Inventive Director: Kate Bannister, Inventive Director, Jack Studio Theatre Producer: Open Bar Particular Achievement: David Byrne, previously on the New Diorama Theatre (now on the Royal Court docket)
PEOPLE’S VOTE – awards for venues, voted by the public
Foodie Expertise: Park Theatre Programmes: Bridge Home Theatre Theatre Bar: Kenneth Extra Theatre Services: Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch Most Comfy: Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch Most Welcoming: Orange Tree Theatre On-line Data & Reserving: Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch Programming Coverage: Orange Tree Theatre Social Media Presence & Actions: 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 Unlucky: the Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch / Southwark Playhouse / Abby Clarke
SET DESIGN
Household Tree/ Brixton Home / Simon Kenny The Flea / Yard Theatre / Naomi Kuyck-Cohen WINNER – The White Manufacturing facility / Marylebone Theatre / Galya Solodovnikova Unlucky: 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 Manufacturing facility/ Marylebone Theatre / Alex Musgrave
SOUND DESIGN
Bootycandy/ Gate Theatre / Duramaney Kamara WINNER – Colossal/ Soho Theatre / Sam MacDonald The Lady within the Inexperienced Room / Bridge Home Theatre / Luke Adamson & Joseph Lindoe
VIDEO DESIGN
Animal/ Park Theatre / Matt Powell Stars/ Tamasha Theatre / ICA / Candice Purwin WINNER – The White Manufacturing facility / Marylebone Theatre / Oleg Mikhailov
MUSICALS / OPERA / CABARET / PANTO
CABARET
Eve, All About Her / Soho Theatre / Keith Ramsay La Clique / Leicester Sq. Spiegeltent WINNER – Tits & Tooth: A Retrospective Of An Excellent Profession / Shoreditch City Corridor / Thick&Tight
PANTO DESIGN
Jack & the Beanstalk / Broadway Theatre Catford / Lotte Collett, Mark Walters, Simisola Majekodunmi, Lee Waddington Sleeping Magnificence 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 Purple Driving Hood & the Huge Dangerous Pig / JW3 WINNER – Tossed/ Royal Vauxhall Tavern Tinderella/ Union Theatre
PANTO PRODUCTION
WINNER – Odyssey/ Charles Court docket Opera / Jermyn St Theatre Peter Pan / Kenneth Extra Theatre Snow White/ Greenwich Theatre
OPERA PERFORMANCE
Hansel and Gretel/ HGO / Jacksons Lane Theatre / Rozanna Madylus La Voix Humaine/ Inexperienced Opera / Arcola: Grimeborn / Katherine McIndoe WINNER – Turandot/ The Opera Makers & Ellandar Prodns / Arcola: Grimeborn / Heming Li
OPERA PRODUCTION
The Mikado / Charles Court docket Opera / Arcola: Grimeborn WINNER – Bother in Tahiti/ Arcola: Grimeborn Turandot/ The Opera Makers & Ellandar Prodns / Arcola: Grimeborn
NEW MUSICAL
Bloody Elle / Soho Theatre / Lauryn Redding Julie The Musical / The Different 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 Dwell/ Riverside Studios / Karen Mav Trompe L’Oeil/ The Different Palace Studio / Dominic Sales space WINNER – Unlucky: the Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch / Southwark Playhouse / Allie Dart Unlucky: 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 Unlucky: 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 Little one / Chickenshed / Set & Lighting: Andrew Caddies; Costumes: Emma Gale WINNER – Wolves within the Partitions / Little Angel Theatre, Bristol Outdated Vic, York Theatre Royal / Little Angel Theatre / Toby Olié, Daisy Beattie Zoe’s Peculiar Journey Via 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-Manufacturing / Battersea Arts Centre Beneath the Little Purple Moon / English Touring Opera / Polka Theatre / Librettist: Tim Yealland MBE; Composer: Russell Hepplewhite
TYA WRITING / ADAPTATION
