Take a bow: The Irish Times Theatre Awards in pictures
This year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards honoured some outstanding talent
Winners (back row):Laurence Kinlan (best supporting actor), Fergus Shiel (best opera), Sarah Bacon (best set design), Francis O’Connor (best costume design), Sarah Lynch (best production), Marty Rea (best actor), Sarah Jane Shiels (best lighting), Derbhle Crotty (best actress), Lian Bell (judge’s’ special award). Front row: Doreen McKenna (best costume design), Anne Clarke (special tribute award and best opera), Stacey Gregg (best new play), Louise Lowe (audience award) and Owen Boss (audience award). Not in photograph: Jimmy Eadie (best sound), Garry Hynes (best director) and Abigail McGibbon (best supporting actress).
Photograph: Aidan Crawley
Judges' special award: Lian Bell, for leading the Waking the Feminists movement with courage and conviction, highlighting the inequalities in Irish theatre and advocating sustainable change.
Best lighting design: Sarah Jane Shiels for the Brokentalkers and Junk Ensemble production of 'It Folds' and Anu Productions’'Pals: The Irish at Gallipoli'. Photograph: Aidan Crawley
Best actor: Marty Rea, for his role as King Richard II in the Druid Theatre and Lincoln Center Festival coproduction of 'DruidShakespeare'. Photograph: Aidan Crawley
Best supporting actor: Laurence Kinlan, for his role as Doc in the Dublin Theatre Festival and Lyric Theatre production of Conor McPherson’s 'The Night Alive'. Photograph: Aidan Crawley
Special tribute award: Anne Clarke of Landmark Productions. Photograph: Aidan Crawley
Best opera: The Last Hotel, Landmark Productions and Wide Open Opera production of
a work by Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh. Collected by Fergus Shiel of Wide Open Opera and Anne Clarke of Landmark.
Best actress: Derbhle Crotty, for her role as King Henry IV in the Druid Theatre and Lincoln Center Festival coproduction of DruidShakespeare.
Photograph: Aidan Crawley
Best new play:Scorch, by Stacey Gregg (left), produced by Prime Cut Productions in
association with the Mac and Outburst Queer Arts Festival. Photograph: Aidan Crawley
Best set design: Sarah Bacon, for the Abbey Theatre and Lyric Theatre production of 'The Shadow of a Gunman' by Seán O’Casey. Photograph: Aidan Crawley
Nominee Cathy Belton with her partner, Brian Roe. Photograph: Bryan Meade
Best-actor nominees Mark O’Halloran, Adrian Dunbar, Marty Rea and Denis Conway. Photograph: Aidan Crawley
From left: Laurence Kinlan, best supporting actor; pictured with Brian and Domhnall Gleeson and Anne Clarke of Landmark Productions who won a special tribute award for her work.
Nominee Denis Conway and his wife, Elaine Sisson. Photograph: Bryan Meade
The playwright Conor McPherson, best new-play nominee. Photograph: Bryan Meade
Brendan Gleeson with his wife, Mary. Photograph: Bryan Meade
Theatre producer Lara Hickey with Claire O'Neill and Cian O'Brien of Project Arts Centre. Photograph: Bryan Meade
The Ross O’Carroll-Kelly writer Paul Howard with his wife, Mary McCarthy, and the director Jimmy Fay. Photograph: Bryan Meade
Hosts Sonya Kelly and Shane O’Reilly. Photograph: Aidan Crawley
Judges Gerry Smyth, Róise Goan and Anna Walsh.
Photograph: Aidan Crawley
Nominee Adrian Dunbar and his wife, Anna Nygh. Photograph: Bryan Meade
Nominee Rory Nolan with his wife, Tara Blaise. Photograph: Bryan Meade
