The Sam Wanamaker Award

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The Sam Wanamaker Award was instituted by the Globe in 1994 to celebrate work which has increased the understanding and enjoyment of Shakespeare, and which has a similar quality to Sam Wanamaker's own pioneering work.

The Sam Wanamaker Award 2008

Shakespeare’s Globe has awarded the 2008 Sam Wanamaker Award to Professor Andrew Gurr. Professor Gurr is a leading theatre historian of the Shakespeare period; at the Globe he spent twenty years chairing the committee that determined the Globe’s dimensions and shape.

Past Winners

2007 - Jenny Tiramani, Claire van Kampen and Mark Rylance
In recognition of their achievements during the Globe's founding years

2006 - Dawn Saunders QSM
CEO of the Shakespeare's Globe Centre in New Zealand

2004 - John Orrell
Canadian scholar and theatre historian whose work dominated thinking about the building of the Globe for more than the 20 years it took to realise the project

2003 - Stephen Unwin and Barry Rutter
Directors of English Touring Theatre & Northern Broadsides respectively, for bringing Shakespeare to thousands, especially in the regions

2002 - Paul Scofield CBE
For major roles for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre, and in the West End

2001 - John Barton CBE
For his distinguished work with the Royal Shakespeare Company

2000 - Cicely Berry OBE
For her championing the art of speech in the acting of Shakespeare

1999 - Glynne Wickham
For his pioneering academic work in drama

1998 - Janet Arnold
For research into Elizabethan and Jacobean dress

1996 - William Hutt
For 32 years of work at the Stratford Festival, Ontario, Canada

1995 - Leon Garfield
For his Animated Tales of Shakespeare (itself the subject of an exhibition at the Globe in 1995)

1994 - Dr Rex Gibson
For his Cambridge School Shakespeare series

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