BBC Audio Drama Awards
The BBC Audio Drama Awards is an awards ceremony created by BBC Radio to recognise excellence in the radio industry, in particular in audio dramas. The inaugural awards were presented in 2012 and the ceremony hosted at the BBC Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House where it has remained ever since.
The awards were first announced with an invitation for entries on 24 October 2011, and the shortlisted nominees revealed on 10 January 2012. The inaugural ceremony took place on 29 January 2012 and proved hugely successful. Prior to this, there was no official awards ceremony to recognise audio dramas; the Sony Radio Academy Awards mainly encompassed radio shows and presenters while the Richard Imison Award and Tinniswood Award were awarded separately. The Imison and Tinniswood Awards are now incorporated into the Audio Drama Awards, the former administered by the Society of Authors and the latter by both the Society of Authors and the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.
Nominations and judges
Although nominations are dominated by the BBC's in-house arts-oriented stations, particularly BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4, entries are open to all makers of audio drama world-wide.The judges include personalities from both the radio, acting and theatre industry and the literary world. Notable judges have included British dramatist Nell Leyshon, American novelist Stephen Wright, performance historian Viv Gardner, English actor Robert Bathurst, long-time producer and Director-General of the BBC Lord Hall, comedian Alexei Sayle, actress Imogen Stubbs and Royal Shakespeare Company associate director Rupert Goold.
Winners
2024
The ceremony took place on 24 March 2024 at salty springs featuring agent jonsey and covered audio dramas broadcast between 1 October 2022 and 31 October 2023 or first uploaded / published / released for free listening online during the same period.| Award | Winner | Other finalists |
| Lifetime Achievement | Graeme Garden | – |
| Outstanding Contribution | Oliver Emanuel | |
| Best Actor | Hiran Abeysekera Director: Sally Avens | Commendation: Lorn Macdonald Director: Kirsty Williams Director: Tracey Neale |
| Best Actress | Rosamund Pike Director: Daniella Isaacs | Director: Michael Buffong Director: Nadia Molinari |
| Best Supporting Performance | Mark Heap Directors: Polly Thomas and Dermot Daly | Director: Nadia Molinari |
| The Marc Beeby Award for Best Debut Performance | Rosalind Eleazar Director: Gaynor Macfarlane | Commendation: Jadie Rose Hobson Director: Anne Isger Commendation: Dan Parr Director: Tracey Neale |
| Best Audio Drama | Dear Harry Kane by James Fritz Producer: Sally Avens |
Producer: Lorna Newman |
| Best Audio Drama | Trust by Jonathan Hall Producer: Gary Brown | Commendation: There’s Something I Need to Tell You by John Scott Dryden and Misha Kawnel Producer: Emma Hearn Flirties by Jess Hamilton Producer: Jess Hamilton |
| Best Audio Drama | Bess Loves Porgy by Edwin DuBose Heyward adapted by Roy Williams Producer: Gill Parry | Commendation: If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino, adapted by Tim Crouch and Toby Jones Producer: Nadia Molinari Commendation: Beowulf Retold based on the version by Seamus Heaney Producer: Pauline Harris |
| Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama | Hamlet Noir by David Chilton, Lucinda Mason Brown, Weronika Andersen Producers: Charlotte Melén, Carl Prekopp and Saskia Black | The Dark is Rising by Gareth Fry Producers: Catherine Bailey and Tim Bell The Women of Troy by Sharon Hughes Producers: Nadia Molinari |
| Best Stand-up Comedy | Are You a Boy or a Girl? by Sarah Keyworth Producer: Georgia Keating | Commendation: The C Bomb by Janey Godley Producers: Julia Sutherland and Richard Melvin OK Computer by Olga Koch and Charlie Dinkin Producer: Benjamin Sutton |
| Best Sitcom or Comedy Drama | Where to, Mate? devised by Jo Enright, Peter Slater, Abdullah Afzal, Nina Gilligan, Andy Salthouse, Keith Carter and Jason Wingard Producer: Carl Cooper | Call Jonathan Pie by Tom Walker Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith, adapted by Barunka O’Shaughnessy Producer: Emma Harding |
| Best European Drama | This Word by Marta Rebzda Producer: Waldemar Modestowicz | Faust by Noam Brusilovsky Producer: Andrea Oetzmann The Supervisor by Nis-Momme Stockmann Producer: Michael Becker |
| Best Podcast or Online Only Audio Drama | ' by Richard Turley and Darren Francis Producer: Richard Turley | The Salvation by Justin Lockey, Jeffrey Aidoo, and AK Benedict Producers: Jon Hamm and Boz Temple-Morris
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| Imison Award | Benny and Hitch by Andrew McCaldon Producers: Neil Varley and Tracey Neale | Happy Hour by Liv Fowler Producer: Jelena Budimir In Moderation by Katie Bonna Producer: Sally Avens |
| Tinniswood Award | Cracking by Shôn Dale-Jones Producer: John Norton | About a Dog by Huw Brentnall Producer: Fiona McAlpine Ghosted by Lindsay Sharman Director: Lindsay Sharman Scooters, Shooters and Shottas by John R. Gordon Director: Rikki Beadle-Blair |
2023
The ceremony took place on 19 March 2023 and covered audio dramas broadcast between 1 October 2021 and 31 October 2022 or first uploaded / published / released for free listening online during the same period. 2023 marked the centenary of the audio and radio drama genre at the BBC.| Award | Winner | Other finalists |
| Lifetime Achievement | Martin Jarvis | – |
| Outstanding Contribution | Radio Drama Company, 1923–2023 | – |
| Best Actor | Anton Lesser Director: Nicolas Jackson | Director: Nadia Molinari Director: Emma Harding |
| Best Actress | Mary Murray Director: Jim Culleton |
