SPECIAL AWARDS 2024
Artistic Director: Kate Bannister, Artistic Director, Jack Studio Theatre
Producer: Open Bar
Special Achievement: David Byrne, formerly at the New Diorama Theatre (now at the Royal Court)
PEOPLE’S VOTE – awards for venues, voted by the public
Foodie Experience: Park Theatre
Programmes: Bridge House Theatre
Theatre Bar: Kenneth More Theatre
Facilities: Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch
Most Comfortable: Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch
Most Welcoming: Orange Tree Theatre
Online Info & Booking: Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch
Programming Policy: Orange Tree Theatre
Social Media Presence & Activities: Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch
DESIGN
COSTUME DESIGN
Sense & Sensibility / Open Bar / Fullers Pub Gardens / Grace Kelly Miller
She Stoops to Conquer / Orange Tree Theatre / Anett Black and Neil Irish
WINNER – The Flea / Yard Theatre / Lambdog1066
Unfortunate: the Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch / Southwark Playhouse / Abby Clarke
SET DESIGN
Family Tree / Brixton House / Simon Kenny
The Flea / Yard Theatre / Naomi Kuyck-Cohen
WINNER – The White Factory / Marylebone Theatre / Galya Solodovnikova
Unfortunate: the Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch / Southwark Playhouse / Abby Clarke
LIGHTING DESIGN
WINNER – Bacon / HFH Prodns / Riverside Studios / Ryan Joseph Stafford
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button / Southwark Playhouse / Zoe Spurr
The White Factory / Marylebone Theatre / Alex Musgrave
SOUND DESIGN
Bootycandy / Gate Theatre / Duramaney Kamara
WINNER – Colossal / Soho Theatre / Sam MacDonald
The Girl in the Green Room / Bridge House Theatre / Luke Adamson & Joseph Lindoe
VIDEO DESIGN
Animal / Park Theatre / Matt Powell
Stars / Tamasha Theatre / ICA / Candice Purwin
WINNER – The White Factory / Marylebone Theatre / Oleg Mikhailov
MUSICALS / OPERA / CABARET / PANTO
CABARET
Eve, All About Her / Soho Theatre / Keith Ramsay
La Clique / Leicester Square Spiegeltent
WINNER – Tits & Teeth: A Retrospective Of An Outstanding Career / Shoreditch Town Hall / Thick&Tight
PANTO DESIGN
Jack & the Beanstalk / Broadway Theatre Catford / Lotte Collett, Mark Walters, Simisola Majekodunmi, Lee Waddington
Sleeping Beauty Takes a Prick / Charing Cross Theatre / David Shields, Sandy Lloyd & Robert Draper, Jamie Platt
WINNER – Snow White / Greenwich Theatre / Emily Bestow, Henry Slater, Liam McDermott, Pavlov’s Puppets
PANTO PERFORMANCE
Dick Whittington / Queens Theatre Hornchurch
Red Riding Hood & the Big Bad Pig / JW3
WINNER – Tossed / Royal Vauxhall Tavern
Tinderella / Union Theatre
PANTO PRODUCTION
WINNER – Odyssey / Charles Court Opera / Jermyn St Theatre
Peter Pan / Kenneth More Theatre
Snow White / Greenwich Theatre
OPERA PERFORMANCE
Hansel and Gretel / HGO / Jacksons Lane Theatre / Rozanna Madylus
La Voix Humaine / Green Opera / Arcola: Grimeborn / Katherine McIndoe
WINNER – Turandot / The Opera Makers & Ellandar Prodns / Arcola: Grimeborn / Heming Li
OPERA PRODUCTION
The Mikado / Charles Court Opera / Arcola: Grimeborn
WINNER – Trouble in Tahiti / Arcola: Grimeborn
Turandot / The Opera Makers & Ellandar Prodns / Arcola: Grimeborn
NEW MUSICAL
Bloody Elle / Soho Theatre / Lauryn Redding
Julie The Musical / The Other Palace Studio / Abey Bradbury
WINNER – Police Cops: The Musical / Southwark Playhouse / Zachary Hunt, Nathan Parkinson, Tom Roe, Ben Adams
MUSICAL DIRECTOR
Annie Get Your Gun / Lavender Theatre / Debbi Clarke
WINNER – Recognition / Talawa / Fairfield Halls / Rio Kai
