Olivier Award winners: Jodie Comer and Paul Mescal take home the big prizes – full list

Jodie Comer and Paul Mescal were among the big winners at the 2023 Olivier Awards, which were launched tonight at London’s Royal Albert Hall. To scroll down for the full list of winners.

Comer won Best Actress for her West End debut in the critically acclaimed legal thriller Big face, which had a total of five nominations, including Best New Play and Best Director. The play was written by Australian-British author Suzie Miller. That night the play won two awards, Comer’s win and Best New Play.

Mescal won Best Actor for his reincarnation of Stanley Kowalski in Rebecca Frecknall’s stunning adaptation of the Tennessee Williams theater classic End station required. The play, which won a total of three awards tonight, premiered at the Almeida Theater in north London but has since moved to the West End.

Mescal accepted the award and paid tribute to Frecknall by calling the British director his “favourite director”.

“You guided us from the beginning and pushed us to make this piece our own,” Mescal said, “but it’s all yours. It comes from your extreme talent.”

Mescal and Comer are both first-time winners of the Olivier Award. Elsewhere mescals tram Co-star Anjana Vasan won Best Supporting Actress, while the play also received the gong for Best Revival.

The award for best director went to Phelim McDermott for his work My neighbor Totoro, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s stage adaptation of the cult 1988 Studio Ghibli animated film. Totoro was the most nominated production this year with nine nominations including Best Entertainment or Comedy Play, Best Director, Best Theater Choreographer, Best Original Score and a Best Actress nomination for Mei Mac. The play won six prizes tonight.

Standing on the edge of heavena National Theater production followed totoro with eight nominations, the most for a musical. Set in Sheffield, England, the production opened in 2019 and won two awards.

The course of the evening was carried out Teddy Lasso Star Hannah Waddingham, who opened the show at the Royal Albert Hall with a musical number. This year’s Lifetime Achievement Award went to Sir Derek Jacobi.

The whole list of Winner Olivier Awards 2023:

Noël Coward Award for Best Entertainment or Comedy

My Neighbor Totoro at the Barbican Theatre

Best Family Show

Hey Duggee The live theater show at the Royal Festival Hall in Southbank Centre

Best Costume Design

Kimie Nakano for My Neighbor Totoro at the Barbican Theatre

Best revival

A Streetcar Named Desire at the Almeida Theatre

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Will Keen for Patriots at the Almeida Theatre

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Anjana Vasan for A Streetcar Named Desire at Almeida Theatre

Blue-i Theater Technology Award for Best Stage Design

Tom Pye for My Neighbor Totoro at the Barbican Theatre

TAIT Award for Best New Opera Production

Alcina from the Royal Opera at the Royal Opera House

Excellent performance in Opera

William Kentridge for his design and direction of Sibyl at the Barbican Theatre

Excellent performance in dance

Dickson Mbi for his choreography of Enogate at Sadler’s Wells

Unusual Rigging Award for Excellence in Affiliated Theatre

The P-Word at the Bush Theater

Sir Peter Hall Award for Best Director

Phelim McDermott for My Neighbor Totoro at the Barbican Theatre

Best actress

Jodie Comer for Prima Facie at the Harold Pinter Theatre

Best actor

Paul Mescal for A Streetcar Named Desire at the Almeida Theatre

Best new piece

Prima Facie at the Harold Pinter Theatre

Best New Dance Production

Traplord by Ivan Michael Blackstock at 180 Studios (The Strand)

Magic Radio Best Music Revival

Oklahoma by Rodgers & Hammerstein! at the Young Vic

Best Original Score or New Orchestrations

Richard Hawley & Tom Deering – Music & Lyrics by Richard Hawley & Orchestrations by Tom Deering – Standing At The Sky’s Edge at the National Theater – Olivier

Best Theater Choreographer

Matt Cole for Newsies at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre

Best lighting design

Jessica Hung Han Yun for My Neighbor Totoro at the Barbican Theatre

Best sound design

Tony Gayle for My Neighbor Totoro at the Barbican Theatre

Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical

Beverly Knight for Sylvia The Old Vic

Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical

Zubin Varla for Tammy Faye at the Almeida Theatre

Best Actor in a Musical

Arthur Darvill for Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! at the Young Vic

Best Actress in a Musical

Katie Brayben for Tammy Faye at the Almeida Theatre

Mastercard Best New Musical

Standing on the edge of heaven in the National Theater – Olivier