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The UK based National Student Drama Festival (NSDF) was founded in 1956 with the purpose of creating new art, new artists and new communities. It also runs a charity aimed at empowering young artists. The NSDF is targeted towards people aged 16–25 years old (in 2021-22 they extended the age bracket to include 26-year olds). NSDF is a year-round organization whose work peaks at its annual festival: for one week, in one chosen city. There is a daily magazine, Noises Off, written by a team of writers and participants at the festival.


History

The NSDF was founded in 1956 by the ''
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'' arts columnist Kenneth Pearson, ''Sunday Times'' theatre critic
Harold Hobson Sir Harold Hobson CBE, (4 August 1904 – 12 March 1992) was an English drama critic and author. Early life and education Hobson was born in Thorpe Hesley near Rotherham then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. He attended Sheffield Gramm ...
, and
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president Frank Copplestone. Pearson went on to become the organization's first artistic director. Early supporters also included ''Sunday Times'' Editor
Harry Hodson Henry Vincent Hodson (12 May 1906 – 26 March 1999) was an English economist and editor. Career Hodson was born in Edmonton, London. He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and Balliol College, Oxford, becoming a Fellow of All Souls College ...
and Professor
Glynne Wickham Glynne William Gladstone Wickham (15 May 1922–27 January 2004) was a British Shakespearean and theatre scholar. Life Wickham was born in Cape Town, and was the great-grandson of William Ewart Gladstone. He was educated at Winchester College and ...
, a pioneer of the academic discipline of drama based at the
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. Even before 1956, The National Union of Students had organised dramatic festivals, like in 1947 at Birmingham, but this was the first year that it had been backed by the Sunday Times. Scottish universities that were a part of the
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were not allowed to participate till 1962, as universities not affiliated with the National Union of Students were not allowed to participate before that year. On it's 50'th anniversary in 2006, a book was published called "Fifty years of the National Student Drama Festival: Oberon Books 2005". This book included a full list of shows for those 50 years. Past NSDF participants include
Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanne ...
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Caryl Churchill Caryl Lesley Churchill (born 3 September 1938) is a British playwright known for dramatising the abuses of power, for her use of non- naturalistic techniques, and for her exploration of sexual politics and feminist themes.
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Meera Syal Meera Syal FRSL (born Feroza Syal; 27 June 1961) is a English comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist and actress. She rose to prominence as one of the team that created '' Goodness Gracious Me'' and portraying Sanjeev's grandmother, ...
,
Simon Russell Beale Sir Simon Russell Beale (born 12 January 1961) is an English actor. He is known for his appearances in film, television and theatre, and work on radio, on audiobooks and as a narrator. For his services to drama, he was knighted by Queen Elizabe ...
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Ruth Wilson Ruth Wilson (born 13 January 1982) is an English actress. She is known for her performances as the eponymous protagonist in ''Jane Eyre'' (2006), as Alice Morgan in the BBC psychological crime drama ''Luther'' (2010–2013, 2019), as Alison L ...
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Marianne Elliott Marianne Phoebe Elliott (born 27 December 1966) is a British theatre director and producer who works on the West End and Broadway. She has received numerous accolades including three Laurence Olivier Awards and four Tony Awards. Initially ...
, and
Lucy Prebble Lucy Prebble (born 1981) is a British playwright. She is the author of the plays ''The Sugar Syndrome'', '' The Effect'', ''ENRON'' and '' A Very Expensive Poison''. For television she adapted ''Secret Diary of a Call Girl'' and co-created ''I H ...
. Companies with past affiliation with NSDF include Slung Low, Jamie Lloyd Productions, RashDash, Barrel Organ and LUNG Theatre. NSDF 22 took place from 9-15 April 2022 in Leicester.


