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The UK Theatre Awards, established in 1991 and known before 2011 as the TMA Awards, are presented annually by UK Theatre (formerly the Theatrical Management Association) in recognition of creative excellence and outstanding work in regional theatre throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. [1] [2]

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Past winning productions

YearBest New PlayBest MusicalBest Show for Children and Young PeopleBest Touring Production
2023Enough Of Him, a National Theatre of Scotland and Pitlochry Festival Theatre co-production Gypsy , a The Mill at Sonning production The SpongeBob Musical , a Showpath Entertainment productionn/a
2022Mugabe, My Dad & Me, an ETT, Brixton House & York Theatre Royal in association with Alison Holder co-production Billy Elliot The Musical , a Made at Curve productionFantastically Great Women Who Changed The World, a Kenny Wax Family Entertainment in association with MAST Mayflower Studiosn/a
2019 Life of Pi adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti, a Sheffield Theatres production Standing At The Sky’s Edge a Sheffield Theatres production Billionaire Boy The Musical a Nuffield Southampton Theatres production in association with Belgrade Theatre, Coventry n/a
2018 [3] The Almighty Sometimes a Royal Exchange Theatre productionThe Assassination of Katie Hopkins, a Theatr Clwyd productionThe Little Mermaid, a The Egg – Theatre Royal Bath and Pins and Needles co-production Three Sisters , a RashDash and Royal Exchange Theatre co-production
2017 [4] Narvik by Lizzie Nunnery, a Box of Tricks production Everybody's Talking About Jamie , a Sheffield Theatres productionThe Snow Queen, a New Vic Theatre production The Who’s Tommy , a New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich and Ramps on the Moon co-production
2016 [5] Cuttin' It by Charlene James, a Young Vic/Royal Court Theatre co-production with Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Sheffield Theatres and The Yard Theatre Flowers for Mrs Harris , a Sheffield Theatres Production

