BHAC’s Annual Drama Awards programme provides an opportunity for not-for-profit theatrical groups across Sussex to showcase their work to wider audiences and to celebrate and recognise the talents of all those involved.
For the 2025 Drama Awards, the plays will be adjudicated by actor, singer, and lecturer Polly Broad.
On public adjudication nights, members of the audience are welcome to stay after the performance and hear comments from the adjudicator.
Drama Awards Entries 2025
Hurst Players
Two by Jim Cartwright
16th to 20th September
Public Adjudication, Thursday 18th September, 7.30pm
Southwick Players
The Unfriend by Steven Moffatt
24th to 27th September
Public adjudication, Thursday 25th September, 7.30pm
Wick Theatre Company
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
8th to 11th October
Public Adjudication, Thursday 9th October, 7.30pm
Rottingdean Drama Society
Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense by David and Robert Goodale
8th to 11th October
Public adjudication, Friday 10th October, 7.45pm
Burgess Hill Theatre Club
Theatre Festival
Lockdown in Little Grimley by David Tristram & Commuters by Natasha Graves
17th to 19th Oct
Public Adjudication Friday 17th October, 7.30pm
Handbagged by Moira Buffini & Aria da Capo by Edna St. Vincent Millay
24th to 25th October
Public Adjudication Friday 24th October, 7.30 pm
SO Musical Theatre
Curtains by John Kander and Fred Ebb
12th to 15th November
Public adjudication, Saturday 15th November, 7.30pm
Ditchling Players
Cranford from the novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, adapted by Martyn Coleman
26th to 29th November
Public adjudication, Thursday 27th November, 7.30pm
About Polly Broad
Polly has been an Acting and Musical Theatre lecturer in post compulsory education for 23 years. She is course leader for the level 3 Musical theatre programme as well as the Level 4 professional Diploma in performance and lecturer for the BA Acting and Musical theatre programmes at Northbrook College Sussex . Alongside her work at Northbrook she is a director, performer and singer working in the industry.
As a singer she has performed in venues and festivals across the UK including Bexhill After Dark, Oxford Playhouse, The Southill Arts Centre and Acapella Festival Kings Cross. She has performed in Acapella choirs, world music choirs and bands for over 25 years. She has supported artists such as Seckou Keita. Polly has an interest in composing for Brechtian text and has written the music for over 10 Brechtian performances.
Polly is a trained actor and a member of clowning theatre company Teatro Unfortunato for the past 20 years. Most recently she has worked with local Brighton Theatre Company Murmuration Arts for their 2023 touring production of ‘The Owl and The Pussycat’. This tour included Glastonbury, Mouth of the Tyne, Unwrapped, Brighton Fringe Festivals.
Polly’s recent directing work includes performance director for Stanmer Park’s ‘Brighton Lights’ Festival, Dramaturg for Cascade/Speak Up Act Out and Love and Information Brighton Fringe ‘24. She has an MA in Theatre Directing.
Her directorial specialisms include Music Theatre (Stratford Circus, London, Northbrook, The Lantern Theatre) Stand Up comedy (Brunswick, Charles Dickens, Windsor Arts Centre, Northbrook), Brechtian Theatre (Brighthelm, Marlborough Theatre, Northbrook, Windsor Fire Arts Centre), Musical Theatre where she has directed over 25 full scale productions.