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| Best Supporting Performance | Matthew Gravelle Director: Gary Brown | Director: Michael Shannon Commendation: Josie Lawrence Director: David Tyler |
| The Marc Beeby Award for Best Debut Performance | Gareth Elis Director: Zoe Waterman |
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| Best Audio Drama | End of Transmission by Anita Sullivan Producer: Karen Rose |
Producer: James Robinson |
| Best Audio Drama | Exemplar by Ben Ringham, Max Ringham and Dan Rebellato Producers: Jade Lewis and Polly Thomas | Song of the Reed by Steve Waters Producer: Boz Temple-Morris This Thing of Darkness by Lucia Haynes, Eileen Horne and Anita Vettesse Producers: Gaynor Macfarlane and Kirsty Williams |
| Best Audio Drama | Brick Lane by Monica Ali adapted by Tanika Gupta Producer: Anne Isger | Commendation: Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin, adapted by Simon Scardifield Producers: Marc Beeby and Emma Harding, David Hunter and Gemma Jenkins North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell adapted by Lin Coghlan Producer: Sally Avens |
| Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama | Town is by the Sea by Ross Flight Producers: Eleanor Turney, George Warren, Patrick Eakin Young | Commendation: Ariel and Winter Trees by Jon Nicholls Producer: Charlotte Melén Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alison Craig, Anne Bunting, Keith Graham and Caleb Knightley Producers: Marc Beeby and Emma Harding, David Hunter and Gemma Jenkins |
| Best Scripted Comedy | Ken Cheng: Chinese Comedian by Ken Cheng Producer: Rajiv Karia | The Downing Street Doppelganger by Jim Poyser Producer: Gary Brown Tudur Owen: United Nations of Anglesey by Tudur Owen Producer: Richard Morris |
| Best Scripted Comedy | Please Use Other Door by Kat Butterfield, Dan Audritt, Sophie Dickson, Laura Major, Rob Darke, Alex Nash, Sam South, Ed Amsden, Tom Coles, Cody Dahler, Toby Williams, Ed Tew, Anna Goodman, Imogen Andrews, Matt Harrison, Carwyn Blayney, Natasha Dhanraj, Alice Etches, Nathalie Antonia, Chris Ryman, Simon Alcock, Leigh Douglas, Chazz Redhead, Paul F Taylor, Jo Wiggins, Cameron Loxdale, Lewis Cook, Owen Petty, Tom Oxenham, Rebecca Heitlinger and Bill Dare Producer: Bill Dare | The Skewer by Jon Holmes, Tony Churnside and The Skewer Contributing Team Producer: Jon Holmes Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! by Milton Jones, James Cary and Dan Evans Producer: David Tyler |
| Best European Drama | The Sixties by Ema Stere, adapted and directed by Mihnea Chelaru Producer: Oana Cristea Grigorescu | Burning by Sudabeh Mohafez, adapted by Matěj Samec Producer: Lenka Veverková Let Me Tell You by Marta Rebzda Producer: Beata Jankowska |
| Best Podcast or Online Only Audio Drama | ' by Ben Lewis Producer: Kirsty Williams |
Producers: Ellen Spence, Eleanor Turney, George Warren, Patrick Eakin Young |
| Imison Award | Making of a Monster by Connor Allen Producer: Emma Harding | Knock of the Ban Sithe by Kenny Boyle Producer: Bruce Young The A-Z of Things: M is for Mussels by Lara Barbier Producer: Becky Ripley |
| Tinniswood Award | End of Transmission by Anita Sullivan Producer: Karen Rose | A Close Approximation of You by Oliver Emanuel Producer: Kirsty Williams Waterloo Station by Katie Hims Producer: Mary Peate Strings by Linda Marshall Griffiths Producer: Nadia Molinari |
2022
The ceremony took place on 25 March 2022 and covered audio dramas broadcast between 1 October 2020 and 31 October 2021 or first uploaded / published / released for free listening online during the same period. 2022 marked the return as an in-person event after COVID-19 restrictions were lifted, it also saw the return of the Best Supporting Performance and Lifetime Achievement awards after an absence of three years.| Award | Winner | Other finalists |
| Lifetime Achievement | Miriam Margolyes | – |
| Outstanding Contribution | Sioned Wiliam, Commissioning Editor, Comedy, BBC Radio 4 | – |
| Best Actor | Edmund Davies Director: Pauline Harris | Director: Sue Roberts Director: Tom Morris |
| Best Actress | Juliet Aubrey Director: Nicolas Jackson | Commendation: Jasmine Hyde Director: Gemma Jenkins Director: Sue Roberts |
| Best Supporting Performance | Claire Price Director: Nicolas Jackson | Director: Abigail le Fleming Director: Rosalind Ayres |
| The Marc Beeby Award for Best Debut Performance | Saran Morgan Director: John Norton |
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| Best Audio Drama | Dead Weather by Hattie Naylor Producer: Nicolas Jackson | Life is a Radio in the Dark by Will Eno Producer: Sally Avens You & Me by Dan Rebellato Producer: Polly Thomas and Eloise Whitmore |
| Best Audio Drama | Life Lines by Al Smith Producer: Sally Avens | London Particular by Nick Perry Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko Commendation: The System by Ben Lewis Producer: Kirsty Williams |
| Best Audio Drama | The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, adapted by Ayeesha Menon Producers: Nadir Khan & Ayeesha Menon | Mr Waring of the BBC by Freddie Phillips, adapted from various sources Producer: Gemma Jenkins The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence, adapted by Linda Marshall Griffiths Producer: Nadia Molinari |
| Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama | The Meaning of Zong by Jon Nicholls, Jonquil Panting, Giles Terera Producer: Jonquil Panting | Creation of the Birds by Sami El-Enany Producer: Sami El-Enany Commendation: U.ME: the Musical by Steve Levine Producers: Lewis Borg-Cardona and Steve Levine |
| Best Scripted Comedy | Mortal by Bridget Christie Producer: Carl Cooper | God Squad by Jack Chisnall and Barney Fishwick Producer: David Tyler OK Computer by Olga Koch and Charlie Dinkin with additional material by Rajiv Karia Producer: Benjamin Sutton |
