BARNSTORMERS' Becky Hutt has won an award for her performance in a tour of Tess of the D'Urbervilles.

She was nominated in the Rose Bowl Awards, which are given to drama groups from across the South West including Bristol, Gloucestershire, Dorset, Wiltshire and Somerset.

And she won the Barbara Macrae award for Best Young Actress at the ceremony in Weston-super-Mare on October 17.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles, adapted by Lynn Gurnett, had been performed 'in the round' and toured to four venues in West Somerset in April 2010. I

The citation said that Becky "not just physically, but also mentally, ... had to change from an enthusiastic, trusting, naïve girl, emerging into womanhood as someone embittered and mature beyond their years.

"This actress created a completely believable character whose future we were always concerned about and whose fate we deeply regretted," it added.

Becky arrived in West Somerset in 2007 and appeared in her first show on the Regal Theatre stage in Captain Stirrick with Minehead Youth Theatre.

Since then, she has been a regular with MYT and also appeared in Abigail's Party at West Somerset Community College and Return to the Forbidden Planet, West Side Story at the Regal. She is also lead singer in the local band Peaches and Cream.