2009 Evening Standard Theatre Awards

The shortlist was revealed on 2009 and the longlist on 2 November 2009.

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Best Play

•   Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth (Royal Court)

Longlisted

• August: Osage County by Tracy Letts (Steppenwolf/National)
• England People Very Nice by Richard Bean (National)
• Enron by Lucy Prebble (Royal Court)
• Our Class by Tadeusz Słobodzianek [pl; de; sv]/Ryan Craig (National)
• Pornography by Simon Stephens (Tricycle)
• Punk Rock by Simon Stephens (Lyric Hammersmith)
• Tusk Tusk by Polly Stenham (Royal Court)
• When The Rain Stops Falling by Andrew Bovell (Almeida)

Best Director

•   Rupert Goold for Enron (Royal Court)

Longlisted

• Howard Davies for Burnt by the Sun (National)
• Marianne Elliott for All's Well That Ends Well (National)
• Richard Eyre for The Last Cigarette (Trafalgar Studios) and The Observer (National)
• Jeremy Herrin for Tusk Tusk (Royal Court)
• Janice Honeyman for The Tempest (RSC Stratford/Richmond)
• Sean Mathias for Waiting For Godot (Theatre Royal Haymarket)
• Sam Mendes for The Winter's Tale (Old Vic)
• Ian Rickson for Jerusalem (Royal Court)
• Anna D Shapiro for August: Osage County (Steppenwolf/National)

Best Actor

•   Mark Rylance, Jerusalem (Royal Court)

Longlisted

• Bertie Carvel, The Pride, (Royal Court)
• Michael Feast, Plague Over England (Duchess)
• Henry Goodman, Duet For One (Almeida/Vaudeville)
• David Harewood, The Mountaintop (Theatre 503/Trafalgar Studios)
• Matthew Kelly, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (Trafalgar Studios) & Troilus And Cressida (Shakespeare's Globe)
• Ian McKellen, Waiting For Godot (Theatre Royal Haymarket)
• Simon Russell Beale, The Winter's Tale (Old Vic)
• Kevin Spacey, Inherit The Wind (Old Vic)
• Ken Stott, A View From The Bridge (Duke of York's)
• David Tennant, Hamlet (RSC Stratford/Novello)
• David Troughton, Enjoy (Gielgud) & Inherit The Wind (Old Vic)
• Samuel West, Enron (Royal Court)

Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress

•   Rachel Weisz, A Streetcar Named Desire (Donmar Warehouse)

Longlisted

• Samantha Bond, Arcadia (Duke of York's)
• Deanna Dunagan, August: Osage County (Steppenwolf/ National)
• Penny Downie, Helen (Shakespeare's Globe)
• Rebecca Hall, The Winter's Tale (Old Vic)
• Pauline Malefane, The Mysteries (Garrick)
• Lyndsey Marshal, The Pride (Royal Court)
• Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, A View From The Bridge (Duke of York's)
• Amy Morton, August: Osage County (Steppenwolf/ National)
• Juliet Stevenson, Duet For One (Almeida/Vaudeville)
• Michelle Terry, England People Very Nice (National)

Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical

•   Hello, Dolly! (Open Air, Regent's Park)

Longlisted

• A Little Night Music (Menier Chocolate Factory/Garrick)
• Been So Long (Young Vic)
• The Mysteries (Garrick)
• Spring Awakening (Lyric Hammersmith/Novello)
• Sunset Boulevard (Comedy)

Best Design

•   Mamoru Iriguchi, Mincemeat (Cardboard Citizens/Cordy House, Shoreditch)

Longlisted

• Jon Bausor, Kursk (Young Vic)
• Miriam Buether, Judgement Day (Almeida)
• Lez Brotherston, Dancing At Lughnasa (Old Vic)
• Bob Crowley, Phedre (National) & The Power Of Yes (National)
• Rob Howell, The Observer (National)
• Peter McKintosh, Prick Up Your Ears (Comedy)
• Vicki Mortimer, Burnt by The Sun (National)
• Christopher Oram, Hamlet, Madame de Sade, Twelfth Night (Donmar at Wyndham's), A Streetcar Named Desire (Donmar Warehouse)
• Todd Rosenthal, August: Osage County (National)
• Ultz, Jerusalem (Royal Court)

Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright

•   Alia Bano, Shades (Royal Court)

Longlisted

• Kieron Barry, Stockwell (Landor & Tricycle)
• Lucy Kirkwood, It Felt Empty When The Heart Went At First But It Is Alright Now (Arcola)
• Molly Davies, A Miracle (Royal Court)
• Katori Hall, The Mountaintop (Theatre 503 & Trafalgar Studios)
• Ella Hickson, Eight (Trafalgar Studios)
• Alexi Kaye Campbell, The Pride (Royal Court) & Apologia (Bush)

Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer

•   Lenny Henry, Othello (Northern Broadsides at Trafalgar Studios)

Longlisted

• Naana Agyei-Ampadu, Been So Long (Young Vic)
• Aneurin Barnard, Spring Awakening (Lyric Hammersmith)
• Ruth Negga, Phedre (National)
• Bel Powley, Tusk Tusk (Royal Court)
• Toby Regbo, Tusk Tusk (Royal Court)
• Tom Sturridge, Punk Rock (Lyric Hammersmith)
• Charlotte Wakefield, Spring Awakening (Lyric Hammersmith & Novello)
• Phoebe Waller-Bridge, 2nd May 1997 (Bush)

• Henry Hitchings of the Standard
• Susannah Clapp of The Observer
• Matt Wolf of the International Herald Tribune
• Georgina Brown of The Mail on Sunday
• Charles Spencer from the Daily Telegraph
• Sarah Sands, London Evening Standard
• Evgeny Lebedev, London Evening Standard