Final details have been announced for the Olivier Awards 2025 with Mastercard, which will take place this Sunday 6 April at the Royal Albert Hall, hosted by Beverley Knight and Billy Porter.
A star-studded array of presenters will hand out the coveted awards to this year’s winners, including Hayley Atwell (currently in Much Ado About Nothing at Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Rose Ayling-Ellis (2023 Olivier Award nominee), Samantha Barks (fresh from her London Palladium concert), Cate Blanchett (The Seagull at the Barbican Theatre), Corbin Bleu (set to appear in The Great Gatsby at London Coliseum), Tom Burke (The Seagull), Naomi Campbell (model & actress), Elizabeth Debicki (My Master Builder at Wyndham’s Theatre), Idris Elba (recently produced Shifters), Marianne Elliot (set to direct The Unbelievers at the Royal Court Theatre), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Here We Are at the National Theatre – Lyttelton), Martin Freeman(The Fifth Step at @sohoplace), Tom Hiddleston(Much Ado About Nothing), Celia Imrie (Backstroke at the Donmar Warehouse), Shobana Jeyasingh (choreographer), Jane Krakowski(Here We Are), Ewan McGregor (My Master Builder), Chris O’Dowd (The Brightening Air at The Old Vic), Elaine Paige (actress & BBC Radio 2 presenter), Harriet Scott and Gok Wan (Magic Radio presenters), Bryn Terfel (opera singer) and Jacqueline Wilson (children’s author).
A recent graduate of Guildford School of Acting, and currently represented by BBA Management, musical theatre performer Tobias Turley has had a very promising start to his career – starring in Heathers the Musical as Kurt at The Other Palace Theatre and Strictly Come Dancing professional, Giovanni Pernice’s This is Me as lead male vocalist. Currently seen on ITV’s search to find the next Sky Ramand – the lead protagonist in ABBA’s smash his musical Mamma Mia! Tobias currently prepares for the final of I Have a Dream, to air on Sunday 9th December! He tells us more about his experience of the overall audition process.