News: #AlsoRecognised Awards shortlists announced


Shortlists for the third annual Also Recognised Awards have been announced by MyTheatreMates, founded by Mark Shenton and Terri Paddock. These audience-voted industry accolades celebrate talent in fields often overlooked by other award bodies. Voting is now open for all categories and closes on Sunday 26th March 2017. Cast your vote at: www.mytheatremates.com/AlsoRecognisedAwards-2017/

The aim of the awards is to recognise some of those categories that are sometimes overlooked in other awards - for example, Best Musical Direction is one that is sadly unique to the Also Recognised roster. There's also a nod to the behind-the-scenes folk with awards for Best Twitter Engagement, Show Trailer and Show Poster recognising the invaluable part that marketing, especially digitally, has to play in the industry.

So find the shortlists below and head over to My Theatre Mates to cast your vote. I helped to draw up these lists along with Mark and Terri, Andrew Keates and Mike Dixon, and the rest of the My Theatre Mates collective, and I think the blend of West End, Off-West End, fringe and regional nominees reflects that, so I'll be most interested to see how the results pan out.

Best Ensemble Performance


• Belarus Free Theatre - Burning Doors at Soho Theatre & Tomorrow I Was Always a Lion at the Arcola Theatre
Boy - Almeida Theatre
Donmar’s Shakespeare Trilogy - Donmar at King’s Cross
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour - National Theatre
Steel Magnolias - Hope Theatre
Titanic - Charing Cross Theatre

Best Musical Direction

• Jordan Li-Smith – Ragtime, Charing Cross Theatre
• Laura Bangay - Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, National Theatre
• Michael Bradley - Grey Gardens, Southwark Playhouse
• Michael Reed - Sunset Boulevard, London Coliseum
• Nick Finlow – Dreamgirls, Savoy Theatre
• Tom Deering - Jesus Christ Superstar, Open Air Theatre

Best Original Music

• David Bowie - Lazarus, King’s Cross Theatre
• Dougal Irvine - The Buskers Opera, Park Theatre
• Richard Taylor - Flowers for Mrs Harris, Sheffield Crucible
• Scott Frankel - Grey Gardens, Southwark Playhouse
• Tim Minchin - Groundhog Day, Old Vic Theatre
• Tim Phillips & Marc Teitler - The Grinning Man, Bristol Old Vic

Best Shakespearean Production

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare's Globe
Donmar’s Shakespeare Trilogy - Donmar at King’s Cross
Hamlet - RSC, Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Henry V - Open Air Theatre
King Lear - Old Vic Theatre
Kings of War - Toneelgroep Amsterdam at the Barbican


Best Musical Cabaret

• Ann Hampton Callaway & Amanda McBroom - The Pheasantry
• Barb Jungr & John McDaniel, That's Life - Brasserie Zedel
• Ceili O’Connor - The Understudy, Century Club
• Sally Ann Triplett - The Pheasantry
• Shoshana Bean - Pizza Express, St Martin's Lane
 Simon Lipkin, Jon Robyns & Giles Terera - Orange Tree Theatre

Best Show Poster

A Raisin in the Sun - Albany Theatre
Flowers for Mrs Harris – Sheffield Crucible
Hand to God – Vaudeville Theatre
Parade - Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
The Maids - Trafalgar Studios
They Drink It In the Congo - Almeida Theatre


Best Show Trailer

Half a Sixpence – Chichester Festival & Noel Coward Theatre
Hedda Gabler - National Theatre
Nice Fish - Harold Pinter Theatre
This House - Headlong, Garrick Theatre
Trainspotting - King’s Head Theatre & The Vaults
Unreachable - Royal Court Theatre

Best Solo Performance


• Cush Jumbo - White Rabbit Red Rabbit, Southbank Centre & Good Chance Theatre
• James Cartwright - Raz, Trafalgar Studios
• Luke Wright - What I Learned From Jonny Bevan, Soho Theatre
• Ruby Wax - Sane New World, Arts Theatre
• Sean Michael Verey - Tonight with Donny Stixx, The Bunker
• Sophie Melville - Iphigenia in Splott, National Theatre

Theatre Event of the Year

• Emma Rice’s departure announcement from Shakespeare’s Globe
Shakespeare Live! at the RSC as part of Shakespeare 400th birthday celebrations
• The premiere of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Three-show day for the Donmar’s Shakespeare Trilogy
• Understudy Natasha J Barnes stepping in - triumphantly - for Sheridan Smith in Funny Girl
• Understudy Ria Jones stepping in - triumphantly - for Glenn Close in Sunset Boulevard



Best Twitter Engagement


• @ChichesterFT - Chichester Festival Theatre
• @HPPlayLDN - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
• @NationalTheatre - National Theatre
• @SchoolOfRockUK - School of Rock
• @TheRSC - Royal Shakespeare Company
• @WickedUK - Wicked


London Newcomer of the Year

• Anthony Boyle - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Palace Theatre
• Charlie Stemp - Half a Sixpence, Chichester Festival & Noel Coward Theatre
• Frankie Fox - Boy, Almeida Theatre
• Samuel Thomas - Floyd Collins, Wilton's Music Hall
• Sarah Snook - The Master Builder, Old Vic Theatre
• Zoe Cooper (playwright) - Jess and Joe Forever, Orange Tree Theatre & tour




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