UK Theatre Awards

The UK Theatre Awards, established in 1991 and known before 2011 as the TMA Awards, are presented annually by UK Theatre, in recognition of creative excellence and outstanding work in regional theatre throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.[1][2]

    Past winning productions

    Year Best New Play Best Musical Best Show for Children and Young People Best Touring Production
    2017 Narvik by Lizzie Nunnery, a Box of Tricks production Everybody's Talking About Jamie, a Sheffield Theatres production The Snow Queen, a New Vic Theatre production The Who’s Tommy, a New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich and Ramps on the Moon co-production
    2016 Cuttin' It by Charlene James, a Young Vic/Royal Court Theatre co-production with Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Sheffield Theatres and The Yard Theatre Flowers for Mrs Harris, a Sheffield Theatres Production

    Show Boat, a Sheffield Theatres production

    		 The Hobbit, a The Dukes production The Herbal Bed, a co-production by Royal & Derngate Northampton, English Touring Theatre and Rose Theatre Kingston
    2015 Iphigenia in Splott by Gary Owen, a Sherman Cymru production Gypsy, a Chichester Festival Theatre production Dragon, a National Theatre of Scotland, Vox Motus and Tianjin People's Art Theatre, China production, at the Citizens Theatre and Traverse Theatre Twelfth Night, an English Touring Theatre and Sheffield Theatres production
    2014 An August Bank Holiday Lark by Deborah McAndrew, a Northern Broadsides production in partnership with New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme, on tour Brass, a National Youth Music Theatre production at City varieties Music Hall, Leeds Translations, English Touring Theatre
    2013 Bull by Mike Bartlett, a Sheffield Theatres production This Is My Family, a Sheffield Theatres production The Borrowers, a Northern Stage, Newcastle production and Mister Holgado, a Unicorn Theatre production The Full Monty, a Sheffield Theatres production, presented by David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers
    2012 In The Next Room by Sarah Ruhl, a Theatre Royal Bath production in the Ustinov Studio The Go-Between, a West Yorkshire Playhouse, Royal & Derngate, Northampton and Derby LIVE! production at West Yorkshire Playhouse Anne Boleyn - English Touring Theatre's presentation of the Shakespeare's Globe production
    2011 Love, Love, Love, a Drum Theatre Plymouth and Paines Plough production at the Drum Theatre Plymouth, and on tour Matilda the Musical, an RSC production at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Richard III and The Comedy of Errors: both Propeller productions, in association with The Touring Partnership, on tour
    2010[3] Spur of the Moment by Anya Reiss at The Royal Court Sweeney Todd - a Dundee Rep Ensemble production, at Dundee Rep Pobby and Dingan - a Catherine Wheels Theatre Company production, in association with Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh The Empire – a Royal Court Theatre and Drum Theatre Plymouth production
    2009[4] ENRON by Lucy Prebble, a Headlong, Chichester Festival Theatre and Royal Court Theatre production at Chichester Festival Theatre Spend Spend Spend at Watermill, Newbury For The Best Presented by the Unicorn Theatre in collaboration with Mark Storor and Anna Ledgard Noël 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
    2008The Pitman Painters by Lee Hall at Live Theatre, NewcastleOnce Upon a Time at the Adelphi at the Playhouse, LiverpoolLooking for JJ adapted from Anne Cassidy's novel by Marcus Romer at the Pilot Theatre
    2007That Face by Polly Stenham at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal CourtSunshine on Leith at Dundee RepCitizens' Theatre/Tag's Yellow Moon (The Ballad Of Leila And Lee) at the Citizens', Glasgow and tour
    2006Rubenstein Kiss by James Phillips at Hampstead TheatreRoad To Nowhere at the Lyric HammersmithNational Theatre of Scotland and Improbable's The Wolves In The Walls on tour
    2005Pyrenees by David Greig, Tron Theatre Company and Paines PloughHow To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying at the Festival Theatre, ChichesterAlice's Adventures In Wonderland at Bristol Old Vic
    2004The 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, at Salisbury PlayhouseArthur, The Story Of A King, Wee Stories & The Scottish Touring Consortium co-created by Andy Cannon, Iain Johnstone and David Trouton
    2003The Breathing House by Peter Arnott, Royal Lyceum Theatre Company, EdinburghSweet Charity book by Neil Simon, music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fileds, based on the original screenplay by Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinellis and Ennio Flaiano, at the Crucible Theatre, SheffieldTom's Midnight Garden adapted by David Wood from Philippa Pearce's book, Library Theatre Company, Manchester
    2002Gagarin Way by Gregory Burke, Traverse Theatre Company in association with the National Theatre Studio on tourFiddler On The Roof book by Joseph Stein, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, a Watermill West Berkshire Playhouse productionLifeboat by Nicola McCartney, Catherine Wheels Theatre Company in association with Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh on tour
    2001Splendour by Abi Morgan, Paines Plough in association with the Peter Wolff Theatre Trust on tourThe Gondoliers by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, adapted by John Doyle at The Watermill West Berkshire PlayhouseThe Unicorn Theatre's Tom's Midnight Garden by David Wood adapted from the book by Philippa Pearce, incidental music Stephen McNeff
    2000Larkin With Women by Ben Brown at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, ScarboroughAnonymous 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, HammersmithUnder The Apple Tree devised by Paul Harman, Philip Harrison and David Tarkenter for ctc on tour
    1999The Palace Theatre Watford production of The Late Middle Classes by Simon Gray, subsequently toured nationally by the Ambassador Theatre GroupBirmingham 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 TheatreThe 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
    1998Frozen by Bryony Lavery at the Birmingham Repertory TheatreSpend 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 PlayhouseOxford Stage Company's Junk by Melvyn Burgess, adapted by John Retallack
    1997Popcorn by Ben Elton, a co-production between Nottingham Playhouse and West Yorkshire PlayhouseDivorce Me Darling book, music and lyrics by Sandy Wilson at Chichester Festival TheatreBeauty And The Beast, directed and written by Laurence Boswell at the Young Vic Theatre, London
    1996Divine 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, ScarboroughPeter Pan by J M Barrie adapted by Matthew Warchus at West Yorkshire Playhouse
    1995Trainspotting 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, YorkThe Red Balloon by Albert Lamorisse, book and lyrics by Anthony Clark, music by Mark Vibrans at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre
    1994Hated Nightfall by Howard Barker, co-produced by the Royal Court and the Wrestling School, on tourAssassins 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
    1993Lost 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 tourThe Royal National Theatre's production of Mr A's Amazing Maze Plays written and directed by Alan Ayckbourn, on tour
    1992The Choice by Claire Luckham at Salisbury PlayhouseInto The Woods music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine at the Wolsey Theatre, IpswichThe Magic Storybook by Renata Allen, Oxford Stage Company and Oxford Playhouse
    1991Donny Boy by Robin Glendinning at Manchester Royal ExchangeSweeney Todd music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler at Oldham ColiseumMonty 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 Performance in a Musical Best Supporting Performance in a Play Best Supporting Performance in a Musical
    2016 Paapa Essiedu for Hamlet, a Royal Shakespeare Company production Clare Burt for Flowers for Mrs Harris, a Sheffield Theatres Production Rebecca Trehearn for Show Boat, a Sheffield Theatres production
    2015 Joel MacCormack for Each His Own Wilderness, an Orange Tree Theatre production

