Move over Oscar! Waterford News & Star launches Green Room Awards 2025
Pictured at the Theatre Royal for the launch of the Waterford News & Star Green Room Awards 2025, included are Mayor of Waterford City & County Cllr. Jason Murphy, Mary Frances Ryan, Editor and Pat McEvoy, Arts Correspondent, Waterford News & Star, Eadaoin Carrick, Cantec Group, and Tara McCabe and Jenny O'Mahony, Waterford Credit Union - co-lead sponsors of the Green Room Awards, Michael Flynn, FLI, sponsor, with Jack Cunningham Productions' dancers, Fred, Sam, Hannah, Evie, Jaimie, Layla and Evie. Photo: Joe Evans
The Waterford News & Star returns to Waterford city's spectacular Theatre Royal for a gala night of Waterford entertainment, the Waterford News & Star Green Room Awards, on Sunday, March 2, 2025 at 8pm.
Celebrating and honouring Waterford arts, theatre and culture, the Green Room Awards are generously supported this year by two co-lead sponsors, Cantec Group and Waterford Credit Union, both fantastic champions of the arts and community in Waterford.
The night will feature a magnificent variety show by a superb cross-section of Waterford talent, a pre-show reception in the foyer of the Theatre Royal kindly supported by Blackwater Distillery and Spraoi, and, the highlight of the evening, the presentation of the hugely anticipated Green Room Awards.
We will reveal the nominees for the Waterford News & Star Green Room Awards in next week's edition of the Waterford News & Star, in shops on Tuesday, January 28. The coveted tickets for the event will also go on sale on the same day, and can be booked through the Theatre Royal Box Office.
The awards are also kindly supported by Waterford City and County Council, FLI Group and Sanofi.
The Waterford News & Star Green Room Awards celebrate the diversity, scale and quality of theatre, arts and culture in Waterford. The awards encompass professional and amateur, musicals, drama, comedy, choral, panto, and all the roles therein, as well as art and culture events. They are as much about community as they are about the arts, reflecting how deeply embedded amateur theatre, performance and the arts are in Waterford.
The glitzy Waterford News & Star event will be hosted by Pat McEvoy, Waterford News & Star arts correspondent, and Dymphna Nugent of WLR FM’s Breakfast Show.
There will be over 30 awards, covering hundreds of performances and roles, with upwards of 100 nominees – including entire drama and musical theatre companies, and large-scale performances.
Pat McEvoy has reviewed more than 100 shows and events, with these performances seen by thousands of Waterford people who have packed out the Theatre Royal, Garter Lane Theatre, and theatres and venues across the county.
Also highly anticipated are a number of special awards decided by an adjudication panel, including the Waterford News & Star Green Room Lifetime Achievement Award and the People’s Choice Award. Our adjudication panel has created a shortlist of 12 for the People's Choice Award, which will also be revealed in next week’s print edition of the Waterford News & Star and put to a public vote in the coming weeks.
Our adjudicators are drawn from representatives of Waterford theatre and arts, and Waterford media personnel, with in depth knowledge of the vibrant Waterford arts and culture scene. They include Pat McEvoy, Mary Frances Ryan, Michael Grant, Sarah Jane Cleary and Des O'Keeffe.
