2011 Prize

LYRIC HAMMERSMITH AND FILTER PRODUCTION
Artistic Director Sean Holmes and Filter reunite to remix, rework and revitalise A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This new version of Shakespeare’s classic play follows the success of Three Sisters and Twelfth Night.

Colin Eccleston - The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, 2011
Hyemi Shin - Wimbledon College of Art, 2011
Anne Gry Skovdal - The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, 2011

ROYAL OPERA HOUSE LINBURY STUDIO THEATRE (ROH2)
Composer Neil Hannon’s 2012 OperaShot will be based on the extraordinary novel Roy Orbison in Clingfilm by the Dusseldorf-based internet eccentric Ulrich Haarbürste. The production will be directed by John Lloyd Davies, and continues ROH2’s OperaShot policy of commissioning composers from outside the operatic mainstream to create new and innovative music theatre work.

Emma Bailey - Motley Theatre Design, 2010
Nina Patel-Grainger - Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, 2010
Holly Pigott - Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, 2011
 
THE OPERA GROUP
The Opera Group’s winner will design the premiere production of a new opera by British composer Edward Rushton and Indian poet Jeet Thayil, Babur in London. Four young people believe they have found their true destiny, until the ghost of a 500-year old Indian emperor, the first of the Mughals, rides up the Thames. This major international collaboration is a partnership with Anvil Arts, Opera North, the British Council, Pro Helvetia and the Ensemble fur Neue Musik Zurich. The production, directed by John Fulljames, will tour Switzerland, India and the UK.

Sarah Beaton - Central School of Speech and Drama, 2011
Jacob Hughes - Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, 2011
Ellan Parry - Motley Theatre Design, 2011

WATERMILL THEATRE, NEWBURY
Shakespeare’s magical play The Tempest, will use a combination of the Watermill’s trademark actor musicians with a newly composed score creating the ‘music of the isle’.  The production will be directed by Paul Hart who trained at the Donmar Warehouse and is now Associate Director for Propeller.

Guoda Jaruseviciute - Central School of Speech & Drama, 2011
Georgia Lowe - Motley Theatre Design, 2010
Jemima Robinson - Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, 2011

Watch the Guardian's audio slideshow of the 2011 finalists' work