Elena Roger and Douglas Hodge

John Tiffany
Best Director, Black Watch
“I love this tactic that you can open a show in 2006 and then in 2009 you win an Olivier Award for it. It's amazing, but then the whole Black Watch journey has just been fantastic and the people involved have, you know, just been so committed and it really is a group effort in the true sense of the word. I liked group effort thing that was going on tonight. I was delighted for Michael Boyd that he won a couple of awards, and I love the idea that people are understanding that theater isn't just an actor or a director: it's a whole world. There were some mad big shows up for awards and this is a real West End ceremony, so for a show like Black Watch to be acknowledged like that is amazing. I'd never been nominated myself, and probably won't be again, and my award was right at the end so I had to stay sober, which is why I'm drinking gin and tonic now.”

Elena Roger
Best Actress in a Musical, Piaf
“I just doubted for a minute that I was going to win and I thought, ‘Oh no, maybe they're going to mention another name!’ So it was great when they said ‘Elena Roger,' and I felt happy and nervous. I didn't know what to do with my body and my words: I didn't prepare any speech so that in case I didn't win I wouldn't feel bad. But of course then I forgot to mention Jamie Lloyd and Michael Grandage and felt guilty because they are the two people who most helped me. But I managed later to find them and tell them that I loved them, and I feel happier now. I am delighted to have this award. I've got one important prize from Argentina and now this from London and I wish someday I'm going to win a Tony Award. [Laughs] Maybe....

Deanna Dunagan and Amy Morton in August: Osage County

With eight days of London performances under her belt, Tony nominee Amy Morton, who plays Barbara, the eldest and feistiest of the play’s three daughters, was relishing the quality of response characteristic of the London theater at its best. “They’re such keen listeners, the London audience,” Morton said, speaking by telephone prior to a Sunday matinee which is itself something of a London novelty: only recently has the National been able to mount shows on what is in most cases a British actor’s one day off. “That’s not to say that American audiences aren’t, [but] there’s something a little bit more subdued about London audiences where you just feel a complete and utter attention which is, you know, great.”...