Winners for The Stage Debut Awards 2024

The winners of The Stage Debut Awards 2024 have been revealed.

Best Performer in a Play (sponsored by Theatrical Rights Worldwide):
●      Deborah Ayorinde for Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White at the Lyric Hammersmith, London
●      Imogen Elliott for The Voice of the Turtle at Jermyn Street Theatre, London
●      Kasper Hilton-Hille for That Face at the Orange Tree Theatre, London
●      Gareth John for Housemates at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff
●      Louis McCartney for Stranger Things: The First Shadow at Phoenix Theatre, London – WINNER
●      Nadia Parkes for The House Party at Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester
●      Taylor Russell for The Effect at the National Theatre, London
●      Ellie-May Sheridan for London Tide at the National Theatre, London – WINNER

Best Performer in a Musical (sponsored by Michael Harrison Entertainment):
●      Scarlett Ayers for The Verge of Forever at the Other Palace, London
●      Jeevan Braich for Starlight Express at Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, London – WINNER
●      Laura Dawkes for Frozen at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London
●      Myles Frost for MJ the Musical at Prince Edward Theatre, London
●      Joshua Ginsberg for Cable Street at Southwark Playhouse Borough, London
●      Grace Hodgett Young for Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy Theatre, London – WINNER

Best Director (sponsored by Arts Council England):
●      Ellie Coote for 42 Balloons at the Lowry, Manchester
●      Sophie Drake for The Bleeding Tree at the Southwark Playhouse Borough, London – WINNER
●      Emily Foran for Little Women at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast

Best Designer (sponsored by Preevue):
●      Nathan Amzi and Joe Ransom (video) for Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy Theatre, London – WINNER
●      Ellie Koslowsky (set) for Vegetables at A secret location, London
●      Nadya Sayapina (set), Anastasiya Ryabova (costume), Lidiia Dresch-Pyshna (costume) and Dmytro Guk (video/projection) for King Stakh’s Wild Hunt at Barbican Theatre, London
●      Skylar Turnbull Hurd (lighting) for These Demons at Theatre503, London

Best Writer (sponsored by Sonia Friedman Productions):
●      Sam Grabiner for Boys on the Verge of Tears at Soho Theatre, London – WINNER
●      Martha Loader for Bindweed at Mercury Theatre, Colchester
●      Harry McDonald for Foam at the Finborough Theatre, London
●      Hannah Morley for We Could All Be Perfect at Sheffield Theatres, Sheffield
●      Azuka Oforka for The Women of Llanrumney at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff – WINNER
●      Anastasia Osei-Kuffour for Love Steps at the Omnibus Theatre, London

Best Composer, Lyricist or Book Writer (sponsored by Crossroads Live):
●      Ahmed Abdullahi Gallab for The Enormous Crocodile at Leeds Playhouse, Leeds
●      Nick Butcher and Tom Ling for The Little Big Things at @sohoplace, London
●      Elvis Costello for Cold War at the Almeida Theatre, London
●      Jack Godfrey for 42 Balloons at the Lowry, Manchester – WINNER

Best West End Debut Performer (Sponsored by Noël Coward Foundation):
●      Francesca Amewudah-Rivers for Romeo and Juliet at the Duke of York’s Theatre, London
●      Will Close for Dear England at the National Theatre, London
●      Billy Crudup for Harry Clarke at Ambassadors Theatre, London
●      Grace Hodgett Young for Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy Theatre, London
●      Toheeb Jimoh for Player Kings at the Noël Coward Theatre, London
●      Ed Larkin for The Little Big Things at @sohoplace, London
●      Louis McCartney for Stranger Things: The First Shadow at the Phoenix Theatre, London
●      Jack Wolfe for Next to Normal at Wyndham’s Theatre, London – WINNER

Best Creative West End Debut (sponsored by Trafalgar Entertainment):
●      Daniel Bailey (director) for Red Pitch at @sohoplace, London – WINNER
●      Jim Barne and Kit Buchan (composer, lyricist) for Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) at the Criterion Theatre, London
●      Marcelo Dos Santos (writer) for Backstairs Billy at the Duke of York’s Theatre, London
●      Kip Williams (director) for The Picture of Dorian Gray at Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
●      Brian Yorkey (lyricist) and Tom Kitt (composer) for Next to Normal at Wyndham’s Theatre, London

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