    Polly Lister for Abigail's Party, a Theatre by the Lake production

    		 Imelda Staunton for Gypsy, a Chichester Festival Theatre production Justine Mitchell for For Services Rendered, a Chichester Festival Theatre production
    2014 Patrick O'Kane for Quietly, an Abbey Theatre production on tour Jamie Parker for Guys and Dolls, a Chichester Festival Theatre production Jenna Augen for Bad Jews, a Theatre Royal Bath production, in the Ustinov Studio
    2013 Cush Jumbo for A Doll's House, a Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester production Janie Dee for Hello Dolly!, a Curve, Leicester production Siân Phillips for This Is My Family, a Sheffield Theatres production
    2012 Henry Goodman for The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, a Chichester Festival Theatre production Imelda Staunton for Sweeney Todd, a Chichester Festival Theatre production
    2011 Derek Jacobi for King Lear: a Donmar Warehouse production at the Grand Opera House, Belfast and on tour Bertie Carvel for Matilda at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
    2010 Maggie Steed for Hay Fever at West Yorkshire Playhouse – a West Yorkshire Playhouse production Ensemble: The Hired Man- an Octagon Theatre Bolton production Ayesha Antoine for My Wonderful Day at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough – a Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough production 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
    2009 Anna Francolini for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at Royal & Derngate Northampton 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 Claire Price for Mary Stuart at Clwyd Theatr Cymru Kirsty Hoiles for Spend Spend Spend at the Watermill, Newbury
    2008Brenda Blethyn for the Royal Exchange Theatre Company's The Glass MenagerieBrian Conley for The Music Man at Chichester Festival TheatreKate O'Flynn for the Royal Exchange Theatre Company's The Children's HourMartin Ball for Mary Poppins on tour
    2007Patrick Stewart for Macbeth at Chichester Festival Theatre produced in association with Duncan C Weldon and Paul ElliotHenry Goodman for Sheffield Theatres' Fiddler On The Roof at the CrucibleMeg Fraser for All My Sons at the Royal Lyceum, EdinburghAnne Louise Ross for Sunshine On Leith at Dundee Rep
    2006Greg Hicks for Tamburlaine at Bristol Old VicJunix Inocian for Pacific Overtures at the Haymarket Theatre, LeicesterTom Brooke for The Long And The Short And The Tall at the Lyceum, SheffieldNicole Faraday for Bad Girls The Musical at West Yorkshire Playhouse
    2005Ian McDiarmid for Lear at the Crucible, SheffieldAnna-Jane Casey for Mack And Mabel at the WatermillJimmy Akingbola for Blue/Orange at the Crucible, SheffieldMark Tracie Bennett for the Royal Exchange Theatre Company's Sex, Chips & Rock N Roll

