ED2011 News

Stage Award nominations announced

By | Published on Friday 19 August 2011

The Stage

What’s that, you want more Edinburgh Festival awards? Well you are in luck people, because The Stage has announced the shortlists for this year’s Stage Awards For Acting Excellence. These are awarded to what The Stage’s panel believe to be the best performances from professional actors at the Fringe each year, with gongs for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Ensemble and Best Solo Performance. Coming up, the shortlists in full. But there’s always time for a quote from the Editor of The Stage first.

Editor of The Stage Brian Attwood told ThreeWeeks: “Once again The Stage Awards have been richly served by the wide array of talent participating on the Edinburgh Fringe. It’s our hope that, as ever, the industry publication can serve them too, by providing the premier platform for highlighting theatrical talent at the Festival”.

And the nominees are:

Best Actor
Billy Mack for The Overcoat (Pleasance)
Art Malik for Rose (Pleasance)
Simon Merrells for Oedipus (Pleasance)
Michael Peng for Bashir Lazhar (Assembly)
Nikolaus Szentmiklosi for Danny And The Deep Blue Sea (Remarkable Arts At St George’s West)

Best Actress
Lucinda Curtis for Dust (Universal Arts At New Town Theatre)
Shian Denovan for Snap Catch Slam (Pleasance)
Alessija Lause for Danny And The Deep Blue Sea (Remarkable Arts At St George’s West)
Catherine Walsh for The Wheel (Traverse)
Madeleine Worrall for The Strange Undoing Of Prudencia Hart (Traverse At Ghillie Dhu)

Best Ensemble
Banana Bag & Bodice for Beowulf: A Thousand Years Of Baggage (Assembly)
Made From Scratch for Body Of Water (Pleasance)
Citizens Theatre for The Monster In The Hall (Traverse)
Wardrobe Ensemble for Riot (Zoo)
National Theatre Of Scotland for The Strange Undoing Of Prudencia Hart (Traverse At Ghillie Dhu)
Theatre Ad Infinitum for Translunar Paradise (Pleasance)

Best Solo Performer
Jake Addley for One Fine Day (Zoo)
Joe Doherty for Bones (Zoo)
Nicola Gunn for At The Sans Hotel (Assembly)
Gerard Logan for The Rape Of Lucrece (Zoo)
Sabrina Mahfouz for Dry Ice (Underbelly)
Guy Masterson for Shylock (Assembly)

The winners will be announced on 28 Aug at Dance Base at 7pm.



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