WINNER – He Stated She Stated / Kiln Theatre / Magero Otieno Magero Sizzling Orange/ Half Moon / Amal Khalidi & Tatenda Naomi Matsvai The Trial of Josie Ok/ Unicorn Theatre / Katie Hims
TYA PERFORMANCE
WINNER – The Invisible Man / Theater Artemis / Unicorn Theatre / Marijn Brussaard, René Groothof, Kim Karssen Wolves within the Partitions / Little Angel Theatre, Bristol Outdated Vic, York Theatre Royal / Little Angel Theatre / Katie Haygarth, Elisa de Gray, Sean Garratt John Trindle Zoe’s Peculiar Journey Via Time / Theatre-Rites / Polka Theatre / Eden Harbud, Shanez Pattni, Teele Uustani, Benedetta Zanetti
TYA PRODUCTION
Belongings / Tangled Ft / Polka & Brixton Home He Stated She Stated/ Kiln Theatre WINNER – The Toymaker’s Little one / Chickenshed
CROSS-GENRE
COMMUNITY OUTREACH YOUTH
As We Face the Solar/ Bush Theatre Gone Too Far! / Theatre Royal Stratford East WINNER – The Realness / The Huge Home
ACCESS
WINNER – Excessive Instances and Soiled Monsters/ Bernie Grant Arts Centre It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure / FlawBored / Vault Pageant The Bar on the Fringe of Time/ Frozen Mild / Tramshed (Woolwich)
ONLINE PRODUCTION
Future/ 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 Fool / 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 Lady Walks right into a Financial institution / Theatre503 / Keith Dunphy,Giulia Innocenti, Sam Newton After the Act / New Diorama / Tika Mu’tamir, Ellice Stevens, EM Williams, Zachary Willis Oh What A Pretty Battle / Southwark Playhouse / Euan Wilson, Chioma Uma, Alice E Mayer, Harry Curley, Tom Crabtree, Christopher Atkinson WINNER – The Temporary Life and Mysterious Demise 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 / College of Greenwich / Sound Design by Persis-Jade Maravala and Ross Flight Hildegard Von Bingen / Alex Forey, Certain By Theatre / Vault Pageant On Railton Street / Museum of the House / Puppets: Oliver Hymans
IDEA PERFORMANCE
Clown Intercourse / Vault Pageant / Natasha Sutton Williams Tentacular Spectacular/ Battersea Arts Centre WINNER – The Expertise/ Motion Hero & Deborah Pearson / Battersea Arts Centre / Gemma Paintin
IDEA PRODUCTION
First Trimester/ Krishna Istha / Battersea Arts Centre Excessive Steaks / Eloina / Vault Pageant WINNER – Lullaby for Scavengers/ Kim Noble / Soho Theatre
PLAYS
MOST PROMISING NEW PLAYWRIGHT
A Lady Walks right into a Financial institution / Theatre503 / Roxy Prepare dinner 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 Temporary Listing of Everybody Who Died / Finborough / Siphiwo Mahlentle Brassic FM/ Gate Theatre / Zainab Hasan Paper Minimize / 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 Women Do It Too / Mama Advised Me To not Come / Soho Theatre / Poppy Jay and Rubina Pabani Manic Avenue Creature / Southwark Playhouse / Maimuna Memon WINNER – The Legends of Them / Hackney Showroom & Brixton Home / Brixton Home / Sutara Gayle
SOLO PERFORMANCE IN A PLAY
Sweet/ Park Theatre / Michael Waller WINNER – Feeling Afraid As If One thing Horrible Is Going To Occur / Bush Theatre / Samuel Barnett Protest Music / 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 Manufacturing facility/ 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 Ebook of Will/ Queens Theatre Hornchurch / Lotte Wakeham WINNER – The Flea / Yard Theatre / Jay Miller The White Manufacturing facility/ Marylebone Theatre / Maxim Didenko
PRODUCTION (PLAYS)
My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar / Hale Arts / Brixton Home Tambo & Bones / Theatre Royal Stratford East WINNER – The White Manufacturing facility / Marylebone Theatre
The OffFest is the Offies award for reveals at theatre festivals, or theatre reveals at normal arts festivals.