Snow White / Greenwich Theatre / Steve Markwick
SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE IN A MUSICAL
WINNER – Flowers for Mrs Harris / Riverside Studios / Annie Wensak
Tarantino Live / Riverside Studios / Karen Mav
Trompe L’Oeil / The Other Palace Studio / Dominic Booth
WINNER – Unfortunate: the Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch / Southwark Playhouse / Allie Dart
Unfortunate: the Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch / Southwark Playhouse / Thomas Lowe
LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A MUSICAL
WINNER – Annie Get Your Gun / Lavender Theatre / SuRie
WINNER – Bloody Elle / Soho Theatre / Lauryn Redding
Flowers for Mrs Harris / Riverside Studios / Jenna Russell
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button / Southwark Playhouse / Jamie Parker
Unfortunate: the Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch / Southwark Playhouse Elephant / Shawna Hamic
DIRECTOR (MUSICALS)
Bloody Elle / Soho Theatre / Bryony Shanahan
WINNER – Eugenius / Turbine Theatre / Hannah Chissick
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button / Southwark Playhouse / Jethro Compton
MUSICAL PRODUCTION
Flowers for Mrs Harris / Riverside Studios
Police Cops: The Musical / Southwark Playhouse
WINNER – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button / Southwark Playhouse
THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES
TYA DESIGN
The Toymaker’s Child / Chickenshed / Set & Lighting: Andrew Caddies; Costumes: Emma Gale
WINNER – Wolves in the Walls / Little Angel Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, York Theatre Royal / Little Angel Theatre / Toby Olié, Daisy Beattie
Zoe’s Peculiar Journey Through Time / Theatre-Rites & Burg Theater / Polka Theatre / Joanna Parker, Alys Whitehead, Naomi Oppenheim, Charlie Tymms, Rebekah Wild, Stitches & Glue
TYA MUSIC / SOUND
Breathe / Little Angel Theatre / Musicians: Emily Essery & Darcey O’Rourke; Drum & Bass: Suitman Jungle; Songwriter: Avi Simmons
WINNER – Pied Piper / Battersea Arts Centre, Beatbox Academy & rODIUM Co-Production / Battersea Arts Centre
Under the Little Red Moon / English Touring Opera / Polka Theatre / Librettist: Tim Yealland MBE; Composer: Russell Hepplewhite
TYA WRITING / ADAPTATION
WINNER – He Said She Said / Kiln Theatre / Magero Otieno Magero
Hot Orange / Half Moon / Amal Khalidi & Tatenda Naomi Matsvai
The Trial of Josie K / Unicorn Theatre / Katie Hims
TYA PERFORMANCE
WINNER – The Invisible Man / Theater Artemis / Unicorn Theatre / Marijn Brussaard, René Groothof, Kim Karssen
Wolves in the Walls / Little Angel Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, York Theatre Royal / Little Angel Theatre / Katie Haygarth, Elisa de Grey, Sean Garratt John Trindle
Zoe’s Peculiar Journey Through Time / Theatre-Rites / Polka Theatre / Eden Harbud, Shanez Pattni, Teele Uustani, Benedetta Zanetti
TYA PRODUCTION
Belongings / Tangled Feet / Polka & Brixton House
He Said She Said / Kiln Theatre
WINNER – The Toymaker’s Child / Chickenshed
CROSS-GENRE
COMMUNITY OUTREACH YOUTH
As We Face the Sun / Bush Theatre
Gone Too Far! / Theatre Royal Stratford East
WINNER – The Realness / The Big House
ACCESS
WINNER – High Times and Dirty Monsters / Bernie Grant Arts Centre
It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure / FlawBored / Vault Festival
The Bar at the Edge of Time / Frozen Light / Tramshed (Woolwich)
ONLINE PRODUCTION
Destiny / Pentabus
WINNER – Father Unknown / Threedumb Theatre and North East Dads & Lads
The “S” Is Silent / Mad, Who?
