The Olivier Awards 2009
Presented on 8 March 2009 at the Grosvenor House Hotel
Best Lighting Design: The Chalk Garden designed by Paule Constable (Donmar Warehouse)
Best Sound Design: Black Watch designed by Gareth Fry (Barbican)
Best Costume Design: The Histories
designed by Tom Piper and Emma Williams (Roundhouse)
Best New Comedy: God Of Carnage
by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton (Gielgud)
Best Set Design: August: Osage County designed by Todd Rosenthal (Lyttelton)
Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical: Lesli Margherita for Zorro (Garrick)
Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre: The Pride (Royal Court Upstairs)
Best Performance in a Supporting Role: Patrick Stewart for Hamlet (Novello)
Best Actress: Margaret Tyzack for The Chalk Garden
Best Actor: Derek Jacobi for Twelfth Night (Donmar West End at Wyndham’s)
Best Company Performance: The Histories
Best Theatre Choreographer: Steven Hoggett for Black Watch
Best Revival: The Histories
Best Actress in a Musical: Elena Roger for Piaf (Donmar Warehouse, Vaudeville)
Best Actor in a Musical: Douglas Hodge for La Cage Aux Folles (Playhouse)
Best Entertainment: La Clique (Hippodrome)
Best Musical Revival: La Cage Aux Folles,
music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, book by Harvey Fierstein, based on the play by Jean Poiret
Best New Play: National Theatre of Scotland’s Black Watch by Gregory Burke
Best Director: John Tiffany for Black Watch
Best New Musical: Jersey Boys, book by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice,
music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe (Prince Edward)