Show Boat , a Sheffield Theatres production

The Hobbit, a The Dukes production The Herbal Bed , a co-production by Royal & Derngate Northampton, English Touring Theatre and Rose Theatre Kingston
2015 [6] Iphigenia in Splott a Sherman Cymru production Gypsy , a Chichester Festival Theatre productionRunning Wild, a Chichester Festival Youth Theatre production Twelfth Night , an English Touring Theatre and Sheffield Theatres production
2014 [7] An August Bank Holiday Lark by Deborah McAndrew, a Northern Broadsides production in partnership with New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme, on tourBrass, a National Youth Music Theatre production at City varieties Music Hall, LeedsDragon, a National Theatre of Scotland, Vox Motus and Tianjin People’s Art Theatre, China production, at the Citizens Theatre and Traverse Theatre Translations , English Touring Theatre
2013Bull a Sheffield Theatres productionThis Is My Family, a Sheffield Theatres productionThe Borrowers, a Northern Stage, Newcastle production and Mister Holgado, a Unicorn Theatre production The Full Monty , a Sheffield Theatres production, presented by David Pugh (theatre producer) and Dafydd Rogers
2012 In The Next Room a Theatre Royal Bath production in the Ustinov StudioThe Go-Between, a West Yorkshire Playhouse, Royal & Derngate, Northampton and Derby LIVE! production at West Yorkshire PlayhouseThe Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean by Shona Reppe on tour Anne Boleyn - English Touring Theatre's presentation of the Shakespeare's Globe production
2011Love, Love, Love, a Drum Theatre Plymouth and Paines Plough production at the Drum Theatre Plymouth, and on tour Matilda the Musical , an RSC production at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonWhite a Catherine Wheels production Richard III and The Comedy of Errors : both Propeller productions, in association with The Touring Partnership, on tour
2010 [8] Spur of the Moment at The Royal Court Sweeney Todd - a Dundee Rep Ensemble production, at Dundee Rep Pobby and Dingan - a Catherine Wheels Theatre Company production, in association with Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh The Empire – a Royal Court Theatre and Drum Theatre Plymouth production
2009 [9] ENRON a Headlong, Chichester Festival Theatre and Royal Court Theatre production at Chichester Festival TheatreSpend Spend Spend at Watermill, Newbury For The Best Presented by the Unicorn Theatre in collaboration with Mark Storor and Anna Ledgard Noël Coward's Brief Encounter, David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers and Cineworld present The Kneehigh Theatre Production in a co production with Royal and Derngate Northampton
2008 The Pitman Painters at Live Theatre, Newcastle Once Upon a Time at the Adelphi at the Playhouse, Liverpool Looking for JJ adapted from Anne Cassidy's novel by Marcus Romer at the Pilot Theatre
2007 That Face at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court Sunshine on Leith at Dundee Rep Citizens' Theatre/Tag's Yellow Moon (The Ballad Of Leila And Lee) at the Citizens', Glasgow and tour
2006Rubenstein Kiss by James Phillips at Hampstead Theatre Road To Nowhere at the Lyric Hammersmith National Theatre of Scotland and Improbable's The Wolves In The Walls on tour
2005Pyrenees by David Greig, Tron Theatre Company and Paines Plough How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying at the Festival Theatre, Chichester Alice's Adventures In Wonderland at Bristol Old Vic
2004 The Sugar Syndrome by Lucy Prebble at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs The Hired Man at Salisbury Playhouse Arthur, The Story Of A King, Wee Stories & The Scottish Touring Consortium co-created by Andy Cannon, Iain Johnstone and David Trouton
2003The Breathing House by Peter Arnott, Royal Lyceum Theatre Company, Edinburgh Sweet Charity at the Crucible Theatre, SheffieldTom's Midnight Garden by Library Theatre Company, Manchester
2002Gagarin Way Traverse Theatre Company in association with the National Theatre Studio on tour Fiddler On The Roof a Watermill West Berkshire Playhouse productionLifeboat by Nicola McCartney, Catherine Wheels Theatre Company in association with Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh on tour
2001Splendour in association with the Peter Wolff Theatre Trust on tour The Gondoliers at The Watermill West Berkshire PlayhouseThe Unicorn Theatre's Tom's Midnight Garden
2000Larkin With Women at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, ScarboroughAnonymous Society produced by Start at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith Under The Apple Tree devised by Paul Harman, Philip Harrison and David Tarkenter for ctc on tour
1999The Palace Theatre Watford production of The Late Middle Classes subsequently toured nationally by the Ambassador Theatre Group Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Tamasha Theatre Company's Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings And A Funeral at Birmingham Repertory Theatre The Young Vic Theatre Company's Arabian Nights at the Young Vic and on tour, in association with Warwick Arts Centre and Darren Ockert Productions
1998Frozen by Bryony Lavery at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre Spend Spend Spend! at West Yorkshire Playhouse Oxford Stage Company's Junk
1997 Popcorn by Ben Elton, a co-production between Nottingham Playhouse and West Yorkshire Playhouse Divorce Me Darling book, music and lyrics by Sandy Wilson at Chichester Festival TheatreBeauty And The Beast at the Young Vic, London
1996Divine Right by Peter Whelan at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre By Jeeves at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough Peter Pan at West Yorkshire Playhouse
1995Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, adapted by Harry Gibson, at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow Moll Flanders at the Theatre Royal, York The Red Balloon at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre
1994Hated Nightfall by Howard Barker, co-produced by the Royal Court and the Wrestling School, on tour Assassins at the Library Theatre, ManchesterTwo Weeks With The Queen coproduced by the Royal National Theatre and the Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round, Scarborough
1993 Lost In Yonkers presented by Duncan C Weldon, on tour Me And My Girl a Richard Armitage/Noel Gay Organisation production presented by Pola Jones and Farworlds Ltd, on tourThe Royal National Theatre's production of Mr A's Amazing Maze Plays
1992The Choice at Salisbury Playhouse Into The Woods at the Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich The Magic Storybook by Renata Allen, Oxford Stage Company and Oxford Playhouse
1991Donny Boy at Manchester Royal Exchange Sweeney Todd at Oldham Coliseum Monty Moonbeam's Magnificent Mission at the Swan Theatre, Worcester

