Congratulations to all the UK Profile Award winners! The inaugural celebration of the Profile Awards took place after the ABTT Theatre Show on the June 6 at the Alexandra Palace Theatre in London. Created and coordinated by Durham and Jennie Marenghi in association with the ABTT, the ALPD and the STLD, the Awards recognize lighting design excellence.
RICHARD PILBROW LIFETIME RECOGNITION AWARD
Awarded to David Hersey
THEATRE CRITIC'S CHOICE
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN THEATRE Sponsored by CHAUVET Professional
SIMON WILKINSON for Ragnarok, Tortoise in a Nutshell, Traverse, Edinburgh & tour
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN THEATRE Sponsored by TSL
ALI HUNTER for Red Pitch, @sohoplace
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSICALS Sponsored by GLP
EMMA CHAPMAN for The Third Man, Menier Chocolate Factory
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN OPERA Sponsored by ETC
ROBBIE BUTLER for Death in Venice, Welsh National Opera and tour
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN INNOVATION Sponsored by FIX8Group
TUPAC MARTIR for Find Your Eyes, Manchester Academy, Manchester International Festival
OUTSTANDING YEAR IN DANCE Sponsored by ELATION
TOM VISSER for La Ruta, Assembly Hall, and Carmen, all at Sadlers Wells; ‘From England With Love’, Queen Elizabeth Hall
OUTSTANDING YEAR IN THEATRE Sponsored by VARI-LITE
JON CLARK for Dear England, Olivier, National Theatre and West End; The Motive and the Cue, Lyttelton, National Theatre and West End; The Effect, Lyttelton, National Theatre; Stranger Things —The First Shadow, West End
OUTSTANDING NEW DESIGNER Sponsored by SLX
SKYLAR TURNBULL HURD for These Demons, Theatre 503
HONORABLE MENTIONS
PAULE CONSTABLE for Guys and Dolls, The Bridge
LEE CURRAN for Romeo and Juliet, The Almeida; King Lear, The Almeida
JON DRISCOLL for Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, English National Opera
OLIVER FENWICK for Dear Octopus, Lyttelton, National Theatre
GUY HOARE for Frankenstein, Frome Memorial Theatre and tour
AIDEEN MALONE for Dracula: Mina’s Reckoning, National Theatre of Scotland and UK tour
JAI MORJARIA for Macbeth, UK and International tour; ‘The Real & Imagined History of the Elephant Man’, Nottingham Playhouse
CHRISTOPHER NAIRNE for Blackout Songs, Hampstead Theatre
LIZZIE POWELL for The Grand Old Opera House Hotel, Traverse, and The Snow Queen, Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh
ADAM SILVERMAN for Wozzeck at the Royal Opera; Machinal, Ustinov Studio, Bath, and The Old Vic
TELEVISION AWARDS
ENTERTAINMENT – SERIES AWARD sponsored by Version2 Lights
JAMES TINSLEY AND TEAM for ‘The Traitors’
ENTERTAINMENT – ONE OFF AWARD sponsored by Lights Control Rigging
TOM SUTHERLAND AND TEAM for ‘The Brit Awards’
DRAMA AWARD sponsored by Chamsys
GAVIN FINNEY AND TEAM for ‘Good Omens Season 2’
SMALL STUDIO AWARD sponsored by ELP Broadcast Lighting
NEIL KENT, BEN RICHARDS AND TEAM for ‘The Repair Shop’
NEWCOMER AWARD sponsored by Light Initiative
JACK WOODSTOCK
SPECIAL MERIT AWARD sponsored by RoxxLight
MARTIN KEMPTON
With financial support from manufacturers including Ayrton, ChamSys, ELP, LCR, Light Initiative, Roxxlight, Version 2 Lights, Chauvet Professional, Elation Lighting, ETC, Fix8, GLP, TSL, SLX and Vari-Lite, the awards are nominated for theatre and television in the UK, and a student virtual lighting design competition.
