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THE ROSE BOWL AWARDS 2026

The winners will be announced on Sunday 15 November 2026

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The Chris Harris Award for Best Variety/Revue/Pantomime

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NOMINEES

Dazzle – Dazzle Showgirls 2026

Shaftesbury Arts Centre Music & Drama Group – Alice In Wonderland

Sodbury Players – Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs

St Philip and St James Church Drama Group – Robin Hood              

First Corporate Award Coup De Theatre 

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NOMINEES
Cotswold Players – The Wizard of Oz – Filmstrip Integration  
Cotswold Players – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – Hamlet & Plonius walk across the stage                    Salterton Drama Club – Murder by Misadventure – Fatal Gunshot            
Street Theatre – Frankenstein – Sunrise with Birds                    
Swan Theatre Company – Terra Nova – Aurora australis as Scott’s ghosts return     
Wells Operatic Society – Guys & Dolls – Finale of the Crapshooter’s Dance        
    

Spirolux Award for Technical Achievement 

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Bath Theatre School – Frozen – Back Projection

Bristol Musical Youth Productions – The Addams Family – Set Design                  

Minehead Amateur Theatrical Association – Shrek the Musical – For the Dragon   

Street Theatre – Frankenstein – Lighting and Sound Design                                               

Swan Theatre Company – Pressure – Props, Sound and Lighting                                      

Swan Theatre Company – Home, I’m Darling - Lighting          

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David Higson Award for Best Supporting Actor (Dramatic Production)

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NOMINEES

Robert Billen as Scott Hipwell – The Girl on the Train – Athenaeum Limelight Players

Freddie Wopat as Lucky Eric – Bouncers – Amateur Players of Sherborne  

Mike Morris as Costas – Fletcher's Waterbed Dreams – Backwell Theatre Company

Tony Free as Claudius – Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead – Cotswold Players

James Lawbuary as Mozart – Amadeus – Tickenham Drama Group

John Fisher as Inspector Rough – Gaslight – The Western Players   

       

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Quartet Community Foundation Award for Best Supporting Actress (Dramatic Production)

 
NOMINEES

Sarah Wiggins As Guildenstern – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – Cotswold Players

Liz Stallard as Summersby – Pressure – Swan Theatre Company                                       

Sarah Ambrose as Sylvia – Home, I’m Darling – Swan Theatre Company                      

Hannah Eden as Viola – Twelfth Night - Taunton Thespians                                                 

Helen Poulton as Nurse Nora – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – Thornbury Musical  Theatre Group            

                

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The Worx Award for Best Supporting Actor (Musical Production)

 
NOMINEES

Tim Hobbs as Dennis Dupree – Rock of Ages - Athenaeum Masqueraders                 

Rob Dallimore as Uncle Fester – The Addams Family – Bath Light Operatic Group

Matt Bastone as Buttons – Cinderella – Exeter Little Theatre Company                         

Leo Collins as Bob – Come From Away – St Mary’s Players

Ben Griffiths Mills as Uncle Fester – The Addams Family – Devizes Musical Theatre

Richard Waller as Jud Fry – Oklahoma – Thornbury Musical Theatre Group

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The Everywhen Insurance Award for Best Supporting Actress (Musical Production)

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Rosie Skinner as Holly – The Wedding Singer – Axminster Musical Theatre

Hannah Wood as Pugsley- The Addams Family – Bath Light Operatic Group

Lucy Burgess as Alice – The Addams Family – Devizes Musical Theatre

Samantha Purdue as Baroness Bomburst – Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – Exeter Little Theatre

Astrid Bishop-Coles as Audrey – Little Shop of Horrors – Oddity Theatre

Keeley Guyan as Killer Queen – We Will Rock You – Trowbridge Musical Theatre

     

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Walter Hawkins Award for Creativity and Design

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NOMINEES

Bath Theatre School – Frozen – Costumes

Clogettes – Finding Nemo Jnr – Costumes and Set

Kelvin Players Theatre Company – The Tempest – Set and Concept

Oddity Theatre – Little Shop of Horrors – Set Design

Salterton Drama Club – Rumours – Set Design

Street Theatre – Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Projection Design

