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Dateline: 22nd August, 2005

Stage Awards Nominees

With four nominations apiece, The Traverse Theatre and the Pleasance lead the pack as The Stage newspaper’s reviews team shortlists the contenders for the 11th annual awards for Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Ensemble.

One Pleasance play, Cage, picks up two nominations - one for Saskia Schuck as Best Actress, the other for Best Ensemble.

Meanwhile The Assembly Rooms boasts three of the six nominations for the Best Actor category. Among them is David Calvitto for Screwmachine/Eyecandy, who won the same award in 2002. The Gilded Balloon has two nominations and there is one apiece for Southside, Theatre Workshop, and C Venues.

The winners will be announced at an invitation-only ceremony at The Fruitmarket Gallery, this Sunday (August 28) evening.

Managing Director of The Stage, Catherine Comerford, who will be presenting the awards, added, “By the evening of the awards, the stage's reviewing team will have seen over fifty productions each, some more than once, in order to decide on the winners of our best actor, actress and ensemble awards. I look forward to announcing them, and recognising the outstanding contribution they have made to the success of the fringe this year”.

The nominations in full:

Best Actor:

• Ben Moor for Coelacanth (Pleasance);
• Gregg Hicks for Missing Persons - Four Tragedies and Roy Keane (The Assembly Rooms);
• David Calvitto for Screwmachine/Eyecandy (The Assembly Rooms);
• Philip Ralph for Hitting Funny (The Assembly Rooms);
• Phil Nichol for Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story (Gilded Balloon);
• Alistair O’Loughlin for Tragedian (Southside)

Best Actress:

• Catherine Dyson for The Night Shift (Traverse Theatre);
• Jasmine Hyde for Gaugleprixtown (Theatre Workshop);
• Saskia Schuck for Cage (Pleasance);
• Mitzi Sinnott for Snapshot (C-Electric);
• Gabriela Murray for The Girls of the 3.5 Floppies (Traverse Theatre)

Best Ensemble:

• The Corn Exchange, Ireland for Dublin by Lamplight (Traverse Theatre);
• Tangled Feet for Lost Property (Gilded Balloon);
• Badac Theatre Company for Cage (Pleasance);
• Paines Plough and the Bush Theatre for After the End (Traverse Theatre);
• Vanishing Point for Lost Ones (Pleasance)

The judging panel consists of the principal reviewers for The Stage at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Jeremy Austin, Gerald Berkowitz, Thom Dibdin, Duska Radosavljevic, Nick Awde Chris Bartlett, Brian G Cooper and Chris Wilson.

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