WINNER – The Silence & The Noise / Pentabus & Rural Media
NEWCOMER
Strangers In Between / Golden Goose Theatre / Alex Ansdell
WINNER – That Face / Orange Tree Theatre / Kasper Hilton-Hille
That Face / Orange Tree Theatre / Ruby Stokes
Village Idiot / Theatre Royal Stratford East / Maximilian Fairley
CHOREOGRAPHY / MOVEMENT
WINNER – Police Cops: The Musical / Southwark Playhouse / Matt Cole
Rapunzel / Theatre Peckham / Jazz Deer-Olafa
Wonderland in Alice / Theatre Peckham / Christopher Tendai
PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLE
A Woman Walks into a Bank / Theatre503 / Keith Dunphy, Giulia Innocenti, Sam Newton
After the Act / New Diorama / Tika Mu’tamir, Ellice Stevens, EM Williams, Zachary Willis
Oh What A Lovely War / Southwark Playhouse / Euan Wilson, Chioma Uma, Alice E Mayer, Harry Curley, Tom Crabtree, Christopher Atkinson
WINNER – The Brief Life and Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria / Arcola / Sasha Wilson, Joseph Cullen, Lawrence Boothman, Clare Fraenkel, David Leopold
IDEA (Immersive / Devised / Experimental / Atypical)
IDEA DESIGN
WINNER – Binaural Dinner Date / ZU-UK / University of Greenwich / Sound Design by Persis-Jade Maravala and Ross Flight
Hildegard Von Bingen / Alex Forey, Bound By Theatre / Vault Festival
On Railton Road / Museum of the Home / Puppets: Oliver Hymans
IDEA PERFORMANCE
Clown Sex / Vault Festival / Natasha Sutton Williams
Tentacular Spectacular / Battersea Arts Centre
WINNER – The Talent / Action Hero & Deborah Pearson / Battersea Arts Centre / Gemma Paintin
IDEA PRODUCTION
First Trimester / Krishna Istha / Battersea Arts Centre
High Steaks / Eloina / Vault Festival
WINNER – Lullaby for Scavengers / Kim Noble / Soho Theatre
PLAYS
MOST PROMISING NEW PLAYWRIGHT
A Woman Walks into a Bank / Theatre503 / Roxy Cook
WINNER – SAP / Atticist, Ellie Keel Productions, MAST Mayflower Studios / Soho Theatre / Rafaella Marcus
The Boys Are Kissing / Theatre503 / Zak Zarafshan
NEW PLAY
WINNER – Stars / Tamasha Theatre / ICA / Mojisola Adebayo
Tiger / Omnibus / Joe Eyre
Vermin / Arcola / Benny Ainsworth
SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE IN A PLAY
A Brief List of Everyone Who Died / Finborough / Siphiwo Mahlentle
Brassic FM / Gate Theatre / Zainab Hasan
Paper Cut / Ecclesia Productions / Park Theatre / Joe Bolland
WINNER – Possession / Arcola Theatre / Dorothea Myer-Bennet
Possession / Arcola Theatre / Sarah Amankwah
WINNER – Sense & Sensibility / Open Stage / Fullers Pub Gardens / Thomas Judd
PERFORMANCE PIECE
Blanket Ban / Southwark Playhouse Borough / Davinia Hamilton & Marta Vella
Brown Girls Do It Too / Mama Told Me Not to Come / Soho Theatre / Poppy Jay and Rubina Pabani
Manic Street Creature / Southwark Playhouse / Maimuna Memon
WINNER – The Legends of Them / Hackney Showroom & Brixton House / Brixton House / Sutara Gayle
SOLO PERFORMANCE IN A PLAY
Candy / Park Theatre / Michael Waller
WINNER – Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen / Bush Theatre / Samuel Barnett
Protest Song / Arcola / David Nellist
The Unicorn / Nina Productions / Arcola Theatre / Alice Lamb
LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A PLAY
Animal / Park Theatre / Christopher John-Slater
WINNER – Leaves of Glass / Park Theatre / Ned Costello
She Stoops to Conquer / Orange Tree Theatre / David Horovitch
The Journey to Venice / Anarchy Division / Finborough / Annabel Leventon
The White Factory / Marylebone Theatre / Adrian Schiller
WINNER – Vermin / Arcola / Sally Paffett
Wasted / MICA Theatre, Nouveau Riche / Broadway Theatre Catford / Seraphina Beh
DIRECTOR (PLAYS)
Animal / Park Theatre / Bronagh Lagan
Recognition / Talawa / Fairfield Halls / Rachael Nanyonjo
Tambo & Bones / Theatre Royal Stratford East / Matthew Xia
The Book of Will / Queens Theatre Hornchurch / Lotte Wakeham
WINNER – The Flea / Yard Theatre / Jay Miller
The White Factory / Marylebone Theatre / Maxim Didenko
PRODUCTION (PLAYS)
My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar / Hale Arts / Brixton House
Tambo & Bones / Theatre Royal Stratford East
WINNER – The White Factory / Marylebone Theatre
The OffFest is the Offies award for shows at theatre festivals, or theatre shows at general arts festivals.
