2019 Shortlist

Best Female Performance

Sponsored by STV

  • Cora Bissett (Cora), What Girls Are Made Of, Traverse Theatre Company and Raw Material in association with Regular Music
  • Jessica Hardwick (Roxane), Cyrano de Bergerac, National Theatre of Scotland, Citizens Theatre and Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh
  • Irene Macdougall (Kate Keller), All My Sons, Dundee Rep Ensemble
  • Lucianne McEvoy (Ruth Davenport), Ulster American, Traverse Theatre Company

Best Male Performance

  • Darrell D’Silva (Jay Conway), Ulster American, Traverse Theatre Company
  • Lorn Macdonald (Declan), Mouthpiece, Traverse Theatre Company in association with HighTide
  • John Michie (Fireman), The Mack, A Play, a Pie and a Pint at Òran Mór, presented in association with the Traverse Theatre
  • Grant O’Rourke (Two), Ballyturk, Tron Theatre Company

Best Ensemble

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  • Ballyturk, Tron Theatre Company
  • Lost At Sea, Perth Theatre at Horsecross Arts and Morna Young
  • My Left Right Foot – The Musical, Birds of Paradise and National Theatre of Scotland
  • Square Go, Francesca Moody Productions in association with SEARED

Best Director

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  • Andy Arnold, Ballyturk, Tron Theatre Company
  • Ian Brown, Lost at Sea, Perth Theatre at Horsecross Arts and Morna Young
  • Orla O’Loughlin, Mouthpiece, Traverse Theatre Company in association with HighTide
  • Robert Softley Gale, My Left Right Foot – The Musical, Birds of Paradise and National Theatre of Scotland

Best Design

  • Kenneth MacLeod (designer) and Simon Wilkinson (lighting designer), The Dark Carnival, Vanishing Point, in co-production with the Citizens Theatre, in association with Dundee Rep Ensemble
  • Shona Reppe (design concept), Ailsa Paterson (design realiser), Selene Cochrane (costume designer and maker) and Chris Edser (animator), Baba Yaga, Imaginate and Windmill Theatre Company
  • Michael Taylor (designer), Mark Doubleday (lighting designer), Kim Beveridge (video designer) and Nick Murray Willis (animator), Ballyturk, Tron Theatre Company
  • Karen Tennent (designer) and Katharine Williams (lighting designer), Lost At Sea, Perth Theatre at Horsecross Arts and Morna Young

Best Music and Sound

  • Danny Krass (sound designer), Ballyturk, Tron Theatre Company
  • Michael John McCarthy (musical director), What Girls Are Made Of, Traverse Theatre Company and Raw Material in association with Regular Music
  • Claire McKenzie (music and lyrics), Scott Gilmour (music and lyrics) and Richard Thomas (additional songs), My Left Right Foot – The Musical, Birds of Paradise and National Theatre of Scotland
  • Pippa Murphy (composer and sound designer), Lost at Sea, Perth Theatre at Horsecross Arts and Morna Young

Best Technical Presentation

Sponsored by BECTU

  • Baba Yaga, Imaginate and Windmill Theatre Company
  • The End of Eddy, Untitled Projects and the Unicorn Theatre
  • Interference, National Theatre of Scotland
  • My Left Right Foot – The Musical, Birds of Paradise and National Theatre of Scotland

Best Production for Children and Young People

Sponsored by Young Scot

  • Baba Yaga,  Shona Reppe, Christine Johnston, Rosemary Myers, Imaginate and Windmill Theatre Company
  • The End of Eddy, Untitled Projects and the Unicorn Theatre
  • Nests, Frozen Charlotte and Stadium Rock
  • Stick by Me, Andy Manley, Ian Cameron and Red Bridge Arts

Best New Play

  • Kieran Hurley, Mouthpiece, Traverse Theatre Company in association with HighTide
  • David Ireland, Ulster American, Traverse Theatre Company
  • Christine Johnston, Rosemary Myers and Shona Reppe, Baba Yaga, Imaginate and Windmill Theatre Company
  • Robert Softley Gale, My Left Right Foot – The Musical, Birds of Paradise and National Theatre of Scotland

Best Production

  • My Left Right Foot – The Musical, Birds of Paradise and National Theatre of Scotland
  • Pride and Prejudice* (*Sort of), Tron Theatre Company with Blood of the Young
  • Ulster American, Traverse Theatre Company
  • What Girls Are Made Of, Traverse Theatre Company and Raw Material in association with Regular Music

The CATS judging panel for 2019 was made up of: Mary Brennan (The Herald), Mark Brown (The Herald on Sunday, Sunday National and the Daily Telegraph), Anna Burnside (Daily Record), Paul F Cockburn (BroadwayBaby), Neil Cooper (The Herald), Michael Cox (Across the Arts), Thom Dibdin (The Stage and AllEdinburghTheatre.com), Mark Fisher (The Guardian), Joyce McMillan (The Scotsman), David Pollock (The Independent), Allan Radcliffe (The Times), Amy Taylor (The Skinny) and Joy Watters (Across the Arts).