2009 Evening Standard Theatre Awards
The 2009 Evening Standard Theatre Awards were announced on 2009. The shortlist was revealed on 2009 and the longlist on 2 November 2009.
Winners, shortlist and longlist
= winnerBest Play
Jerusalem by Jez ButterworthLonglisted
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts England People Very Nice by Richard Bean Enron by Lucy Prebble Our Class by Tadeusz Słobodzianek/Ryan Craig Pornography by Simon Stephens Punk Rock by Simon Stephens Tusk Tusk by Polly Stenham When The Rain Stops Falling by Andrew BovellBest 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 ''August: Osage County''
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
Longlisted
- Samantha Bond, Arcadia
- Deanna Dunagan, August: Osage County
- 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, August: Osage County
- 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, August: Osage County
- 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