awards

POLLY THOMAS

2024   Sandford St Martin Awards • best audio : finalist • Requiem by Harrison Knights and Misia Butler

2024   ARIA Awards • best music special : finalist • Vergil! A Mythological Musical by Maria Dahvana Headley, after Vergil

2024   Imison Award • best new audio drama : finalist • Happy Hour by Liv Fowler

2024 BBC Audio Award • best supporting actor : winner • Mark Heap as Max Brod in Kafka’s Dick by Alan Bennett

2024 BBC Audio Award • best use of sound : shortlist • Slow Air by Dan Rebellato, sound design by Eloise Whitmore

2023 BBC Audio Award • best drama series : winner • Exemplar by Ben and Max Ringham, with Dan Rebellato

2023 ARIA Award • best original drama : finalist • Love Across the Ages by Shahid Iqbal Khan

2022 ARIA Award • best original single drama : silver • You & Me by Dan Rebellato

2022 BBC Audio Award • best original single drama : finalist • You & Me by Dan Rebellato

2022 BBC Audio Award • best use of sound : shortlist • Killer by Eugene Ionesco dramatised by Dan Rebellato, sound design by Eloise Whitmore

2021 BBC Audio Award • Year of Reinvention : commendation • Connections by Michael Southan, Anita Karla Kelly, Leanne Allen, Kathryn Golding and Shahid Iqbal Khan, script advisor Sarah Daniels

“The judges wish to commend the rapid turnaround of five short pieces, supported by the Audio Content Fund, which had dramas played out on community radio stations, written by and mainly starring people with disabilities. Dealing with isolation in lockdown and finding ways to make connections, these were performed with vivacity and a lightness of touch. Re-invention doesn’t have to be the sole preserve of the big players at the BBC.”

2020   Tinniswood Award • best radio drama : winner • Death of a Matriarch by Tanika Gupta

2019   BBC Audio Award • best adaptation : winner • A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens dramatised by Ayeesha Menon

2019   Imison Award • best new audio drama : winner • Of a Lifetime by Lulu Raczka

2018   New York Festivals Radio Award • gold radio : best drama special • The Hours by Michael Cunningham dramatised by Frances Byrnes

2018   Whickers World Foundation RAFA Award • radio production award : shortlist • with Alex Bulmer

Still from The Whickers pitching video, 2018
[ Alex Bulmer and Polly Thomas, still from The Whickers RAFA Pitch 2018 video, courtesy The Whickers ]

2017   Audio Production Award • bronze : best drama producer

2017   ARIA Award • best factual programme : shortlist • Between the Ears : Sounds Like She by Alex Bulmer, music by Errolyn Wallen

2017   BBC Audio Award • best adaptation : winner • Emile Zola : Blood Sex and Money season dramatised Dan Rebellato, Oliver Emanuel and Martin Jameson

2015   Writers’ Guild of Great Britain • Olwen Wymark Theatre Encouragement Award : winner

2014   Radio Production Award • silver : best radio drama producer

2013   BBC Audio Award • best drama series : winner • The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Boll, abridged by Helen Meller

2013   Radio Academy Award (Sony Award) • best original drama : bronze • My Boy by Laura Lomas

2010   Radio Academy Award • best radio drama producer

2010   Radio Academy Award (Sony Award) • best original drama : bronze • Divided We Fall by Mike Harris

2009   Radio Academy Award (Sony Award) • best original drama : shortlist • Cavalry by Dan Rebellato

2004   Radio Academy Award (Sony Award) • best original drama : bronze • Coming Down the Mountain (radio) by Mark Haddon

2004   Radio Academy Award (Sony Award) • best original drama : finalist • The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham dramatised by Dan Rebellato