Past winning performers

YearBest Performance in a PlayBest Performance in a MusicalBest Supporting Performance in a PlayBest Supporting Performance in a Musical
2023 Daniel Rigby for Accidental Death Of An Anarchist , a Sheffield Theatres and Lyric Hammersmith Theatre co-production in association with Playful Productions Lena Hall for In Dreams , a Leeds Playhouse productionAntony Eden for Family Album , a Stephen Joseph Theatre production
2022 Giles Terera for The Meaning of Zong, a Bristol Old Vic Production Divina de Campo for Hedwig and the Angry Inch a Leeds Playhouse and HOME co-productionNishla Smith for Kes an Octagon Theatre and Theatre By The Lake co-production
2019 Hiran Abeysekera for Life Of Pi a Sheffield Theatres productionRebecca Trehearn for Sweet Charity a Nottingham Playhouse productionEsh Alladi for Hobson’s Choice a Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester production
2018 Denise Black for The Cherry Orchard a Sherman Theatre productionAshley Zhangazha for Guys And Dolls a Royal Exchange Theatre and Talawa Theatre Company co-productionGemma Dobson for Rita, Sue And Bob Too a Royal Court, Out of Joint and Octagon Theatre, Bolton production
2017 Joseph Millson for The Rover a Royal Shakespeare Company production John McCrea for Everybody's Talking About Jamie a Sheffield Theatres production Sharon Duncan-Brewster for A Streetcar Named Desire a Royal Exchange Theatre production
2016 Paapa Essiedu for Hamlet , a Royal Shakespeare Company production Clare Burt for Flowers for Mrs Harris , a Sheffield Theatres Production Rebecca Trehearn for Show Boat , a Sheffield Theatres production
2015Joel MacCormack for Each His Own Wilderness, an Orange Tree Theatre production

Polly Lister for Abigail's Party , a Theatre by the Lake production

Imelda Staunton for Gypsy , a Chichester Festival Theatre productionJustine Mitchell for For Services Rendered , a Chichester Festival Theatre production
2014 Patrick O'Kane for Quietly, an Abbey Theatre production on tour Jamie Parker for Guys and Dolls , a Chichester Festival Theatre productionJenna Augen for Bad Jews , a Theatre Royal Bath production, in the Ustinov Studio
2013 Cush Jumbo for A Doll's House , a Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester production Janie Dee for Hello Dolly! , a Curve, Leicester production Siân Phillips for This Is My Family, a Sheffield Theatres production
2012 Henry Goodman for The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui , a Chichester Festival Theatre production Imelda Staunton for Sweeney Todd, a Chichester Festival Theatre production Aidan McArdle for Democracy, a Sheffield Theatres production
2011 Derek Jacobi for King Lear : a Donmar Warehouse production at the Grand Opera House, Belfast and on tour Bertie Carvel for Matilda at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Claire Price for The Pride, a Sheffield Theatres production
2010 Maggie Steed for Hay Fever at West Yorkshire Playhouse – a West Yorkshire Playhouse productionEnsemble: The Hired Man - an Octagon Theatre Bolton production Ayesha Antoine for My Wonderful Day at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough – a Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough production Louise Plowright for Irving Berlin's White Christmas the Musical - A Michael Rose Limited, Chris Moreno & Mayflower Theatre, Southampton presentation of a Theatre Royal Plymouth Production
2009 Anna Francolini for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at Royal & Derngate Northampton Alexandra Silber for Carousel , Stanhope Productions, Michael Edwards & Carole Winter, Tiger/WSZ, Stevens-O'Boyle, and Tulchin/Bartner/Ambassador Theatre Group in association with The Churchill, Bromley on tour Claire Price for Mary Stuart at Clwyd Theatr CymruKirsty Hoiles for Spend Spend Spend at the Watermill, Newbury
2008 Brenda Blethyn for the Royal Exchange Theatre Company's The Glass Menagerie Brian Conley for The Music Man at Chichester Festival Theatre Kate O'Flynn for the Royal Exchange Theatre Company's The Children's Hour Martin Ball for Mary Poppins on tour
2007 Patrick Stewart for Macbeth at Chichester Festival Theatre produced in association with Duncan C Weldon and Paul Elliot Henry Goodman for Sheffield Theatres' Fiddler On The Roof at the CrucibleMeg Fraser for All My Sons at the Royal Lyceum, EdinburghAnne Louise Ross for Sunshine On Leith at Dundee Rep
2006 Greg Hicks for Tamburlaine at Bristol Old Vic Junix Inocian for Pacific Overtures at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester Tom Brooke for The Long And The Short And The Tall at the Lyceum, Sheffield Nicole Faraday for Bad Girls: The Musical at West Yorkshire Playhouse
2005 Ian McDiarmid for Lear at the Crucible, Sheffield Anna-Jane Casey for Mack And Mabel at the Watermill Jimmy Akingbola for Blue/Orange at the Crucible, SheffieldMark Tracie Bennett for the Royal Exchange Theatre Company's Sex, Chips & Rock N Roll

