2008 Shortlist

Best Male Performance

  • Tam Dean Burn in Venus As A Boy, NTS Workshop and Burnt Goods
  • Sean Campion as Gregor in Carthage Must Be Destroyed, Traverse Theatre
  • Keith Fleming and Gerry Mulgrew as Peer Gynt in Peer Gynt, Dundee Rep/NTS
  • Michael Glenn Murphy as John in Shining City, Rapture Theatre

Best Female Performance

  • Kirsty Bushell as Harper in Angels In America, Citizens Theatre/Headlong/Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith
  • Amy Manson as The Stepdaughter in Six Characters In Search Of An Author, Royal Lyceum Theatre/Citizens Theatre/NTS
  • Alison Peebles as Winnie in Happy Days, Dundee Rep
  • Sally Reid as Norma in The Wall, Borderline Theatre

Best Ensemble

  • Peer Gynt Dundee Rep/NTS
  • Sleeping Beauty King’s Theatre, Glasgow
  • Sunshine On Leith Dundee Rep
  • The Wall Borderline Theatre

Best Director

  • James Brining for Sunshine On Leith, Dundee Rep
  • Andy Cannon and Iain Johnstone for The Emperor’s New Kilt, Wee Stories/NTS
  • Dominic Hill for Peer Gynt, Dundee Rep/NTS
  • Daniel Kramer for Angels In America, Citizens Theatre/Headlong/ Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith

Best Design

  • Becky Minto for The Emperor’s New Kilt, Wee Stories/NTS
  • Soutra Gilmour, Charles Balfour and Mark Bouman for Angels in America, Citizens Theatre/Headlong/Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith
  • Naomi Wilkinson for Peer Gynt, Dundee Rep/NTS
  • Sans façon for Walden, Magnetic North at Stills Gallery

Best Music and Sound

  • Hilary Brooks for Sunshine On Leith, Dundee Rep
  • Paddy Cunneen for Peer Gynt, Dundee Rep/NTS
  • Alasdair Macrae for Subway, Vanishing Point
  • David Trouton for The Emperor’s New Kilt, Wee Stories/NTS

Best Technical Presentation

  • Angels In America Citizens Theatre/Headlong/Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith
  • The Bacchae NTS/Edinburgh International Festival
  • Half Life NVA/NTS at Kilmartin, Mid Argyll
  • Sunshine On Leith Dundee Rep

Best Production for Children and Young People

  • Cinderella MacRobert, Stirling
  • The Emperor’s New Kilt Wee Stories/NTS
  • Jack And The Beanstalk Dundee Rep
  • The Wizard Of Oz Royal Lyceum Theatre

Best New Play

  • Being Norwegian by David Greig, A Play, A Pie and A Pint/Paines Plough
  • Carthage Must Be Destroyed by Alan Wilkins, Traverse Theatre
  • Educating Agnes by Liz Lochhead, Theatre Babel
  • The Wall by DC Jackson, Borderline Theatre

Best Production

  • Angels In America Citizens Theatre/Headlong/Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith
  • The Emperor’s New Kilt Wee Stories/NTS
  • Peer Gynt Dundee Rep/NTS
  • Sunshine On Leith Dundee Rep