Awards
The Finborough Theatre has won the Pearson Award bursary for playwrights seven times for Chris Lee in 2000, Laura Wade in 2005, James Graham in 2006, Al Smith in 2007, Anders Lustgarten in 2009, Simon Vinnicombe in 2010 and Dawn King in 2011 – as well as the Pearson Award for Best Play for Laura Wade in 2005 and - under its new name - the Catherine Johnson Best Play Award in 2007 for James Graham and for Anders Lustgarten in 2010. Anders Lustgarten also won the inaugural Harold Pinter Playwrights Award for the same play, A Day at the Racists, in 2011.
The Finborough Theatre won the Empty Space Peter Brook Award in 2010 and for a second time in 2012. It was also the inaugural winner of the Empty Space Peter Brook Award’s Dan Crawford Pub Theatre Award in 2005 which it also won again in 2008. It has also won the Empty Space Peter Brook Mark Marvin Award in 2004 . The Finborough Theatre won four awards in total at the 2011 Off West End Awards including Best Artistic Director, Best Director, Best Lighting Bar and Best Theatre Bar in South West London. At the 2012 Off West End Awards, the Finborough Theatre won eight awards in total including Best Artistic Director and Best Director for the second year running, and Best Production, Best Male Performance and Most Promising New Playwright.
The Finborough Theatre was awarded The Stage 100's inaugural Fringe Theatre of the Year award in 2011.
Neil McPherson was named as Best Artistic Director in the 2009 Fringe Report Awards and both the 2011 and 2012 Off West End Awards, and won an award for the Encouragement of New Writing from the Writers Guild of Great Britain in 2010.
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