Key Figures


Festival Directors

* 1971 to 2000 - Clive Wolfe * 2001 to 2003 - Nick Stimson * 2004 to 2006 - Andrew Loretto * 2007 to 2012 - Holly Kendrick * 2013 to 2018 - Michael Brazier * 2019 - James Phillips


Noises Off Editors

* 1980 to 1990 -
Stephen Jeffreys John Stephen Gerrard Jeffreys (22 April 1950 – 17 September 2018) was a British playwright and playwriting teacher. He wrote original plays, films and play adaptations and also worked as translator. Jeffreys is best known for his play ''The Libe ...
(latterly in tandem with Nick Phillips) * 1991 to 2002 -
Ian Shuttleworth Terence Ian Shuttleworth (born 6 July 1963 in Belfast, UK) is a Northern Irish theatre critic and author. He was joint senior theatre critic for the ''Financial Times'' from May 2007 until March 2019. He was editor and publisher of ''Theatre Recor ...
* 2003 to 2004 - Andrew Haydon and Rachel Smyth * 2005 to 2009 - Andrew Haydon * 2010 - Phil Mann and Claire Trévien * 2011 - Andrew Haydon, Phil Mann and Claire Trévien * 2012 - Phil Mann, Andrew Haydon, and Claire Trévien * 2013 to 2014 - Andrew Haydon * 2015 - Jake Orr * 2016 to 2017 - Richard Tzanov * 2018 - Kate Wyver *2019- Florence Bell and Naomi Obeng