Past winning creatives

YearBest DirectorBest Set Design / Best DesignBest Lighting DesignSpecial Award for Individual AchievementSpecial Award for Achievement in Regional Theatre
2023 Garry Hynes for Druid O’Casey, a Druid Theatre production at Lyric Theatre Belfast Sadeysa Greenaway-Bailey & ULTZ for Tambo & Bones, a Theatre Royal Stratford East, and Actors Touring Company co-productionn/an/a
2022Robert Hastie, Anthony Lau, Elin Schofield for Rock/Paper/ScissorsLaura Hopkins for Dracula: The Untold Story, Projection and Video Design by Simon Wainwright at Leeds Playhouse n/an/a
2019Max Webster for Life Of Pi a Sheffield Theatres productionNick Barnes, Finn Caldwell, Carolyn Downing, Andrzej Goulding, Tim Hatley and Tim Lutkin for Life Of Pi a Sheffield Theatres productionn/an/a
2018 Sarah Frankcom for Our Town a Royal Exchange Theatre productionMorgan Large for Wonderland a Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company productionn/an/a
2017Gemma Bodinetz at Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse new repertory season Jon Bausor for The Grinning Man at Bristol Old Vic n/an/a
2016Raz Shaw for Wit, a Royal Exchange Theatre production Lez Brotherston for Flowers for Mrs Harris and Show Boat , a Sheffield Theatres productions
2015Ned Bennett for Pomona, an Orange Tree Theatre production and for YEN a Royal Exchange Theatre productionDick Bird, Timothy Bird and Paul Keogan for The Hudsucker Proxy, a Nuffield Theatre, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse in association with Complicite production
2014 Duncan Macmillan and Robert Icke for 1984, a Headlong, Nottingham Playhouse and Almeida Theatre production Jon Bausor for Mametz, a National Theatre Wales production
2013Blanche McIntyre for The Seagull , a Headlong and Nuffield, Southampton production in association with Derby Theatre Jonathan Fensom and Charles Balfour for The Accrington Pals , a Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester production Simon Callow
2012 Garry Hynes for Druidmurphy, produced by Druid Theatre Company Amanda Stoodley for Manchester Lines a Library Theatre Company production
2011 Michael Sheen and Bill Mitchell for The Passion a National Theatre Wales/Wild Works co-production Lizzie Clachan for Happy Days lighting design by Natasha Chivers a Sheffield Theatres production
2010 Laurie Sansom for Beyond the Horizon and Spring Storm - Royal & Derngate, Northampton productionsMike Brookes and Simon Banham for The Persians - a National Theatre Wales productionChris Davey for Dial M for Murder – a West Yorkshire Playhouse and Fiery Angel production and for Beyond the Horizon – a Royal & Derngate, Northampton production Max Stafford-Clark Paines Plough
2009Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett for Othello , Frantic Assembly and Theatre Royal Plymouth in collaboration with Royal and Derngate, Northampton on tourMichael Pavelka for The Merchant of Venice , Watermill Theatre and Propellor on tourDaniella Beattie for The Wicked Lady at New Victoria. Newcastle Under Lyme Nicolas Kent The Theatre, Chipping Norton
2008 Michael Boyd for The Histories at RSC Stratford-Upon-AvonMike Britton for Lady From The Sea at Birmingham RepThe Royal Exchange Theatre Company's The Children's Hour designed by Mick Hughes Bill Kenwright Latitude Festival
2007 Tim Supple for A Midsummer Night's Dream on tourChloe Lamford for Small Miracle at the Mercury, Colchester Matthew Bourne Bruntwood Group - for their year round charitable work and key contributions off stage
2006 Nina Raine for Unprotected at the Everyman Theatre, LiverpoolRobert Innes Hopkins for Promise, Promises at the Crucible, Sheffield Thelma Holt English Youth Ballet