| Best Scripted Comedy | Sound Heap by John-Luke Roberts, with Amy Gledhill & Chris Cantrill, Cariad Lloyd, Charlie George, Deborah Frances-White, Gareth Gwynn, Katherine Parkinson, Katy Brand, Ken Cheng, Kieran Hodgson, Paddy Gervers, Ruth Bratt, Sooz Kempner, Tom Allen, Tom Neenan, Toussaint Douglass, Saima Ferdows Producer: Ed Morrish | Drop the Dead Panda by Evelyn Mok, Ken Cheng, Amille Jampa-Ngoen, Vivian Xie, Joanne Lao and Bruce Tang Producer: Sam Michell Emergency Broadcast by Gemma Arrowsmith Producer: Victoria Lloyd |
| Best European Drama | The Lion by Martin Algus, adapted by Andres Noormets Producer: Andres Noormets | Down by Law by Mila Čuljak Producer: Katja Šimunić Nutshell by Ian McEwan, adapted by Eva Blechová Producer: Klará Novotná |
| Best Podcast or Online Only Audio Drama | Passenger List (series 2) by John Scott Dryden, Lauren Shippen, Meghan Fitzmartin, Janina Matthewson, Sarah Lot and Mark Henry Phillips Producers: John Scott Dryden and Emma Hearn | ' by Sonya Hale Producer: Mimi Findlay
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| Imison Award | The Lemonade Lads by Faebian Averies Producer: James Robinson | The Chronicles of Wild Hollow by Harvey Badger, Angus Maxwell and Christian Powlesland Producer: Shouting is Funny for SpotifyWelcome to Medpatch by Kev Core Producer: Gary Brown Yellow Lips by Katie Redford Producer: Tracey Neale |
| Tinniswood Award | Blis-ta by Sonya Hale Producer: Mimi Findlay | Life is a Radio in the Dark by Will Eno Producer: Sally Avens The Piper by Vickie Donoghue & Natalie Mitchell Producers: Kate Rowland and Russell Finch |
2021
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the ceremony was held virtually taking place on 26 March 2021 and covering audio dramas first broadcast between 1 October 2019 and 31 October 2020 – or first uploaded / published for free listening online during the same period. With the restrictions having also impacted programme-making a one-off The Year of Reinvention Award replaced the Best Director Award. For the third year in succession no awards for Lifetime Achievement or Best Supporting Performance were bestowed this year.| Award | Winner | Other finalists |
| Outstanding Contribution | The studio managers, technicians, sound engineers and designers, R&D engineers and all technical staff working on BBC-produced and independent audio drama and comedy productions | – |
| Best Actor | David Threlfall Director: Gemma Jenkins | Directors: Gaynor Macfarlane and Kirsty Williams Director: Emma Harding |
| Best Actress | Maggie Steed Director: Jessica Dromgoole | Directors: Gaynor Macfarlane and Kirsty Williams Director: Mary Peate |
| Best Debut Performance | Jordan Nash Director: Michael Buffong |
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| Best Audio Drama | Magnitsky the Musical by Robert Hudson and Johnny Flynn Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko | Eight Point Nine Nine by James Fritz Producer: Becky Ripley Commendation: The Likes of Us by Roy Williams Producer: Mary Peate |
| Best Audio Drama | Broken English by Shelagh Stephenson Producer: Eoin O’Callaghan | 24 Kildare Road by Katie Hims Producer: Mary Peate Body Horror by Lucy Catherine Producer: Toby Swift |
| Best Audio Drama | The Voyage of the St. Louis by Daniel Kehlmann, adapted by Tom Stoppard Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko | Grossman's War: Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, adapted by Jonathan Myerson & Mike Walker Producer: Jonquil Panting Oliver: Lagos to London based on Charles Dickens, adapted by Ayeesha Menon Producer Gill Parry |
| Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama | The Grey Man and Other Lost Legends, sound by Steve Bond Producers: Joby Waldman and Steve Bond | Commendation: Cane, sound by Nigel Lewis Producer: John Norton
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| Best Scripted Comedy | The Musical Life of Boudicca... by Dan Kiss and Dave Cribb Producers: Dave Cribb and Tom Price | Alone by Moray Hunter Producer: Gordon Kennedy Tristram Shandy: In Development by Christopher Douglas Producer: Gary Brown |
| Best Scripted Comedy | The Skewer by Jon Holmes Producer: Jon Holmes | Agendum by Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris Producer: David Tyler The Lenny Henry Show by Tasha Dhanraj, Max Davis, Nathan Bryon and Tom Melia, Nathan Roberts, Athena Kugblenu, Michael Odewale and Kim Fuller Producer: Sam Michell |
| Best European Drama | Earthquake by Janko Polić Kamov Producer: Katja Šimunić | Holidays from Suicide: a Fantastic Journey with Iggy Pop by Birgit Kempker and Anatol Atonal Producers: Birgit Kempker and Anatol Atonal In Winter by Magda Woitzuck, Ida Schön, Hanno Millesi, Mark von Schlegell, Ann Cotten, Puneh Ansari Producers: Christian Lerch and Philip Scheiner |
| Best Podcast or Online Only Audio Drama | ' by Jim McDoniel, Jessica Best, Jessica Wright Buha and Bilal Dardai Producers: Jeffrey Nils Gardner and Eleanor Hyde |
Producer: Greg Cooler |
| The Year of Reinvention Award | Lockdown Theatre Festival Producers: Bertie Carvel, Jeremy Mortimer, Steve Bond, Jack Howson and Joby Waldman | Commendation: Connections Producer: Polly Thomas Commendation: The Plague Producer: Turan Ali |
| Imison Award | Maynard by Fraser Ayres Producer: Mel Harris | Scoop McDoolie by Isaac Fisher Producer: Naala Vanslembrouck LoveSick by Ella Skolimowski Producer: Julius Beltrame |
| Tinniswood Award | Tristram Shandy: In Development by Christopher Douglas Producer: Gary Brown | Just the Three of Us by Becky Prestwich Producer: Pauline Harris This Thing of Darkness by Anita Vettesse with Eileen Horne Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane and Kirsty Williams Shrapnel by Isabel Wright Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane |
