The Diana Boddington Award
Diana Boddington enjoyed a hugely successful career as a stage manager, working with Tyrone Gutherie, Orson Wells and Laurence Olivier at the New Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre and the National Theatre, where she remained until her retirement in 1987.
She was highly respected by the many leading names she worked with and was honoured to be the first stage manager to receive an MBE for services to the theatre. Diana enjoyed close links with Mountview, where her daughter, Claudia trained, so it is a fitting tribute to present an annual award in Diana’s name, to an outstanding Technical Theatre student graduating from Mountview.
WINNERS
2003 SHARON LEWIS
2004 KINGSLEY COOK
2005 WILLIAM ROBERTS
2006 ALEX WALTERS
2007 AMBER TOMLIN
2008 SIMON BOYER-WILLSSON
2009 KATE RIEDLER
2010 NIAMH COOPER
2011 ABBIE PROCTER
2012 LAURA ELPHICK
2013 EDWARD LOCKE
2014 ANTHONY HANNAH
2015 MICHAEL HUMPHRIES
2016 SAM HAWKES
2017 ELLA WHEWAY
2018 ESTENIAH WILLIAMS
2019 CHANTELLE DOBBS