The winners of the first Scenesaver Birthday Honour Awards are:
Thank you to our users and creatives for the hundreds of nominations, and thousands of votes, recognising the amazing talent showcased on Scenesaver across 400+ online performances from little theatres of all genres. Here’s to another fantastic year of creativity and innovation!
Best Children’s Production
WINNNER:
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Chickenshed
FINALISTS
Shebaa’s Adventures to Jopplety How by Concrete Youth
Mischief Makers by Circle Troupe
Best Costume
WINNER:
Angela Carter’s In the Company of Wolves, Moth Sanctuary Productions
FINALISTS
Shakespeare’s Star Wars, The Show Must Go Online
The Ockendon Witch, Hoar Frost Productions
Best Production
WINNER:
SpaceXPat, by Vince LiCata, Andy Jordan Productions
FINALISTS
Within, Threedumb Theatre
Love in the Lockdown, The Telling
Best Performance Ensemble
WINNER
Northern Comedy Theatre (Doing… series)
FINALISTS
Chickenshed for Rapunzel
The Show Must Go Online (The whole of Shakespeare and more)
The Telling (Love in the Lockdown)
Best Choreography / Movement
WINNER
Flight Paths, Extant
FINALISTS
The Show Must Go Online, Romeo and Juliet
Crime of the Century, Chickenshed
Best Musical Performance
WINNER
Rapunzel by Chickenshed
FINALISTS
Episodes by The Opera Story
Tales TV by Chickenshed
Love in the Lockdown by The Telling
Best Director
WINNER
Nicholas Renton for Love in the Lockdown
FINALISTS
Sally McLean for Shakespeare Republic
Andy Jordan for SpaceXPat
Stephen Smith for Within
Lily McLeish for Scrounger
Best Supporting Performance
WINNER
Leigh Quinn, Scrounger
FINALISTS
Rob Myles, The Show Must Go Online, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Libby Rodliffe, The Ockendon Witch
Best Play
WINNER
SpaceXPat, by Vince LiCata, Andy Jordan Productions
FINALISTS
The Jar
This Evil Thing by Michael Mears
Love in the Lockdown by Clare Norburn
Best Lead Performance
WINNER
Jordan Bernarde, Breathe
FINALISTS
Lauren Farrell, The Jar
Michael Mears, This Evil Thing
Stephanie Fuller, About 500
Most Innovative Production
WINNER
User Not Found by Dante or Die
FINALISTS
Kurt Weill’s Zaubernacht by Jody Oberfelder Projects
Metamorphosis (in Lockdown) Virtual Tower Theatre Company
Best Playwright
WINNER
Myrn Devaney, The Jar
FINALISTS
Vince LeCata, SpaceXPat
Gerry Moynihan, Continuity
Melissa-Kelly Franklin, We’ll Dance on the Ash of the Apocalypse
Clare Norburn, Love in the Lockdown