Festival Trophies awarded to the Settlement Players. ctrl + F to search
Feb 1939
Letchworth Drama Festival
The Red Velvet Goat by Josephina Niggli
Third Place
Hertfordshire Cup (best team located in Hertfordshire)
May 1946
Letchworth Drama Festival
The Puppet Show by Sydney Box
Runner Up Ponder Trophy
Hertfordshire Cup (best team located in Hertfordshire)
May 1949
Welwyn Drama Festival
Willow, Woe is Me, An Extravaganza by Dorothy Carr
Runner up Parkway Trophy
May 1953
Letchworth Drama Festival
The Pie and the Tart Adapted from the French by Hugh Chesterman
Runner Up Ponder Trophy
May 1955
Welwyn Drama Festival
The Spartan Girl (A Doubtful Tragedy by Euripides) by A J Talbot
Best Actress Kathleen Fitzpatrick as Dorcus
May 1956
Letchworth Drama Festival
The Ring Game by Leonard De Franquen
Runner Up Ponder Trophy
Mar 1957
Letchworth Drama Festival
The Play of Noah and the Flood by Unknown Author
Runner Up Ponder Trophy
Mar 1966
Letchworth Little Theatre Drama Festival
The Caucasian Chalk Circle (The Flight into the Mountains) by Bertolt Brecht
Kaete Behrens Steinfeld Runner up trophy
Mar 1967
Letchworth Little Theatre Drama Festival
Riders to the Sea by J. M. Synge
Third Place
Jun 1968
Welwyn Drama Festival
Great Catherine (acts 1, 2 and 4) by Bernard Shaw
Best Actress: Valerie Coles for Catherine
Behrens Steinfeld Trophy to the producer with the most complete and imaginative approach: Maurice Coles
The Welwyn Cup, The Winner of the Overall Festival
Jun 1969
Welwyn Drama Festival
The Generation Factor by Maurice Coles
New Play Prize : Maurice Coles
April 1974
Letchworth Little Theatre Drama Festival
When the Bough Breaks by Gwyn Clark
Kaete Behrens Steinfeld Runner up trophy
Mar 1975
Letchworth Little Theatre Drama Festival
The Propsal by Anton Checkov
Plowman Cup Festival Winner trophy
Mar 1979
Letchworth Little Theatre Drama Festival
The Two Gentlemen of Soho by A. P. Herbert
Plowman Cup Festival Winner trophy
Apr 1980
Letchworth Little Theatre Drama Festival
The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard
Kaete Behrens Steinfeld Runner up trophy
May 1986
Welwyn Drama Festival
The Journey by Noel Ripley
New Play Prize Noel Ripley
Best Actor John Moules as Pete
Apr 1989
Letchworth Little Theatre Drama Festival
Stevie (act 2) by Hugh Whitemore 15 April 1989
Kaete Behrens Steinfeld Runner up trophy
Apr/Jun 1994
Letchworth Little Theatre Drama Festival
The London Vertigo by Brian Friel
Plowman Cup Festival Winner trophy
Luton Drama Festival
Sir Reginald Pearson for Best Presentation
Best Comedy Prize
Runner up Best Actor Roger Newman Turner as
Runner up Best Actress Pat Phillips as Mrs Diggerty
Apr 1996
Letchworth Little Theatre Drama Festival
Night Errant by Georges Faydeau and translated by Michael Pilch from “Feu La Mere de Madame”
Kaete Behrens Steinfeld Runner up trophy
Apr 2000
Letchworth Little Theatre Drama Festival
Singing in the Wilderness by David Campton
Adjudicators Award
Apr 2001
Letchworth Little Theatre Drama Festival
The Twelve Pound Look by J. M. Barrie
Adjudicators Award
Apr 2006
Bedfordshire (Haynes) Drama Festival
The leg by Ivan Phillips
Best Actor Cliff Francis as Unknown
Apr 2007
Bedfordshire (Haynes) Drama Festival
A Kind of Vesuvius by Gillian Plowman
Best Actor Cliff Francis as Unknown
Apr 2010
Bedfordshire (Haynes) Drama Festival
Sawston (Cambs) Drama Festival
Ruffian on the Stair by Joe Orton
Best Actress Sonia Weston as Joyce
Best Set
3rd Place Annual Trophy
Mar/Apr 2012
Bedfordshire (Haynes) Drama Festival
The Wise Man Knows by Ivan Phillips
Best Actor Douglas Harding as Wyndham Lewis
Best Production
Sawston (Cambs) Drama Festival
Best Stage Presentation by John Baskerville
Best Supporting Actor/Actress Amanda Thurman as Froanna Lewis
Mar/Apr 2013
Bedfordshire (Haynes) Drama Festival
The Man in the Bowler Hat by A. A. Milne
Best Setting
Best Actor Jim Anderson
Sawston (Cambs) Drama Festival
The Adjudicator’s award for the music used in the production
Bedfordshire (Haynes) Drama Festival
Whodidit? by Neil Harrison
Best Theatrical Moment for Graeme Bussey wrestling match with the invisible professor
Most Entertaining Production
Best Supporting Actor David Smith as Able Bonecrusher
Best Actress (Langford St Andrews Drama Club award) Jenn Groves as Mary Darling/Shutters/Mrs Meals
Best Direction Cliff Francis
Best Production
Apr 2014
Bedfordshire (Barton) Drama Festival
Interior Designs By Jimmie Chinn
Best Costume
Best Supporting Actress Samantha Powell for Irene
Best Actress (Langford St Andrews Drama Club award) Joanna Roskilly for Amy
Best Actor Graeme Bussey for Him
Mar 2015
Sawston (Cambs) Drama Festival
After Midnight – Before Dawn by David Campton
2nd Place Annual Trophy
Mar 2016
Sawston (Cambs) Drama Festival
Bride to Be by Peter Quilter
3rd Place Annual Trophy
Mar 2019
Sawston (Cambs) Drama Festival
The 2nd Night by Jim Anderson
Best Actor Graeme Bussey as Leno
Sep 2023
Cambridge Drama Festival
Fake or Fortune
Best New Play
3rd Place Trophy