Festival Winners
LDF 2019 WINNERS
Junior Group Reigate Grammer School
Runners-Up Woking College
Adult Group Spiral Curtain
Runners-Up Oast Theatre TTAC
Best Junior Actress Emelye Kenyon-Brown (Reigate Grammer School)
Best Junior Actor Dan Cuckow (Woking College)
Best Adult Actress Elizabeth McCreadie (Oast Theatre TTAC)
Best Adult Actor Tim Brown (Pranksters Theatre Company)
Richard Houghton Award (J) RAAS Drama
Richard Houghton Award (S) Oast Theatre TTAC
New Writing Award (J) Woldingham School (Alice 13)
New Writing Award (S) Louise Fahey & Millie Thomas (Greta)
Director’s Award (J) Marianne Hare (Reigate Grammer School)
Director’s Awards (S) Rodney Pearson (Spiral Curtain)
Past Winners
Richard Houghton Award (Junior)
2005 Therfield School
2006 Cathy Hudson, Director (Therfield School)
2007 Harlequin Youth Theatre
2008 Harlequin Youth Theatre
2009 Feltonfleet School
2010 Caterham School
2011 Applause Youth Theatre Company
2012 Applause Youth Theatre Company
2013 St. John’s School
2014 Croydon High School
2015 Reed’s School
2016 Bronte Skey (Therfield Theatre Co.)
2017 Croydon High School, Group A
2018 Caterham School
2019 RAAS Drama
Richard Houghton Award (Senior)
2005 Evergreen Theatre
2006 Evergreen Theatre
2007 Nathan Cassidy, New Writing (Oast TTAC)
2008 The Freewheelers Theatre Company
2009 Ashtead Players
2010 Manor Theatre Group
2011 The Green Theatre
2012 Savvy Theatre’s Adult Group
2013 Phil Bingham & Allan Treadwell
2014 Churt Amateur Dramatic Society
2015 Sandra Barfield & Geoff Daniels Sevenoaks)
2016 Terri Winchester (Freewheelers)
2017 Akemi Theatre
2018 Oast Theatre TTAC
2019 Oast Theatre TTAC
New Writing Award (Junior)
2008 Emily Stewart (‘The Third Expedition’)
2012 Rosie Lloyd (‘Passenger’)
2013 St. John’s School (‘The Prawn King’)
2015 Rosie Clarke (‘Kill the Lights’)
2016 Reigate Grammar School (‘Alzheimer’s’)
2017 Bronte Skey, Eddie Keenan,
Douglas Harnoll ( Tainted Rose)
2018 Caterham School Junior Rep. (Destiny)
2019 Woldingham School (Alice 13)
New Writing Award (Senior)
2008 Wilf Hashimi (‘May we? Oui, mais …’)
2009 Tony Earnshaw (‘The Door’)
2010 Stefan Dubois (‘Obeying Orders’)
2011 Tony Earnshaw (‘Visiting Time’)
2012 Wilf Hashimi (‘Saving for Dolphins’)
2013 Geoff Rose-Michael (‘Cold-Blooded Killer’)
2014 Jo Stone (‘Enemies’)
2015 Georgina Tremayne (‘Marie’s Crisis Café’)
2016 Phil Bingham (‘Precipice’)
2017 Branko Ruzic, (The Donor)
2018 Laura Harper (We are the Multitude)
2019 Louise Fahey & Millie Thomas (Greta)
Adjudicator’s Award
2004 Freewheelers Theatre Company
Director’s Award (Junior)
