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Victoria Wood CBE (19 May 1953 – 20 April 2016) was an English comedian, actress, lyricist, singer, composer, pianist, screenwriter, producer and director. Wood wrote and starred in dozens of sketches, plays, musicals, films and sitcoms over several decades and her live comedy act was interspersed with her own compositions which she performed at the piano.
The show won the first Victoria Wood award at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2023 [13] and raised almost £20,000 for Richards' family. [14] Awards.
Each award currently has a separate sponsor, being sponsored by Sky TV, DLT Entertainment and The Victoria Wood Foundation, respectively. They have previously been sponsored by Perrier, lastminute.com, Dave, [1] and Foster's Lager. Currently three awards are given – Best Comedy Show, Best Newcomer and the Panel Prize.
Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV is a British comedy sketch series written by and starring comedian Victoria Wood, with appearances from Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, Susie Blake and Patricia Routledge. The show was televised on BBC2 between 1985 and 1987 and included sketches that became famous in the United Kingdom.
Flaherty Award for Single Documentary. Winner: First Tuesday — Four Hours In My Lai; Other nominees: Everyman: Romania — State of Fear; Lost Children of The Empire; Viewpoint '89: Cambodia — Year 10: A Special Report by John Pilger; Huw Wheldon Award for Arts Programme or Series. Winner: Omnibus: Art In The Third Reich
Andrée Molyneux, Diarmuid Lawrence, Charles Wood: BBC One: Screen One: "Pat and Margaret" Ruth Caleb, Gavin Millar, Victoria Wood: Stages: "Suffer the Little Children" Jack Emery, Betsan Morris-Evans: BBC Two: 1996: Screen Two: "Persuasion" Fiona Finlay, Roger Michell, Nick Dear: BBC Two: Eleven Men Against Eleven: Jimmy Mulville, Andy ...
One of his biggest successes came in 1985, when he produced and directed the multi-award-winning Victoria Wood As Seen On TV, a sketch show written by (and starring) the comedian. [3] Posner has since produced and directed some of the most popular British television comedies of the 1990s and 2000s.
Victoria Wood decided to revive the original concept to satirise musical theatre with Acorn Antiques: The Musical!, with the intent to give people a "lovely, happy night in the theatre.". [ 1 ] It was directed by Trevor Nunn , and opened at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in February 2005 for a three-month sell-out run. [ 2 ]