Stage Awards for Acting Excellence
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The Stage Awards for Acting Excellence are a set of Scottish
theatre
awards which were established in 1995 to recognise outstanding theatre performances by individuals and companies on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Organised by theatrical newspaper The Stage
, the initial award categories of Best Actor and Best Actress were joined by an ensemble award in 1998. In 2006, an award for Best Solo Show was given for the first time.
Award winners are chosen by a panel consisting of the newspaper's principal Fringe reviewers, and are typically announced in a ceremony on the last Sunday of the festival.
2008 – Ciaran McIntyre for Deep Cut
2007 – Garry Cooper for Long Time Dead
2006 – Paul Sparkes for Finer Noble Gases
2005 – Phil Nichol
for Edward Albee's The Zoo Story
2004 – James Urbaniak
for Thom Pain (based on nothing)
2003 – Richard Dormer for Hurricane
2002 – David Calvitto for Horse Country
2001 – Guy Masterson for Fern Hill and Other Dylan Thomas
2000 – Greig Coetzee for White Men with Weapons
1999 – Tony Cownie for A Madman Sings to the Moon
1998 – Chris Pickles for Love! Valour! Compassion!
1997 – John Stahl for Anna Weiss
1996 – Edward Halstead for Bartleby
1995 – Mark Pinkosh for Road Movie
2008 – Rhian Blythe for Deep Cut
2007 – Eugenia Caruso and Janet Bamford for Truckstop
2006 – Caroline O'Connor for Over The Rainbow
2005 – Saskia Schuck for Cage
2004 – Pauline Goldsmith for Not I by Samuel Beckett
2003 – Cait Davis for Those Eyes, That Mouth
2002 – Sandy McDade for Iron
2001 – Nichola McAuliffe for Bed Among the Lentils
2000 – Paola Dionisotti for Further Than the Furthest Thing
1999 – Jacqueline Linke for Often I Find That I Am Naked
1998 – Siobhan Redmond
for Perfect Days and Alison Baker for The Glace Bay Miner's Museum (joint winners)
1997 – Eileen Walsh for Disco Pig
1996 – Beth Fitzgerald for The House of Correction
1995 – Lynn Ferguson for Heart and Sole
2008 – Live Theatre for Motherland
2007 – The Shalimar for LA FEMME EST MORTE Or Why I Should Not F%!# My Son
2006 – National Theatre of Scotland
/Traverse for Black Watch
2005 – The Corn Exchange, Ireland for Dublin by Lamplight
2004 – Grid Iron Theatre Company for Fierce: An Urban Myth
2003 – 78th Street Theatre Lab and Paper Hat Productions for Boy Steals Train
2002 – Bomb-itty International, The Bomb-itty of Errors
2001 – Theatre O for 3 Dark Tales
2000 – Grid Iron Theatre Company for Decky Does a Bronco
1999 – Kaos Theatre UK for The Kaos Importance of Being Earnest and the East Company for Stephen Berkoff's East
(joint winners)
1998 – Theatre 28 for Love! Valour! Compassion!
2008 – Matthew Zajac for The Tailor of Inverness
2007 – Madi Distefano for Popsicle’s Departure 1989
2006 – Daniel Kitson
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Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
awards which were established in 1995 to recognise outstanding theatre performances by individuals and companies on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Organised by theatrical newspaper The Stage
The Stage
The Stage is a weekly British newspaper founded in 1880, available nationally and published on Thursdays. Covering all areas of the entertainment industry but focused primarily on theatre, it contains news, reviews, opinion, features and other items of interest, mainly to those who work within the...
, the initial award categories of Best Actor and Best Actress were joined by an ensemble award in 1998. In 2006, an award for Best Solo Show was given for the first time.
Award winners are chosen by a panel consisting of the newspaper's principal Fringe reviewers, and are typically announced in a ceremony on the last Sunday of the festival.
Best actor
2009 – Billy Mack for The Sound of My Voice2008 – Ciaran McIntyre for Deep Cut
Deep Cut
Deep Cut is a play performed by Cardiff based theatre company Sherman Cymru and written by Philip Ralph. It premiered at the Edinburgh Festival in 2008 and won the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award in the same year as well as best Actor and Best Actress awards with The Stage's...
2007 – Garry Cooper for Long Time Dead
2006 – Paul Sparkes for Finer Noble Gases
2005 – Phil Nichol
Phil Nichol
Phil Nichol is a Canadian comedian, singer-songwriter, and actor.-Comedy:Nichol was born in Scotland to a Scottish mother, but raised in Canada. He first found fame as a member of the musical comedy trio Corky and the Juice Pigs, known for the song " Eskimo"...
for Edward Albee's The Zoo Story
2004 – James Urbaniak
James Urbaniak
James Christian Urbaniak is an American actor. Urbaniak was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. He lives in Santa Monica, California with his wife Julie and their twins, son Severn Jerzy and daughter Esme Maeve....
for Thom Pain (based on nothing)
Thom Pain (based on nothing)
Thom Pain is a one man show written by Will Eno. It is a rambling monologue in which the protagonist, who has suffered a lot in his life, tells the story of a bee sting, a boy with a dog that died, and his experience with a woman. First performed in London at the Soho Theatre, it was taken to the...
