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2010 - ’ÄòHELENA BLUNDEN’Äô SONG FINALIST FOR WRITING AWARD Paul Boyd and Bernie McGill’Äôs musical The Haunting of Helena Blunden premiered on tour across Ireland from February - March 2010. After the show closed it was announced that two songs from the score, ’ÄòInvisible’Äô and ’ÄòCut Above The Rest’Äô, were being considered for the 2010 Stiles & Drewe Prize for Best Song from A New Musical. ’ÄòCut Above The Rest’Äô was named as a finalist for the prize and was performed at The Queens Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, on 6th June 2010. 2008 - ’ÄòALICE THE MUSICAL’Äô CELEBRATES 10th ANNIVERSARY To mark its 10th birthday Alice The Musical received its English premiere in a new pbm-licensed production at The Castle Theatre in Northamptonshire, directed by Simon Wegryzn and its professional USA premiere at The Actors’Äô Playhouse in Miami, Florida, directed by Earl Maulding. The USA production was so successful that The Actors’Äô Playhouse re-staged the show as part of its Fall 2009 season. In 2008 - 2009 there were also a record number of student and non-professional productions of Alice The Musical throughout the world, with stagings in Ireland, England, the USA, and Australia. 2007 - ’ÄòPINOCCHIO’Äô NOMINATED AT THE TMA THEATRE AWARDS The TMA (the Theatrical Management Association) is a pre-eminent UK wide organisation whose members include repertory and producing theatres, arts centres and touring venues, major national companies and independent producers, and opera and dance companies. The TMA Theatre Awards are an annual event held in London’Äôs West End, and in 2007 Paul Boyd’Äôs self-directed production of his musical Pinocchio for the Lyric Theatre Belfast was nominated as The TMA Equity Best Show For Children and Young People, making it one of the top three shows produced that year for children and young people in the UK. 2006 - ’ÄòPINOCCHIO’Äô RUNS IN DUBLIN AND BELFAST CONCURRENTLY Paul Boyd’Äôs musical Pinocchio became the first musical production to be staged simultaneously at theatres in Ireland’Äôs capital cities (Belfast and Dublin) when in 2006 the Lyric Theatre Belfast’Äôs pbm-licensed production (directed by Paul Boyd) and the Pavilion Theatre Dublin’Äôs pbm-licensed production (directed by Georgia Simpson) opened in November. The productions utilised stage designs by Stuart Marshall and costume designs by Pat Musgrave, with pbm undertaking the artistic direction of both shows. 2006 - ’ÄòMcCOOL’Äô SELECTED FOR NAMT FESTIVAL IN NEW YORK The rock musical McCool was a big hit when it premiered on tour across Ireland in 2002 with a cast that included West End star Rachel Tucker. In subsequent years the show has been presented in student productions across the country as part of pbm’Äôs acclaimed annual musical theatre Summer School. In 2006 McCool was selected as one of only a handful of new musicals representing the UK at the NAMT’Äôs Festival of New Musicals in New York. 2006 - ’ÄòMOLLY WOBBLY’Äô SHORTLISTED IN HIGHLAND QUEST In 2006 Eden Court Theatre launched its Highland Quest For A New Musical to find the show that would re-open the Scottish venue following its mult-million pound refit. Paul Boyd’Äôs work-in-progress Molly Wobbly’Äôs Tit Factory made it onto the shortlist to win the competition and received favourable critiques from the judges, although Paul later withdrew from the contest due to other work commitments. The show was eventually developed for production, premiering in a staged concert version at Belfast’Äôs Lyric Theatre in October 2011, and is set for a full production in 2012. 2005 - pbm SHOWS RUN IN NEIGHBOURING DUBLIN THEATRES In 2005 pbm had the distinction of presenting two of Paul Boyd’Äôs musicals in two neighbouring Dublin theatres simultaneously; pbm’Äôs own production of Alice The Musical transferred from its original home at The Market Place Theatre in Armagh to begin a run at the Pavilion Theatre in Dublin just as An Grianan Theatre’Äôs pbm-licensed production of Pinocchio transferred to the Civic Theatre in Dublin. This is believed to have been a first for any living musical theatre writer in Ireland. 2003 - ’ÄòPINOCCHIO’Äô NAMED BEST MUSICAL BY NATIONAL PAPER At the end of 2003 Ireland’Äôs national Sunday newspaper The Sunday Life presented a Drama Review of the Year covering work produced across the country throughout the year. Paul Boyd’Äôs musical Pinocchio, which was then premiering at The Market Place Theatre Armagh in a pbm production directed by the author, was named Best Musical in a year that had seen a high number of musical productions staged in Ireland. 1999 - ’ÄòALICE THE MUSICAL’Äô NOMINATED AT THE BCA AWARDS In 1999 Paul Boyd’Äôs Alice The Musical was nominated as Best Drama at the annual Belfast City Arts Awards, hosted by Belfast City Council. The Awards were designed to celebrate all facets of artistic endeavour in the City and the Best Drama category covered all genres of theatre. Alice The Musical was one of only four shows nominated in 1999, and was the only production nominated from the Lyric Theatre’Äôs entire 1998 - 1999 season of work. Sadly, the Belfast City Arts Awards have since ceased to exist. 1992 - ’ÄòALL WIRED UP’Äô WINS GREER GARSON THEATRE AWARD In 1992 Paul Boyd’Äôs first play All Wired Up was named Best New Play by the judges of the annual Greer Garson Theatre Award. The award, which is announced annually by an academic panel at the University of Ulster, is given to new a play that has a Northern Irish theme. Hollywood actress Greer Garson was born in Northern Ireland and she bequeathed the award to the University in her will. 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