In 2025, 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 2024 through to 7 days before the UK Theatre Awards 2025.
We remember:
Joanna Bacon – Actor
Nick Barclay – Actor
Frank Barrie – Actor
Sarah Beardmore – Head of Finance
Helena Bell – Artistic Director
Chantel Bellew – Actor & Dancer
Angela Bond – Former Executive Director of Bush Theatre
Mike Bradwell – Artistic Director
Chris Brockbank – Deputy Construction Manager
Alan Chadwick – Theatre Journalist
Richard Chamberlain – Actor & Singer
Mark Courtice – Theatre Director & Former CEO of Theatre Royal Winchester
John Davidson – Music & Orchestral Services Manager
Ray Daynes – Theatre Manager
William Dudley – Theatre Designer
Mary Evans – Theatremaker & Educator
Maroussia Frank – Actor
John Gale – Theatre Producer
Nigel Garton – Actor
Dominic Gray – Actor, Writer & Director
Linda Grimmett – Box Office Assistant
Gary Hall – Cafe Bar & Events Manager
Gerald Harper – Actor
Giles Havergal – Actor & Artistic Director
Laurie Holloway – Composer, Pianist & Musical Director
Paul Hutton – Actor & Singer
Keiko Iwamoto – Stage Door & FOH Assistant
Peter James – Theatre Co-Founder & Former Artistic Director
Charles Kay – Actor
Dame Julie Kenny – Chair of Sheffield Theatres
Terry Lane – Founder & Artistic Director of Traverse Theatre
Diane Langton – Actor
Ben Lewis – Actor
Pik-Sen Lim – Actor
Philip Lowrie – Actor
Rosemary Lyford – Actor
Jean Marsh – Actor
Myra McFadyen – Actor
Elizabeth Medling – Usher
Carol Metcalfe – Founder & Director of Bridewell Theatre
Caroline Miller – CEO of Birmingham Royal Ballet
Lee Montague – Actor
Zahwa Salah Mukhtar – Finance Assistant
Margaret Neville – Soprano
Linda Nolan – Actor & Singer
Graeme Phillips – Co-Founder of Liverpool Everyman Theatre & Artistic Director of Crucible Theatre
Dame Joan Plowright – Actor
Peter Pontzen – Musical Director, Arranger & Composer
Ruth Posner – Actor
Derek Purnell – Ballet Dancer, Arts Administrator & Former Chief Executive of Birmingham Royal Ballet
Ian Redden – Audience Experience Assistant
Clive Revill – Actor
Dame Patricia Routledge – Actor
Prue Skene – Arts Administrator & Former UK Theatre President
Tony Slattery – Actor
Alan Stocks – Actor
Alan Strachan – Director & Biographer
Charles Strouse – Composer & Lyricist
Full name – Role
Rosa Taylor – Actor
Amanda Trodd – Management Accountant
Claire van Kampen – Composer, Pianist, Director & Playwright
The Vivienne – Actor
Jeremy Walker – CEO & Artistic Director of NYMT
Timothy West – Actor
Bill Wilkinson – Director & Producer
Nuala Willis – Mezzo-Soprano, Actor & Children’s Author
Christine Wiltshire – Dancer
John Woodvine – Actor
Arnold Yarrow – Actor, Writer & Script Editor
Sylvia Young – Theatre School Founder