EDINBURGH FRINGE (August)
MUSICALS & CIRCUS
Chriskirkpatrickmas: A Boy Band Christmas Musical / Pleasance Courtyard
WINNER – Godfather Death: A Grimm’s Musical / Greenside
I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical / Gilded Balloon at the Museum
LGBT
WINNER – 52 Monologues for Young Transsexuals / Pleasance Courtyard
An Asian Queer Story: Coming Out to Dead People / Just the Tonic at the Mash House
Boys in the Buff / C Venues
NEW WRITING
Character Flaw / Greenside at Nicolson Square
Distant Memories of the Near Future / Summerhall
WINNER – Mark Thomas’s ‘England & Son’ / Summerhall
SOLO PERFORMANCE
Beautiful Evil Things / Pleasance Dome
WINNER – SAD-VENTS / Underbelly
The Insider / Teater Katapult / Zoo
THEATRE
Bill’s 44th / Underbelly Cowgate
WINNER – Diana the Untold and Untrue Story / Pleasance Dome
Wiesenthal / Pleasance Courtyard
CAMDEN FRINGE (August)
Finalists
La Cenerentola / Opera Kipling / Upstairs at the Gatehouse
WINNER – Scavengers / Etcetera Theatre
The Emperor’s New Clothes / Canal Cafe Theatre
Nominations
A Caravan Named Desire / Camden People’s Theatre
Assessment Centre / Etcetera Theatre
Bareback Kings / Hope Theatre
Bunny Bunny / Lion & Unicorn
Gaslight / Etcetera Theatre
Maybe I Do / Hen & Chickens
Neverland / Act II / Lion & Unicorn
Ready Steady Crooks / Hope Theatre
Runaway / Rosemary Branch
True West / Luder Theatre Co
Twisted Tales / Cockpit Theatre
Woman. Life. Freedom. / Nalini Theatre Co
GREATER MANCHESTER FRINGE (July)
Finalists
Bosie / Northern Rep / The Fitzgerald
Les & Ali’s Big Balearic Adventure / MultiMedea / Kings Arms Salford
WINNER – Wasteman / Joe Leather / Kings Arms Salford
Nominations
Arisha’s OK Cabaret: An Operatic Extravaganza / To Bee Productions / Sonata Piano & Cabaret Lounge
Baggy Bra / Team Baggy Bra / Squad House, Stockport
Buzzing / Debbie Bird / Kings Arms Salford
Enough / Moonstone Theatre Co / Kings Arms Salford
Outside In / Ilaria Passeri / Gulliver’s Pub
Transparency / Breakdown Theatre Co / 53:two
Virtual Dust / Turtle Soup Theatre / The Fitzgerald
What Happened to Connie Converse / Idol Complex / Kings Arms Salford
BRIGHTON FRINGE (May-June)
Finalists
WINNER – Experiment Human / Hooky Productions
Unlocked / Nova Grace Prodns
Who Is No. 1? / Foundry Group
Nominations
2145 / Lantern Theatre
Bloody Influencers / Sweet Venues Brighton
Chemistry / Paradigm Film and Theatre
Esther’s Revenge / Pawstudios Africa
Havisham / Emul8 Theatre
HóPe / The Lantern Theatre
Lord God / Foundry Group
Miss Margarida’s Way / 5Go Theatre Co
My First Time was in a Car Park / Unzipped Arts
Mythos: Ragnarök / Mythological Theatre
Rambunctious Scallywag
Surfing the Holyland / Slackline Prodns
That’s Not My Name / Rotunda Theatre
The Burning of a Sicilian Whore
The Heist / Clown for Life
The Last Night Out / Three Coin Theatre
Unlocked / Nova Grace Prodns
Unwanted Objects / Sight at Night Prodns
THE VAULT FESTIVAL (Jan-March)
Finalists
WINNER – How We Begin / Surfacing Acts Theatre / Pit at the Vaults
Locomotive For Murder / Pinch Punch / Crypt at the Vaults
Sons / Concept Theatre / The Vaults
Nominations
A Manchester Anthem / Lyle Productions & Ramblemill / Cavern at the Vaults
Bloody Mary / Part of the Main and Part of the Night / The Flair Ground
Borders / Junction Theatre & Performance / Crescent at the Vaults
Buff / Scott Le Crass and Ben Fensome / Crescent at the Vaults
Butchered / Expial Atrocious / Pit at the Vaults
Gay Witch Sex Cult / Andrew Doherty / Studio at the Vaults
In Clay / Design & Canvas Co / Cage at the Vaults
Post Sex Spagbol / Thistle & Rose Theatre / Studio at the Vaults
Siapa Yang Bawa Melayu Aku Pergi? (who took my malay away) / Faizal Abdullah / Network Theatre
The Ballerina / Khaos / Cavern at the Vaults
The Silver Bell / Alan Flanagan, Brendan O’Rourke, Dan Hutton / Pit at the Vaults
Thirsty / Bruised Sky Productions / Cage at the Vaults
Wasteman / Joe Leather / Pit at the Vaults
