GDS Sponsors Student Award

	Alex Bradford and Matt Lloyd

The 2013 National Stage Management Awards Ceremony was held recently at the Old Truman Brewery in London, during the ABTT Theatre Show. The award for "Stage Management Student of the Year" is sponsored by GDS and was won this year by Alex Bradford of Rose Bruford College. The award honors outstanding student achievement and Bradford was considered to have truly risen above the competition, fully demonstrating her ability to take responsibility and apply herself skilfully and passionately to her work.

Managing director of GDS, Matt Lloyd expressed great pleasure in sponsoring the award:

"This is the third year that we have been the proud sponsors of this award. As manufacturers of essential stage management equipment, some of which has been developed directly in conjunction with educators in the stage-management field, we are only too well aware of the need for excellence in the training and development of young people for this challenging role. The high standard of the nominees in this category reflects very well on the courses on offer across the UK. We congratulate Alex on her award and hope it will be a platform for further success in what appears to be a very promising career."

As well as supplying custom stage manager's consoles to theatres up and down the UK and from Australasia via Asia to the USA, GDS also manufactures its products for some of the largest, most complex productions in the world. The GDS CueSystem sits at the heart of the epic Broadway smash Spiderman - Turn Off The Dark and Cirque du Soleil's Michael Jackson Immortal World Tour, as well as a host of others.

As GDS celebrates its ninth year, the award-winning UK manufacturer has become a global company, having established an international sales and distribution network in over 40 countries.