2009 Shortlist

Best Male Performance

  • Andy Clark, Darren, The Ching Room, A Play, a Pie and a Pint/Traverse Theatre
  • Billy Mack, Morris Magellan, The Sound of My Voice, Citizens Theatre
  • Billy Seymour, schoolboy, Pornography, Traverse Theatre/Birmingham Rep
  • Matthew Zajac, The Tailor of Inverness, Dogstar Theatre

Best Female Performance

  • Cora Bissett, Helena, Midsummer, Traverse Theatre
  • Irene Macdougall, Martha, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Dundee Rep
  • Gabriel Quigley, Oracle and Mae, Bliss/Mud, Tron Theatre
  • Gerda Stevenson, The Lasses, O, Rowan Tree Theatre

Best Ensemble

  • Architecting, The TEAM/National Theatre of Scotland
  • Cockroach, Traverse Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland
  • The Drawer Boy, Tron Theatre
  • Interiors, Vanishing Point/Napoli Teatro Festival Italia/Mercadante Teatro Stabile di Napoli/Traverse Theatre in association with Lyric Hammersmith and Tron Theatre

Best Director

  • James Brining, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Dundee Rep
  • David Leddy, Sub Rosa, Fire Exit/Citizens Theatre
  • Matthew Lenton, Interiors, Vanishing Point/Napoli Teatro Festival Italia/Mercadante Teatro Stabile di Napoli/Traverse Theatre in association with Lyric Hammersmith and Tron Theatre
  • Jemima Levick, Beauty and the Beast, Dundee Rep

Best Design

  • Jamie Harrison and Candice Edmunds (design), Simon Wilkinson (lighting), Anna Scatola (puppet maker), Slick, Vox Motus/Tron Theatre
  • Stewart Laing, Les Parents Terribles, Dundee Rep
  • Alex Lowde (set) and Chris Davey (lighting), Beauty and the Beast, Dundee Rep
  • Jason Southgate (set) and Graham Sutherland (lighting), The Sound of My Voice, Citizens Theatre

Best Music and Sound

  • Seylan Baxter, Lillias Kinsman-Blake and Rachel Newton, The Lasses, O, Rowan Tree Theatre
  • Paddy Cunneen, Waltz of the Cold Wind, A Play, a Pie and a Pint
  • David Paul Jones and Zoey Van Goey, Dolls, Hush Productions/National Theatre of Scotland
  • Gordon McIntyre, Midsummer, Traverse Theatre

Best Technical Presentation

  • 4.48 Psychosis, Sweetscar/Cumbernauld Theatre/Tramway
  • Peeping at Bosch, Mischief La Bas/National Theatre of Scotland/Tramway
  • Slick, Vox Motus/Tron Theatre
  • Sub Rosa, Fire Exit/Citizens Theatre

Best Production for Children and Young People

  • Beauty and the Beast, Dundee Rep
  • Liar, TAG/Sounds of Progress
  • Peter Pan, Visible Fictions/Children’s Theatre Company, Minneapolis
  • Rudolf, Andy Manley/MacRobert

Best New Play

  • David Greig/Gordon McIntyre, Midsummer, Traverse Theatre
  • Sam Holcroft, Cockroach, Traverse Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland
  • David Leddy, Sub Rosa, Fire Exit/Citizens Theatre
  • Simon Stephens, Pornography, Traverse Theatre/Birmingham Rep

Best Production

  • Beauty and the Beast, Dundee Rep
  • Interiors, Vanishing Point/Napoli Teatro Festival Italia/Mercadante Teatro Stabile di Napoli/Traverse Theatre in association with Lyric Hammersmith and Tron Theatre
  • Midsummer, Traverse Theatre
  • Sub Rosa, Fire Exit/Citizens Theatre
  • Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Dundee Rep