2005 Michael Grandage for Don Carlos at the Crucible, SheffieldFaustus set design by Laura Hopkins at Northampton Theatre RoyalThe Mackintosh Foundation
2004 Anna Mackmin for Cloud Nine a Sheffield Theatres production at the CrucibleLiz Ascroft for the Royal Exchange Theatre Company's The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice The Playhouse Theatre, Derry
2003 David Farr for A Midsummer Night's Dream at Bristol Old Vic Julian Croch, Phil Eddols, Colin Grenfell and Stephen Snell for The Hanging Man, Improbable Theatre in co-production wit West Yorkshire Playhouse, Wexner Center for the Arts, the Walker Art Center, the Lyric Hammersmith and Weiner Festwochen in association with Pomegrante ArtsThe Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond, North Yorkshire
2002 Emma Rice for Kneehigh Theatre's The Red Shoes on tourSimon Higlett for Elizabeth Rex at Birmingham Repertory Theatre produced in association with Duncan C. Weldon and Paul Elliott for Triumph Entertainment Ltd, and for Nuffield Theatre Southampton's Three Sisters presented by Theatre Royal Bath Productions on tourmindthe gap
2001 Vicky Featherstone for Splendour, Paines Plough in association with the Peter Wolff Theatre Trust on tourLaura Hopkins for Mister Heracles at West Yorkshire PlayhouseThe Wales Association for the Performing Arts
2000 Richard Wilson for Mr Kolpert at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court Jeremy Herbert for 4.48 Psychosis at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal CourtMercury Theatre, Colchester
1999 Edward Hall for Twelfth Night at The Watermill, West Berkshire Playhouse Es Devlin for the Bush Theatre's Howie The Rookie at the Bush TheatreNorthern Stage
1998Julian Crouch and Phelim McDermott for Shockheaded Peter , a Cultural Industry project produced in collaboration with West Yorkshire Playhouse and Lyric Theatre HammersmithNeil Warmington for Jane Eyre, Shared Experience Theatre in association with the Wolsey Theatre Ipswich and the Young Vic Theatre on tourMobil Touring Theatre
1997 Janet Suzman for The Cherry Orchard , the Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company in a co-production with the Market Theatre, JohannesburgRobert Innes Hopkins for The Wasp Factory at West Yorkshire Playhouse and Oxford Stage Company's My Mother Said I Never Should on tourG & J Productions
1996 Mike Alfreds for Flesh And Blood, Jude The Obscure and Private Lives, Method & Madness on tourTony Tripp for Cole Porter's High Society presented by Paul Elliott by arrangement with Paul Dainty Europe Ltd. Sheffield Theatres and Warner Chappell Music Ltd, on tourJeremy Raison, artistic director of Chester Gateway
1995 Barrie Rutter for The Cracked Pot at West Yorkshire Playhouse in association with Northern Broadsides, and for Northern Broadsides' tour of A Midsummer Night's Dream Robin Don for The Winter Guest at West Yorkshire Playhouse, co-produced with the Almeida Theatre Company
1994Anthony Clark for The Atheist's Tragedy and The Playboy Of The Western World at the Birmingham Repertory TheatrePeter J. Davison for the tours of the Almeida Theatre's production of Medea in association with Bill Kenwright Ltd and Theatr Clwyd's production of Saint Joan presented by Duncan C. Weldon
1993David Glass for the David Glass ensemble production of Gormenghast, on tourCharles Cusick-Smith for The Plough And The Stars at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester
1992 Gregory Hersov for Romeo and Juliet and A View From The Bridge at Manchester Royal ExchangeNeil Warmington (set), Ben Ormerod (lighting) and Mic Pool (sound) for Life Is A Dream at West Yorkshire Playhouse
1991Patrick Sandford for The Winter Wife and Much Ado About Nothing at the Nuffield Theatre, SouthamptonSimon Vincenzi for Therese Raquin at Nottingham Playhouse

