2009 Laurence Olivier Awards Winners
Best Lighting Design: The Chalk Garden
designed by Paule Constable
at the Donmar Warehouse
Best Sound Design: Black Watch
designed by Gareth Fry
at the Barbican
Best Costume Design: The Histories
designed by Tom Piper and Emma Williams
at the Roundhouse
Best New Dance Production: Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal’s Café Muller/ The Rite Of Spring
at Sadler’s Wells
Outstanding Achievement in Dance: The company of the Royal Ballet of Flanders
for their performances in Impressing The Czar
at Sadler’s Wells
Best New Comedy: God Of Carnage
by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton
at the Gielgud theatre
Best Set Design: August: Osage County
designed by Todd Rosenthal
at the National Theatre, Lyttelton
Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical: Lesli Margherita
for Zorro
at the Garrick theatre
Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre:
The Royal Court theatre’s production of The Pride,
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
Best Performance in a Supporting Role:
Patrick Stewart for Hamlet
at the Novello theatre
Best Actress: Margaret Tyzack
for The Chalk Garden
at the Donmar Warehouse
Best Actor: Derek Jacobi
for Twelfth Night,
Donmar West End at the Wyndham’s theatre
Best Company Performance: The Histories
directed by Michael Boyd
at the Roundhouse
Best Theatre Choreographer: Steven Hoggett
for Black Watch
at the Barbican
Best Revival: The Histories
directed by Michael Boyd
at the Roundhouse
Best New Opera Production:
English National Opera’s Partenope
at the London Coliseum
Outstanding Achievement in Opera: Edward Gardner
for conducting English National Opera’s Boris Goduinov, Cavalliera Rusticana,
Der Rosenkavalier, I Pagliacci, Riders To The Sea
at the London Coliseum and Punch And Judy at the Young Vic
Best Actress in a Musical: Elena Roger for Piaf
at the Donmar Warehouse and Vaudeville theatre
Best Actor in a Musical: Douglas Hodge
for La Cage Aux Folles
at the Playhouse theatre
Best Entertainment: La Clique
at the Hippodrome
Best Musical Revival: La Cage Aux Folles,
music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, book by Harvey Fierstein,
based on the play “La Cage Aux Folles” by Jean Poiret,
at the Playhouse theatre
Best New Play: National Theatre of Scotland’s
Black Watch by Gregory Burke
at the Barbican
Best Director: John Tiffany
for Black Watch
at the Barbican