Notable Participants

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Erica Whyman Erica Whyman, OBE (born 27 October 1969) is an English theatre director who became deputy artistic director at the Royal Shakespeare Company in January 2013. Background Whyman was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, but lived in Barnsley until aged ...
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Rosemary Squire Dame Rosemary Anne Squire, DBE (born 27 May 1956) is a British commercial theatre owner and entrepreneur. She was the founder, co-owner and joint chief executive of the Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) Ltd. Squire and her husband/business partn ...
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Stephen Fry Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director and writer. He first came to prominence in the 1980s as one half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie, alongside Hugh Laurie, with the two starring ...
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Carrie Cracknell Carrie Cracknell (born 1980) is a British theatre director. She was Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre, London from 2007–2012. She was Associate Director at both the Young Vic (2012–2013) and the Royal Court (2013–2014). Background ...
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Ruth Wilson Ruth Wilson (born 13 January 1982) is an English actress. She is known for her performances as the eponymous protagonist in ''Jane Eyre'' (2006), as Alice Morgan in the BBC psychological crime drama ''Luther'' (2010–2013, 2019), as Alison L ...
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Lena Headey Lena Kathren Headey ( ; born 3 October 1973) is a British actress. She gained international recognition and acclaim for her portrayal of Cersei Lannister on the HBO epic fantasy drama series '' Game of Thrones'' (2011–2019), for which she re ...
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Wole Soyinka Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka (Yoruba: ''Akínwándé Olúwọlé Babátúndé Ṣóyíinká''; born 13 July 1934), known as Wole Soyinka (), is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language. He was awarded t ...
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Sandi Toksvig Sandra Birgitte Toksvig (; ; born 3 May 1958) is a Danish-British writer, comedian and broadcaster on British radio, stage and television. She is also a political activist, having co-founded the Women's Equality Party in 2015. She has written ...
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Caryl Churchill Caryl Lesley Churchill (born 3 September 1938) is a British playwright known for dramatising the abuses of power, for her use of non- naturalistic techniques, and for her exploration of sexual politics and feminist themes.
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Tim Fountain Tim Fountain (born 23 December 1967) is a British writer. Early life Fountain was born in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. An only child, he was brought up in a pub in the village of West Ardsley, West Yorkshire. He was educated at Batley Grammar ...
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Nick Hern Nick Hern Books is a London-based independent specialist publisher of plays, theatre books and screenplays. The company was founded by the former Methuen drama editor Nicholas Hern in 1988. History Nick Hern Books was founded in June 1988,Sar ...
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Biyi Bandele Biyi Bandele (born Biyi Bandele-Thomas; 13 October 1967 – 7 August 2022Micah L. Issitt Contemporary Black Biography, 2009. Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 12 October 2015.) was a Nigerian novelist, playwright and filmmaker. He was the author of s ...
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Terry Hands Terence David Hands (9 January 1941 – 4 February 2020) was an English theatre director. He founded the Liverpool Everyman Theatre and ran the Royal Shakespeare Company for thirteen years during one of the company's most successful periods; h ...
* Nona Shepphard (director) * Michael Boyd *
Robin Duval Robin Arthur Philip Duval (born 1941) was Director of the British Board of Film Classification, (the "Film Censor"), from 1999 to 2004. Duval was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham before reading history at University College London (U ...
* Sam Steiner (playwright) *
Braham Murray Braham Sydney Murray, OBE (12 February 1943 – 25 July 2018) was an English theatre director. In 1976, he was one of five founding Artistic Directors of the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, and the longest-serving (he retired in 2012). Ear ...
* Olivia Vinall (actor) *
Khalid Abdalla Khalid Abdalla ( ar, خالد عبدالله; ; born 26 October 1980) is a Scottish actor and activist of Egyptian descent. He came to international prominence after starring in the 2006 Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning film '' United ...
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Nikki Amuka-Bird Nikki Amuka-Bird (born 27 February 1976) is a Nigerian-born British actress of the stage, television, and film. Early life Amuka-Bird was born in Delta State, Nigeria, where her father still lives. She left there as a young child with her mot ...
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Michael Attenborough Michael John Attenborough (born 13 February 1950) is an English theatre director. Background Attenborough was born on 13 February 1950 in London, the only son of actress Sheila Sim and actor-director Richard Attenborough. He is the nephew of ...
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Van Badham Vanessa "Van" Badham (born 1974) is an Australian writer and activist. A playwright and novelist, she writes dramas and comedies. She is a regular columnist for the '' Guardian Australia'' website. Early life Badham was born in Sydney in 1974. ...
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Patrick Barlow Evan George Patrick Barlow (born 18 March 1947) is an English actor, comedian and playwright. His comedic alter ego, ''Desmond Olivier Dingle'', is the founder, artistic director and chief executive of the two-man National Theatre of Brent, whi ...
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Simon Russell Beale Sir Simon Russell Beale (born 12 January 1961) is an English actor. He is known for his appearances in film, television and theatre, and work on radio, on audiobooks and as a narrator. For his services to drama, he was knighted by Queen Elizabe ...
* Lorna Bennett * Michael Billington * David Farr *
Mark Gatiss Mark Gatiss (; born 17 October 1966) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, producer and novelist. His work includes writing for and acting in the television series ''Doctor Who'', '' Sherlock'', and '' Dracula''. Together with ...
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Buzz Goodbody Mary Ann "Buzz" Goodbody (25 June 1946 – 12 April 1975)Jennifer Uglow, et al. ''The Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography'', London: Macmillan Papermac, 1999, p.232. As the press/opening night of Buzz Goodbody's production of ''Hamlet'' was ...
