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Dateline: 16th September, 2003

TMA Awards Nominations

The nominations for this years TMA Awards for regional theatre have been announced:

Best Actress

• Selina Boyack for STITCHING, The Bush Theatre and The Red Room at The Bush and on tour
• Anna Jane Casey for Sheffield Theatres’ SWEET CHARITY at the Crucible
• Eileen McCallum for IF ONLY, Royal Lyceum Theatre Company, Edinburgh

Best Actor

• Richard Dormer for HURRICANE, Ransom Productions, Belfast on tour
• Stewart Porter for THE FEVER, Citizens’ Theatre Company, Glasgow
• Timothy West for KING LEAR, English Touring Theatre in association with Malvern Theatres on tour

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Sarah Ball for AFTER MRS ROCHESTER, Shared Experience in association with Northampton Theatres on tour
• Lyndsey Marshal for A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at Bristol Old Vic
• Alexandra Mathie for THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, Royal Lyceum Theatre Company, Edinburgh and Theatre Royal, Glasgow

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Bob Barrett for AFTER THE DANCE, Oxford Stage Company and Salisbury Playhouse, on tour
• Tam Dean Burn for SCROOGE, Citizens’ Theatre Company, Glasgow
• Andy Serkis for the Royal ExchangCe Theatre Company’s OTHELLO

Best Director

• David Farr for A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at Bristol Old Vic
• Jimmy Fay for Tinderbox’s THE CHAIRS in Belfast and on tour
• David Mark Thomson for PLEASURE AND PAIN, Citizens’ Theatre Company, Glasgow

Best Designer

• Julian Crouch, Phil Eddols, Colin Grenfell and Stephen Snell for THE HANGING MAN, Improbable Theatre in a co-production with West Yorkshire Playhouse, Wexner Center for the Arts, the Walker Art Center, the Lyric Hammersmith and Weiner Festwochen in association with Pomegranate Arts
• Ruari Murchison for RACING DEMON, THE ABSENCE OF WAR and MURMURING JUDGES at Birmingham Repertory Theat
• Nancy Surman for BARBARIANS at Salisbury Playhouse

The Opus Award for Best Touring Production

• A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, a Watermill Theatre production by Propeller
• AFTER MRS ROCHESTER, Shared Experience in association with Northampton Theatres on tour
• Prime Productions’ SUNSET SONG by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, adapted by Alastair Cording

The BBC Writersroom Award for Best New Play

• DARWIN IN MALIBU by Crispin Whittell at Birmingham Repertory Theatre
• TERRORISM by Vladimir and Oleg Presnyakov at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court
• THE BREATHING HOUSE by Peter Arnott, Royal Lyceum Theatre Company, Edinburgh

The Equity Award for Best Show for Children and Young People

• GRIMM TALES based on Grimm’s Fairy Tales, adapted by Carol Ann Duffy, dramatised by Tim Supple, produced by the Dukes in Williamson Park, Lancaster
• THE STORY OF THE LITTLE GENTLEMAN by Lars-Erik Brossner and Tomas von Bromssen, based on the book by Barbro Lindgren, Catherine Wheels’ Theatre Company in association with Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh
• TOM’S MIDNIGHT GARDEN adapted by David Wood from the book by Philippa Pearce, Library Theatre Company, Manchester

Best Musical

• The Young Vic and the Royal National Theatre Studio’s SIMPLY HEAVENLY, book and lyrics by Langston Hughes, music by David Martin
• Sheffield Theatres’ SWEET CHARITY book by Neil Simon, music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, based on an original screenplay by Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano. Produced for the Broadway stage by Fryer, Carr and Harris, conceived, staged and choreographed by Bob Fosse, by arrangement with Music Scope (UK) and Stage Musicals Ltd., at the Crucible
• THE GONDOLIERS book and lyrics by W S Gilbert, music by Arthur Sullivan at Chichester Festival Theatre

Outstanding Achievement in Opera

• Lorraine Hunt Lieberson for her performance in THEODORA at Glyndebourne
• JEPHTHA at Welsh National Opera
• TRISTAN UND ISOLDE at Glyndebourne

Outstanding Achievement in Dance

• George Piper Dances’ CRITICS’ CHOICE ***** programme which brought the A-list of today’s choreographers to the British public in an innovative way
• Henri Oguike, choreographer, for embodying in his small company the highest standards in dance, live music and lighting
• Matz Skoog, ENB’s Artistic Director, for his enterprise and daring in commissioning new British work

The Arts Council England Eclipse Award

• mac (Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham)
• The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
• Warehouse Theatre, Croydon

Most Welcoming Theatre

• Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh
• Octagon Theatre, Bolton
• Salisbury Playhouse

The Awards will be presented at the Hampstead Theatre ay 5.30 on Sunday, 19th October. The host for the evening will be Sandi Toksvig.

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