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Dateline: 2nd October, 2008

TMA Nominations 2008

The nominations have been announced for this year's Theatrical Management Association Awards, the only awards for regional theatre. They are:

Best Performance in a Play

• Brenda Blethyn The Glass Menagerie (Royal Exchange, Manchester)
• Keith Fleming & Gerry Mulgrew for Peer Gynt (Dundee Rep)
• Kathryn Tozer for A Streetcar Named Desire (Nuffield, Southampton)

Best Supporting Performance in a Play

• Roger Delves-Broughton for Journey’s End (Mercury, Colchester)
• Tony Haygarth for Pygmalion (on tour)
• Kate O'Flynn for The Children’s Hour (Royal Exchange, Manchester).

Best Performance in a Musical

• Brian Conley for The Music Man (Chichester Festival)
• Kathryn Evans for Sunset Boulevard (Watermill Theatre, Newbury)
• Rachel Tucker for The Wizard of Oz (Lyric, Belfast)

Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical

• Helena Blackman for South Pacific (on tour)
• Martin Ball for Mary Poppins (on tour)
• Claire Sundin for The Hired Man (on tour)

Best Musical Production

• Don Giovanni at the New Vic, Newcastle Under Lyme
• Once Upon a Time at the Adelphi (Playhouse, Liverpool)
• Moon Landing (Derby Playhouse)

Best Touring Production

• Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland)
• War and Peace (Shared Experience)
• Stockholm (Frantic Assembly and Drum Theatre, Plymouth)

Best Director

• Michael Boyd for The Histories (RSC)
• Steven Berkoff for On the Waterfront (Nottingham Playhouse)
• Yael Farber for Molora (Oxford Playhouse)

Best New Play

• Contractions by Mike Bartlett (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs)
• The Pitman Painters by Lee Hall (Live Theatre, Newcastle)
• Ten Tiny Toes by Esther Wilson (Liverpool Everyman, in association with Shared Experience)

Best Set Design

• Douglas Heap for Don Juan Comes Back from the War at the Belgrade Coventry
• Christopher Woods for Once Upon a Time at the Adelphi (Liverpool Playhouse)
• Mike Britton for The Lady from the Sea (Birmingham Rep)

Best Lighting Design

• The Children’s Hour (Manchester Royal Exchange), designed by Mick Hughes
• Equus (on tour), designed by David Hersey
• The Railway Children (York Theatre Royal), designed by Richard G Jones

Best Show for Children & Young People

• Brilliant at the Polka Theatre
• Looking for JJ, Pilot Theatre in association with York Theatre Royal and Unicorn Theatre on tour
• The Emperor’s New Kilt by Wee Stories and National Theatre of Scotland.

Achievement in Opera

• Glyndebourne for Hansel und Gretel
• Opera North for its summer Shakespeare season
• Scottish Opera for A Night at the Chinese Opera
• Welsh National Opera for The Sacrifice

Achievement in Dance

• Cloudgate Dance Theatre of Taiwan for Moon Water
• Theatre-Rites & Arthur Pita for Mischief
• Rambert Dance Company for Carnival of the Animals and Swansong

The winners will be announced and the Awards presented on Sunday 26th October at Hampstead Theatre.

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