UK Theatre Awards 2022

The winners of each award are highlighted in bold.

On Stage Awards

Best Design

• Laura Hopkins and Simon Wainwright for Dracula: The Untold Story – a Leeds Playhouse and imitating the dog co-production
• Jon Bausor, Will Duke and Antony McDonald for Into The Woods – a Scenario Two and Theatre Royal Bath Production
• Georgia McGuinness for Life is a Dream – a Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh production

Best Director

• Robert Hastie, Anthony Lau, Elin Schofield for Rock/Paper/Scissors – a Sheffield Theatres production
• Jessica Daniels for The Mozart Question – A Barn Theatre production in association with Bob & Marianne Benton for Anthology Theatre and The Everyman Theatre Cheltenham
• Natalie Ibu for The White Card – a Northern Stage, Birmingham Rep, Leeds Playhouse & Soho Theatre co-production in association with HOME Manchester
• Róisín McBrinn for Typical Girls, a Clean Break and Sheffield Theatres co-production

Best Musical Production sponsored by Tysers in association with Ecclesiastical

• Billy Elliot the Musical – A Made at Curve production
• Now is Good – a Storyhouse, Chester production
• Whistle Down the Wind – a The Watermill Theatre production

Best New Play

• Mugabe, My Dad & Me – a co-production by ETT, Brixton House & York Theatre Royal in association with Alison Holder
• Cherry Jezebel – a Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse production
• How to Bury a Dead Mule – a Lyric Theatre Belfast Production

Best Performance in a Musical

• Divina de Campo for Hedwig and the Angry Inch – A Leeds Playhouse and HOME co-production
• Charlie Stemp for Crazy for You – a Chichester Festival Theatre production
• Nicole & Kyla Fox, Emme & Eden Patrick, Sienna & Savannah Robinson for Identical – a Nottingham Playhouse and Kenny Wax Ltd co-production

Best Performance in a Play

• Giles Terera for The Meaning of Zong – a Bristol Old Vic Production
• Eithne Browne for Maggie May – a Curve, Leeds Playhouse and Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch co-production
• Henry Goodman for Murder on the Orient Express – a Chichester Festival Theatre production
• Leah St Luce for Black Love – a Paines Plough and Belgrade Theatre Coventry production, in association with tiata fahodzi

Best Play Revival

• Translations – an Abbey Theatre and Lyric Theatre Belfast Co-Production
• Jitney – a Headlong, Leeds Playhouse and Old Vic co-production
• The Mountaintop – a Royal Exchange Theatre Production

Best Show for Children and Young People

• Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World – a Kenny Wax Family Entertainment in association with MAST Mayflower Studios
• Beauty and the Beast – a New Vic Production
• Petula – a National Theatre Wales, Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru and August012 co-production

Best Supporting Performance in a Musical or Play

• Nishla Smith for Kes – an Octagon Theatre and Theatre By The Lake co-production
• Nicola Hughes for Into The Woods – a Scenario Two and Theatre Royal Bath Production
• Robert Jackson for Brief Encounter – a Stephen Joseph Theatre, Octagon Theatre and Theatre By The Lake co-production

Achievement in Opera

• Richard Mantle for the last year at Opera North, which epitomizes the work Richard has achieved over his tenure
• Scottish Opera for Candide
• Glyndebourne for the Poulenc Double Bill
• Music Theatre Wales and Britten Pears Arts production of Violet at Buxton International Festival at Buxton Opera 

Achievement in Dance

• The dancers of Rambert for their ability to inhabit any choreographer’s vision, as a company of unique, versatile, incredibly skilled performers
• Will Tuckett’s Then or Now for Ballet Black, exquisitely melding poetry, dance, light and sound into an intimate work that gently touches big themes of our times
• Dan Daw for The Dan Daw Show, a kinky, joyful, unapologetic and vulnerable celebration of oneself and one’s body

Off Stage Awards

Excellence in Touring

• Graeae Theatre Company
• Northern Ballet
• Scottish Opera

Digital Innovation sponsored by Spektrix

• Chichester Festival Theatre
•  ETT with The National Theatre Immersive Storytelling Studio and Trial and Error
•  Sadler’s Wells

Excellence in Inclusivity

• English Touring Theatre
• Graeae Theatre Company
• Scottish Opera

Excellence in Arts Education

• Lyric Theatre Belfast
• Storyhouse
• Ambassador Theatre Group in partnership with Altru CIC

Workforce Award

• The Marlowe
• Ambassador Theatre Group
• Mercury Theatre

UK’s Most Welcoming Theatre

Sponsored by Theatre Tokens

• Leeds Playhouse
• Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre
• New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich

Outstanding Contribution to British Theatre

• Sarah Holmes