EDINBURGH FRINGE (August)
MUSICALS & CIRCUS Chriskirkpatrickmas: A Boy Band Christmas Musical/ Pleasance Courtyard WINNER – Godfather Demise: A Grimm’s Musical / Greenside I Want My Life Have been Like A Musical/ Gilded Balloon on the Museum
LGBT WINNER – 52 Monologues for Younger Transsexuals / Pleasance Courtyard An Asian Queer Story: Coming Out to Lifeless Individuals / Simply the Tonic on the Mash Home Boys within the Buff/ C Venues
NEW WRITING Character Flaw/ Greenside at Nicolson Sq. Distant Recollections of the Close to Future / Summerhall WINNER – Mark Thomas’s ‘England & Son’ / Summerhall
SOLO PERFORMANCE Stunning Evil Issues / Pleasance Dome WINNER – SAD-VENTS / Underbelly The Insider / Teater Katapult / Zoo
THEATRE Invoice’s 44th / Underbelly Cowgate WINNER – Diana the Untold and Unfaithful Story / Pleasance Dome Wiesenthal/ Pleasance Courtyard
CAMDEN FRINGE (August)
Finalists La Cenerentola/ Opera Kipling / Upstairs on the Gatehouse WINNER – Scavengers/ Etcetera Theatre The Emperor’s New Garments / Canal Cafe Theatre
Nominations A Caravan Named Want/ Camden Individuals’s Theatre Evaluation Centre/ Etcetera Theatre Bareback Kings / Hope Theatre Bunny Bunny / Lion & Unicorn Gaslight/ Etcetera Theatre Perhaps I Do/ Hen & Chickens Neverland/ Act II / Lion & Unicorn Prepared Regular Crooks/ Hope Theatre Runaway/ Rosemary Department True West/ Luder Theatre Co Twisted Tales / Cockpit Theatre Lady. Life. Freedom./ Nalini Theatre Co
GREATER MANCHESTER FRINGE (July)
Finalists Bosie/ Northern Rep / The Fitzgerald Les & Ali’s Huge Balearic Journey / MultiMedea / Kings Arms Salford WINNER – Wasteman/ Joe Leather-based / Kings Arms Salford
Nominations Arisha’s OK Cabaret: An Operatic Extravaganza / To Bee Productions / Sonata Piano & Cabaret Lounge Saggy Bra / Group Saggy Bra / Squad Home, Stockport Buzzing/ Debbie Chook / Kings Arms Salford Sufficient/ Moonstone Theatre Co / Kings Arms Salford Outdoors In / Ilaria Passeri / Gulliver’s Pub Transparency/ Breakdown Theatre Co / 53:two Digital Mud/ Turtle Soup Theatre / The Fitzgerald What Occurred to Connie Converse / Idol Complicated / Kings Arms Salford
BRIGHTON FRINGE (Might-June)
Finalists WINNER – Experiment Human/ Hooky Productions Unlocked/ Nova Grace Prodns Who Is No. 1? / Foundry Group
Nominations 2145/ Lantern Theatre Bloody Influencers / Candy Venues Brighton Chemistry/ Paradigm Movie and Theatre Esther’s Revenge/ Pawstudios Africa Havisham/ Emul8 Theatre HóPe/ The Lantern Theatre Lord God/ Foundry Group Miss Margarida’s Manner / 5Go Theatre Co My First Time was in a Automotive Park / Unzipped Arts Mythos: Ragnarök / Mythological Theatre Rambunctious Scallywag Browsing the Holyland / Slackline Prodns That’s Not My Identify / Rotunda Theatre The Burning of a Sicilian Whore The Heist/ Clown for Life The Final Evening Out/ Three Coin Theatre Unlocked/ Nova Grace Prodns Undesirable Objects / Sight at Evening Prodns
THE VAULT FESTIVAL (Jan-March)
Finalists WINNER – How We Start / Surfacing Acts Theatre / Pit on the Vaults Locomotive For Homicide / Pinch Punch / Crypt on the Vaults Sons/ Idea Theatre / The Vaults
Nominations A Manchester Anthem / Lyle Productions & Ramblemill / Cavern on the Vaults Bloody Mary/ A part of the Primary and A part of the Evening / The Aptitude Floor Borders/ Junction Theatre & Efficiency / Crescent on the Vaults Buff/ Scott Le Crass and Ben Fensome / Crescent on the Vaults Butchered/ Expial Atrocious / Pit on the Vaults Homosexual Witch Intercourse Cult / Andrew Doherty / Studio on the Vaults In Clay / Design & Canvas Co / Cage on the Vaults Publish Intercourse Spagbol/ Thistle & Rose Theatre / Studio on the Vaults Siapa Yang Bawa Melayu Aku Pergi? (who took my malay away) / Faizal Abdullah / Community Theatre The Ballerina / Khaos / Cavern on the Vaults The Silver Bell/ Alan Flanagan, Brendan O’Rourke, Dan Hutton / Pit on the Vaults Thirsty/ Bruised Sky Productions / Cage on the Vaults Wasteman/ Joe Leather-based / Pit on the Vaults
