The London Awards for Art and Performance is the country's most expansive awards and recognises artists and performers across many art-forms. Each is presented to an individual or team who have made an outstanding contribution to their art form.

Who better than the nominees themselves to judge each category. We'll be asking nominees in each of the categories to pick their top artist/s and from that we'll arrive at the shortlist and award winner who will receive the trophy. The shortlist and winner will be announced at the Presentation Ceremony in June.

There will also be a public vote, where anyone can vote online. However, this will only be taken into account if there's a tie in the nominee votes.

Long list in competition (click on title for more) - nominations: 16

London Theatre Award Nomination Edward Dick: '[on The Pitchfork Disney] This thrilling and disturbing production by Edward Dick brilliantly balances emotional realism with the soaring fantasy of the text, and has a superb cast... A marvellous evening.'

Venetia Twigg · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Feb 18

London Theatre Award Nomination Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin: [on Matilda] .. the classic Roald Dahl story about a genius little bookworm who triumphs against the odds using her genius brain is now a musical that is...well, genius. Piano-pounding comedian Tim Minchin and writer Dennis Kelly are the brains behind the brilliance..'

Alice Stride · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Jan 31

London Theatre Award Nomination Abi Morgan: 'Crying throughout ‘Lovesong’ is not obligatory, but it’s bloody hard not to. It reminds us that life is overwhelming and tough, that time is a mystery and love is a leap - nay, a bungee jump - of faith.'

Alice Stride · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Jan 23

London Theatre Award Nomination Suzanne Andrade: ‘[on The Animals and Children Took To the Streets] .. conjures a world so complete it feels as if you've fallen down a rabbit hole...the appeal is in its restrained malevolent tastefulness, but this is much more than an ingenious exercise in style. This is our world held up to the looking glass so that we can read the backwards writing on the wall.’

Alice Stride · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Jan 14

London Theatre Award Nomination Mark Leipacher: '.. one of the many virtues of this exciting production [Mary Stuart at the New Diorama] is that it gives us an intimate, stripped down and mercifully unrhetorical version of Schiller's great 1800 romantic tragedy... Instead of giving us a battle for supremacy between two star performers, Leipacher has come up with an ensemble production that reminds us that Schiller looks back to Shakespeare and forward to John le Carré.'

Venetia Twigg · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Jan 14

London Theatre Award nomination Mike Shepherd: '.. it's strangely appropriate, the underlying adult themes are still present, and there's plenty of visual excitement to keep even the cynical children of today entertained.'

David Knight · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Dec 14

London Theatre Award nomination Lindsay Posner: '.. the comic invention is so prodigal that there are moments when you are no longer certain quite what you are laughing at. All you know is that you can’t stop.'

Venetia Twigg · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Dec 14

London Theatre Award nomination Lucinda Coxon: 'Coxon's brutal but icily funny three-hander is the dramatic equivalent of a triple shot of something bitter and delicious... '

Venetia Twigg · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Dec 10

London Theatre Award nomination Nikolai Foster: '[Annie] Liberated from schmaltz and cynicism, this warm-hearted Christmas entertainment offers a blueprint for economic recovery.'

David Knight · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Dec 02

London Theatre Award nomination Michael Attenborough: ' .. [his] sharp and imaginatively designed production, wittily punctuated by the pop songs of Queen.' [on Reasons To Be Pretty]

Venetia Twigg · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Nov 25

London Theatre Award nomination Cathal Cleary: 'Disco Pigs is a rollicking, high- speed neck-breaker of a play, which propels the audience through scenes so quickly they risk whiplash.'

Shadi Hamta · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Nov 22

London Theatre Award nomination Michael Sheen: '.. just the right electrically dangerous, mocking intelligence for the part.' [Hamlet]

David Knight · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Nov 22

London Theatre Award nomination Rachel De Lahay: '[on The Westbridge] .. a stellar display of thespian muscularity, the show is set to be an edgy success.'

Venetia Twigg · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Nov 09

London Theatre Award nomination Richard Bean: '.. laughed-out audiences night after night mean that thanks to Bean’s deft rewrites, James Corden can forget Lesbian Vampire Killers.'

Venetia Twigg · Facebook · Twitter · Email · Nov 03

London Theatre Award nomination Joe Hill-Gibbins: '[on The Beauty Queen of Leenane] This was the play that launched the prodigious career of Martin McDonagh back in 1996 and it remains an almost diabolically effective piece of theatre, as is proved anew by Joe Hill-Gibbins's pitch-perfect, blackly hilarious revival, now making a return to the Young Vic after a sell-out run last summer.'

Facebook · Twitter · Email · Oct 01