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unusual facts about Olivier Award



Amanda Harris

A longstanding member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, she received an Olivier Award for her role as Emilia in the 2004 RSC production of Othello.

Anthony Chisholm

He also performed Jitney at London's Prestigious National Theatre on the South Bank winning the Olivier Award for Best New Play.

Deborah Findlay

She won the 1997 Outer Critics' Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play (sharing the award with Allison Janney and Celia Weston) as well as the Olivier Award for her performance in Stanley.

Philip Battley

He appeared for two seasons with the Shakespeare's Globe theatre company in The Comedy of Errors, and was a member of the cast of Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry at the Tricycle Theatre, London, which won the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre.

The Ugly Duckling

Other musical versions include the song “The Ugly Duckling” composed by Frank Loesser and sung by Danny Kaye for the 1952 Charles Vidor musical film Hans Christian Andersen, and Honk!, a musical based on the tale which was produced in Britain and won an Olivier Award.

Theatre 503

It went on to win the Peter Brook Empty Space Award, was nominated for a Time Out Live Award in 2006, and won an Olivier Award in 2010 for its production of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop.


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Cheryl Frances-Hoad

Cheryl was one of six featured composers in Tete a Tete's opera project Family Matters (based on Beaumarchais’ third Figaro play The Guilty Mother) with a libretto by Olivier-Award winner Amanda Holden: workshops took place in Battersea Arts Centre in September 2003, with the final opera being staged throughout February 2004 at the Bridewell Theatre, followed by twelve performances around the country.

Dance Umbrella

Dance Umbrella’s co-commission of Siobhan Davies’ Art of Touch wins Olivier award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance

Lars Hertervig

Jon Fosse created an homage to Hertervig with his 1995 novel Melancholia I, and also wrote the libretto for Georg Friedrich Haas's opera adaptation Melancholia which premiered at the Opera Garnier in Paris on 9 June 2008 on stage by Stanislas Nordey (Lawrence Olivier Award 2008 for a new opera) and costumes of Raoul Fernandez.