Kenneth Tynan Award 2011 Winner
LLOYD TROTT WINS THE INAUGURAL KENNETH TYNAN AWARD.
The Kenneth Tynan Award is the first award for dramaturgy in the United Kingdom. The award has been established to recognise the achievements of a profession that has been instrumental to the success of British theatre: that of the dramaturg, or literary manager.
The award was presented on Sunday, 16th October at 6pm at Southwark Playhouse as part of DN10, the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Dramaturgs’ Network. Michael Billington, theatre critic for The Guardian, presented the inaugural Kenneth Tynan award.
Acknowledging the excellence of their work in the field of dramaturgy the nominees for the inaugural award were: Ruth Little, Lloyd Trott and Katalin Trencsényi.
Ruth Little was nominated as a dramaturg who is “an inspiration to all theatre practitioners” and whose “quality of her insight and work is something to aspire to”.
Lloyd Trott was nominated for his “lifetime achievement and service to dramaturgy”.
Katalin Trencsényi was nominated for her “dedicated and tenacious leadership of the Dramaturgs’ Network”.
The winner of the Kenneth Tynan Award in 2011 for his “lifetime achievement and service to dramaturgy” is Lloyd Trott.
Congratulations!
Lloyd Trott is the academy dramaturg at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. He has taught actors at RADA for 35 years. He plans the Academy’s public repertoire with the Academy’s Director. He develops play scripts and screenplays both within the main Acting Course and RADA’s New Theatre Writing Workshops bringing together RADA graduates from over 5 decades and dozens of bright young directors. Alongside his RADA commitments Lloyd has worked as an Arts researcher, lobbyist and been an elected politician. Representing Dulwich in the last years of the Inner London Education Authority, he set up and chaired a Cultural Review of Inner London. In the mid-nineties he was Dramaturg at Theatr Clwyd. For seven years he taught dramaturgy on the MA Writing for Performance at Goldsmiths College. His current external activities are as a freelance casting director and dramaturg. Lloyd is an Associate of the Wrestling School – the theatre company devoted to producing the plays of Howard Barker.
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