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Nominations for Stage Award for Special Achievement in Regional Theatre revealed
14th Oct 2010
The award forms part of the Theatrical Management Association Theatre Awards 2010, in association with The Stage. It is traditionally presented to an individual or organisation in recognition of the important contribution they have made to theatre in the regions over the last year.
Previous winners of the award include Northern Stage, touring theatre company Mind the Gap, English Youth Ballet and Latitude Festival. Last year’s winner was The Theatre, Chipping Norton.
Brian Attwood, editor of The Stage, said: “Once again the nominations list is remarkable for its range of entrants, each of them making a unique and valuable contribution to regional theatre. This promises to be a hard-fought contest but, whoever succeeds, we are assured of a deserving winner.”
The winner will be announced at the TMA Theatre Awards on November 7 at the Lyric Hammersmith.
Our nominees are:
• The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA)
The London-based drama school has been nominated for its launch of ALRA North, a regional outpost of the institution based in Wigan. It becomes the first Conference of Drama Schools member to offer both regional and London-based training.
• Paule Constable
The Olivier Award-winning lighting designer last year launched an industry-wide support network for women employed in technical and backstage roles in the theatre, Women in Stage Entertainment.
• National Theatre Wales
Wales’ first ever national company launched this year with a programme of work that took theatre to communities across the country, following the successful model set by the non-building based National Theatre of Scotland.
• Royal Shakespeare Company
The RSC is nominated specifically for its Arts Journalist Bursary Scheme, an initiative launched by the company - and now in its fifth year - designed to encourage and develop a new generation of diverse theatre critics and journalists.
• Broadway Theatre, Barking
The Broadway Theatre was a reader nomination put forward by Van Badham, literary manager at the Finborough Theatre, for the Broadway’s staging of A Day at the Racists by Anders Lustgarden. Badham described the decision to stage the play about the British National Party as ‘theatre with cojones’.
• Paines Plough
The company’s new artistic directors James Grieve and George Perrin launched their inaugural season of new work this year with an increased focus on touring the whole breadth of the UK. The current programme will reach 29 different places across the British Isles, including Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Source: The Stage
