Falstaff Awards 2022

Best Play or Musical:

Winner: The Tempest (Round House Theatre)

Nominees:

• The Tempest (Jermyn Street Theatre)
• Twelfth Night (SF Playhouse)
• The Tempest (Round House Theatre)
• Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare in Clark Park)
• Twelfth Night, O Lo Que Quieras (Delaware Shakespeare Festival)

Best Principal Actor/Actress:

Winner: Alex Lawther (Hamlet, Hamlet, Almeida Theatre/Park Avenue Armory)

Nominees:

• Michael Pennington (Prospero, The Tempest, Jermyn Street Theatre)
• Eric Hisson (Prospero, The Tempest, Round House Theatre)
• Michael Gene Sullivan (Sir Toby, Twelfth Night, SF Playhouse)
• Atticus Shaindlin (Malvolio, Twelfth Night, SF Playhouse)
• Alex Lawther (Hamlet, Hamlet, Almeida Theatre/Park Avenue Armory)
• Selena Mykenzie Gordon (Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, Shake on the Lake)
• Cathleen Riddley (Maria, Twelfth Night, SF Playhouse)
• Michelle Terry (Viola, Twelfth Night, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre)

Best Supporting Actor/Actress:

Winner: George Fouracres (Dogberry, Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre)

Nominees:

• Angus Wright (Claudius Hamlet, Almeida Theatre/Park Avenue Armory)
• Jennifer Ehle (Gertrude Hamlet, Almeida Theatre/Park Avenue Armory)
• Cathleen Riddley (Maria, Twelfth Night, SF Playhouse)
• Rachel Pickup (Miranda, The Tempest, Jermyn Street Theatre)
• Tam Williams (Caliban/Ferdinand, The Tempest, Jermyn Street Theatre)
• George Fouracres (Dogberry, Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre)

Best Director:

Winner: Aaron Posner and Teller (The Tempest, Round House Theatre)

Nominees:

• Aaron Posner and Teller (The Tempest, Round House Theatre)
• Tanaquil Márquez (Taming of the Shrew, Delaware Shakespeare Festival)
• Susi Damilano (Twelfth Night, SF Playhouse)
• Robert Icke (Hamlet, Almeida Theatre/Park Avenue Armory)
• Tom Littler (The Tempest, Jermyn Street Theatre)

Best Scenic Design:

Winner: Hildegard Bechtler (Hamlet, Almeida Theatre/Park Avenue Armory)

Nominees:

• Vinnie Mraz (Macbeth, Shake on the Lake)
• Bill English, Heather Kenyon (Twelfth Night, SF Playhouse)
• Hildegard Bechtler (Hamlet, Almeida Theatre/Park Avenue Armory)

Best Sound Design/Original Score:

Winner: Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan (The Tempest, Round House Theatre)

Nominees:

• Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan (The Tempest, Round House Theatre)
• Liz Filios (Taming of the Shrew, Delaware Shakespeare Festival)
• Kwame Kwei Armah and Shaina Taub (Twelfth Night, SF Playhouse)
• Tom Gibbons (Hamlet, Almeida Theatre/Park Avenue Armory)

Best Lighting Design:

Winner: Natasha Chivers (Hamlet, Almeida Theatre/Park Avenue Armory)

Nominees:

• Natasha Chivers (Hamlet, Almeida Theatre/Park Avenue Armory)

Best Costume/Makeup Design:

Winner: Abra Berman (Twelfth Night, SF Playhouse)

Nominees:

• Abra Berman (Twelfth Night, SF Playhouse)
• Hildegard Bechtler (Hamlet, Almeida Theatre/Park Avenue Armory)
• Neil Irish, Anett Black (The Tempest, Jermyn Street Theatre)

Best Choreography or Fight Direction:

Winner: Pilobolus (The Tempest, Round House Theatre)

Nominees:

• Pilobolus (The Tempest, Round House Theatre)
• Melanie Cotton (Taming of the Shrew, Delaware Shakespeare Festival)
• Nicole Helfer (Twelfth Night, SF Playhouse)

Best Script Adaptation/Dramaturgy:

Winner: Twelfth Night, O Lo Que Quieras (Liz Filios and Tanaquil Márquez, Delaware Shakespeare Festival)

Nominees:

• The Tempest (David Stradley, Delaware Shakespeare Festival)
• Twelfth Night, O Lo Que Quieras (Liz Filios and Tanaquil Márquez, Delaware Shakespeare Festival)

Best Film (Any medium):

Winner: The Tragedy of Macbeth (Director: Joel Cohen, A24/AppleTV+)

Nominees:

• The Tragedy of Macbeth (Director: Joel Cohen, A24/AppleTV+)
• Rosaline (Director: Karen Maine, 20th Century Studios)
• Our Little Lives: Shakespeare & Me (Director: Ian Rickson/Russell Brand, Almeida Theatre/Live Now)
• Much Ado About Nothing (Director: Simon Godwin, National Theatre Live)

Best Book, Publication, or Recording:

Winner: Poor Naked Wretches: Shakespeare’s Working People (Stephen Unwin, Reaktion Books)

Nominees:

• William Shakespeare: Complete Works (Second Edition) (Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, Modern Library)
• British Black and Asian Shakespeareans: Integrating Shakespeare, 1966–2018 (Jami Rogers, The Arden Shakespeare)
• Poor Naked Wretches: Shakespeare’s Working People (Stephen Unwin, Reaktion Books)
• Mad about Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room (Jonathan Bate, William Collins)
• Shakespeare's Syndicate: The First Folio, its Publishers, and the Early Modern Book Trade (Ben Higgins, Oxford University Press)
• Shakespeare in Cuba: Caliban’s Books (Donna Woodford-Gormley, Palgrave Macmillan)

Lear Award for Lifetime Achievement:

Peter Brook