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The 2008 ES Theatre Awards shortlist
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Curtain call: the 2008 shortlist
BEST ACTRESS
Lesley Manville - Her Naked Skin (National's Olivier)
Helen McCrory - Rosmersholm (Almeida)
Phoebe Nicholls - Waste (Almeida)
Lesley Sharp - Harper Regan (National's Cottesloe)
Margaret Tyzack - The Chalk Garden (Donmar Warehouse)
Penelope Wilton - The Chalk Garden (Donmar Warehouse)
BEST ACTOR
Kenneth Branagh - Ivanov (Donmar West End at Wyndham's)
David Calder - King Lear (Shakespeare's Globe)
Adam Godley - Rain Man (Apollo)
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Othello (Donmar Warehouse)
Will Keen - Waste (Almeida)
Simon Russell Beale - Much Ado About Nothing (National's Olivier)
Jonathan Slinger - Richard II and Richard III (RSC at the Roundhouse)
Kevin Spacey - Speed-the-Plow (Old Vic)
BEST PLAY
Black Watch - by Gregory Burke (National Theatre of Scotland at Barbican)
Days Of Significance - by Roy Williams (RSC at the Tricycle)
Her Naked Skin - by Rebecca Lenkiewicz (National's Olivier)
Never So Good - by Howard Brenton (National's Lyttelton)
Now Or Later - by Christopher Shinn (Royal Court)
The Pitmen Painters - by Lee Hall (Live Theatre and National Theatre co-production)
THE NED SHERRIN AWARD FOR BEST MUSICAL
La Cage Aux Folles - Menier Chocolate Factory and Playhouse
Eurobeat - Novello
Jersey Boys - Prince Edward
Marguerite - Theatre Royal Haymarket
Street Scene - The Opera Group, Young Vic and Watford Palace Theatre co-production
THE SYDNEY EDWARDS AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR
Lucy Bailey - Timon of Athens (Shakespeare's Globe)
Michael Boyd - The History Cycle (Royal Shakespeare Company at the Roundhouse)
Rupert Goold - Six Characters In Search Of An Author (Gielgud)/No Man's Land (Duke of York's)/The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot (Almeida)
Michael Grandage - Othello/The Chalk Garden/Ivanov (Donmar West End at Wyndham's and Donmar Warehouse)
Katie Mitchell - The Women of Troy (National's Lyttelton)
Emma Rice - Brief Encounter (Kneehigh at Cinema Haymarket Theatre)
Alan Rickman - Creditors (Donmar Warehouse)
John Tiffany - Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland at Barbican)
BEST DESIGN
Miriam Buether - In The Red And Brown Water (Young Vic)
Laura Hopkins - Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland at the Barbican)
Rob Howell - The Norman Conquests (Old Vic)
Neil Murray - Brief Encounter (Kneehigh at Cinema Haymarket Theatre)
Ti Green and Melly Still - The Revenger's Tragedy (National's Olivier)
THE MILTON SHULMAN AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING NEWCOMER
Michelle Dockery - Pygmalion (Old Vic)
Luke Evans - Small Change (Donmar Warehouse)
Felicity Jones - The Chalk Garden (Donmar Warehouse)
Joseph Mawle - The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot (Almeida)
Lex Shrapnel - Henry IV Part I (Royal Shakespeare Company at The Roundhouse)
Ella Smith - Fat Pig (Trafalgar Studios and Comedy Theatre)