2015 Rodney Pearson (Cobham Players
2016 Bronte Skey (Therfield Theatre Co.)
2017 Claire Nevers, Gina Marshall (Woking College Theatre Co.)
2018 Jo Warburton, Alex Powell (City of London Freemen’s School)
2019 Marianne Hare (Reigate Grammer School)
Director’s Award (Senior)
2015 Rodney Pearson (Cobham Players
2016 Judith Dolley (RDG)
2017 Mark Rumble (Runnymede Drama Group)
2018 Sandra Barfield (Oast Theatre TTAC)
2019 Rodney Pearson (Spiral Curtain)
The Coach Trophy – Adult Winners
2004 Fetcham Players
2005 Ashtead Players
2006 Ember Players
2007 Runnymede Drama Group
2008 The Guidbury’s
2009 Sevenoaks Players
2010 Woldingham Players
2011 Prometheus Theatre Company
2012 Runnymede Drama Group
2013 Cobham Players
2014 The Pranksters Theatre Company
2015 Cobham Players
2016 Runnymede Drama Group
2017 Runnymede Drama Group
2018 Tiger Theatrical Productions
2019 Spiral Curtain
Best Adult Actress
2004 Tracey Renwick (Ember Players)
2005 Amanda Fairbank Hynes (Ashtead Players)
2006 Mary Taylor (Cobham Players)
2007 Elizabeth Lattimore (Claygate)
2008 Sharon Radburn (Head 2 Head)
2009 Linda Hart (Sevenoaks Players)
2010 Millie Hart & Samantha Myers (Cobham Players)
2011 Vanessa Morley (Capricorn Theatre Company)
2012 Stephanie Adams (St. Paul’s Drama Group)
2013 Kate Chambers (Woking College)
2014 Emma Dixon (Epsom Players)
2015 Annie Young (Barfield Players)
2016 Elizabeth McCreadie (TTAC)
2017 Karen Dix (Oast Theatre TTAC - A)
2018 Elizabeth McCreadie (Oast Theatre TTAC)
2019 Elizabeth McCreadie (Oast Theatre TTAC)
Best Adult Actor
2004 Bob Hamilton (Fetcham Players)
2005 Mike May (Fetcham Players)
2006 Edward Turtle (Bookham Players)
2007 Richard Jeffreys (Stag Theatre)
2008 Bob Wells (Byfleet Players)
2009 Tom Cobley & Chris Westgate (MV Scriptwriting Grp)
2010 David Cunnigham (MV Scriptwriting Group)2011 Duncan Wigman & Jamie Sims (Prometheus)
2012 David Webb (Runnymede Drama Group)
2013 Jason Lambert (Cobham Players)
2014 Daniel Shelley (Like Minds)
2015 Adam Dryer (Tiger Productions)
2016 Nick Smith (TTAC)
2017 Josh Smith (Runnymede Drama Group)
2018 Adam Dryer (Tiger Theatrical Productions)
2019 Tim Brown (Pranksters Theatre Company)
The Mini Trophy – Junior Winners
2004 ECH Actors
2005 Centre Stage Theatre School
2006 Therfield School
2007 Therfield School
2008 Therfield School
2009 Caterham School
2010 Applause Youth Theatre Company
2011 Woking College Theatre Company
2012 Woking College Theatre Company
2013 Applause Youth Theatre Company
2014 St. John’s School
2015 Reigate Grammar School
2016 St John’s School
2017 Reigate Grammer School
2018 City of London Freemen’s School
2019 Reigate Grammer School
Best Junior Actress
2004 Amanda Fairbank Hynes (Ashtead PA)
2005 Alice Bird (ECH Actors)
2006 Lucy Ebison (St. John’s School)
2007 Katherine Sparshatt (Chipstead)
2008 Jessie Stent (AYTCo)
2009 Emma O’Brien (Caterham)
2010 Jessica Dolan (Goffs School)
2011 Rosie Lloyd (L’head Performing Arts)
2012 Jessica Stent (AYTCo)
2013 Lara Queiros (George Abbot School)
2014 Georgia Taylor (Woking College Theatre Co.)
2015 Kelly Walton (AYTCo)
2016 Goya Verity (Reigate Grammar School)
2017 Louisa Mangat-Daley (EEHS Performers)
2018 Grace Godfrey (Caterham School)
2019 Emelye Kenyon-Brown (Reigate Grammer School
Best Junior Actor
2004 Thomas Wood (Centre Stage)
2005 Jasper Loxton (St. John’s School)
2006 Joe Newton (Therfield School
2007 Joe Newton (Therfield School)
2008 Jonathan Lloyd (Therfield School)
2009 Barnie Banks (St. John’s School)
2010 Jamie Fawcett & Jack Flammiger (AYTCo)
2011 Jack Flammiger (AYTCo)
2012 Robbie Ventham (St. John’s School)
2013 Andrew Chalmers (St. John’s School)
2014 Matthew Mahoney (AYTCo)
2015 Matthew Mahoney (AYTCo)
2016 Jay Small (In Yer Face Productions)
2017 Joshua Millar (Caterham School)
2018 Jeremy Kolker (Woking College) 2019 Tim Brown (Pranksters Theatre Company)