2008 Results

(January 2009 Awards)

• Best New Play

  August: Osage County by Tracy Letts

• The Peter Hepple Award for Best Musical

  La Cage Aux Folles

• Best Actor

  Kenneth Branagh in Ivanov

• Best Actress

  Margaret Tyzack in The Chalk Garden

• The John and Wendy Trewin Award forBest Shakespearean Performance

  Derek Jacobi in Twelfth Night
  David Tennant in Hamlet

• Best Director

  Michael Grandage for Ivanov & The Chalk Garden

• Best Designer (awarded jointly)

  Neil Murray for Brief Encounter

• Most Promising Playwright

  Alexi Kaye Campbell for The Pride

• The Jack Tinker Award for Most Promising Newcomer [other than a playwright]

  Ella Smith in Fat Pig