Major Achievements

Barbara Adair and Julian Glover at TMA awards

2008 Susan Smith Blackburn Award
SPECIAL COMMENDATION – Girls and Dolls by Lisa McGee

2007 Stewart Parker Awards
WINNER Best New Play – Girls and Dolls by Lisa McGee

2007 Irish Times Theatre Awards
NOMINATED Best New Play – Girls and Dolls by Lisa McGee

2005 Steward Parker New Playwright Award & Irish Times / ESB Theatre Awards
NOMINATED Best New Play – Revenge by Michael Duke

2004 TMA UK Theatre Awards
WINNER Best Supporting Actress – Barbara Adair in Revenge by Michael Duke
NOMINATED Best New Play – Revenge by Michael Duke

2003 Steward Parker New Playwright Award
WINNER – Tim Loane for Caught Red Handed

2003 Irish Times / ESB Theatre Awards
WINNER Best New Play – Caught Red Handed by Tim Loane
NOMINATED – Best Actor (Dan Gordon)
NOMINATED – Best Supporting Actor (Alan McKee)

2002 NI Arts and Business Creativity Awards
WINNER – Most consistent arts sponsorship

2001 Peggy Ramsay Award
Recipients of an award for developing new writing

2000 Irish Times / ESB Theatre Awards
WINNER Best Production – Convictions
NOMINATED Best Company
NOMINATED Best Design – Houston Marshall

2000 Critic’s Pick of the Year
Convictions – Multi-authored new work staged in Crumlin Road Courthouse, Belfast
Chosen as Critics’ Pick of the Year by BBC Radio 4 Front Row, BBC 2 Review Programme, The Observer, The Guardian and the Sunday Tribune.

2000 Debut at the Grand Opera House, Belfast
Ruby by Marie Jones

1999 Stewart Parker New Writing Award
WINNER – Joseph Crilly for Second-Hand Thunder

1999 Belfast Arts Awards
WINNER Drama – Northern Star by Stewart Parker
WINNER Partnership – Northern Star by Stewart Parker

1999 ABSA NI Awards
WINNER Best First Time Sponsorship
WINNER Best Non-Monetary Sponsorship

1998 Irish Times Theatre Awards
WINNER Best Company – Northern Star by Conleth White
WINNER Best Lighting Design – Northern Star by Conleth White

1998 Co-production with Field Day
Northern Star by Stewart Parker – Co-produced by Tinderbox, Field Day and Belfast Festival at Queen’s at the First Presbyterian Church, Belfast

1998 Canada Award Bursary
First recipients of new British Council award to initiate a Québec / Belfast New Writing Festival.

1998 Arts Council of England / Meyer Whitworth Award
WINNER – Daragh Carville for Language Roulette

1997 TMA / Barclays UK Theatre Awards
NOMINATION Best New Play – Language Roulette

1997 Language Roulette UK Tour
Sell-out seasons at the Bush Theatre, London and the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh

1997 Stewart Parker New Writing Bursary
Daragh Carville for Language Roulette

1996 Award from National Lottery
First award to a company in the UK for commissioning new plays

1994 Belfast Telegraph EMA Award
WINNER Best Production – Pentecost by Stewart Parker