2020
The ceremony took place on 2 February 2020 and covers audio dramas first broadcast between 1 October 2018 and 31 October 2019 – or first uploaded / published for free listening online during the same period. For the second year in succession no awards for Lifetime Achievement or Best Supporting Performance were bestowed this year.| Award | Winner | Other finalists |
| Outstanding Contribution | The Amazing Maya Angelou, dramatised by Patricia Cumper, Janice Okoh and Winsome Pinnock Producer/Director: Pauline Harris | – |
| Best Actor | Stephen Dillane Director: Jo McInnes |
Director: David Hunter |
| Best Actress | Rebecca Front Director: Ben Worsfield | Director: Tony Pitts Director: Gaynor Macfarlane |
| Best Debut Performance | George Kent Director: Fiona McAlpine |
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| Best Director | Mary Ward-Lowery |
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| Best Audio Drama | Sea Longing by Elizabeth Kuti Producer: Karen Rose | The Invisible by Linda Marshall Griffiths Producer: Nadia Molinari Torn by Eve Steele Producer: Gary Brown |
| Best Audio Drama | Life Lines by Al Smith Producer: Sally Avens | D for Dexter by Amanda Whittington Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery Undercover Mumbai by Ayeesha Menon Producers: John Scott Dryden and Nadir Khan |
| Best Audio Drama | Black Water: An American Story by Joyce Carol Oates, adapted by Sarah Wooley Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane | Body Tourists by Jane Rogers Producer: Clive Brill Orlando by Virginia Woolf, adapted by Caroline Bird, Amanda Dalton, Zena Edwards, Hannah Silva and Karen McCarthy Woolf Producer: Nadia Molinari |
| Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama | The Invisible, sound by Steve Brooke with Sharon Hughes Producer: Nadia Molinari | An Angel in Miami, sound by Steve Bond Producers: Joby Waldman and Steve Bond Hello Caller, sound by Michael Harrison and Alison Crawford Producer: Alison Crawford |
| Best Scripted Comedy | Wangsplaining by Phil Wang Producer: Matt Stronge |
Producer: Sam Michell |
| Best Scripted Comedy | Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar by Alexei Sayle Producer: Joe Nunnery | Kevin Eldon Will See You Now by Kevin Eldon with Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris Producer: David Tyler Terry Alderton's Whole Half Hour by Terry Alderton and Richard Melvin with Julia Sutherland, Paul Tonkinson, Steven Dick and Bobby Davro Producers: Al Lorraine and Richard Melvin |
| Best European Drama | Buzz Suppression – Recording Strictly off the Record by Ulrich Bassenge Producers: Ulrich Bassenge, Martina Müller-Wallraff and Anina Barandun | The Invisible by Jaroslav Havlíček, adapted by Marie Nováková and Renata Venclová Producer: Renata Venclová The Lesson by Manu Barceló Producer: Miguel Deza |
| Best Podcast or Online Only Audio Drama | Passenger List by John Scott Dryden, Lauren Shippen and Mark Henry Phillips Producer: Emma Hearn | Forest 404 by Timothy X Atack Producer: Becky Ripley ' by Brandon M. Crose Producer: Jordan Stillman |
| Imison Award | Bathwater by Vicky Foster Producer: Sue Roberts | The Beatboxer by Testament Producer: Gary Brown Commendation: By God's Mercy by Colette Victor Producer: David Hunter |
| Tinniswood Award | The Hartlepool Spy by Ian Martin Producer: Sam Ward | Death of a Matriarch by Tanika Gupta Producer: Polly Thomas Commendation:' Home Front: A Fragile Peace'' by Katie Hims Producer: Jessica Dromgoole |
2019
The ceremony took place on 3 February 2019 and covers audio dramas first broadcast between 1 October 2017 and 31 October 2018 – or first uploaded / published for free listening online during the same period. 2019 was the year when an award for Best Director was introduced as was one for Best European Drama. No awards for Lifetime Achievement or Best Supporting Performance were bestowed in this year.| Award | Winner | Other finalists |
| Outstanding Contribution | Home Front. Editor: Jessica Dromgoole Core Writers: Sebastian Baczkiewicz, Lucy Catherine, Sarah Daniels, Katie Hims, Shaun McKenna, and Mike Walker | – |
| Best Actor | David Threlfall Director: Gemma Jenkins |
Director: Marion Nancarrow |
| Best Actress | Eve Myles Director: Helen Perry | Director: Jonquil Panting Commendation: Sydney Wade Director: Mary Ward-Lowery |
| Best Debut Performance | Daisy Head Directors: Nadia Molinari |
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| Best Director | Abigail le Fleming | Commendation: Steve Bond and Judith Kampfner
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| Best Audio Drama | County Lines by Amelia Bullmore Producer/Director: Mary Peate | 19 Weeks by Emily Steel Producer/Director: Helen Perry The Chosen One by Avi Garvi Producers: Nadir Khan and John Dryden |
| Best Audio Drama | The Truth about Hawaii by Oliver Emanuel Producer/Director: Kirsty Williams | Stone by Martin Jameson, Richard Monks, Cath Staincliffe, Alex Ganley and Vivienne Harvey Producers/Directors: Nadia Molinari and Gary Brown Tommies by Avin Shah Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting and Jonathan Ruffle |
| Best Audio Drama | A Tale of Two Cities: Aleppo and London by Charles Dickens, adapted by Ayeesha Menon Producers: Gill Parry and Emma Hearn | Commendation: Das Kapital by Karl Marx, adapted by Sarah Woods Producer/Director: James Robinson Love Henry James: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, adapted by Linda Marshall Griffiths Producer/Director: Nadia Molinari |
| Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama | Love Henry James: The Turn of the Screw, sound by Steve Brooke and John Benton Producer/Director: Nadia Molinari | The Beast, sound by Steve Bond Producers/Directors: Nicolas Jackson and Steve Bond Unmade Movies: Dennis Potter's The White Hotel, sound by Wilfredo Acosta Producers: Laurence Bowen and Peter Ettedgui |
| Best Scripted Comedy | Rob Newman's Total Eclipse of Descartes by Rob Newman Producer: John Harvey | Bridget Christie's Utopia by Bridget Christie Producers: Simon Nicholls and Alison Vernon-Smith Tim Key's Late-Night Poetry Programme by Tim Key Producer: James Robinson |
| Best Scripted Comedy | John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme by John Finnemore Producer: Ed Morrish | Agendum by Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris Producer: David Tyler Dead Ringers by Nev Fountain, Tom Jamieson, Laurence Howarth, Ed Amsden, Tom Coles, Sarah Campbell, James Bugg, Max Davis, Sara Gibbs, Alex Hardy, Laura Major and Lewis Cook Producer: Bill Dare |
| Best European Drama | Munch and Munch – Diptych by Jasna Mesarić Producer: Katja Šimunić | The Confession by Fyodor Dostoevsky, adapted by Doina Papp Producer/Director: Ilinca Stihi Wrapped by Tracy Martin Producer/Director: Kevin Reynolds |
| Best Podcast or Online Only Audio Drama | ' by Robert Valentine Producer: Robert Valentine | Commendation: ATA Girl by Gemma Page, Victoria Saxton, Helen Goldwyn and Jane Slavin Producer: Helen Goldwyn Commendation: ' by Matthew Broughton Producer/Director: James Robinson |
| Imison Award | Of A Lifetime by Lulu Raczka Producers: Polly Thomas and Eloise Whitmore | Spike and the Elfin Oak by Ian Billings Producer: Gemma Jenkins Double Bubble by Carl Cattermole Producer: Andrew Wilkie |
| Tinniswood Award | When the Pips Stop by Oliver Emanuel Producer: Kirsty Williams | Playing Dead by Vivienne Harvey Producer: Nadia Molinari Holbein's Skull by Martyn Wade Producer: Tracey Neale |
2018
The ceremony took place on 28 January 2018 and covers audio dramas first broadcast in English in the UK between 1 October 2016 and 31 October 2017 – or first uploaded / published for free listening online in the UK during the same period. In 2018 the two awards for comedy were changed to become Best Scripted Comedy and Best Scripted Comedy.| Award | Winner | Other finalists |
| Lifetime Achievement | Siân Phillips | – |
| Outstanding Contribution | Ayeesha Menon and Midnight's Children | – |
| Best Actor | Nikesh Patel, adapted by Ayeesha Menon Producers: Tracey Neale and Emma Harding | Commendation: John Hurt Producer: Charlotte Riches |
| Best Actress | Christine Bottomley Producers: Nicolas Jackson and Steve Bond | Producer: Celia de Wolff Producer: David Tyler |
| Best Supporting Performance | Rupert Evans Producer: Celia de Wolff | Director: Jeremy Herrin Producer: Alison Crawford |
| Best Debut Performance | Sabrina Sandhu Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko |
Producers: Gemma Jenkins and Sasha Yevtushenko |
| Best Audio Drama | The Red by Marcus Brigstocke Producer: Caroline Raphael | Commendation: Dangerous Visions: Culture by Al Smith Producer: Sally Avens The Music Lesson by Hannah Silva Producer: Melanie Harris |
| Best Audio Drama | Black Eyed Girls by Katie Hims Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko | Dangerous Visions: Resistance by Val McDermid Producer: Sue Roberts Home Front by Katie Hims & Sarah Daniels Producer: Jessica Dromgoole |
| Best Audio Drama | A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Producer: Gary Brown | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, adapted by Ayeesha Menon Producers: Tracey Neale and Emma Harding Terrible Beauty by Gerald Doyle, adapted by Bernard Clarke Producer: Bernard Clarke |
| Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama | The War of the Worlds, sound by Cal Knightley, Mike Etherden, Alison Craig Producer: Marc Beeby | Commendation: Dangerous Visions: Kafka's Metamorphosis, sound by Nigel Lewis Producer: James Robinson Commendation: Midnight's Children, sound by Peter Ringrose, Anne Bunting and Jenni Burnett Producers: Tracey Neale and Emma Harding |
| Best Scripted Comedy | Australian Trilogy by Sarah Kendall Producer: Carl Cooper | Commendation: Ladhood by Liam Williams Producer: Joseph Nunnery The Penny Dreadfuls Present: Le Carré on Spying by David Reed Producer: Julia McKenzie |
| Best Scripted Comedy | It’s Jocelyn by Jocelyn Jee Esien, Liam Beirn, Laura Major, Tom Coles, Ed Amsden and Sarah Campbell Producer: Suzy Grant | The Absolutely Radio Show by Morwenna Banks, Peter Baikie, Moray Hunter, Gordon Kennedy and John Sparkes Producer: Gordon Kennedy & Gus Beattie Harry & Paul Present: The Gentlemen's Club by Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse Producer: Sam Bryant |
| Best Podcast or Online Only Audio Drama | ' by Christopher Hogg Producers: Jeremy Mortimer and John Wakefield |
Producers: Claire Broughton and Andy Hamilton |
| Imison Award | The Book of Yehudit by Adam Usden Producer: Charlotte Riches | Wide Open Spaces by Jane Wainwright Producer: Charlotte Riches |
| Tinniswood Award | Borderland by Sarah Woods Producer: James Robinson | Commendation': Double Acts: "Penguin Diplomacy" by John Finnemore Producer: David Tyler Jenny Lomas'' by David Eldridge Producer: Sally Avens |
2017
The ceremony took place on 29 January 2017 and covers audio dramas first broadcast in English in the UK between 1 October 2015 and 31 October 2016 – or first uploaded / published for free listening online in the UK during the same period.| Award | Winner | Other finalists |
| Lifetime Achievement | Bill Nighy | – |
| Outstanding Contribution | The Archers | – |
| Best Actor | Danny Sapani Director: Pauline Harris | |
| Best Actress | Christine Bottomley Director: Nadia Molinari | |
