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Most effective actor in a musical

David Cumming for Procedure Mincemeat 

Tom Francis for Sunset Boulevard – WINNER

Daniel Mays for Men and Dolls

Charlie Stemp for Crazy for You

Greatest actress in a musical

Natasha Hodgson for Operation Mincemeat 

Caissie Levy for Up coming to Regular

Nicole Scherzinger for Sunset Boulevard – WINNER

Marisha Wallace for Men and Dolls

 

Very best actress

Laura Donnelly for The Hills of California

Sophie Okonedo for Medea

Sarah Jessica Parker for Plaza Suite 

Sheridan Smith for Shirley Valentine 

Sarah Snook for The Photograph of Dorian Grey – WINNER

 

Ideal actor

Mark Gatiss for The Motive and the Cue – WINNER

Joseph Fiennes for Pricey England 

James Norton for A Very little Everyday living

Andrew Scott for Vanya 

David Tennant for Macbeth

 

Finest new enjoy

Expensive England by James Graham – WINNER 

The Hills of California by Jez Butterworth 

The Motive and the Cue by Jack Thorne 

Until the Stars Come Down by Beth Steel

 

Most effective new musical

The Tiny Major Matters, music by Nick Butcher, lyrics by Nick Butcher and Tom Ling, book by Joe White 

Future to Typical, tunes by Tom Kitt, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey

Operation Mincemeat, music, lyrics and book by David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zoë Roberts – WINNER

A Odd Loop, audio, lyrics and e-book by Michael R Jackson

 

Very best actress in a supporting function in a musical

Grace Hodgett Youthful for Sunset Boulevard 

Zoë Roberts for Procedure Mincemeat 

Amy Trigg for The Small Huge Matters – WINNER

Eleanor Worthington-Cox for Future to Ordinary

 

Best actor in a supporting purpose in a musical

Jak Malone for Operation Mincemeat – WINNER

Cedric Neal for Fellas and Dolls 

David Thaxton for Sunset Boulevard 

Jack Wolfe for Up coming to Usual

 

Ideal actor in a supporting role

Will Close for Dear England – WINNER 

Paul Hilton for An Enemy of the People 

Giles Terera for Clyde’s

Luke Thompson for A Minor Existence

Zubin Varla for A Very little Lifestyle

 

Ideal actress in a supporting purpose

Lorraine Ashbourne for Until the Stars Arrive Down 

Priyanga Burford for An Enemy of the People

Haydn Gwynne for When Winston Went to War With the Wireless – WINNER

Gina McKee for Pricey England

Olivier Tanya Reynolds for A Mirror

 

Noël Coward award for best new leisure or comedy participate in

Accidental Dying of an Anarchist by Dario Fo and Franca Rame

Stephen Sondheim’s Aged Mates, tunes and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Stranger Things: The Initial Shadow by Kate Trefry – WINNER

Vardy V Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial, tailored by Liv Hennessy

 

Greatest Family Show 

Bluey’s Large Engage in by Joe Brumm 

Dinosaur Environment Live by Derek Bond – WINNER

The Residence With Hen Legs adapted by Oliver Lansley

The Smeds and the Smoos adapted by Tall Tales

 

Gillian Lynne award for finest theatre choreographer

Fabian Aloise for Sunset Boulevard

Ellen Kane and Hannes Langolf for Pricey England

Arlene Phillips with James Cousins for Men and Dolls – WINNER

Mark Smith for The Small Large Factors

Susan Stroman for Mad for You

 

Very best Costume Design

Bunny Christie and Deborah Andrews for Fellas and Dolls

Ryan Dawson Laight for La Cage Aux Folles

Hugh Durrant for Peter Pan

Marg Horwell for The Photograph of Dorian Grey – WINNER

 

Best Revival

The Outcome by Lucy Prebble

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Shirley Valentine by Willy Russell 

Vanya by Anton Chekhov, adapted by Simon Stephens – WINNER

 

Best musical revival 

Groundhog Day, tunes and lyrics by Tim Minchin

Guys and Dolls, music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, e book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows 

Hadestown, tunes, lyrics and book by Anaïs Mitchell

Sunset Boulevard, new music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics and guide by Don Black and Christopher Hampton – WINNER

 

Very best Audio Design

Paul Arditti for Stranger Points: The First Shadow 

Dan Balfour and Tom Gibbins for Dear England

Adam Fisher for Sunset Boulevard – WINNER 

Gareth Fry for Macbeth

 

Outstanding Musical Contribution

Tom Brady for Musical Supervision and Arrangements and Charlie Rosen for Orchestrations for Guys and Dolls 

Matt Brind for Musical Supervision, Arrangements and Orchestrations for Just for 1 Working day

Steve Sidwell for Orchestrations and Joe Bunker for Musical Route for Procedure Mincemeat

Alan Williams for Musical Supervision and Musical Path for Sunset Boulevard – WINNER

 

Finest set design  

Miriam Buether for Stranger Items: The Initial Shadow WINNER

Bunny Christie for Men and Dolls

Es Devlin and Ash J Woodward Expensive England

Soutra Gilmour and Nathan Amzi and Joe Ransom for Sunset Boulevard 

 

Very best lighting structure

Jon Clark for Pricey England

Jon Clark for Stranger Things: The Very first Shadow 

Paule Constable for Guys and Dolls

Jack Knowles for Sunset Boulevard – WINNER 

 

Very best new opera manufacturing

Blue by the English National Opera 

Innocence by the Royal Opera – WINNER

Image a Working day Like This by the Royal Opera 

The Rhinegold by the English National Opera

 

Superb accomplishment in opera

Antonio Pappano for his function as Musical Director of the Royal Opera Home – WINNER

Belarus No cost Theatre Firm for King Stakh’s Wild Hunt

Marina Abramović for 7 Fatalities of Maria Callas 

 

Outstanding achievement in dance

Isabela Coracy for her performance in NINA: By Whatever Means, part of Ballet Black: Pioneers – WINNER

Jonzi D for his inventive way of Breakin’ Convention 2023 Intercontinental pageant of hip-hop Dance theatre

Rhiannon Faith for her local community concentrated conception of Lay Down Your Burdens at The Pit

 

Excellent achievement in affiliate theatre

Blue Mist by Mohamed-Zain Dada at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court docket theatre

A Playlist for The Revolution by AJ Yi at the Bush theatre

Sleepova by Matilda Feyişayo at the Bush theatre – WINNER

The Swell by Isley Lynn at Orange Tree theatre

The Time Equipment: A Comedy by Steven Canny and John Nicholson at the Park theatre

 

Sir Peter Corridor award for best director

Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin for Stranger Items: The First Shadow at the Phoenix theatre

Rupert Goold for Dear England at the Countrywide Theatre – Olivier and Prince Edward theatre

Jamie Lloyd for Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy theatre – WINNER

Sam Mendes for The Motive and the Cue at the Countrywide Theatre – Lyttelton and Noël Coward theatre