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Robert Hewison Robert Alwyn Petrie Hewison (born 2 June 1943)‘HEWISON, Prof. Robert Alwyn Petrie’, Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 200accessed 26 March 2008/ref> is a British cultural historian. He was educated ...
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Harold Hobson Sir Harold Hobson CBE, (4 August 1904 – 12 March 1992) was an English drama critic and author. Early life and education Hobson was born in Thorpe Hesley near Rotherham then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. He attended Sheffield Gramm ...
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Angus Imrie Angus William Jake Imrie (born 2 August 1994) is a British actor. He is known for playing the character Josh Archer in BBC Radio 4's long-running drama serial ''The Archers''. In 2014, he won the casting agency Spotlight's Most Promising Actor ...
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Stephen Jeffreys John Stephen Gerrard Jeffreys (22 April 1950 – 17 September 2018) was a British playwright and playwriting teacher. He wrote original plays, films and play adaptations and also worked as translator. Jeffreys is best known for his play ''The Libe ...
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Martin Jenkins Martin Joseph Jenkins (born November 12, 1953) is an American attorney and jurist serving as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California. He was previously a justice of the California Court of Appeal for the First District, located ...
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Alex Jennings Alex Jennings (born 10 May 1957) is an English actor of the stage and screen, who worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre. For his work on the London stage, Jennings received three Olivier Awards, winning for ...
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Daniel Kitson Daniel John Kitson (born 2 July 1977) is an English comedian and writer. Early life Daniel John Kitson was born in Denby Dale on 2 July 1977, the son of a primary school headteacher mother and a lecturer father. He was a pupil at Scissett Midd ...
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Roger Michell Roger Michell (5 June 1956 – 22 September 2021) was a South African-born British theatre, television and film director. He was best known for directing films such as ''Notting Hill (film), Notting Hill'' and ''Venus (2006 film), Venus'', as ...
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John Nettles John Vivian Drummond Nettles, OBE, (born 11 October 1943) is an English actor and author. He is best known for his starring roles as detectives in the crime drama television series '' Bergerac'' (1981–1991) in the title role, and ''Midsomer M ...
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Cyril Nri Cyril Ikechukwu Nri (born 25 April 1961) is a Nigerian-born British actor who is best known for playing Superintendent Adam Okaro in the police TV series ''The Bill''. Early life Nri was born in on 25 April 1961 in Nigeria. Nri's family are ...
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Steve Pemberton Steven James Pemberton (born 1 September 1967) is a British actor, comedian, director and writer. He is best known as a member of ''The League of Gentlemen'' with Reece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss, and Jeremy Dyson. Pemberton and Shearsmith also co- ...
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Ronald Pickup Ronald Alfred Pickup (7 June 1940 – 24 February 2021) was an English actor. He was active in television, film, and theatre, beginning with a 1964 appearance in ''Doctor Who''. Theatre critic Michael Billington described him as "a terrific sta ...
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Tim Pigott-Smith Timothy Peter Pigott-Smith, (13 May 1946 – 7 April 2017) was an English film and television actor and author. He was best known for his leading role as Ronald Merrick in the television drama series '' The Jewel in the Crown'', for which he wo ...
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Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanne ...
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Pete Postlethwaite Peter William Postlethwaite, (7 February 1946 – 2 January 2011) was an English character actor. After minor television appearances, including in '' The Professionals'', his first major success arose through the British autobiographical film ...
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Lucy Prebble Lucy Prebble (born 1981) is a British playwright. She is the author of the plays ''The Sugar Syndrome'', '' The Effect'', ''ENRON'' and '' A Very Expensive Poison''. For television she adapted ''Secret Diary of a Call Girl'' and co-created ''I H ...
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Mark Ravenhill Mark Ravenhill (born 7 June 1966) is an English playwright, actor and journalist. Ravenhill is one of the most widely performed playwrights in British theatre of the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His major plays include ''Shoppin ...
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Prunella Scales Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales (''née'' Illingworth; born 22 June 1932) is an English former actress, best known for playing Sybil Fawlty, wife of Basil Fawlty (John Cleese), in the BBC comedy '' Fawlty Towers'', her nomination for a ...
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Tim Supple Timothy Supple (born 24 September 1962) is a British born, award-winning international theatre director. He is the son of the academic Barry Supple. Career Supple has directed and adapted theatre in London and the UK as well as across the world ...
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Meera Syal Meera Syal FRSL (born Feroza Syal; 27 June 1961) is a English comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist and actress. She rose to prominence as one of the team that created '' Goodness Gracious Me'' and portraying Sanjeev's grandmother, ...
* Polly Teale * Richard Thomas * Glen Walford *
Timothy West Timothy Lancaster West, CBE (born 20 October 1934) is an English actor and presenter. He has appeared frequently on both stage and television, including stints in both ''Coronation Street'' (as Eric Babbage) and ''EastEnders'' (as Stan Carter) ...
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Alan Yentob Alan Yentob (born 11 March 1947) is a BBC presenter and retired British television executive. He stepped down as Creative Director in December 2015, and was chairman of the board of trustees of the charity Kids Company from 2003 until its collap ...
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Dmytro Morykit Dmytro Morykit (born 3 December 1956) is a British composer and pianist. Early life and education Morykit was born in Northampton to a Ukrainian father and Italian mother who were both displaced from their respective countries after World War ...