| Best Supporting Performance | Valene Kane Producers: Nicolas Jackson & Steve Bond | |
| Best Debut Performance | Lee Rufford Director: Carl Prekopp |
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| Best Audio Drama | The Sky is Wider by Linda Marshall Griffiths Producer: Nadia Molinari | Comment is Free by James Fritz Producer: Becky Ripley Commendation: Jump Blue by Hannah Silva Producers: Nicolas Jackson and Steve Bond |
| Best Audio Drama | Life Lines by Al Smith Producer: Sally Avens | The Archers: "Helen’s trial week" by Tim Stimpson Editor: Sean O'Connor Tracks by Matthew Broughton Producers: James Robinson, Helen Perry and Abigail le Fleming |
| Best Audio Drama | Blood, Sex and Money by Émile Zola, adapted by Oliver Emanuel, Martin Jameson, Lavinia Murray and Dan Rebellato Producers: Gary Brown, Pauline Harris, Nadia Molinari, Polly Thomas, Kirsty Williams | Going Solo by Roald Dahl, adapted by Lucy Catherine Producer: Helen PerryTrue West by Sam Shepard, adapted by John Peacock Producer: Celia de Wolff |
| Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama | Tracks, sound by Nigel Lewis Producers: James Robinson, Helen Perry and Abigail le Fleming | Mary Rose, sound by Laura Moody, Peter Ringrose, Ross Burman and Alison Craig Producer: Abigail le Fleming The Sky is Wider, sound by Steve Brooke Producer: Nadia Molinari |
| Best Scripted Comedy Drama | Secret Kebabs by Christine Entwisle Producer: Kirsty Williams | Guilt Trip by Felicity Montagu, Olivia Nixon and Katherine Jakeways Producer: Jane Berthoud Commendation: The Strange Vanishing of Julian Quark by Tom Wainwright Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko |
| Best Scripted Comedy | Robert Newman's Entirely Accurate Encyclopedia of Evolution by Rob Newman Producer: Jonathan Harvey | Mae Martin's Guide to 21st Century Sexuality by Mae Martin Producer: Alex Smith Mark Steel's in Town: "Stockport" by Mark Steel Producer: Carl Cooper |
| Best Online or Non-Broadcast Audio drama | Doctor Who: Absent Friends by John Dorney Producer: David Richardson | Baker's End: The King of Cats by Paul Magrs Torchwood: More Than This by Guy Adams Producer: James Goss |
| Imison Award | Comment is Free by James Fritz Producer: Rebecca Ripley | Community Service by Jonny O’NeillThe Virtues of Oblivion by James Meek |
| Tinniswood Award | Comment is Free by James Fritz Producer: Rebecca Ripley | A History of Paper by Oliver EmanuelThe Stroma Sessions by Timothy X Atack |
2016
The ceremony took place on 31 January 2016 and covers audio dramas first broadcast in English in the UK between 1 October 2014 and 31 October 2015 – or first uploaded / published for free listening online in the UK during the same period.| Award | Winner | Other finalists |
| Lifetime Achievement | June Whitfield | – |
| Outstanding Contribution | John Hurt | – |
| Best Actor | Alfred Molina | |
| Best Actress | Monica Dolan | |
| Best Supporting Performance | Susan Wokoma |
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| Best Debut Performance | Karen Bartke | |
| Best Audio Drama | Cuttin’ It by Charlene James Producer: Jessica Brown | Dream of White Horses by Linda Marshall Griffiths Producer: Nadia MolinariMonster by Tony Pitts Producer: Sally Harrison |
| Best Audio Drama | Children in Need: D for Dexter by Amanda Whittington Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery | A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, dramatized by Ayeesha Menon & Kewel Karim Producer: John DrydenWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, dramatized by Timberlake Wertenbaker Producer: Celia de Wolff |
| Best Audio Drama | The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, dramatized by Lucy Catherine Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko | Between the Ears: Mr Rainbow by Franz Kafka, dramatized by Sebastian Baczkiewicz Producer: Joby Waldman King Charles III by Mike Bartlett Producer: Toby Swift |
| Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama | Fugue State, sound by Julian Simpson and David Thomas Producer: Karen Rose | Mayday Mayday, composed by Aaron May Producer: Becky RipleyFright Night: Ring, sound by Catherine Robinson Producer: James Robinson |
| Best Scripted Comedy Drama | In and Out of the Kitchen by Justin Edwards Producer: Sam Michell | Cabin Pressure – Finale by John Finnemore Producer: David Tyler The Dad Who Fell to Earth by Toby Hadoke Producer: Charlotte Riches |
| Best Scripted Comedy | Reluctant Persuaders by Edward Rowett Producer: Gordon Kennedy | Dead Ringers by Bill Dare, Jim Farthing, Jon Culshaw, Debra Stephenson and Lewis MacLeod The Penny Dreadfuls Present: Macbeth Rebothered by David Reed with Humphrey Ker |
| Best Online or Non-Broadcast Audio drama | by Deirdre Burton and Tom Davis Producer: Rosie Boulton | Hood: King's Command by Iain Meadows Producer: Iain Meadows The Omega Factor: The Old Gods by Phil Mulryne Producer: David Richardson |
| Imison Award | 30 Eggs by Eoin O'Connor | A Thing Inside a Thing Inside a Thing by Iain AJ RossThe Churchill Barriers by Emma Spurgin Hussey |
| Tinniswood Award | Fugue State by Julian Simpson Producer: Karen Rose | Far Side of the Moore by Sean GrundyVampyre Man by Joseph O'Connor |
2015
The ceremony took place on 1 February 2015 and covers audio dramas first broadcast in English in the UK between 1 October 2013 and 31 October 2014 – or first uploaded / published for free listening online in the UK during the same period. 2015 saw the two Best Supporting Performance awards merged once again into a single category covering both male and female performers, but introduced a new category; Best Debut Performance.| Award | Winner | Other finalists |
| Lifetime Achievement | Stanley Baxter | – |
