(Winners in bold)
Best Performance in a Play
- Anna Francolini for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at Royal & Derngate Northampton
- Irene Macdougall for Who’s Afraid of Virgnia Woolf? at Dundee Rep
- Marc Warren for The Pillowman at The Curve, Leicester
- Samuel West for ENRON, A Headlong, Chichester Festival Theatre and Royal Court Theatre production at Chichester Festival Theatre
Best Supporting Performance in a Play
- Claire Price for Mary Stuart at Clwyd Theatr Cymru
- Adam Gillen for the Royal Exchange Theatre Company’s A Taste of Honey
- Eileen O’Brien for When We Are Married at West Yorkshire Playhouse
Best New Play
- ENRON by Lucy Prebble, a Headlong, Chichester Festival Theatre and Royal Court Theatre production at Chichester Festival Theatre
- King Pelican by Chris Goode at Theatre Royal, Plymouth
- Mercury Theatre and Theate 503’s The Lifesavers by Fraser Grace at The Mercury, Colchester
Best Show for Children and Young People (Supported by Equity)
- For The Best Presented by the Unicorn Theatre in collaboration with Mark Storor and Anna Ledgard
- Heidi: A Goat’s Tale a new adaptation by Andrew Pollard, Northern Broadsides on tour
- TAG’s Museum of Dreams on tour
Best Musical
- Spend Spend Spend at Watermill, Newbury
- Spring Awakening at Lyric Hammersmith
- The Ambassador Theatre Group’s West Side Story on tour
Best Performance in a Musical
- Alexandra Silber for Carousel, Stanhope Productions, Michael Edwards & Carole Winter, Tiger/WSZ, Stevens-O'Boyle, and Tulchin/Bartner/Ambassador Theatre Group in association with The Churchill, Bromley on tour
- Ryan O’Donnell for Quadrophenia, Bill Schultz, Ina Meibach and the Theatre Royal Plymouth in association with Industrial Language Ltd on tour
- Allan Stewart for Jolson and Co, King’s Edinburgh and Churchill, Bromley on tour
Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical
- Kirsty Hoiles for Spend Spend Spend at the Watermill, Newbury
- Carly Bawden for Evita, Bill Kenwright by special arrangement with The Really Useful Group, on tour
- Lauren Hood for Carousel, Stanhope Productions, Michael Edwards & Carole Winter, Tiger/WSZ, Stevens-O'Boyle, and Tulchin/Bartner/Ambassador Theatre Group in association with The Churchill, Bromley on tour
Best Set Design
- Michael Pavelka for The Merchant of Venice, Watermill Theatre and Propellor on tour
- Stuart Laing for Les Parents Terribles at Dundee Rep
- Ferdia Murphy for The Home Place, Lyric Theatre, Belfast at Grand Opera House
Best Lighting Design (Supported by the Association of Lighting Designers)
- Daniella Beattie for The Wicked Lady at New Victoria Newcastle Under Lyme
- James Farncombe for Private Fears in Public Places at Royal & Derngate, Northampton
- Tim Mitchell for A Month in the Country at Salisbury Playhouse
Best Director
- Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett for Othello, Frantic Assembly and Theatre Royal Plymouth in collaboration with Royal and Derngate, Northampton on tour
- David Leddy for Sub Rosa, Fire Exit and Citizen’s Theatre Co-production at the Citizen’s, Glasgow
- Dawn Walton for the Eclipse Theatre’s The Hounding of David Oluwale on tour
Best Touring Production (Supported by Walton & Parkinson)
- Noel Coward’s Brief Encounter, David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers and Cineworld present The Kneehigh Theatre Production in a co production with Royal and Derngate Northampton
- The Tempest, Royal Shakespeare Company and Baxter Theatre Company South Africa
- Waiting for Godot, Theatre Royal Haymarket Company in partnership with Duncan C Weldon Productions Ltd
Achievement in Opera
- Glyndebourne for an outstanding 75th Anniversary season.
- Sarah Connolly for her performances in Opera North’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi and Glyndebourne’s Giulio Cesare and Tristan und Isolde
- David McVicar, for his productions of Cosi fan tutte and La traviata at Scottish Opera
Achievement in Dance
- The dancers of English National Ballet, who showed new strength and interpretative skills across a range of repertory
- Rambert Dance Company's production of Hush
- Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Pomp and Circumstances
The Stage Award of Special Achievement in Regional Theatre
- The Theatre, Chipping Norton
- Theatre Royal Stratford East for its Musical Theatre Training Programme
- Corn Exchange, Newbury
- Schools Theatre Support Group
- Chichester Festival Theatre
The Special Award of Individual Achievement
Nicolas Kent