    Past winning creatives

    Year Best Director Best Set Design / Best Design Best Lighting Design Special Award for Individual Achievement Special Award for Achievement in Regional Theatre
    2016 Raz Shaw for Wit, a Royal Exchange Theatre production Lez Brotherston for Flowers for Mrs Harris and Show Boat, a Sheffield Theatres productions
    2015
    2014
    2013 Blanche McIntyre for The Seagull, a Headlong and Nuffield, Southampton production in association with Derby Theatre Jonathan Fensom and Charles Balfour for The Accrington Pals, a Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester production Simon Callow
    2012
    2011
    2010 Laurie Sansom for Beyond the Horizon and Spring Storm - Royal & Derngate, Northampton productions Mike Brookes and Simon Banham for The Persians - a National Theatre Wales production 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 Max Stafford-Clark Paines Plough
    2009 Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett for Othello, Frantic Assembly and Theatre Royal Plymouth in collaboration with Royal and Derngate, Northampton on tour Michael Pavelka for The Merchant of Venice, Watermill Theatre and Propellor on tour Daniella Beattie for The Wicked Lady at New Victoria. Newcastle Under Lyme Nicolas Kent The Theatre, Chipping Norton
    2008Michael Boyd for The Histories at RSC Stratford-Upon-AvonMike Britton for Lady From The Sea at Birmingham RepThe Royal Exchange Theatre Company's The Children's Hour designed by Mick HughesBill KenwrightLatitude Festival
    2007Tim Supple for A Midsummer Night's Dream on tourChloe Lamford for Small Miracle at the Mercury, ColchesterMatthew BourneBruntwood Group - for their year round charitable work and key contributions off stage
    2006Nina Raine for Unprotected at the Everyman Theatre, LiverpoolRobert Innes Hopkins for Promise, Promises at the Crucible, SheffieldThelma HoltEnglish Youth Ballet
    2005Michael Grandage for Don Carlos at the Crucible, SheffieldFaustus set design by Laura Hopkins at Northampton Theatre RoyalThe Mackintosh Foundation
    2004Anna Mackmin for Cloud Nine a Sheffield Theatres production at the CrucibleLiz Ascroft for the Royal Exchange Theatre Company's The Rise And Fall Of Little VoiceThe Playhouse Theatre, Derry
    2003David Farr for A Midsummer Night's Dream at Bristol Old VicJulian 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 ArtsThe Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond, North Yorkshire
    2002Emma Rice for Kneehigh Theatre's The Red Shoes on tourSimon 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 tourmindthe gap
    2001Vicky Featherstone for Splendour, Paines Plough in association with the Peter Wolff Theatre Trust on tourLaura Hopkins for Mister Heracles at West Yorkshire PlayhouseThe Wales Association for the Performing Arts
    2000Richard Wilson for Mr Kolpert at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal CourtJeremy Herbert for 4.48 Psychosis at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal CourtMercury Theatre, Colchester
    1999Edward Hall for Twelfth Night at The Watermill, West Berkshire PlayhouseEs Devlin for the Bush Theatre's Howie The Rookie at the Bush TheatreNorthern Stage
    1998Julian Crouch and Phelim McDermott for Shockheaded Peter, a Cultural Industry project produced in collaboration with West Yorkshire Playhouse and Lyric Theatre HammersmithNeil Warmington for Jane Eyre, Shared Experience Theatre in association with the Wolsey Theatre Ipswich and the Young Vic Theatre on tourMobil Touring Theatre
    1997Jan et Suzman for The Cherry Orchard, the Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company in a co-production with the Market Theatre, JohannesburgRobert Innes Hopkins for The Wasp Factory at West Yorkshire Playhouse and Oxford Stage Company's My Mother Said I Never Should on tourG & J Productions
    1996Mike Alfreds for Flesh And Blood, Jude The Obscure and Private Lives, Method & Madness on tourTony 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 tourJeremy Raison, Artistic Director of Chester Gateway
    1995Barrie Rutter for The Cracked Pot at West Yorkshire Playhouse in association with Northern Broadsides, and for Northern Broadsides' tour of A Midsummer Night's DreamRobin Don for The Winter Guest at West Yorkshire Playhouse, co-produced with the Almeida Theatre Company
    1994Anthony Clark for The Atheist's Tragedy and The Playboy Of The Western World at the Birmingham Repertory TheatrePeter 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
    1993David Glass for the David Glass ensemble production of Gormenghast, on tourCharles Cusick-Smith for The Plough And The Stars at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester
    1992Gregory Hersov for Romeo And Juliet and A View From The Bridge at Manchester Royal ExchangeNeil Warmington (set), Ben Ormerod (lighting) and Mic Pool (sound) for Life Is A Dream at West Yorkshire Playhouse
    1991Patrick Sandford for The Winter Wife and Much Ado About Nothing at the Nuffield Theatre, SouthamptonSimon Vincenzi for Thrse Raquin at Nottingham Playhouse

