At the Brighton Festival we present a ThreeWeeks Editors' Award as part of the Latest 7's Festival Stars, the awards bash staged by our media partners Latest 7. Here is a guide to the winners of both the Editors' Award and all the Latest 7 Festival Stars in 2006.

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The runners up for the ThreeWeeks Editors’ Award at the 2006 Brighton Festival were:

Nicola Haydn and Eden Rivers (who programmed the Marlborough Theatre's Fringe programme for the first time this year)

Hello id Theatre Co - a new Brighton based theatre company who launched themselves at the Fringe this year

While the winner was:

Theatre Truck - who ran their venue at the Brighton Festival Fringe for the first time this year

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The other awards were won as follows:

Best Male Performer: Tim Crouch (An Oak Tree)
Runners Up: Michael Lunts (The Last Ballade, Brighton Buddhist Centre); Alister O'Loughlin (Ten Thousand Several Doors)

Best Female Performer: Erin Parks (Bonnie in Brighton)
Runners up: Miranda Henderson (Ten Thousand Several Doors); Amanda Waring (For The Love of Chocolate)

Best Comedian / Comedy: The Ornate Johnsons
Runners up: Count Arthur Strong, Spy Monkey

Best International Act: Groupe F
Runners up: Gamarjobat, Soledad Berrios

Best Classical Act / Event: Budapest Symphony Orchestra
Runners up: Debashish Bhattacharya, Elizabeth Jane Baldry

Best Music Act /Event: The Kooks, Brighton Beach Boy, Lost & Found Orchestra (Stomp)

Best Open House: Dragonfly House
Runners up: Finley McInnaly, No.8 Rosehill Terrace

Best Children's Event: Shoe Baby Puppet Theatre
Runners up: Children's Parade, There Is A Rabbit In The Moon

Best Literature: Julian Clary
Runners up: Richard E Grant, Don't Feed the Poets

Visual Arts Prize: Finley McInnaly
Runner up: Lucy Willow, Robert Koenig

Best Venue: Spiegeltent
Runners up: Komedia, Nightingale Theatre

Best Show: Ten Thousand Several Doors & La Clique
Runners up: The Haunt

Star of the Festival: Camille
Runners up: Movin' Melvin Brown, Holly Payton from Brighton Festival Fringe

Fringe Favourite: Marlborough Theatre

Festival Award for Innovation: City Running event & exhibition

Words: Chris Cooke