Prize Winners

At the end of the festival there is a Closing Ceremony where prizes are presented. Some of which are named after prestigious theatrical institutions or people. For example, the Buzz Goodbody Director Award which was named after the first female director for the RSC, who attended the festival in 1967. Previous winners include Roland Smith (Artistic Director of Theatre Delicatessen), Phil Young,
Jane Prowse Jane Prowse writes and directs theatre and television. Her play, '' A Round-Heeled Woman'', is a stage adaptation of Jane Juska's book ''A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance''. The play starred multi-award winning ac ...
, Fiona Clift, and
Richard Hurst Richard Hurst is a British writer and director of comedy, theatre and television. Biography Born Richard Turner in Surrey, he attended Boston Grammar School and Oakham School before studying at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and training as a directo ...
.


2017 Prize Winners

Named Awards THE BUZZ GOODBODY DIRECTOR AWARD Ellie Gauge (Thick Skin) THE STAGE UK DIRECTORS AWARD Josie Davies (Say It Loud) THE
CAMERON MACKINTOSH Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh (born 17 October 1946) is a British theatrical producer and theatre owner notable for his association with many commercially successful musicals. At the height of his success in 1990, he was described as being "th ...
AWARD Alex Mackinder (Ordinary Days) THE SUNDAY TIMES
HAROLD HOBSON Sir Harold Hobson CBE, (4 August 1904 – 12 March 1992) was an English drama critic and author. Early life and education Hobson was born in Thorpe Hesley near Rotherham then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. He attended Sheffield Gramm ...
DRAMA CRITIC AWARD Lily James THEATRE RECORD CRITICS AWARD Florence Bell
THE SUNDAY TIMES ''The Sunday Times'' is a British newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category. It was founded in 1821 as ''The New Observer''. It is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News UK, whi ...
PLAYWRITING AWARD Ben Kulvichit & Clara Potter Sweet (Celebration) SPOTLIGHT MOST PROMISING ACTOR Harvey Comerford (Hidden & Thick Skin) SPOTLIGHT MOST PROMISING ACTOR Annie Davison (Swallow) OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO THE TECHNICAL TEAM SUPPORTED BY SLX Sam Levy OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO THE TECHNICAL TEAM SUPPORTED BY SLX Sam Costelloe OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO THE TECHNICAL TEAM SUPPORTED BY SLX Mel Wells MANAGEMENT TEAM AWARD Chris Bell CAMDEN PEOPLE’S THEATRE AWARD Josie Davies SAMUEL FRENCH NEW PLAY AWARD Caitlin McEwan (Thick Skin) OBERON BOOKS NEW PLAY AWARD Miriam Schechter (Blackbird) FRECKLE PRODUCTIONS FAMILY SHOW AWARD Emergency Chorus (Celebration) THE FESTGOERS’ AWARD Celebration Judges Awards OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN DESIGN David Callanan for Nothing Is Coming, The Pixels Are Huge OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC AND COMPOSITION Oscar Lane, Oliver Rudge and the band from O Collective for he she they


2016 Prize Winners

Named Awards THE BUZZ GOODBODY DIRECTOR AWARD Modupe Salu (I Can't Breathe) THE STAGE UK DIRECTORS AWARD Joe Bunce (Departures: A Song Cycle) THE CAMERON MACKINTOSH AWARD (Departures: A Song Cycle) THE SUNDAY TIMES PLAYWRITING AWARD Joe Bunce (Departures: A Song Cycle) THE SUNDAY TIMES HAROLD HOBSON DRAMA CRITIC AWARD Kate Wyver SPOTLIGHT MOST PROMISING ACTOR Bróccán Tyzack-Carlin (The Addams Family) SPOTLIGHT MOST PROMISING ACTOR Modupe Salu (I Can't Breathe) THE FESTGOERS’ AWARD The Addams Family MANAGEMENT TEAM AWARD Oscar Owen Judges' Awards Acting , Sadie Fitch Kempner for Morticia in The Addams Family Acting , Becca Jones for Sylv in West Choreography , Will Emery for The Addams Family Composition , Matthew Malone for Departures Contribution to the Festival , Durham University Light Opera Group for Kiss Me Kate and The Addams Family Creative Collaboration , The Company for Daniel (Footprint Theatre) Design , James Bailey for Departures Directing and Casting , Josie Davies for Over There First Time Directing , Jenny Walser for Cock Judges' Commendations Acting , Shannon Smith for Mike in West Acting , Bryony Davies for Karl in Over There Comedy , Harvey Comerford and Dominic McGovern for the Gangsters in Kiss Me Kate Composition , Ronan Hatful for Over There Directing , Elin Schofield for Daniel Supporting Actor , Jennifer Bullock for Wednesday in The Addams Family Supporting Actor , James Roscow for Ken and Pat in West Supporting Actor , Harry Adair for Lurch in The Addams Family and General Harrison in Kiss Me Kate


