and Paul Elliott for Triumph Entertainment Ltd, and for Nuffield Theatre Southampton's Three Sisters presented by Theatre Royal Bath Productions on tour | mindthe gap | ||
| 2001 | Vicky Featherstone for Splendour, Paines Plough in association with the Peter Wolff Theatre Trust on tour | Laura Hopkins for Mister Heracles at West Yorkshire Playhouse | The Wales Association for the Performing Arts | ||
| 2000 | Richard Wilson for Mr Kolpert at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court | Jeremy Herbert for 4.48 Psychosis at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court | Mercury Theatre, Colchester | ||
| 1999 | Edward Hall for Twelfth Night at The Watermill, West Berkshire Playhouse | Es Devlin for the Bush Theatre's Howie The Rookie at the Bush Theatre | Northern Stage | ||
| 1998 | Julian Crouch and Phelim McDermott for Shockheaded Peter, a Cultural Industry project produced in collaboration with West Yorkshire Playhouse and Lyric Theatre Hammersmith | Neil Warmington for Jane Eyre, Shared Experience Theatre in association with the Wolsey Theatre Ipswich and the Young Vic Theatre on tour | Mobil Touring Theatre | ||
| 1997 | Jan et Suzman for The Cherry Orchard, the Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company in a co-production with the Market Theatre, Johannesburg | Robert Innes Hopkins for The Wasp Factory at West Yorkshire Playhouse and Oxford Stage Company's My Mother Said I Never Should on tour | G & J Productions | ||
| 1996 | Mike Alfreds for Flesh And Blood, Jude The Obscure and Private Lives, Method & Madness on tour | Tony Tripp for Cole Porter's High Society presented by Paul Elliott by arrangement with Paul Dainty Europe Ltd. Sheffield Theatres and Warner Chappell Music Ltd, on tour | Jeremy Raison, Artistic Director of Chester Gateway | ||
| 1995 | Barrie Rutter for The Cracked Pot at West Yorkshire Playhouse in association with Northern Broadsides, and for Northern Broadsides' tour of A Midsummer Night's Dream | Robin Don for The Winter Guest at West Yorkshire Playhouse, co-produced with the Almeida Theatre Company | |||
| 1994 | Anthony Clark for The Atheist's Tragedy and The Playboy Of The Western World at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre | Peter J Davison for the tours of the Almeida Theatre's production of Medea in association with Bill Kenwright Ltd and Theatr Clwyd's production of Saint Joan presented by Duncan C Weldon | |||
| 1993 | David Glass for the David Glass ensemble production of Gormenghast, on tour | Charles Cusick-Smith for The Plough And The Stars at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester | |||
| 1992 | Gregory Hersov for Romeo And Juliet and A View From The Bridge at Manchester Royal Exchange | Neil Warmington (set), Ben Ormerod (lighting) and Mic Pool (sound) for Life Is A Dream at West Yorkshire Playhouse | |||
| 1991 | Patrick Sandford for The Winter Wife and Much Ado About Nothing at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton | Simon Vincenzi for Thrse Raquin at Nottingham Playhouse |