Winner 2002
Winner:
Joe Hill-Gibbins
Production:
A Thought in Three Parts by Wallace Shawn
Joe was 24 years old when he recieved the JMK Award, and had graduated from Manchester University Drama Department in 1999. Since 2000 he had been working as an assistant director and senior script reader at the Royal Court. A Thought In Three Parts was his first professional production as director.
For me winning the Award made the difference between being a director and not being a director. You can do workshops, process based work and assisting jobs (which all help) but until you are directing a play for production, you aren't really a director. The Award gave me the opportunity to do the job for first time; an opportunity I couldn't get anywhere else. Also it allowed me to follow my own passions, as I could choose the play I wanted to direct. The Award opened up many opportunities afterwards. It was for me a significant and brilliant experience - Joe Hill-Gibbins
This is a very strange evening that proves that Joseph Hill-Gibbins richly deserved his award and that Wallace Shawn is a radically different and always interesting playwright
- Philip Fisher of the British Theatre Guide
In 2002 the final shortlist contained six applicants. Our BAC workshops were run by Erica Whyman, then Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre and designer David Rogers.
Our 2002 Runner-up, Bijan Sheibani, produced The Stoning by Iranian playwright, Ghazi Rabihavi, and David Salter, runner up in 2000, directed The Life of Galileo by Bertol Brecht in the Main House at BAC, a production developed from his Trust application proposal.
