Awards & Acclamations
Year
1995
1996
1998
&
2000
1999
2001
2004
Production
La Boheme, Bramhall Hall Arts Festival Founding Production
Robin Hood, Dunham Massey
Wizard of Oz, Heaton Park
The Lowry
Wind in the Willows, Tour
Blue Remembered Hills, Tour
Three Musketeers, Heaton Park
Award
Nominated: Manchester Evening News Award
Winner: City Life Readers Award
Winner: Manchester Evening News Award
'Best Special Entertainment'
Nominated: Manchester Evening News Award
Nominated: Manchester Evening News Award
Nominated: Manchester Evening News Award
Winner: Angel Award for Artistic Excellence
2007
Caroline Clegg
Horniman Award
for 'outstanding contribution to live theatre'.
2010
Slave - A Question of Freedom
The Lowry, Salford
A Question of Freedom Anti-Slavery Day Media Award, from the Human Trafficking Foundation
2011
Slave - A Question of Freedom
UK Tour
A Question of Freedom Best New Play, Pete Postlethwaite, Manchester Evening News Award
North West Theatre, Best New Play, Best Director, Best Actor (Lashana Lynch)
2019
Caroline Clegg
Nominated for Sky Arts South Bank Award, Best Opera (Rhonnda Rips it Up, WNO)
Nominated for International Opera Award, Best Opera (Rhonnda Rips it Up, WNO)
2023
Caroline Clegg
Nominated for International Opera Award, Best Opera (Blaze of Glory, WNO)
Nominated for UK Theatre Award, Best Opera (Blaze of Glory, WNO)
2006
Arthur - King of the Britons, Heaton Park
Voted The Independent's No1 Top Family Show
Horniman Award
Annie Horniman is rightly regarded as the founder of the British repertory theatre movement, and it all began right here in Manchester. Using £25,000 of her family’s packet tea fortune, in 1908 she bought Manchester’s Gaiety Theatre, intent on bringing classics and new locally written plays to working class audiences.
One hundred years before this award was presented to Feelgood, Annie Horniman changed the face of British theatre, establishing the first-ever repertory theatre company in this country at the Midland Hotel, where the tea heiress would hold court in the bar, smoking like a chimney and generally outraging the good folk of Manchester. Out of the repertory theatre movement has emerged many of this country's finest actors and actresses, which is why the Theatre Awards panel decided to name this special award for people or institutions who have made a unique contribution to theatre in this area. This year's recipient of the Horniman Award, then, is Caroline Clegg (pictured left) whose Feelgood Theatre Productions have put a new spin on the rep. tradition and have certainly established a wonderful new precedent, with their marvellous outdoor shows in Heaton Park.