# National Drama Festivals Association

The National Drama Festivals Association (NDFA) was formed in 1964 to encourage and support amateur theatre, in particular through the organisation of drama festivals in the United Kingdom.
Since 1974 the NDFA has organised the British All Winners Drama Festival (BAWF) where the best of British amateur theatre take part in a week-long celebration of theatre. The winners of all NDFA member festivals in the previous year, including full-length or one-act member festivals, are eligible for invitation to take part.
The NDFA sponsors two playwriting competitions - the George Taylor Memorial Award and the Nan Nuttall Memorial Awards. The objective of this competition is to promote new writing for the theatre. Adjudication is carried out by a panel of judges, and the winners receive a certificate and a cash prize.
Membership of the NDFA is open to all drama festival organisations, theatre groups and individuals who are interested in supporting drama festivals in the UK.

## British All Winners Drama Festival
### Awards

There are a number of awards presented at the British All Winners Drama Festival which include:
* FULL LENGTH PLAYS
** OVERALL WINNER - The Mary Blakeman Trophy
** RUNNER UP - The Amateur Stage Trophy
** ADJUDICATOR'S AWARD - The Felixstowe Festival Trophy
** BACKSTAGE AWARD - The Sydney Fisher Trophy
* ONE ACT PLAYS
** OVERALL WINNER - The Irving Trophy
** RUNNER UP - The NDFA Council Trophy
** ADJUDICATOR'S AWARD - The Amateur Theatre Trophy
** BACKSTAGE AWARD - The Sydney Fisher Trophy
** AUDIENCE APPRECIATION - Halifax Evening Courier Award
* YOUTH ENTRY
** WINNER OF YOUTH SECTION - The NDFA Trophy
** YOUTH PARTICIPATION AWARD - The Buxton Trophy
** YOUTH AUDIENCE APPRECIATION - The GADOC Joyce Cook Memorial Trophy

