Best Male Performance
- Brian Ferguson (Narrator), White Nights (Pitlochry Festival Theatre)
- Keith Fleming (Doppler), Doppler (Grid Iron Theatre Company)
- Lorn Macdonald (Segismundo), Life is A Dream (Royal Lyceum Theatre)
- Alan Steele (Prospero), The Tempest (Bard in the Botanics)
Best Female Performance
Sponsored by STV
- Nicole Cooper (Medea), Medea (Bard in the Botanics)
- Amy Molloy (Kate), This Is Paradise (Traverse Theatre)
- Alison Peebles (Basilio), Life is a Dream (Royal Lyceum Theatre)
- Naomi Stirrat (Unnamed Protagonist), Every Brilliant Thing (An Tobar and Mull Theatre)
Best Ensemble
Sponsored by Equity
- The Comedy of Errors (Citizens Theatre)
- Life is A Dream (Royal Lyceum Theatre)
- Moorcroft (Tron Theatre)
- Sweet FA (This Is My Story Productions)
Best Director
- Gordon Barr, Medea (Bard in the Botanics)
- Elizabeth Newman, Adventures With the Painted People (Pitlochry Festival Theatre)
- Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir, Me and My Sister Tell Each Other Everything (Tron Theatre)
- Wils Wilson, Life is A Dream (Royal Lyceum Theatre)
Best Design
Sponsored by the Scottish Drama Training Network
- Emily James (set and costumes) and Lizzie Powell (lighting), Orphans (National Theatre of Scotland)
- Becky Minto (set and costumes), Fergus Dunnet (illusions), Simon Wilkinson (lighting), The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, (Perth Theatre, Helen Milne Productions and The Roald Dahl Story Company)
- Georgia McGuinness and Alex Berry (set and costumes) and Kai Fischer (lighting), Life is A Dream (Royal Lyceum Theatre)
- Jamie Vartan (set and costumes) and Simon Wilkinson (lighting), I Am Tiger (Perth Theatre and Imaginate)
Best Music and Sound
- Hilary Brooks and the company, Underwood Lane (Tron Theatre)
- John Kielty (musical director), Garry Boyle (sound design), Calum and Rory MacDonald (songs), The Stamping Ground (Raw Material and Eden Court Theatre)
- Pippa Murphy (sound), Roddy Hart and Tommy Reilly (songs), Orphans (National Theatre of Scotland)
- Julia Taudevin (in collaboration with Nerea Bello, Mairi Morrison and Beldina Odenyo), Move (Disaster Plan in association with Slung Low and Traverse Theatre)
Best Technical Presentation
Sponsored by BECTU
- Doppler (Grid Iron Theatre Company)
- Orphans (National Theatre of Scotland)
- Sweet FA (This Is My Story Productions)
- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Perth Theatre, Helen Milne Productions and The Roald Dahl Story Company)
Best Production for Children and Young People
- I Am Tiger (Perth Theatre and Imaginate)
- Sex Education Xplorers (S.E.X) (Independent Arts Projects)
- The Wind in the Willows (Pitlochry Festival Theatre)
- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Perth Theatre, Helen Milne Productions and The Roald Dahl Story Company)
Best New Play
Sponsored by Nick Hern Books
- David Greig, Adventures with the Painted People (Pitlochry Festival Theatre)
- Eilidh Loan, Moorcroft (Tron Theatre)
- Johnny McKnight, Joke (A Play, A Pie and A Pint)
- Michael John O’Neill, This Is Paradise (Traverse Theatre)
Best Production
- Adventures with the Painted People (Pitlochry Festival Theatre)
- The Comedy of Errors (Citizens Theatre)
- Life is A Dream (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh)
- Medea (Bard in the Botanics)
The CATS judging panel for the 2022 Awards comprised Mark Brown (Sunday National and The Daily Telegraph), Anna Burnside (Daily Record/Sunday Mail), Michael Cox (Across the Arts), Thom Dibdin (The Stage and AllEdinburghTheatre.com), Mark Fisher (The Guardian), Joyce McMillan (The Scotsman), David Pollock (The Independent and Dundee Courier) and Allan Radcliffe (The Times).