2009 Evening Standard Theatre Awards

Winners, shortlist and longlist

Best Play

• Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth

  Longlisted

• by Tracy Letts
• England People Very Nice by Richard Bean
• Enron by Lucy Prebble
• Our Class by Tadeusz Slobodzianek/Ryan Craig
• Pornography by Simon Stephens
• Punk Rock by Simon Stephens
• Tusk Tusk by Polly Stenham
• When The Rain Stops Falling by Andrew Bovell

  Best Director

• Rupert Goold for Enron

  Longlisted

• Howard Davies for Burnt by the Sun
• Marianne Elliott for All's Well That Ends Well
• Richard Eyre for The Last Cigarette and The Observer
• Jeremy Herrin for Tusk Tusk
• Janice Honeyman for The Tempest
• Sean Mathias for Waiting For Godot
• Sam Mendes for The Winter's Tale
• Ian Rickson for Jerusalem
• Anna D Shapiro for

  Best Actor

• Mark Rylance, Jerusalem

  Longlisted

• Bertie Carvel, The Pride,
• Michael Feast, Plague Over England
• Henry Goodman, Duet For One
• David Harewood, The Mountaintop
• Matthew Kelly, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf & Troilus And Cressida
• Ian McKellen, Waiting For Godot
• Simon Russell Beale, The Winter's Tale
• Kevin Spacey, Inherit The Wind
• Ken Stott, A View From The Bridge
• David Tennant, Hamlet
• David Troughton, Enjoy & Inherit The Wind
• Samuel West, Enron

  Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress

• Rachel Weisz, A Streetcar Named Desire

  Longlisted

• Samantha Bond, Arcadia
• Deanna Dunagan, '
• Penny Downie, Helen
• Rebecca Hall, The Winter's Tale
• Pauline Malefane, The Mysteries
• Lyndsey Marshal, The Pride
• Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, A View From The Bridge
• Amy Morton, '
• Juliet Stevenson, Duet For One
• Michelle Terry, England People Very Nice

  Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical

• Hello, Dolly!

  Longlisted

• A Little Night Music
• Been So Long
• The Mysteries
• Spring Awakening
• Sunset Boulevard

  Best Design

• Mamoru Iriguchi, Mincemeat

  Longlisted

• Jon Bausor, Kursk
• Miriam Buether, Judgement Day
• Lez Brotherston, Dancing At Lughnasa
• Bob Crowley, Phedre & The Power Of Yes
• Rob Howell, The Observer
• Peter McKintosh, Prick Up Your Ears
• Vicki Mortimer, Burnt by The Sun
• Christopher Oram, Hamlet, Madame de Sade, Twelfth Night, A Streetcar Named Desire
• Todd Rosenthal,
• Ultz, Jerusalem

  Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright

• Alia Bano, Shades

  Longlisted

• Kieron Barry, Stockwell
• Lucy Kirkwood, It Felt Empty When The Heart Went At First But It Is Alright Now
• Molly Davies, A Miracle
• Katori Hall, The Mountaintop
• Ella Hickson, Eight
• Alexi Kaye Campbell, The Pride & Apologia

  Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer

• Lenny Henry, Othello

  Longlisted

• Naana Agyei-Ampadu, Been So Long
• Aneurin Barnard, Spring Awakening
• Ruth Negga, Phedre
• Bel Powley, Tusk Tusk
• Toby Regbo, Tusk Tusk
• Tom Sturridge, Punk Rock
• Charlotte Wakefield, Spring Awakening
• Phoebe Waller-Bridge, 2nd May 1997

  Judges

• Henry Hitchings of the Standard
• Susannah Clapp of The Observer
• Matt Wolf of the International Herald Tribune
• Georgina Brown of The Mail on Sunday
• Charles Spencer from the Daily Telegraph
• Sarah Sands, London Evening Standard
• Evgeny Lebedev, London Evening Standard