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Dateline: 4th November, 2008

Evening Standard Awards Long List

Following the precedent set last year, the Evening Standard has announced the "long list" of nominations for its 2008 theatre awards, prior to the short list announcement on this coming Friday.

The nominations are:

Best Actress

• Lesley Manville (Her Naked Skin – National Theatre Olivier)
• Helen McCrory (Rosmersholm – Almeida Theatre)
• Phoebe Nicholls (Waste – Almeida Theatre)
• Lesley Sharp (Harper Regan – National Theatre Cottesloe)
• Margaret Tyzack (The Chalk Garden - Donmar Warehouse)
• Penelope Wilton (The Chalk Garden - Donmar Warehouse)

Best Actor

• Kenneth Branagh (Ivanov - Donmar West End at the Wyndham's Theatre)
• David Calder (King Lear - Shakespeare's Globe)
• Adam Godley (Rain Man – Apollo Theatre)
• Chiwetel Ejiofor (Othello - Donmar Warehouse)
• Will Keen (Waste – Almeida Theatre)
• Simon Russell Beale (Much Ado About Nothing – National Theatre Olivier)
• Jonathan Slinger (Richard II / Richard III – Royal Shakespeare Company at the Roundhouse)
• Kevin Spacey (Speed-The-Plow - Old Vic)

Best Play

• Black Watch by Gregory Burke (National Theatre of Scotland at the Barbican Theatre)
• Days Of Significance by Roy Williams (Royal Shakespeare Company at the Tricycle Theatre)
• Her Naked Skin by Rebecca Lenkiewicz (National Theatre Olivier)
• Never So Good by Howard Brenton (National Theatre Lyttelton)
• Now Or Later by Christopher Shinn (Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs)
• The Pitmen Painters by Lee Hall (Live Theatre and National Theatre co-production)

Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical

• La Cage Aux Folles (Menier Chocolate Factory and Playhouse Theatre)
• Eurobeat (Novello Theatre)
• Jersey Boys (Prince Edward Theatre)
• Marguerite (Theatre Royal Haymarket)
• Street Scene (The Opera Group, Young Vic and Watford Palace Theatre co-production)

Sydney Edwards Award for Best Director

• Lucy Bailey (Timon Of Athens - Shakespeare's Globe)
• Michael Boyd (The History Cycle - Royal Shakespeare Company at the Roundhouse)
• Rupert Goold (Six Characters In Search Of An Author (Gielgud Theatre) / No Man's Land (Duke of York's Theatre) / The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot (Almeida Theatre)
• Michael Grandage – Othello (Donmar Warehouse) / The Chalk Garden (Donmar Warehouse) / Ivanov (Donmar West End at the Wyndham's Theatre)
• Katie Mitchell (Women of Troy – National Theatre Lyttelton)
• Emma Rice (Brief Encounter - Kneehigh at the Cinema Haymarket)
• Alan Rickman (Creditors - Donmar Warehouse)
• John Tiffany (Black Watch - National Theatre of Scotland at the Barbican Theatre)

Best Design

• Miriam Buether (In The Red And Brown Water - Young Vic)
• Laura Hopkins (Black Watch - National Theatre of Scotland at the Barbican Theatre)
• Rob Howell (The Norman Conquests - Old Vic)
• Neil Murray (Brief Encounter - Kneehigh at the Cinema Haymarket)
• Melly Still (The Revenger's Tragedy – National Theatre Olivier)

Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer

• Michelle Dockery (Pygmalion - Old Vic)
• Luke Evans (Small Change - Donmar Warehouse)
  Felicity Jones (The Chalk Garden - Donmar Warehouse)
• Joseph Mawle (The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot – Almeida Theatre)
• Lex Shrapnel (Henry IV Part I - Royal Shakespeare Company at the Roundhouse)
• Ella Smith (Fat Pig - Trafalgar Studio 1 and the Comedy Theatre)

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