2003 – Richard Dormer for Hurricane
2002 – David Calvitto for Horse Country
2001 – Guy Masterson for Fern Hill and Other Dylan Thomas
2000 – Greig Coetzee for White Men with Weapons
1999 – Tony Cownie for A Madman Sings to the Moon
1998 – Chris Pickles for Love! Valour! Compassion!
Love! Valour! Compassion!
Love! Valour! Compassion! is a play by Terrence McNally. Its off-Broadway premiere took place at the Manhattan Theatre Club on October 11, 1994, in a staging by Joe Mantello that ran for 72 performances...
1997 – John Stahl for Anna Weiss
1996 – Edward Halstead for Bartleby
1995 – Mark Pinkosh for Road Movie
Best actress
2009 – Cora Bissett for Midsummer (A Play With Songs)2008 – Rhian Blythe for Deep Cut
2007 – Eugenia Caruso and Janet Bamford for Truckstop
2006 – Caroline O'Connor for Over The Rainbow
2005 – Saskia Schuck for Cage
2004 – Pauline Goldsmith for Not I by Samuel Beckett
2003 – Cait Davis for Those Eyes, That Mouth
2002 – Sandy McDade for Iron
2001 – Nichola McAuliffe for Bed Among the Lentils
2000 – Paola Dionisotti for Further Than the Furthest Thing
1999 – Jacqueline Linke for Often I Find That I Am Naked
1998 – Siobhan Redmond
Siobhan Redmond
Siobhan Redmond is a Scottish actress.Originally from Tollcross, Glasgow, Redmond's first television appearances were in the early 1980s. Her first TV appearance was in 1982 in a sketch show called "Nothing to worry about!" which then lead to the sketch show Alfresco...
for Perfect Days and Alison Baker for The Glace Bay Miner's Museum (joint winners)
1997 – Eileen Walsh for Disco Pig
1996 – Beth Fitzgerald for The House of Correction
1995 – Lynn Ferguson for Heart and Sole
Best ensemble
2009 – Green Shoot Productions for Chronicles of Long Kesh2008 – Live Theatre for Motherland
2007 – The Shalimar for LA FEMME EST MORTE Or Why I Should Not F%!# My Son
2006 – National Theatre of Scotland
National Theatre of Scotland
The National Theatre of Scotland is a theatre company established in February 2006. The company performs in a wide range of venues including theatres, halls and found spaces across Scotland....
/Traverse for Black Watch
Black Watch
The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland is an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland. The unit's traditional colours were retired in 2011 in a ceremony led by Queen Elizabeth II....
2005 – The Corn Exchange, Ireland for Dublin by Lamplight
2004 – Grid Iron Theatre Company for Fierce: An Urban Myth
2003 – 78th Street Theatre Lab and Paper Hat Productions for Boy Steals Train
2002 – Bomb-itty International, The Bomb-itty of Errors
The Bomb-itty of Errors
The Bomb-itty of Errors is a hip hop theatre retelling of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. Written and performed by Jordan Allen-Dutton, Jason Catalano, GQ, and Erik Weiner, the show has been performed in New York City , London , Chicago, Dublin, Edinburgh, Florida, Aspen, Syracuse,...
2001 – Theatre O for 3 Dark Tales
2000 – Grid Iron Theatre Company for Decky Does a Bronco
1999 – Kaos Theatre UK for The Kaos Importance of Being Earnest and the East Company for Stephen Berkoff's East
East (play)
East is a 1975 verse play by Steven Berkoff, dealing with growing up and rites of passage in London's rough East End.The 25th anniversary production, produced by Marc Sinden and starring Tanya Franks, started at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley...
(joint winners)
1998 – Theatre 28 for Love! Valour! Compassion!
Love! Valour! Compassion!
Love! Valour! Compassion! is a play by Terrence McNally. Its off-Broadway premiere took place at the Manhattan Theatre Club on October 11, 1994, in a staging by Joe Mantello that ran for 72 performances...
Best Solo show
2009 – George Mann for Odyssey2008 – Matthew Zajac for The Tailor of Inverness
2007 – Madi Distefano for Popsicle’s Departure 1989
2006 – Daniel Kitson
Daniel Kitson
Daniel Kitson is an English stand-up comedian.-Career:Born to a lecturer father and primary school head teacher mother, Kitson began performing comedy at the age of 16. He was a pupil at Scissett Middle School and Shelley College in Yorkshire, England...
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