Past winning achievements in dance and opera

YearAchievement in DanceAchievement in Opera
2023 Scottish Ballet for Coppélia Opera North for Orpheus
2022The dancers of Rambert Richard Mantle for the last year at Opera North
2019Scottish Ballet for the world premiere of Helen Pickett’s dance-theatre adaptation of The Crucible Buxton International Festival at Buxton Opera House for the world premiere of Georgiana
2018 Northern Ballet for its programming, particularly The Little Mermaid and its Kenneth MacMillan tribute David Pountney and Tomas Hanus for their artistic leadership of Welsh National Opera
2017Scottish Ballet for the European premiere of Crystal Pite's one-act ballet Emergence Scottish Opera for Pelléas And Mélisande
2016Gary Clarke for Coal The Royal Opera and Guildhall School Of Music and Drama for 4.48 Psychosis in association with the Lyric Hammersmith
2015 Candoco Dance Company for the revival of Jérôme Bel’s postmodern classic The Show Must Go OnGlyndebourne for an outstandingly well planned and performed season
2014 Birmingham Hippodrome and DanceXchange for the International Dance Festival 2014 Richard Farnes for his exceptional conducting of Opera North’s Death in Venice
2013Independent dance artist Wendy Houstoun for her insightful, funny solo 50 Acts Welsh National Opera for the productions of Lulu & Lohengrin , conducted by Lothar Koenigs
2012 Akram Khan for Desh Christopher Alden’s production of Norma for Opera North, a co-production with Theater Chemnitz
2011 New Adventures for an outstanding revision of Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella Music Theatre Wales for its production of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Greek
2010The Mark Morris Dance Group for L'allegro, Il Pensero Ed Il Moderato Welsh National Opera's production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
2009 [9] The dancers of English National Ballet, who showed new strength and interpretative skills across a range of repertory Glyndebourne for an outstanding 75th Anniversary season
2008Theatre-Rites & Arthur Pita for Mischief Opera North for its summer Shakespeare season
2007Birmingham Royal Ballet's Stravinsky! A Celebration 2007Opera North's Peter Grimes
2006Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo for their hilarious blend of low comedy and high glamour that lampoons and celebrates the golden age of classical ballet Welsh National Opera's Mazeppa
2005 Mark Baldwin for the creation of Constant Speed and the high calibre of his artistic directorship of Rambert Dance Company The Partnership of Vladimir Jurowski and Richard Jones for Welsh National Operas Wozzeck
2004Scottish Ballet for sure-footed modernisation under Ashley Page and dynamic performancesOpera North for its Eight Little Greats season at Leeds and on tour
2003 George Piper Dances' Critics' Choice ****** programme Tristan und Isolde at Glyndebourne
2002 Christopher Hampson for Double Concerto, an outstanding new ballet in a fine year for repertory at English National Ballet Scottish Opera for Die Walküre and Siegfried
2001Rambert Dance Company for their performance of Mats Ek's She Was Black Richard Jones, Vladimir Jurowski and the company for Welsh National Opera's production of The Queen of Spades
2000 Tamara Rojo for her outstanding performances for English National Ballet Anja Silja, Amanda Roocroft and Jir Belohlvek for leading Glyndebourne's revival of Jenufa
1999 Lez Brotherston for Northern Ballet Theatre's Carmen, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Giselle , Dracula and A Christmas CarolScottish Opera, especially for its outstanding productions of Der Rosenkavalier and Macbeth
1998 David Bintley for the choreography of Edward II, for mounting the Balanchine bill and for reviving Dame Ninette de Valois' The Prospect Before Us for Birmingham Royal Ballet Welsh National Opera for Billy Budd and The Coronation of Poppea
1997The dancers of Rambert Dance Company for their performances in Airs, Eidolon, Port For Angels and StreamThe cast and production of Scottish Opera's Idomeneo

Other award categories

Other awards and recent winners include: [10] [11] [12] [13]

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