Stage Debut Awards 2020 in association with Access Entertainment recently announced the winners of its 4th annual awards from the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Hosted by the star of & Juliet, Miriam-Teak Lee, this year’s virtual ceremony remains true in celebrating some of the most exciting emerging actors and creatives in the UK Theatre from all backgrounds.
The prestigious ceremony was streamed for free as an online event on Sunday, September 27 at 7pm (BST). Watch it below:
Below is the complete list with two winners for the performance categories as published in What’s On Stage:
Best Performer in a Play
- Saida Ahmed for Little Miss Burden at The Bunker, London
- Katie Erich for Oliver Twist at Leeds Playhouse (in a co-production with Ramps on the Moon)
- Brooklyn Melvin for Oliver Twist at Leeds Playhouse (in a co-production with Ramps on the Moon)
- Daniel Monks for Teenage Dick at the Donmar Warehouse, London
- Rachel Nwokoro for Little Baby Jesus at the Orange Tree Theatre, London
- Jessica Rhodes for The Sugar Syndrome at the Orange Tree Theatre, London
- Khai Shaw for Little Baby Jesus at the Orange Tree Theatre, London
- Bobby Stallwood for Faith, Hope and Charity at the National Theatre, London
Best Performer in a Musical
- Shan Ako for Les Misérables at the Sondheim Theatre, London
- Lucy Anderson for Dear Evan Hansen at the Noël Coward Theatre, London
- Chase Brown for Mame at the Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
- Oli Higginson for The Last Five Years at the Southwark Playhouse, London
- Adriana Ivelisse for West Side Story at Curve, Leicester
- Tom Noyes for Preludes at the Southwark Playhouse, London
- Bethany Tennick for Islander at the Southwark Playhouse, London
- Sam Tutty for Dear Evan Hansen at the Noël Coward Theatre, London
Best Director
- Georgia Green for The Mikvah Project at the Orange Tree Theatre, London
- Martha Kiss Perrone for When It Breaks It Burns at the Battersea Arts Centre, London
- Alex Sutton for Preludes at the Southwark Playhouse, London
Best Designer
- Liam Bunster (set and costume) for The Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeare’s Globe, London
- Andrew Exeter (lighting) for High Fidelity at the Turbine Theatre, London
- Rose Revitt (set and costume) for Dr Korczak’s Example at Leeds Playhouse
Best Composer or Lyricist
- Jim Barne and Kit Buchan for The Season at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich and Royal & Derngate, Northampton
- Jherek Bischoff for The Ocean at the End of the Lane at the National Theatre, London
- Robbie Williams for The Boy in the Dress at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon
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Best Writer
- Samuel Bailey for Shook at the Southwark Playhouse, London
- Mari Izzard for Hela at The Other Room, Cardiff
- Eleanor Tindall for Before I Was a Bear at The Bunker, London
- Temi Wilkey for The High Table at the Bush Theatre, London (in a co-production with Birmingham Rep)
Best West End Debut Performer
- Shan Ako for Les Misérables at the Sondheim Theatre
- David Mitchell for The Upstart Crow at the Gielgud Theatre
- Daniel Monks for Teenage Dick at the Donmar Warehouse
- Samantha Pauly for Evita at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
- Wendell Pierce for Death of a Salesman at the Piccadilly Theatre
- Sam Tutty for Dear Evan Hansen at the Noël Coward Theatre
- Aimee Lou Wood for Uncle Vanya at the Harold Pinter Theatre
Best Creative West End Debut
- Fabian Aloise (choreographer) for Evita at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
- Nadia Latif (director) for Fairview at the Young Vic Theatre
- Benj Pasek, Justin Paul and Steven Levenson (composer, lyricist and book) for Dear Evan Hansen at the Noël Coward Theatre
- Femi Temowo (composer) for Death of a Salesman at the Piccadilly Theatre and for Three Sisters at the National Theatre David West Read (book) for & Juliet at the Shaftesbury Theatre
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