2012 Evening Standard Theatre Awards
The 2012 Evening Standard Theatre Awards were announced on 25 November 2012. The shortlist was revealed on 12 November 2012 and the longlist on 29 October 2012.Winners, shortlist and longlist
= winnerBest Play
- Constellations by Nick Payne
- Love and Information by Caryl Churchill
- This House by James Graham
Longlisted
- Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Simon Stephens
- Jumpy by April De Angelis
- The Last of the Duchess by Nicholas Wright
- Love, Love, Love by Mike Bartlett
- Reasons to Be Pretty by Neil LaBute
- South Downs by David Hare
- The Witness by Vivienne Franzmann
Best Director
- Nicholas Hytner for Timon of Athens
- Carrie Cracknell for A Doll’s House
- James Macdonald for Love and Information
- Ian Rickson for Hamlet
Longlisted
- Benedict Andrews for Three Sisters
- Lucy Bailey for Uncle Vanya
- Tom Cairns for Scenes from an Execution
- Marianne Elliott for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
- Polly Findlay for Antigone
- Sean Foley for The Ladykillers
- Jeremy Herrin for This House
- Jonathan Kent for
- Roger Michell for Farewell to the Theatre
- Lindsay Posner for Noises Off
- Josie Rourke for The Recruiting Officer
- Lyndsey Turner for Philadelphia, Here I Come!
Best Actor
- Simon Russell Beale, Collaborators
- Charles Edwards, The King's Speech and This House
- Adrian Lester, Red Velvet
- Luke Treadaway, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Longlisted
- Rupert Everett, The Judas Kiss
- Laurence Fox, Our Boys
- David Haig, The Madness of George III
- Douglas Hodge, Inadmissible Evidence
- Alex Jennings, Collaborators
- Rory Kinnear, The Last of the Haussmans
- Simon Paisley Day, The Taming of the Shrew
- Eddie Redmayne, Richard II
- Adrian Scarborough, Hedda Gabler
- Michael Sheen, Hamlet
- Scott Shepherd, Gatz
- David Suchet, Long Day’s Journey Into Night
- Hattie Morahan, A Doll’s House
- Eileen Atkins, All That Fall
- Cate Blanchett, Big and Small
- Laurie Metcalf, Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Longlisted
- Pippa Bennett-Warner, The Witness
- Eve Best, The Duchess of Malfi
- Anna Chancellor, The Last of the Duchess
- Anne-Marie Duff, Berenice
- Mariah Gale, Three Sisters
- Tamsin Greig, Jumpy
- Sally Hawkins, Constellations
- Martina Laird, Moon on a Rainbow Shawl
- Helen McCrory, The Last of the Haussmans
- Joely Richardson, The Lady from the Sea
- Sheridan Smith, Hedda Gabler
- Imelda Staunton,
Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical
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- Singin’ In the Rain
- Swallows and Amazons
Longlisted
- Floyd Collins
- Mack & Mabel
- Top Hat
Best Design
- Soutra Gilmour, Inadmissible Evidence and Antigone
- Miriam Buether, Wild Swans
- Ian MacNeil, A Doll’s House
Longlisted
- Hildegard Bechtler, Top Hat
- Bunny Christie, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
- Kevin Depinet, Detroit
- Es Devlin, The Master and Margarita
- Richard Kent, Richard II
- Peter McKintosh, Noises Off
- Vicki Mortimer, The Last of the Haussmans
- Lucy Osborne, The Recruiting Officer
- Michael Taylor, The Ladykillers
- Jamie Vartan, Misterman
Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright
- Lolita Chakrabarti, Red Velvet
- John Hodge, Collaborators
- Tom Wells, Kitchen Sink
Longlisted
- Stephen Beresford, The Last of the Haussmans
- Ishy Din, Snookered
- Vickie Donoghue, Mudlarks
- Nancy Harris, Our New Girl
- Luke Norris, Goodbye to All That
- Nicholas Pierpan, You Can Still Make a Killing
- Tim Price, Salt, Root and Roe
- Hayley Squires, Vera Vera Vera
Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer
- Matthew Tennyson, Making Noise Quietly
- Denise Gough, Our New Girl and Desire Under the Elms
- Abby Rakic-Platt, Vera Vera Vera
Longlisted
- Jonathan Bailey, South Downs
- David Fynn, She Stoops to Conquer
- Cush Jumbo, She Stoops to Conquer
- Joshua Williams, Shivered and Love and Information
- Emi Wokoma, Soul Sister
Beyond Theatre Award
- Danny Boyle and his creative team, for the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics
Lebedev Special Award
- Nicholas Hytner, for his dynamic directorship of the National Theatre
Editor’s Award
- David Hare, for his contribution to theatre
Burberry Award for Emerging Director
- Simon Godwin
Moscow Art Theatre’s Golden Seagull Award
- Judi Dench, for her contribution to world theatre
Judges
- Henry Hitchings
- Georgina Brown
- Susannah Clapp
- Libby Purves
- Charles Spencer
- Matt Wolf
- Sarah Sands
- Evgeny Lebedev