UK Theatre In Memoriam 2024

In 2024, the UK Theatre Awards took a moment during the ceremony to remember those members of the UK theatre community who sadly passed away in the previous year.

In the list below we’d like to acknowledge members of the theatre community who have left us from 21 October 2023 through to 7 days before the UK Theatre Awards 2024.

We remember:

Charmian Abrahams – Actor

Georgine Anderson – Actor

Steve Andrews – Production Electrician

Clive Arrindell  – Actor

Keith Baxter – Actor, Writer & Director

Jamie Baughan – Actor

Al Blyth – Playwright

Edward Bond – Playwright

Bette Bourne – Performer, Pioneer & Activist

John Byrne – Playwright, Artist & Designer

Brian Cammack – Buildings Manager

Jenne Casarotto – Agent & Producer

Gillian Christie – Education Director

Howard Coggins – Actor & Producer

Kirsty Cotton – Talent Development Producer & Cornwall Playhouse Productions Producer

Steve Diamond – Company Manager

Ruth Eastwood – Chief Executive

Nigel Ellacott – Pantomime Dame

Oliver Emanuel – Playwright

Vincent Friell – Actor

Brigit Forsyth – Actor

Phillip Gandey – Circus Entertainer

Ian Gelder – Actor

Emma Gladstone – Artistic Director and Chief Executive Dance Umbrella

Trevor Griffiths – Writer

Graham Hawkes – Kitchen Porter

Pat Heywood – Actor

Bernard Hill – Actor

John B Hobbs – Director & Producer

Ewan Hooper – Actor, Writer & Director

Tim Joss – Arts Administrator

Chesca Joy – Writer, Performer & Producer

Peter Kelly – Actor

Bill Kenwright – Producer

Andrew Killian – Stage & Company Manager plus Educator.

Ian Lavender – Actor

Richard ‘Dick’ Matchett – Marketing Director

Grahame Morris – Chief Executive

Hildegard Neil – Actor

Edmund Nickols – former Director of Operations, Northern Stage

Edward ‘Ted’ Parker – Manager

Chris Parr – Director & Producer

Lucy Phillips – Cultural Partnership Manager.

Richard Pilbrow – Lighting Designer & Producer

Garry Robson – Actor, writer, director, musician, singer and performance artist

John Savident – Actor

Anna Scher – Theatre School Founder

Adrian Schiller – Actor

Sam Shrouder – Chief Executive

Dame Maggie Smith – Actor

Dean Sullivan – Actor

Richard Swainson – Videographer

Roberta Taylor – Actor

Ben Thapa – Opera Singer (Tenor)

Kate Vokes – Deputy Chair Royal Exchange Theatre and Chair of the Oglesby Charitable Trust

Keel Watson – Bass-Baritone

Benjamin Zephania – Poet, writer, musician