UK Theatre In Memoriam 2025

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 

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