2025 BBTA Winners

• Best Female Lead Actor in a Play — Beverley Knight, Marie & Rosetta (The Rose Theatre)

• Best Male Lead Actor in a Play — Arinzé Kene, Alterations (National Theatre)

• Best Director — Lynette Linton, Intimate Apparel (Donmar Warehouse)

• Best Male Lead Actor in a Musical — Jay Perry, Hamilton (Victoria Palace Theatre)

• Best Female Lead Actor in a Musical — Shanay Holmes, Oliver! The Musical (Gielgud Theatre)

• Best Production – Play — Shifters (Duke of York’s Theatre)

• Best Musical Production — The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre)

• Best Producer — Chuchu Nwagu

• Best Musical Director — Takisha Sargent, The Women of Llanrumney

• Best Choreographer/Movement Director — Ingrid Mackinnon, Princess Essex

• Best Dance Production/Performer — Our Mighty Groove

• Best Sound/Lighting Design — Eamonn O’Dwyer

• Theatre Design — Georgie Lynch 

• Book & Lyrics — Trish Cooke 

• Best Playwright — Anne Odeke 

• Best Casting Director — Heather Basten 

• Best Supporting Male Actor in a Play — Emmanuel Akwafo, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

• Best Supporting Female Actor in a Play — Cash Holland, A Raisin in the Sun

• Best Supporting Male Actor in a Musical — Cedric Neal, Hadestown

• Best Supporting Female Actor in a Musical — Jade Marvin, Starlight Express 

• Best Child Performer (Under 16) — Keilah Kofi, The Lion King

• LGBTQIA+ Champion — Newton Matthews

• Best Teacher — Stewart Avon-Arnold, Studio 59 

• Lord Michael Hastings of Scarisbrick Award — Liam Godwin

• Lifetime Achievement Award — Nicola Blackman (Sponsored by London Theatre Direct)

For the full list of winners and highlights from the night, visit BBTAs Official Website.

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