### Results

| Number | Year | One Act Plays | One Act Plays | One Act Plays | One Act Plays | Full Length Plays | Full Length Plays | Full Length Plays | Full Length Plays | Venue | Location | Adjudicator |
| Number | Year | Winners (Irving Trophy) | Nationality | Runners Up (NDFA Council Trophy) | Nationality | Winners (Mary Blakeman Trophy) | Nationality | Runners Up (Amateur Stage Trophy) | Nationality | Venue | Location | Adjudicator |
| 39th | 2012 | Runnymede Drama Group (A Kind of Alaska by Harold Pinter ) | ENG | Entity Theatre Company ("Three Nights with Madox" by Matei Visniec) | ENG | Halifax Thespians (Someone Who'll Watch Over Me by Frank McGuinness) | ENG | Legion Players ("April in Paris" by John Godber) | ENG | Thwaites Empire Theatre | Blackburn | Russell Whiteley GoDA |
| 38th | 2011 | Prometheus Theatre Company ("Tape" by Stephen Belber) | ENG | GADOC ("Effie's Burning" by Valerie Windsor) | ENG | FissiParous Theatre ("Stones in His Pockets" by Marie Jones) | ENG | Whole Hog Productions ("Metamorphosis" by Steven Berkoff) | ENG | Beau Sejour Theatre and the Princess Royal Performing Arts Centre | St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands | Tony Rushforth GoDA |
| 37th | 2010 | GADOC (“Life Lines” by Amy Rosenthal) | ENG | St Ursula Players (“The Invisible Man” by Jennifer Johnson) | ENG | The Heath Players (“The Sociable Plover" by Tim Whitnall) | ENG | Stafford Players (“Humble Boy” by Charlotte Jones) | ENG | The Thameside Theatre | Grays, Essex | Paul Fowler GoDA |
| 36th | 2009 | Karvid Productions - Hemel Hempstead (Alas Poor Fred by James Saunders) | ENG | The Lighted Fools Theatre Company (The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter) | ENG | Bejou Productions (Someone Who'll Watch Over Me by Frank McGuinness) | ENG | Horncastle Theatre Company (The Accrington Pals by Peter Whelan) | ENG | Rhoda McGaw Theatre | Woking | Mike Kaiser GoDA |
| 35th | 2008 | Send ADS - Surrey (The Island by Athol Fugard) | ENG | St.Pauls Drama Group - Surrey (Happy Jack by John Godber) | ENG | Everyman Productions - Co Sligo (Juno and the Paycock by Seán O'Casey) | IRE | Wakefield Little Theatre - Yorks (Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller) | ENG | The Gaiety Theatre | Douglas, Isle of Man | Colin Dolley GoDA |
| 34th | 2007 | Woking College Theatre Company (Home Free by Landford Wilson) | ENG | Lightnin' Drama Group (Circus of Life by Sue Ospreay) | ENG | Bejou Productions (Art by Yasmina Reza (translated by Christopher Hampton)) | ENG | The Lamproom Theatre, Barnsley (Turns by John Kelly) | ENG | Albert Hall Theatre | Llandrindod Wells | Scott Marshall GODA |
| 33rd | 2006 | Barn Theatre Club (Marry Me a Little by Stephen Sondheim) | ENG | Runnymede Drama Group (And Go To Innisfree by Jean Lenox Toddie) | ENG | Belvoir players (Someone Who'll Watch Over Me by Frank McGuinness) | NIR | Cytringan Players ('night, Mother by Marsha Norman) | ENG | Rhoda McGaw Theatre | Woking | Mike Tilbury GODA |
| 32nd | 2005 | Pump House Theatre (April in Paris by John Godber) | ENG | ( ) | TBC | ( ) | TBC | ( ) | TBC | The Halifax Playhouse | Halifax, West Yorkshire | Russell Whiteley GODA |
| 31st | 2004 | Leonic Players (A Conversation of Sorts by Les Littlewood) | ENG | New World Theatre Club, Luxembourg (Footprints in the Sand by Colin Crowther) | LUX | In Yer Space (The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband by Debbie Isitt) | ENG | Halifax Thespians (The Salvage Shop by Jim Nolan) | ENG | Albert Hall Theatre | Llandrindod Wells | Scott Marshall GODA |
| 30th | 2003 | Bovingdon Players (Hertfordshire) (“Me and My Friend” (act ii) by Gillian Plowman) | ENG | BAWDS (Cambridge) (North of Boston by Robert Frost) | ENG | The Lamproom Theatre Company (Barnsley, S Yorks) (Up 'n' Under by John Godber) | ENG | In yer space (Preston, Lancs) (A Night in November by Marie Jones) | ENG | Forest Arts Centre | New Milton, Hants | Tony Rushforth GODA |
| 29th | 2002 | Runnymede Drama Group (Five Kinds of Silence by Shelagh Stephenson) | ENG | The Bradford Players Theatre Co. (Jam by Graham Fife) | ENG | Everyman Productions (The Mai by Marina Carr) | IRE | Chelmsford Theatre Workshop (Nunsense by Dan Goggin) | ENG | Castle Hall, The Wash | Hertford | Scott Marshall GODA |
| 28th | 2001 | Pump House Theatre Company (Home Free by Lanford Wilson) | ENG | Storrington Theatre Workshop (The Room by Harold Pinter) | ENG | Sudbury Dramatic Society (Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose) | ENG | Cardiff Players (Communicating Doors by Alan Ayckbourn) | WAL | Rhoda McGaw Theatre | Woking | Mike Tilbury GODA |
| 27th | 2000 | Runnymede Drama Group (Scarecrow by Don Nigro) | ENG | Wilstead Players (Porch by Jack Heifner) | ENG | Brigstowe Theatre Company (Entertaining Mr Sloane by Joe Orton) | ENG | Thurrock Courts Players (Neville's Island by Tim Firth) | ENG | Spa Pavilion Theatre | Felixstowe | Jeannie Russell GODA |
| 26th | 1999 | East Essex Players (Laughter In the Shadow of the Trees by John Prideaux) | ENG | Bovingdon Players (A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking by John Ford Noonan) | ENG | Enniscorthy Theatre Group (The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh) | IRE | Deben Players (Key for Two by John Chapman and Dave Freeman) | ENG | Thameside Theatre | Grays | Rex Walford GODA |
| 20th | 1993 | | | | | | | | | | Porthcawl | |
| 4th | 1977 | | | | | | | | | | Buxton | |