Awards
Galway International Arts Festival’s theatre productions and co-productions have received 15 national and international theatre awards from 39 Nominations for its work from 2011-2018. Two further Special Tribute Awards were received by Festival artists Stephen Rea and Olwen Fouéré in recognition of their wider body of work throughout their careers, with special mention of their recent Festival-produced work.
2014 - Edinburgh
riverrun
By James Joyce, adapted by Olwen Fouéré
TheEmergencyRoom and Galway International Arts Festival in association with Cusack Projects Ltd.
Awards
The Stage Award for Acting Excellence – Olwen Fouéré
Herald Arcangel Award – Olwen Fouéré
2011 - New York
Misterman
By Enda Walsh
Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival
Award
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance - Cillian Murphy
The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2018
Grief is the Thing with Feathers
Adapted and directed by Enda Walsh and starring Cillian Murphy
The original production of Grief is the Thing with Feathers, produced by Complicité and Wayward Productions in association with Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival, had its world premiere in Galway and Dublin in March 2018. The show was co-produced with the Barbican, London, Cork Opera House, Edinburgh International Festival, Oxford Playhouse, St Ann’s Warehouse and Warwick Arts Centre.
Nominations
Best Production
Best Actor - Cillian Murphy
Best Director - Enda Walsh
Best Set - Jamie Vartan and Will Duke (video projection)
Best Sound - Teho Teardo and Helen Atkinson
The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2017
Woyzeck in Winter
Adapted and directed by Conall Morrison
Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival
Nominations
Best Production
Best Actor - Patrick O'Kane
Best Supporting Actress - Rosaleen Linehan
Best Set Design - Jamie Vartan
Best Lighting Design - Ben Ormerod
Best Costume Design - Joan O'Clery
Awards
Best Actor - Patrick O'Kane
Best Supporting Actress - Rosaleen Linehan
The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2016
Arlington
By Enda Walsh
Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival
Nominations
Best Designer: Set – Jamie Vartan
Best Sound Design – Helen Atkinson and Teho Teardo
Arlington is also nominated for the Audience Choice Theatre Award.
Award
Best Designer: Set – Jamie Vartan
The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2015
Judges’ Special Award
Nomination
Galway International Arts Festival - For its consistently supportive role as co-producer of independent theatre.
The Match Box
By Frank McGuinness
Galway International Arts Festival
Nominations
Best New Play – Frank McGuinness
Best Actress – Cathy Belton
Luck Just Kissed You Hello
By Amy Conroy
HotForTheatre and Galway International Arts Festival
Nomination
Best New Play – Amy Conroy
2014
Ballyturk
By Enda Walsh
Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival
Nominations
Best Production
Best Director – Enda Walsh
Best Actor – Cillian Murphy
Best Designer: Set – Jamie Vartan
Best Designer: Lighting – Adam Silverman
Best Sound Design – Helen Atkinson and Teho Teardo
Awards
Best Production
Best Sound Design – Helen Atkinson and Teho Teardo
Stephen Rea received the Special Tribute Award in recognition of his continued commitment to the artform, his work with the Field Day Theatre Company, and his recent roles, particularly in Ballyturk.
2013
riverrun
By James Joyce, adapted by Olwen Fouéré
TheEmergencyRoom and Galway International Arts Festival
Nominations
Best Actress – Olwen Fouéré
Best Design: Lighting – Stephen Dood
Best Design: Sound – Alma Kelliher
Award
Best Design: Sound – Alma Kelliher
Olwen Fouéré was awarded the Special Tribute Award for her extraordinary contribution to Irish theatre.
2012
The Great Goat Bubble
By Julian Gough
Fishamble: The New Play Company & Galway International Arts Festival
Nomination
Best Lighting Design – Nick McCaul
2011
Misterman
By Enda Walsh
Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival
Nominations
Best Production
Best Actor – Cillian Murphy
Best Designer: Lighting – Adam Silverman
Best Designer: Set – Jamie Vartan
Awards
Best Actor – Cillian Murphy
Best Set Design – Jamie Vartan
Galway International Arts Festival were also an associate on Druid Murphy, directed by Garry Hynes, which won 3 Irish Theatre Awards, including Best Production.
Druid Murphy
By Tom Murphy
Druid presents in a co-production with Galway Arts Festival, Quinnipiac University Connecticut, NUI Galway and Lincoln Center Festival
Nominations
Best Production
Best Actress – Eileen Walsh (Conversations on a Homecoming)
Best Actor – Marty Rea (A Whistle in the Dark)
Best Actor – Garrett Lombard (Conversations on a Homecoming)
Best Supporting Actress – Marie Mullen (Conversations on a Homecoming)
Best Supporting Actor – Gavin Drea (A Whistle in the Dark)
Best Supporting Actor - Aaron Monaghan (Conversations on a Homecoming)
Awards
Best Production
Best Supporting Actress – Marie Mullen (Conversations on a Homecoming)
Best Supporting Actor - Aaron Monaghan (Conversations on a Homecoming)
“The spirit of Galway International Arts Festival is all-inclusive, accessible and always open to suggestion. Contemporary festivals fall over themselves to state their commitment to both street and ‘high art’. The difference in Galway is, that ambition is realised.”
– The Observer
“The biggest, most exciting, most imaginative explosion of arts activity this country has.”
– The Irish Times
“A glorious kaleidoscopic fortnight of events.”
– The Irish Examiner
“Galway... one of the most significant arts festivals anywhere.”
– The Irish Independent
"One of Europe’s Top 20 Art and Culture Festivals in 2018."
– Flight Network
"One of the most spectacular arts festivals in the world."
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