In pictures: The Stage Awards 2018

Photos formThe Stage Awards ceremony and party 2018 by Eliza Power and Alex Brenner…
The Stage Awards arrivals
Photos: Alex Brenner
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Jack Gamble, head of communications, Arcola (award winner) and Ayesha Casely-Hayford chair, board of trustees, Act for Change

Hope Mill Theatre artistic directors Joseph Houston and Katy Lipson with executive director William Whelton

The Believers Are But Brothers designer Louise Gregory, writer Javaad Alipoor and producer Luke Emery (award nominees)

Mia Hall-Sessions, Barbara Speake, Charlie McMaster, director/agent Shereen Boucher (Barbara Speake Stage School scholarships winners)

Birmingham Hipodrome head of business development Judith Greenburgh and Laura Smith (head of communications)

Sherman Theatre Cardiff executive director Julia Barry and artistic director Rachel O'Riordan (award winners)

Heritage Arts (Vault Festival) co-director Andy George, founder/creative producer Tim Wilson and creative director Mat Burt

Nominees Mike Lees (costume designer), Sarah-Jane Booth (co-director) of The Attic with Joel Fisher, creative producer, Actors Centre

Guest of Artistic Directors of the Future Reginald Edmund, playwright, Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway (founder/managing director), guests of ADF playwrights Saad Eddine Said and Ruthie Osterman

The Stage Scholarship winners from Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts Ben Perkins and Kalila Khan with headteacher Karen Dwyer-Burchill

Minor Entertainment creative director Andrew Collier, the Other Palace artistic director Paul Taylor-Mills and Pleasance Theatre Trust director Anthony Alderson

Sponsors, Encore Radio: managing director Dave Alsybury, sales relationship manager Emma Russ, account manager Jonny Bunyan and content director Jamie Crick

Sylvia Young, founder and director Julie Martin with Sylvia Young and The Stage Scholarship winner Nicholas Antoniou-Tibbittts (front)
The Stage Awards ceremony
Photos: Eliza Power
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Unsung Hero award winner, interior designer Clare Ferraby, accepts her award from Bryan Raven, managing director of sponsor White Light Ltd

Katy Fuller, Hull City of Culture 2017 creative director, accepts the award for producer of the year

Director Matt Hassall and member Yandass Ndlovu from Royal Exchange Young Company accept the award for school of the year

Artistic director Joseph Houston accepts the award for fringe theatre of the year for Hope Mill Theatre

Award presenter, Nick Potter, group international business director from sponsor, Ambassador Theatre Group

Imaginate head of marketing Marion Bourbouze and producer Pamela Walker accept the international award

Sherman Theatre's artistic director Rachel O'Riordan and executive director Julia Barry accept the award for regional theatre of the year
The Stage Awards party
Photos: Eliza Power
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Award winners Imaginate head of marketing Marion Bourbouze and producer Pamela Walker with Jonathan Downs, Sandringham Schools assistant theatre manager

National Theatre executive director Lisa Burger, SOLT_UK Theatre chief executive Julian Bird and former culture minister Ed Vaizey

Paul Martin, news editor Matthew Hemley and 1927 co-director Suzanne Andrade and producer Jo Crowley

Spirit Young Performers Company's Sophie Boyce with The Stage Scholarship winners Tyler Davis and Kate Jevons

Ben Chamberlain (Corner Shop PR), Paula Rabbitt (Manchester Royal Exchange) and Chris Wardle (Liverpool Everyman Theatre)

The Stage careers advisor John Byrne, Cervantes Theatre's Paula Paz and Jorge de Juan with The Stage contributor Sam Marsden

1927 co-director Suzanne Andrade, director and The Stage Debut Award winner Lekan Lawal, playwright Ruthie Osterman, Saad-Eddine Said (Terre Sans Frontier)

Interior designer Clare Ferraby, The Stage's Ian Herbert, Gavin Henderson (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) and Nick Thompson (former leader of Arts Team)

Guest of Artistic Directors of the Future Reginald Edmund, playwright, Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway (founder/managing director), guests of ADF playwrights Saad Eddine Said and Ruthie Osterman

Reginald Edmund, award winners Royal Exchange Young Company's Matt Hassal, Yandass Ndlovu and Justina Aina
