The Black British Theatre Awards (BBTA) were launched in 2019 and recognise excellence among Black performers and creatives in the UK.
The 2019 Black British Theatre Awards winners and nominees were: Recognition Group AwardsLight and Sound Recognition AwardSet Design Recognition Award Tony Gayle Sadeysa Greenaway-BaileyBook and Lyrics Recognition Award Musical Director Recognition Award Debbie Tucker Green Arinze Kene Inua Ellams Benjamin Kwasi Burrell Michael Henry Sean Green Creatives Group AwardsBest DirectorBest Producer Lynette Linton for Sweat Roy Alexander Weise for Nine Night Nancy Medina for The Half God of Rainfall Tobi Kyeremateng, Babylon Festival, Bush TheatreBest ChoreographerBest Opera Production Shelley Maxwell for Equus Alesandra Seutin for Reckoning Rachael Nanyonjo for Sleeping Beauty Porgy and Bess, ENO at the London Coliseum|- !Best Dance Performance !Best Dance Production
Prentice Whitlow in The Rite of Spring Carlos Acosta in Don Quixote Precious Adams in Manon The Rite of Spring at the Sadler's Wells The Suit/Dream Within a Midsummer Nights Dream Sylvia, ZooNation Plays AwardsBest Male Actor in a PlayBest Female Actor in a Play Arinzé Kene in Misty Kwami Odoom in The Half God of Rainfall Aaron Pierre in King Hedley II Gloria Williams in Bullet Hole Rakie Ayola in The Half God of Rainfall Sharon D Clarke in Death of a SalesmanBest Supporting Male Actor in a PlayBest Supporting Female Actor in a Play Lenny Henry in King Hedley II Osy Ikhile in Sweat Sule Rimi in All My Sons Michelle Greenidge in Nine Night Cherrelle Skeete in King Hedley II Martine Laird in King Hedley IIBest Production of a Play The Half God of Rainfall The Small Island Nine Night Musicals AwardsBest Male Actor in a MusicalBest Female Actor in a Musical Layton Williams in Everybody's Talking About Jamie
Jay Perry in Motown: the Musical
Kobna Holdbrook-Smith in Tina - The Tina Turner Musical Sharon D Clarke in Caroline, Or Change Rachel John in Hamilton Maiya Quansah-Breed in SixBest Supporting Male Actor in a MusicalBest Supporting Female Actor in a Musical Cavin Cornwall in Jesus Christ Superstar Jason Pennycooke in Hamilton Arun Blair-Mangat in Leave to Remain Beverley Knight in Sylvia Amara Okereke in Les Misérables Kelly Agbowu in Waitress Madeline Appiah in Tina - The Tina Turner MusicalBest Musical Production Hamilton Tina - The Tina Turner Musical Motown: the Musical Achievement AwardsBest Teacher of Performing Arts as a SubjectBest Recent Graduate Award Angeline Bell, Urdang Academy Dollie Henry, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance Amara Okereke, ArtsEd Maiya Quansah-Breed, Guildford School of Acting
Lifetime Recognition Award - Sharon D Clarke
See also
Laurence Olivier Awards WhatsOnStage Awards Evening Standard Theatre Awards Tony Awards Drama Desk Awards
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