UK Theatre Awards 2023

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The ceremony will take place at London’s Guildhall on Sunday 8 October 2023, 12pm – 4pm.

Tickets to the ceremony include:

• Drinks reception with canapes in Guildhall’s Old Library
• Main course with drinks in the Great Hall
• Dessert and coffee
• Awards ceremony

Tables are of 10 people and you can specify any seating requests whilst booking. Payment will be via invoice once tickets have been requested. Upon receipt of payment, dietary and access information will be collected. Seating will be at the discretion of the awards team.

On Stage 

Best Design 

• Conor Murphy for Propaganda: A New Musical, a Lyric Theatre Belfast and The Belfast Ensemble Production 
• Justin Nardella (Set, Costume and Video Design) & Dan Steele (Sound Design) for iShowmanism!, a Theatre Royal Bath production 
• Sadeysa Greenaway-Bailey & UTLZ for Tambo & Bones, a Theatre Royal Stratford East and Actors Touring Company co-production 

Best Director 

• Matthew Dunster & Jimmy Fairhurst for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a Shakespeare North Playhouse, Not Too Tame and Northern Stage co-production 
• Omar Elerian for As You Like It, a Royal Shakespeare Company production 
• Garry Hynes for DruidO’Casey, a Druid Theatre production at Lyric Theatre Belfast 

Best Musical Production Sponsored by Tysers in association with Ecclesiastical 

• The Book Thief, an Octagon Theatre Bolton production 
• Gypsy, a The Mill at Sonning production 
• Miss Saigon, a Sheffield Theatres production, by special arrangement with Cameron Mackintosh

Best New Play 

• Agreement, a Lyric Theatre Belfast production 
• Enough Of Him, a National Theatre of Scotland and Pitlochry Festival Theatre co-production 
• Untitled F*ck M*ss S**gon Play, a Royal Exchange Theatre, Factory International for Manchester International Festival, Young Vic Theatre and Headlong co-production 

Best Play Revival Sponsored by Trafalgar Theatres 

• The Beauty Queen Of Leenane, a Lyric Theatre Belfast and Prime Cut co-production 
• The Comedy Of Errors (More Or Less), a Shakespeare North Playhouse and Stephen Joseph Theatre co-production 
• The Contingency Plan: On The Beach and Resilience, a Sheffield Theatres production 

Best Performance in a Play 

• Peter Forbes for On The Beach, part of a double bill: The Contingency Plan, a Sheffield Theatres production 
• Siobhán McSweeney for Happy Days, a Landmark Productions production at Birmingham Rep 
• Daniel Rigby for Accidental Death Of An Anarchist, a Sheffield Theatres and Lyric Hammersmith Theatre co-production in association with Playful Productions
• Wiliam Young for Of Mice & Men, a Birmingham Rep, Leeds Playhouse and Fiery Angel co-production 

Best Performance in a Musical 

• Joanna Ampil for Miss Saigon, a Sheffield Theatres production, by special arrangement with Cameron Mackintosh
• Lena Hall for In Dreams, a Leeds Playhouse production 
• Rebecca Thornhill for Gypsy, a The Mill at Sonning production 

Best Show for Children and Young People 

• The Famous Five – A New Musical, a Theatr Clywd and Chichester Festival Theatre co-production 
• Mirrorball, a Replay Theatre Company production at Belfast Children’s Festival, Lyric Theatre Belfast 
• The SpongeBob Musical, a Showpath Entertainment production 

Best Supporting Performance (in a Musical or Play) 

• Bryony Corrigan for I, Daniel Blake, a Nothern Stage, Birmingham Rep, ETT, Oldham Coliseum and tiny dragon Productions production in association with Cardboard Citizens 
• Antony Eden for Family Album, a Stephen Joseph Theatre production 
• LJ Parkinson for Modest, a Middle Child and Milk Presents co-production 

Achievement in Opera 

• Glyndebourne for Dialogues Des Carmélites  
• Opera North for Orpheus  
• Welsh National Opera for Blaze Of Glory! 

Achievement in Dance  

• Jo Fong & George Orange for The Rest Of Our Lives   
• Rambert for Peaky Blinders: The Redemption Of Thomas Shelby   
• Scottish Ballet for Coppélia   

Off Stage 

Excellence in Touring 

• ETT 
• Northern Stage 
• Nottingham Playhouse 

Digital Innovation Sponsored by Spektrix 

• HOME X presented by the Barbican 
• Pilot Theatre 
• Tara Theatre 

Excellence in Inclusivity 

• Capital Theatres 
• Midlands Arts Centre 
• Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch 

Excellence in Arts Education 

• Birmingham Hippodrome 
• Blackpool Grand Theatre 
• Hackney Empire 

Workforce Award 

• Ambassador Theatre Group 
• Grand Opera House York 
• Nottingham Playhouse 

UK’s Most Welcoming Theatre Sponsored by Theatre Tokens 

• Curve 
• National Youth Theatre 
• Nottingham Playhouse

Outstanding Contribution to British Theatre

Mark Gatiss is the 2023 recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to British Theatre Award, awarded by the UK Theatre Board.

The UK Theatre Awards 2023 judging panels are below:

On Stage Panels

The panels consist of regional theatre reviewers and industry professionals.

Theatre       

• Angelo Ivring
• Clare Brennan
• Clive Davis
• Diane Parkes
• Dominic Cavendish
• Jane Coyle
• Mark Fisher

Dance 

• Andrew Hurst
• Donald Hutera
• Lyndsey Winship
• Sanjoy Roy

Opera

• Alexandra Coghlan
• Claire Seymour
• George Hall
• John Allison

Off Stage Panel 

Applications are judged by a panel made up of UK Theatre board members and freelance theatre professionals.

• Andrew Miller
• Milton Lopes
• Sita McIntosh

UK’s Most Welcoming Theatre

Applications are judged by a panel made up of Partner Members and freelance theatre professionals.

• Bea Webster-Mockett
• Natalie Amber
• Simon Geen

The UK Theatre Awards are the only awards ceremony dedicated to celebrating the outstanding achievements of regional and national theatre outside of London.

Supporting this key event in UK Theatre’s calendar by taking advantage of our sponsorship opportunities will provide you and your organisation with excellent opportunities to meet UK Theatre members and to connect with organisations from all over the UK.

To find out more, download our Sponsorship Pack and contact Russell Morton, Awards General Manager on russell@soltukt.co.uk.