        

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The Sarah Bailey Award for Best Choreography

 
NOMINEES

Bath Light Operatic Group – The Addams Family – Alison Price

Bath Operatic and Dramatic Society – Joseph & the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat – Lizzie Rose

Bath Theatre School – Frozen – Holly Rose Bright & Ned Drew

Bridgwater Operatic Society – Me and My Girl

Dazzle – Dazzle Showgirls 2026 - Sarah Davis-Berry & Rosalind Daine

Perform Chepstow – Sister Act – Megan Pugh-Adams             

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C H & HH Consultancy Award for Best Publicity

 
NOMINEES

Athenaeum limelight Players – The Girl on the Train

Phoenix Youth Theatre – Grease

Shaftesbury Arts Centre Music and Drama Group – Great Expectations

St Mary’s Players – Come From Away

St Philip & St James Church Drama Group – Robin Hood

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The Rose Bowl Award for Best Actor in a Youth Production

 
NOMINEES

Michael William Hall as Sir Farquaad – Shrek – BAOS Bristol Youth                                 

Alfie Clark as Robbie Hart – The Wedding Singer – Sodbury Players Youth Section

Keynsham Light Opera Group - Musicals by Candlelight  

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Barbara Macrae Award for Best Actress in a Youth Production

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Emmeline Blackburn as Anna – Frozen – Bath Theatre School

Heidi March Smith as Roxie Hart – Chicago – Bristol Musical Youth Productions

Amy Reed as Rita O’Grady – Made In Dagenham – Clevedon School

Emmie Frere as Fran Ethel Red – Miss Red - Dare We Productions

Jessica Holden as Julia Sullivan – The Wedding Singer – Sodbury Players Youth Section

Katy Pattinson as Persephone – Hadestown – Zenith Youth Theatre                              

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The Rose Bowl Award for Best Youth Actor in an Adult Production

 
NOMINEES

Rafe Commissaris as Pip – Great Expectations – Shaftesbury Arts Centre Music & Drama Group

Edmund Boulton-Roberts as Christopher – Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Street Theatre

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Jean Fennell Award for Best Youth Production


NOMINEES

Bath Theatre School – Frozen

Clogettes – Finding Nemo Jnr

Clevedon School – Made In Dagenham

Phoenix Youth Theatre – Grease

Stagecoach Performing Arts Trowbridge – Chicago

Zenith Youth Theatre – Hadestown                           

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Joan Hawkins Award for Best Shakespeare, Classic or Restoration Play

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NOMINEES

Amateur Players of Sherborne – She Stoops to Conquer

Cotswold Players – As You Like It

Kelvin Players Theatre Company  – The Tempest

Studio Theatre – The Government Inspector

Taunton Thespians – Twelfth Night

The Western Players – Gaslight

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The Rose Bowl Award for Best Actor (Dramatic Production)

 
NOMINEES

Simon Amos as The Creature – Frankenstein – Cotswold Players                                     

Peter Blacow as Caliban – The Tempest – Kelvin Players Theatre Company                

Jonny Wilkinson as Danny – Brassed Off – Kelvin Players Theatre Company

Phil Rogers as Ernest – Rumours – Salterton Drama Club

Ben Woof as Stagg – Pressure – Swan Theatre Company                                                      

Simon Vardakis as Salieri – Amadeus – Tickenham Drama Group              

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Eileen Hartley Hodder Award for Best Actress (Dramatic Production)

 

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Sarah Godsell as Lottie Wilson – Enchanted April – Actonians Drama Group

Bex Mould as Rachel Watson – Girl on a Train – Athenaeum Limelight Players        

Gill Cowen as Mary – The Long Road – Kelvin Players Theatre Company                      

Kit Muffett as Miss Marple – The Mirror Crack’d – The Oldland Players

Pat Peters as Jane Mannion – Tell Tale Murder – Salterton Drama Club

Lynne McCaffrey as Malvolio – Twelfth Night –Bradfordians Dramatic Society            

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Bernard Fennell Award for Best Actor (Musical Production)