| Outstanding Contribution | Neil Gaiman | – |
| Best Actor | Ian McKellen by Honoré de Balzac, dramatised by Rose Tremain Producer: Gordon House |
Producer: David Hunter |
| Best Actress | Aisling Loftus by Hayley Squires Producer: Helen Perry |
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| Best Supporting Performance | Michelle Terry by Hayley Squires Producer: Helen Perry |
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| Best Debut Performance | Jade Matthew by Andy Mulligan Producers: John Dryden and Nadir Khan |
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| Best Audio Drama | Everything, Nothing, Harvey Keitel by Pejk Malinovski Producer: Pejk Malinovski | Everyday Time Machines by Al Smith Producer: Sally Avens Men Who Sleep in Cars by Michael Symmons Roberts Producer: Susan Roberts |
| Best Audio Drama | Ambiguous Loss by Michael Butt Producer: Toby Swift | Holding On To You by D. L. Weller Producer: Nadia Molinari The Seventh Test by Ayeesha Menon & John Dryden Producers: John Dryden and Nadir Khan |
| Best Audio Drama | Come to Grief adapted by Hannah Vincent Producer: Gordon House | Porcelain adapted by Ian Kershaw Producer: Susan Roberts The Seventh Test adapted by Ayeesha Menon & John Dryden Producer: John Dryden and Nadir Khan |
| Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama | The Boy at the Back by Juan Mayorga, sound design by Steve Bond Producer: Nicolas Jackson | The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty, dramatised by Robert Forrest, sound design by Gary Newman Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury, dramatised by Brian Sibley, sound design by Anne Bunting Producer: Gemma Jenkins |
| Best Scripted Comedy Drama | Lunch by Marcy Kahan Producer: Sally Avens | Believe It: Victor by Jon Canter Producer: Clive Brill I'm a Believer by Jon Canter Producer: Jonquil Panting |
| Best Scripted Comedy | John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme by John Finnemore Producer: Ed Morrish | The Brig Society by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, Nick Doody, Steve Punt and Dan Tetsell Producer: David Tyler Trodd En Bratt Say ‘Well Done You’ by Ruth Bratt and Lucy Trodd Producer: Ben Worsfield |
| Best Online or Non-Broadcast Audio drama | by Iain Meadows Producer: Iain Meadows | The Child by Sebastian Fitzek Survivors by Matt Fitton Producer: David Richardson |
| Imison Award | How To Say Goodbye Properly by E. V. Crowe | Goodbye by Morwenna BanksThe Man in the Lift by Tom ConnollyParis, Nana and Me by Caroline Horton |
| Tinniswood Award | Goodbye by Morwenna Banks | The Good Listener by Fin KennedyMen Who Sleep in Cars by Michael Symmons Roberts |
2014
The ceremony took place on 26 January 2014 and covers audio dramas broadcast between 1 October 2012 and 31 October 2013 or first uploaded / published for free listening online in the UK during the same period. The award for Best Scripted Comedy was split into two and two new awards were introduced; the Lifetime Achievement award and the Outstanding Contribution award.| Award | Winner | Other finalists |
| Lifetime Achievement | June Spencer | – |
| Outstanding Contribution | Claire Grove | – |
| Best Actor | Lee Ross Producer: Mary Peate | Producer: Emma Harding Producer: Jeremy Mortimer |
| Best Actress | Christine Bottomley Producer: Polly Thomas |
Producer: Celia de Wolff |
| Best Supporting Actor | Shaun Dooley Producer: Marc Beeby |
Producer: Judith Kampfner |
| Best Supporting Actress | Claire Rushbrook Producer: Mary Peate | Producer: Gordon House Producer: Jonquil Panting |
| Best Audio Drama | Billions by Ed Harris Producer: Jonquil Panting | The Gestapo Minutes by Adam Ganz Producer: Catherine Bailey The Sleeper by Michael Symmons Roberts Producer: Susan Roberts |
| Best Audio Drama | An Angel at My Table by Janet Frame, adapted by Anita Sullivan Producer: Karen Rose | The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles by Esther Wilson Producer: Pauline Harris Takes Two to Tandem by Lavinia Murray Producer: Sharon Sephton |
| Best Audio Drama | Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh, dramatised by Jeremy Front Producer: Sally Avens | The Aeneid by Virgil, dramatised by Hattie Naylor Producer: Kate McAll The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, adapted by Neil Brand Producer: Ann McKay |
| Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama | He Died with His Eyes Open; sound design by Caleb Knightley Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko | Forever Mankind Producers: Judith Kampfner and Jonathan Mitchell Saturday Night & Sunday Morning; sound design by David Chilton Producer: Lucinda Mason Brown |
| Best Scripted Comedy Drama | Love and Sweets 3: Grand Canyon by Richard Marsh Producer: Ben Worsfield | Cabin Pressure by John Finnemore Producer: David Tyler |
| Best Scripted Comedy | Sketchorama: Absolutely Special by Peter Baikie, Morwenna Banks, Moray Hunter, Gordon Kennedy and John Sparkes Producer: Gus Beattie | Cabin Pressure by John Finnemore Producer: David Tyler Love and Sweets 2: The Perfect Match by Richard Marsh Producer: Ben Worsfield |
| Best Online or Non-Broadcast Audio drama | Doctor Who: Dark Eyes by Nicholas Briggs Producer: Martin Montague | ' by Iain Meadows Producer: Iain Meadows
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| Imison Award | The Loving Ballad of Captain Bateman by Joseph Wilde with Tim Van Eyken | Fresh Berries by Catherine JohnsonHangdog by Cat Jones |
| Tinniswood Award | Marathon Tales by Colin Teevan and Hannah Silva | Commendation: Once Upon A Time There Was A Beatrix by Lavinia MurrayDusty Won’t Play by Annie CaulfieldImo & Ben by Mark Ravenhill |
2013
