Her informality could not quite conceal her professional brilliance, which brought her repeated awards of Brearley's "Chair of Excellence".
He comes to Leeds trailing clouds of glory from Dundee Rep, which has won repeated awards and plaudits during his time as artistic director and chief executive.
Again, for repeated awards, list the award once and provide all years the award was received.
Which leaves us with a repeat award, as new information has now come to light.
On the German side, on 24 April 1917, Kaiser Wilhelm awarded Von Lossberg the Oakleaves (similar to a bar for a repeat award) for the Pour le Mérite he had received at the Battle of the Somme the previous September.
The feat wasn't unprecedented (John Huston had done the same, the previous year, for "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"); what was new happened the following year, when he repeated both awards for "All About Eve".
The mere mention of Eileen Atkins, who repeated her award-winning London performance, and Alan Bates, who joined her for his first New York stage appearance in 27 years, carries intimidation to an unreasonable extreme.
The notoriously media-shy Dylan has not yet made any comment on the $900,000 prize, despite repeated attempts by award-givers the Swedish Academy to contact him since it named him as the winner on Oct. 13.
George Clooney, given a lifetime achievement's award, repeated the line and hailed the huge street demonstrations against the attacks, saying: "We will not walk in fear".
In the West End, there is lots to tempt, as Lucy Kirkwood's Almeida hit Chimerica goes into the Harold Pinter from Tuesday and Hattie Morahan repeats her award-winning performance as Nora in A Doll's House at the Duke of York's from Thursday.
As such, there was no mandate for any future conventions to repeat the awards, and no set rules for how to do so.