    Past winning achievements in dance and opera

    Year Achievement in Dance Achievement in Opera
    2016 Gary Clarke for Coal The Royal Opera and Guildhall School Of Music and Drama for 4.48 Psychosis in association with the Lyric Hammersmith
    2015
    2014
    2013 Independent dance artist Wendy Houstoun for her insightful, funny solo 50 Acts Welsh National Opera for the productions of Lulu & Lohengrin, conducted by Lothar Koenigs
    2012
    2011
    2010 The Mark Morris Dance Group for L'allegro, Il Pensero Ed Il Moderato Welsh National Opera's production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
    2009[4] The dancers of English National Ballet, who showed new strength and interpretative skills across a range of repertory Glyndebourne for an outstanding 75th Anniversary season
    2008Theatre-Rites & Arthur Pita for MischiefOpera North for its summer Shakespeare season
    2007Birmingham Royal Ballet's Stravinsky! A Celebration 2007Opera North's Peter Grimes
    2006 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 balletWelsh National Opera's Mazeppa
    2005Mark Baldwin for the creation of Constant Speed and the high calibre of his artistic directorship of Rambert Dance CompanyThe Partnership of Vladimir Jurowski and Richard Jones for Welsh National Operas Wozzeck
    2004Scottish Ballet for sure-footed modernisation under Ashley Page and dynamic performancesOpera North for its Eight Little Greats season at Leeds and on tour
    2003George Piper Dances' Critics' Choice ****** programmeTristan und Isolde at Glyndebourne
    2002Christopher Hampson for Double Concerto, an outstanding new ballet in a fine year for repertory at English National BalletScottish Opera for Die Walküre and Siegfried
    2001Rambert Dance Company for their performance of Mats Ek's She Was BlackRichard Jones, Vladimir Jurowski and the Company for Welsh National Opera's production of The Queen of Spades
    2000Tamara Rojo for her outstanding performances for English National BalletAnja Silja, Amanda Roocroft and Jir Belohlvek for leading Glyndebourne's revival of Jenufa
    1999Lez Brotherston for Northern Ballet Theatre's Carmen, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Giselle, Dracula and A Christmas CarolScottish Opera, especially for its outstanding productions of Der Rosenkavalier and Macbeth
    1998David 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 BalletWelsh National Opera for Billy Budd and The Coronation of Poppea
    1997The dancers of Rambert Dance Company for their performances in Airs, Eidolon, Port For Angels and StreamThe cast and production of Scottish Opera's Idomeneo

    Other 2013 winners

    The 2013 UK Theatre Award winners were announced on 20 October 2013.[5]

    • The Renee Stepham Award for Best Presentation of Touring Theatre: Scottish Opera
    • Achievement in Marketing; Northern Ballet
    • Theatre Employee/Manager of the Year: Brenda Walliss – Princess Theatre, Torquay
    • Promotion of Diversity: Contact Theatre Manchester
    • My Theatre Matters! UK's Most Welcoming Theatre in association with Classic FM: The Bike Shed Theatre

    References

    1. ↑ "Peter Hall dismisses furore over de sade play as immature". The Independent. London. Retrieved 24 December 2011.
    2. ↑ Youngs, Ian (2017-10-15). "Teen drag musical wins theatre awards". BBC News. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
    3. ↑ "TMA Theatre Award Nominations Unveiled". Retrieved 24 December 2011.
    4. 1 2 "TMA Theatre Winners 2009".
    5. ↑ "2013 UK Theatre Awards" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
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