 
NOMINEES

Geoff White as Gomez Addams – The Addams Family – Bath Light Operatic Group

Jaryd Evans as Galileo – We Will Rock You – BLOC Productions                                                         

Regan Meadowcroft as Galileo Figaro – We Will Rock You – Exmouth Musical Theatre Company

Mark Pheasant as Shrek – Shrek the Musical – Minehead Amateur Theatrical Association

Jarred Barnard as Evan – Dear Evan Hansen – TinkCo                                  

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Melanie Evans Award for Best Actress (Musical Production)

NOMINEES

Jess Stephens as Sally Smith – Me and My Girl – Bridgwater Operatic Society                          

Eve Pateman as Cinderella – Cinderella – Exeter Little Theatre Company                    

Molly Emmerson as Scaramouch - We Will Rock You – Exmouth Musical Theatre Company

Emily Grainger as Delores – Sister Act – Keynsham Light Opera Group

Izzy O’Driscoll-Barnes as Narrator – Joseph and The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat – Perform Chepstow

Emily Sollors as Hannah – Come From Away – St Mary’s Players     

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John Coe Award for Best Dramatic Production

 
NOMINEES

Kelvin Players Theatre Company – The Long Road

Salterton Drama Club – Rumours

Swan Theatre Company – The Unfriend

Swan Theatre Company – Home, I’m Darling

Wells Operatic Society – The 39 Steps

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The Gerry Parker Award for Best Musical Production

 
NOMINEES

Bath Light Operatic Group – The Addams Family

Bath Operatic and Dramatic Society – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat

Bristol Amateur Operatic Society – Rock of Ages

Oddity Theatre – Little Shop of Horrors

TinkCo – Dear Evan Hansen

TinkCo – The Drowsy Chaperone

Wells Operatic Society – Guys & Dolls                      

The Adjudicators

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MIKE CLARKE

Michael has been involved with the theatre, in one way or another, for nearly 50 years. He started at Sally Noble's Bristol Youth Theatre at the age of 10 and went onto graduate from The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in the mid-1980s. Thereafter he worked as a professional actor for a couple of decades. In the 2000s until 2016 Michael worked as a full-time drama teacher, teaching all age groups from year 3 to year 11. In 2012 he gained a first-class honours degree in Theatre Studies from the University of Manchester. Michael currently works full time as a site manager in the construction industry.

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NICK GOODALL

Nick started learning the piano at the age of five and attended the Central Oxford Music School for six years, learning piano with Vernon Jones and playing the violin in the Oxfordshire County Youth Orchestra. He has recently retired from a long and successful career in education. He was Director of Music at Stonar School in Wiltshire for the last 28 years. Throughout his teaching career, he continued to perform regularly as a pianist and bass player and has written several instrumental compositions. He works closely with a number of local musical groups.

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ROSS HARVEY

Ross Harvey is a professional actor trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has worked in theatre, television and radio drama. Theatre includes seasons with The Royal Shakespeare Company, Basingstoke and several major productions for the Bristol Old Vic. He has toured extensively with Bristol’s Ministry Of Entertainment since 1999. He works extensively as a corporate actor in the UK, South America, Far East and India.

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CHRIS HOWLAND-HARRIS FRPharmS, IPresc

Chris worked in NHS primary care which he combined with being a writer, and for many years wrote an anonymous satirical column for a national pharmacy magazine. In addition, he has appeared in amateur drama and theatre sketches, been employed for corporate presentation and voice-over work, and recently has written and directed a number of amateur productions. Now semi-retired, Chris also performs with a sea shanty group that tours regularly around the South West.

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CAROLINE JOY BA Hons, ATCL

Caroline has been involved in television, radio, theatre and performance for the past seventeen years, including touring with a theatre company. She is now a full-time Speech and Drama Teacher.

