Awards and Competitions

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Festival Director: Roise Goan
General Manager: Sarah Durcan

Open to: All official entrants in the festival.
Categories include: Spirit of the Fringe Commissioning Award in association with Project Arts Centre, Fishamble New Writing Award, Bewley's Café Theatre Award, Best Production, Best Male Performer, Best Female Performer, Best Design, Next Stage Wild Card.

Selection Procedure: A panel of independent theatre practitioners selects the winners.
Presentation/Announcement of Awards: The awards are announced on the last night of the festival.

Contact: Katie Molony

Categories: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Designer: Set, Best Designer: Costume, Best Designer: Lighting, Best Production, Best Opera Production, Judges' Special Award, Special Tribute Award. Opera productions are also eligible for nomination in the Design categories.
Open to: The awards are open to all new theatre and opera productions performed by professional theatre companies in Ireland, North and South.
Selection procedure: Three judges attend all eligible productions within each calendar year and compile a shortlist of up to four in each category. Those selected for the shortlist are announced in January in the Irish Times.
Presentation/announcement of awards: The awards are presented every February at a gala prize-giving ceremony in Dublin.

The Allianz Business to Arts Awards celebrates imaginative and effective business partnership with the arts. The call for nominations takes place in February and March each year, with the gala awards ceremony taking place in June. Success at these high-profile awards raises the profile of your organisation within your business sector and within the wider business community.

Awards: Corporate Social Responsibility Award; Best Sponsorship of an Event; Best Sponsorship by a Small to Medium Enterprise (For a business with less than 250 employees); Best Use of Creativity by a Business; The Jim McNaughton Perpetual Award for Best Commissioning Practice (This must be accompanied by a one-page presentation on the artist, as they will be automatically entered into the Jim McNaughton/TileStyle Bursary for Commissioned Artists); Best Arts Champion

Open to: All businesses, large and small, engaging in imaginative and effective sponsorship of the arts. The judges look for collaboration and creativity in business and arts partnerships.

Application Procedure: The Allianz Business to Arts Awards Call for Nominations Form is available on www.businesstoarts.ie

Contact the Business to Arts office for further information

Awards Co-Ordinator: Linda McNulty

The Irish Times Living Dublin Awards are divided into five categories for awards to projects that improve the quality of life in our communities. One of these categories is Culture and Tourism. One award is made from each category.
Individuals, groups, venues of companies who have initiated creative or cultural events in Dublin are invited to enter. Projects could involve organising a festival, exhibition or arts event.
Prize: €25,000 divided between the five categories.
Closing date: July
Application forms are available from the above address or from the website.

Competition Details: An annual award for outstanding work. Presented by the American Ireland Fund.
Application Procedure: Non-submission award

Contact: Liam Ó Maolaodha

Competition Details: Playwriting awards include: Full-Length Play Award; One Act Play Award Total Prize Fund: €1,750
Application Procedure: Competition programme and application form available on request.

Contact: Lorelei Harris

Competition Details: 30-minute radio drama award
Prizes: €3,000 (winner), €2,000 (runner up), €1,000 (second runner up); writing workshops for writes showing promise.The three winning plays will be professionally produced for transmission.
Application Procedure: Entry form and full details available on request
Closing Date: Subject to change, please check website for details.

Contact: John Fairleigh, Honorary Director

Competition Details: Open to new playwrights in receipt of their first professional production in each calendar year.
Prizes: Stewart Parker New Playwright Bursary (stg£8,000); BBC Radio Drama Award (stg£1,000 plus an invitation to submit a play for production); BBC Irish Language Award (stg£1,000 plus an invitation to submit a play for production).
Application Procedure: A non-submission award. Eligible writers are identified from the database of the Irish Playography, with decisions on awards made by the Trustees and appointed advisers. Professional theatre companies may wish to contact the Trust to ensure that all eligible debut playwrights are being considered.
Closing Date: End of calendar year

Please note: Bursary amount may be subject to change in 2012/13.

The Irish Playwrights' and Screenwriters' Guild's ZeBBie Awards celebrate the very best of writing in Ireland for the stage, screen and radio. Every year Guild members nominate and vote for the best scripts in the following five categories: Best Feature Film Script; Best Radio Script; Best Theatre Script; Best Television Script and Best Short Film Script.