The first Stephen Joseph Award will be presented in September 2021, but it is hoped to make it a recurring event as a lasting tribute to Stephen’s contribution to our theatre culture. We are now please to share the trophy which the winner of this award will receive alongside a certificate of achievement and there achievement celebrated in the ABTT’s journal of record, Sightline magazine.

The Stephen Joseph Award will be a polished bronze miniature theatre-in-the-round which will have the award recipeitnts names engraved on the underside.
Designed and made by Andrew Sanders, SJC Member, it was inspired by a drawing done by Stephen Garrett, an architect friend of Stephen Joseph, which appeared on theatre programmes of Stephen Joseph’s company at the Library Theatre Scarborough 1955-62.

The award is being made to mark the centenary of Stephen Joseph’s birth and to celebrate the achievements of a person or company that embody the kinds of theatre he cared so passionately about, with a close relationship between performer and audience at its heart.

Credit: The Award was developed using images from Scarborough Theatre Trust/Stephen Joseph Theatre and a drawing of a theatre-in-the-round from Terry Lane’s archive, recently donated to the V&A.