Music & Drama Education Awards 2024: Shortlist announced
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Winners in all 17 categories will be announced at a live ceremony at the London Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square on 22 February 2024.
The shortlists for 14 categories in the Music & Drama Education Awards 2024 have been announced, revealing those in the running to take home an award at the ceremony in February next year.
Run annually by Music Teacher and Drama & Theatre magazines, the Awards celebrate the work and initiatives of schools, organisations, charities and individuals in both music and drama education.
The Awards also includes a new category this year celebrating an Outstanding Music Education Print Resource.
The judging panel is made up of prominent figures in music and drama education, including winners of previous year’s awards.
For drama and the cross-over categories, the judges are Hattie Fisk (chair), Alison Mears, Maddie Short, Natalie Clarke, Steve Ball and mezze eade.
Meet the judges here.
Bringing the sector together in challenging times, the ceremony will feature live performances, a drinks reception, and a three course dinner.
The shortlisted entries in drama and the cross-over categories are as follows:
Excellence in SEND (Music and Drama)
- Awards and Certificates in Musical Development, Trinity College London
- Count Me In!, Youth Music, Univ. of Roehampton and Services For Education
- Creative Music Nurture Groups, Hertfordshire Music Service
- Live Music Now's INSPIRE, Musicians in Residence
- UpRising Balloon, Music Education Hubs East Midlands
- Sounds Wild, Soundabout
Excellence in Musical Theatre (Music & Drama)
- A Summer in Ruins, A Place for Us CIC
- CAPA Juniors, Trinity Academy Cathedral
- Rhymes LIVE!, London Rhymes
- Starcast Performing Arts schools in Salisbury and Fordingbridge
- Theatre Peckham
Excellence in Primary/Early Years (Music and Drama)
- Listen Imagine Compose Primary, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
- Musical Mondays, Live Music Now
- Play Percussion, Sing Up
- The Creative Space, Brays School
- Thinking Music
Outstanding Drama Initiative
- Lit in Colour, Bloomsbury Publishing
- Immersive Telepresence in Theatre, Coventry University
- Light UP, Unexpected Places
- Speech Bubbles, London Bubble
- What You Will, Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation
- Write Here Write Now, Polka Theatre
Outstanding Drama Education Resource
- Beyond the Canon’s Plays for Young People, Bloomsbury Publishing
- Drama Games for Exploring Shakespeare by Nick Hern Books and Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation
- Frantic Studio, Frantic Assembly
- Prospero, Computers&Theatre
Outstanding School Drama Department (sponsored by Broadway Licensing Global)
- ClassAction, Godalming Sixth Form College
- Malton School and Sixth Form
- Beaumont School
- Wellington College
- Chiswick School
Drama Inspiration Award
- Adam Milford
- Kirsty Marsh
- Megan Ratcliff
- Russeni Fisher
The winners of three other categories will also be announced on 22 February: the Lifetime Achievement Award, the Music Teacher Magazine Editor’s Award (sponsored by Avid), and the Drama & Theatre Magazine Editor’s Award.
The headline sponsors of the awards are Broadway Licensing Global and Casio Music UK.
Information about how to purchase tickets for the ceremony can be found here, and the shortlists for all categories can be found here.
N.B. Judges with a connection to an entry did not participate in the judging of that category.
