The Stage Awards for Acting Excellence were established in 1995 to recognise outstanding theatre performances by individuals and companies on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Organised by theatrical newspaper The Stage, the initial award categories of Best Actor and Best Actress were joined by an ensemble award in 1998. In 2006, an award for Best Solo Show was given for the first time.^[1]

Award winners are chosen by a panel consisting of the newspaper's principal Fringe reviewers, and are typically announced in a ceremony on the last Sunday of the festival.

Award winners

Best actor

2007 – Garry Cooper for Long Time Dead

2006 – Paul Sparkes for Finer Noble Gases

2005 – Phil Nichol for Edward Albee's The Zoo Story

2004 – James Urbaniak for Thom Pain (based on nothing)

2003 – Richard Dormer for Hurricane

2002 – David Calvitto for Horse Country

2001 – Guy Masterson for Fern Hill and Other Dylan Thomas

2000 – Greig Coetzee for White Men with Weapons

1999 – Tony Cownie for A Madman Sings to the Moon

1998 – Chris Pickles for Love! Valour! Compassion!

1997 – John Stahl for Anna Weiss

1996 – Edward Halstead for Bartleby

1995 – Mark Pinkosh for Road Movie

Best actress

2007 – Eugenia Caruso and Janet Bamford for Truckstop

2006 – Caroline O'Connor for Over The Rainbow

2005 – Saskia Schuck for Cage

2004 – Pauline Goldsmith for Not I by Samuel Beckett

2003 – Cait Davis for Those Eyes, That Mouth

2002 – Sandy McDade for Iron

2001 – Nichola McAuliffe for Bed Among the Lentils

2000 – Paola Dionisotti for Further Than the Furthest Thing

1999 – Jacqueline Linke for Often I Find That I Am Naked

1998 – Siobhan Redmond for Perfect Days and Alison Baker for The Glace Bay Miner's Museum (joint winners)

1997 – Eileen Walsh for Disco Pig

1996 – Beth Fitzgerald for The House of Correction

1995 – Lynn Ferguson for Heart and Sole

Best ensemble

2007 – The Shalimar for LA FEMME EST MORTE Or Why I Should Not F%!# My Son

2006 – National Theatre of Scotland/Traverse for Black Watch

2005 – The Corn Exchange, Ireland for Dublin by Lamplight

2004 – Grid Iron Theatre Company for Fierce: An Urban Myth

2003 – 78th Street Theatre Lab and Paper Hat Productions for Boy Steals Train

2002 – Bomb-itty International, The Bomb-itty of Errors

2001 – Theatre O for 3 Dark Tales

2000 – Grid Iron Theatre Company for Decky Does a Bronco

1999 – Kaos Theatre UK for The Kaos Importance of Being Earnest

1998 – Theatre 28 for Love! Valour! Compassion!

Best Solo show

2007 – Madi Distefano for Popsicle’s Departure 1989

2006 – Daniel Kitson for C-90

External links

• The Stage 2007 awards coverage

References

1. ^ Katie Phillips. "Prize War". The Stage. Retrieved on 2006-08-03.