2015 Prize Winners

Named Awards THE BUZZ GOODBODY DIRECTOR AWARD Joe Bunce for The Nutcracker THE DIRECTORS' GUILD AWARD Matt Stevens-Woodhead for The 56 THE CAMERON MACKINTOSH AWARD The Creative Team and Company of The Nutcracker SPOTLIGHT MOST PROMISING ACTOR Vincenzo Monachello for his performance in Parade SPOTLIGHT MOST PROMISING ACTOR Dannielle Phillips for her performance in The 56 THE SUNDAY TIMES HAROLD HOBSON DRAMA CRITIC AWARD Eve Allin THEATRE RECORD CRITICS AWARD Becky Shepherson THE SUNDAY TIMES PLAYWRITING AWARD Josh Overton for Angry Outstanding Contribution to the Technical Team supported by Stage Electrics , Jasmin Davies Outstanding Contribution to Sound supported by Shure and The Association Of Sound Designers , Ali Stringer Outstanding Contribution to Lighting supported by Ambersphere , Caoimhe Young Management Award , Aisling Gallagan The Festgoers Award , The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas Judges’ Awards Outstanding Performance in a Musical , Georgina Ambrey for The Baker’s Wife in Into The Woods Musical Direction , Ash Jacobs for Into The Woods Ensemble , The 56 Theatrical Imagination , The Nutcracker Choreography , Beth Hinton-Lever for Parade Judges' Commendations Acting , Euan Kitson for his performance in Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons Acting , Miriam Schechter for her performance In The Nutcracker Playwriting , Sam Steiner for Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons Musicianship , The Band of Into The Woods Directing and Producing , Ellie Gauge and Sophie McQuillan for Congestion Sound and Music Design , James Melling and David Denyer for The Bacchae Lighting and Design , Aaron Smith for The Dumb Waiter Mise En Scene , David Johnson-Morgan and India Smith for Wastwater Contribution to Technical Team , Fiona Porritt and Conor Morris Contribution to Sound , Olga Kravchenko Contribution to Lighting , Laura Heinl


2014 Prize Winners

Named Awards Buzz Goodbody Director Award , Ali Pidsley for Road & Nothing The Sunday Times Play Writing Award , Lucyna Raczka for Nothing The Directors’ Guild Award , Genevieve Skehan for Spring Awakening The Musical Cameron Mackintosh Award , Spring Awakening The Musical The Sunday Times Harold Hobson Student Drama Critic Award , Billy Barrett Theatre Record Young Critic’s Award , Georgia Snow and Adam Foster Spotlight Most Promising Actor Award , Angus Imrie for Brink, Skin-Lad, Blowpipe, Soldier, Barry in Road Spotlight Most Promising Actress Award , Katherine Thorogood for Stalker in Nothing Sound Award supported by Sennheiser and The Association of Sound Designers , George Veys Lighting Award supported by Ambersphere , Ruth Luckins Technical Achievement Award supported by Stage Electrics , Matthew Norwood Management Team Award , Alex Williams Festgoers Award , The Duck Pond Judges’ Company Awards Creative Risk , Nothing Ensemble , Road Collaborative Creation , The Duck Pond Judges’ Company Commendation Ensemble , Punk Rock Judges’ Individual Awards Musical Direction , Katy Richardson for Americana Musical Performance , Verity Blythe for Peaches in Americana Spirit Of Invention , Tom Coxon for The Duck Pond Performance , Beth Holmes for Louise, Molly, Mrs Bald and Scotch Girl in Road Judges’ Individual Commendations Performance , Barnaby Chambers for Bennett in Punk Rock Video Design , Stevie Partington for Enron Writing , Jenna May Hobbs for Your Fragrant Phantom Musical Performance , Hannah Bloom for Wendla in Spring Awakening Musical Performance , Laura Johnson for Jackson in Americana


References

;General * 'Raw Talent : Fifty Years of the National Student Drama Festival' ({{ISBN, 1-84002-553-0). * 'NSDF Programme 2010' (printed and distributed by the Festival) * 'NSDF Programme 2011'


External links


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