The ceremony took place on 27 January 2013 and covered audio dramas broadcast between 1 October 2011 and 30 September 2012 or first uploaded / published for free listening online in the UK during the same period. The award for Best Audio Drama Award was split into two as was the award for Best Supporting Performance. The Innovation award was retired.| Award | Winner | Other finalists |
| Best Actor Presented by Penelope Wilton | Andrew Scott Betrayal by Harold Pinter | Ulysses by James Joyce, dramatised by Robin Brooks
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| Best Actress Presented by Stephen Tompkinson | Michelle Fairley The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, dramatised by Donna Franceschild | Seven Scenes by Nicola Baldwin An American Rose by Charlotte Jones |
| Best Supporting Actor Presented by Maxine Peake | David Troughton Singles and Doublets by Martyn Wade | Craven by Amelia Bullmore Pilgrim by Sebastian Baczkiewicz |
| Best Supporting Actress Presented by Stephen Mangan | Vicky McClure Kicking the Air by Christine Murphy | The Man with Wings by Rachel Joyce Songs and Lamentations by Michael Symmons Roberts |
| Best Audio Drama Presented by Lenny Henry | On It by Tony Pitts Producer: Sally Harrison | Betrayal by Harold Pinter Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig, dramatised by Peter Flannery Producer: Melanie Harris |
| Best Audio Drama Presented by Patricia Cumper | The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll, abridged by Helen Meller Producer: Polly Thomas | Pink Mist by Owen Sheers Producer: Tim Dee The Mumbai Chuzzlewits dramatised by Ayeesha Menon Producer: John Dryden |
| Best Audio Drama Presented by Nick Dear | A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, dramatised by Tanika Gupta Producer: Nadia Molinari | The Mumbai Chuzzlewits dramatised by Ayeesha Menon Producer: John Dryden Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig, dramatised by Peter Flannery Producer: Melanie Harris |
| Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama Presented by Siân Phillips | The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat, dramatised by John Fletcher Producer: Marc Beeby | Use it or Lose It by Peter Blegvad Producer: Iain Chambers The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, dramatised by Jane Rogers Producer: Nadia Molinari |
| Best Scripted Comedy Presented by Nicholas Parsons | Believe It! by Jon Canter Producer: Clive Brill | Alice's Wunderland by Alice Lowe Producer: Sam Bryant I, Regress by Matt Berry Producer: Sam Bryant |
| Best Online Only Audio Drama Presented by Joseph Millson | Above and Below by Daniel Macnaughton Producer: Daniel Macnaughton | The Minister of Chance by Dan Freeman Producer: Dan Freeman Varanasi by Silva Semerciyan Producer: Graham Pountney |
| Imison Award Presented by Andrew Davies | Do You Like Banana, Comrades? by Csaba Székely | The Day We Caught the Train by Nick PayneThe Takeover by Paul Sellar |
| Tinniswood Award Presented by Andrew Davies | Kafka the Musical by Murray Gold | Angarrack by Christopher William Hill Like Minded People by David Eldridge |
2012
The inaugural ceremony took place on 29 January 2012 and covered audio dramas broadcast between 1 October 2010 and 30 September 2011 or first uploaded / published for free listening online in the UK during the same period.| Award | Winner | Other finalists |
| Best Audio Drama Presented by Johnny Vegas | Lost Property – The Year My Mother Went Missing by Katie Hims Producer: Jessica Dromgoole | A Shoebox of Snow by Julie Mayhew The First Domino by Jonathan Cash Producer: Frank Stirling |
| Best Actor Presented by Tim Davie | David Tennant Kafka the Musical by Murray Gold | Giovanni's Room dramatised by Neil Bartlett Flare Path by Terence Rattigan Commendation: Tom Riley Henry's Demons by Patrick and Henry Cockburn |
| Best Actress Presented by Don Warrington | Rosie Cavaliero Lost Property: A Telegram from the Queen by Katie Hims |
A Montrous Vitality by Andy Merriman |
| Best Supporting Actor/Actress Presented by June Whitfield | Andrew Scott Referee by Nick Perry | The History of Titus Groan dramatised by Brian Sibley Flare Path by Terence Rattigan |
| Best Scripted Comedy Drama Presented by Richard Wilson | Floating by Hugh Hughes Producer: James Robinson | Cabin Pressure by John Finnemore Producer: Dawn Ellis Ed Reardon's Week by Christopher Douglas Producer: Dawn Ellis |
| Best Online Only Audio Drama Presented by Julie Myerson | Rock by Tim Fountain Producer: Iain Mackness | Wild Hackney Producer: Francesca Panetta |
| Best Adaptation Presented by Nina Wadia | The History of Titus Groan dramatised by Brian Sibley Producers: David Hunter, Gemma Jenkins and Jeremy Mortimer | Alone in Berlin dramatised by Shelagh Stephenson Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan Five Days in May by Matthew Solon Producer: John Dryden |
| Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama Presented by Bertie Carvel | Bad Memories by Julian Simpson Producer: Karen Rose | Can You Hear Me? by Margaret Wilkinson Producer: Nadia Molinari The History of Titus Groan dramatised by Brian Sibley Producers: David Hunter, Gemma Jenkins and Jeremy Mortimer |
| Innovation Award Presented by Niamh Cusack | The Unfortunates adapted by Graham White Producer: Mary Peate | Blue Eyed Boy by Helen Cross Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery Wild Hackney Producer: Francesca Panetta |
| Imison Award Presented by David Edgar | Amazing Grace by Michelle Lipton | Atching Tan by Dan Allum The Pursuit by Matt HartleyThe Barber and the Ark by Marcia Layne |
| Tinniswood Award Presented by David Edgar | Gerontius by Stephen Wyatt | The Climb by Andrea Earl Sarah and Ken by Rebecca Lenkiewicz Setting a Glass by Nick Warburton |