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
[ 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