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DAVE MASTERS 

Dave spent his early 20s trying to become a full time musician and song writer, and is currently involved in an occasional funk and pop covers band. He has been a radio presenter Thornbury FM/ GLOSS FM co-writing a variety of sketches and has been employed for voice over work. He has played in amateur Pantomime, ‘Whodunits’, Farces and Musicals with several local companies  

 

Dave has worked on original pieces, including a World War One period dialogue, a play about Brexit, Morris dancing, and relationships called ‘Folk’, a short two handed play called ‘Right Moves’, and an original production based on ‘A Christmas Carol’

Dave is retired from corporate life and is a frequenter of theatre, for large and small productions both amateur and professional.

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TASH MOORE

Tash studied Musical Theatre at Guildford School of Acting and since graduating in 2004 has worked as an actor, mostly in theatre and often in 'actor-musician' productions. She has also worked freelance across the Film and Television industries in production and crew roles, and in-house for a major UK broadcaster

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CLAIRE MORRIS BEd

Claire studied English and Drama at Leicester University.  During this time she worked in a Parisian recording studio, her voice being used in the production of French/English learning material. She worked as a Drama teacher before moving to the South West where she has been an active member of three different amateur dramatic groups.

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GERRY PARKER - Drama Critic

A journalist and broadcaster with wide experience as an actor and director, Gerry has contributed theatre and music reviews to The Bristol Evening Post (now the Bristol Post), Western Daily Press and other journals since 1970. For many years he has written a weekly column on local theatre for the Bristol Post newspaper.

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ANGIE SISSONS

Angie has been involved with amateur theatre for over 40 years. She has always loved visits to the cinema and theatres especially to see musicals which her mother introduced her to at a very young age. When Angie moved to Failand in 1978, she joined the local drama group. From then until it closed in 2020, Angie was always involved in one capacity or another in the many and varied shows they presented.

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Angie has always enjoyed reading despite being, as she now knows, dyslexic. From Enid Blyton to Shakespeare, Angie would read it all and loves seeing stories brought to live on the stage.

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CLARE TOGHILL BA Hons, FAETC

After qualifying, Clare Toghill taught, directed and choreographed in the Far East, The Middle East and Europe for a number of years. She was responsible for creating theatre-based curricular programmes for schools in Asia and for staging large-scale productions in several countries. She was an in-house Choreographer for a Singapore-based touring Theatre Company during her time there. Clare still teaches Drama and English in schools, lectures in colleges and tutors privately.

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HELEN TOMPSON

With experience in theatre, radio, and film, and a Masters in Scriptwriting, Helen brings a strong understanding of storytelling to her role as an adjudicator. Helen has written and script-edited original works and her passion for community theatre has led her to adjudicate for several years. Helen values creativity and performance over budget, aiming to offer thoughtful, constructive feedback. Helen's understanding of script analysis and storytelling helps her appreciate each production's unique strengths and artistic vision.

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CAROLINE WHITEHEAD - Senior Adjudicator

Caroline trained as a classical singer and pianist. She has performed opera, light opera, classical concerts and musicals for more than 30 years with both amateur and professional ensembles. Caroline works as a vocal coach and has been a musical director for numerous productions in the South West. She also conducts mixed choirs, as well as playing the piano and the cello. As the widow of David Whitehead, Founder of Stage Electrics, Caroline retains a particular interest in lighting, sound and stage management aspects of performance.

The Committee

The Rose Bowl Awards are managed by a Committee comprising family representatives of the founders, Walter Hawkins and John Coe, and other officers and committee members.

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Founding Patrons: Joan Hawkins, Peter Coe, Eleanor Murphy

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President:  Gerry Parker

Chair:  Caroline Whitehead​

Secretary:  Liz-Anne Hendy​

Treasurer:  Rob McDonald

Brian Fisher (Chair of the Awards Ceremony Sub-Committee)

Helen Moss OBE

Veronica Northam

©2025 by The Rose Bowl Awards. 

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