Joy Burch has announced the winners of Coralie Wood’s Canberra Area Theatre Awards (which now apparently range as far afield as Orange and Shellharbour).
And the winners are:
- Best Set Designer for a Play
Cate Clelland (design) and Russell Brown (realization)
The Pig Iron People, Canberra Repertory Society,
Canberra
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Best Set Designer for a Musical
Ian Macdonald
My Fair Lady, Wagga Wagga Civic Theatre, Wagga Wagga
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Best Costume Designer for a Play
Jeanette Brown
Out of Order, Canberra Repertory Society, Canberra
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Best Costume Designer for a Musical
Lindsay Whitehead
My Fair Lady, Wagga Wagga Civic Theatre, Wagga Wagga
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Best Costume Designer for a School or Youth Production DOUBLE AWARD AS 1 is MUSICAL and 1 is PLAY
Lyn Townsend
The Wizard of Oz, Parkes Musical & Dramatic Society,
Parkes
Sarea Coates, Pauline Simonetti and Cindy Hereth
The Jungle Book, Child Players ACT, Canberra
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Best Lighting Designer
Adrian Rytir
Blood Brothers, Queanbeyan City Council, Queanbeyan
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Technical Achievement
The production team
Special effects, Le School, Canberra Grammar School,
Canberra
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John Thomson Magic Moment of Theatre
The principal’s coat
Le School, Canberra Grammar School, Canberra
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Best Original Work
Peter Best
Script and music, Goldilocks & The Three Bears, Free-Rain
Theatre Company, Canberra
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Best Original Work for a School or Youth Production
Felix Schwartz
Script, Le School, Canberra Grammar School, Canberra
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Best Ensemble in a Play
The cast
Grimm Tales, Hawker College, Canberra
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Best Ensemble in a Musical
Rebecca Brown, Emma Forde and Alex Carroll As Alexandra Spofford, Jane Smart and Sukie Rougemont
(‘the three witches’) in The Witches of Eastwick, Orange
Theatre Company, Orange
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Best Orchestra for a School or Youth Musical
Beauty and the Beast
Kinross Wolaroi School, Orange
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Patricia Kelson Encouragement Award DOUBLE
Denise Dion, Loretta Walsh, Jennie Hughes and Judy Davidson
First-time directing, Four Women, Four Plays, Spectrum
Theatre Group, Merimbula
Miriam Rivzi
First time choreography, Grease, Free-Rain Theatre
Company, Canberra
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Best Youth Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Jake Brown
As Mr Collins in Pride and Prejudice, Canberra Girls
Grammar School, Canberra
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Best Youth Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
Nathan Fernandez
As Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast Jr, Free-Rain Theatre
Company, Canberra
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Best Youth Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Olivia Hewson
As Danielle in Cockroach, Canberra Youth Theatre,
Canberra
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Best Youth Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Olivia Fisher
As Babette in Beauty and the Beast, Kinross Wolaroi
School, Orange
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Best Youth Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Tom Atkin
As Stephen in Dealer’s Choice, Canberra Grammar School,
Canberra
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Best Youth Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Rebecca Attanasio
As Lizzie in Pride and Prejudice, Canberra Girls Grammar
School, Canberra
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Best Youth Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical DOUBLE
Jordan Read
As Daddy Warbucks in Annie, St Clare’s College, Canberra
Evan Kirby
As Valjean in Les Miserables, Lyneham High School
Canberra
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Best Youth Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Maddie Furner
As Nancy in Oliver!, Marist College, Canberra
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Best Variety Performance by an Individual or Ensemble DOUBLE
Helen Barnett, Dallas Watts, Raymond Khong and Julie O’Connor
In ‘Time to Say Goodbye’ in Opera at the Dish, Parkes
Under the Stars, Parkes
Table Tennis
Jazz Garters, Canberra Repertory Society, Canberra
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Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Graham Robertson
As Jack in The Pig Iron People, Canberra Repertory
Society, Canberra
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Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical DOUBLE
Blake Appelqvist
As William Barfée in The 25th Annual Putnam County
Spelling Bee, Phoenix Players, Canberra
Will Huang
As Rod in Avenue Q, Supa Productions, Canberra
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Best Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Judi Crane
As Janette in The Pig Iron People, Canberra Repertory
Society, Canberra
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Best Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Amy Dunham
Ado Annie in Oklahoma!, Free-Rain Theatre Company,
Canberra
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Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Greg Pringle
As Lt Col Nathan Jessep in A Few Good Men, Orange
Theatre Company, Orange
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Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
Ben Kindon
As Mickey Johnstone in Blood Brothers, Queanbeyan City
Council, Queanbeyan
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Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Liz McBarron
As Winsome in Bombshells, Albury Wodonga Theatre
Company, Albury
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Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Christine Forbes
As Mrs Johnstone in Blood Brothers, Queanbeyan City
Council, Queanbeyan
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Best Choreographer
Felix Schwartz
Le School, Canberra Grammar School, Canberra
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Best Musical Director for a School or Youth Musical
Ruth Waters
Jesus Christ Superstar, Wollongong High School of the Performing Arts, Wollongong
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Best Director of a School or Youth Play
Alanna Maclean
Grimm Tales, Hawker College, Canberra
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Best Director of a School or Youth Musical
Adam Fisher
Grease, Southern Highlands Youth Arts Council (SHYAC),
Bowral
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Best Musical Director
Sharon Tree
Blood Brothers, Queanbeyan City Council, Queanbeyan
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Best Director of a Play
Bruce Buchanan
A Few Good Men, Orange Theatre Company, Orange
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Best Director of a Musical or Variety Show
Peter Young and Scott Halls
The Witches of Eastwick, Orange Theatre Company,
Orange
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Best Production of a School or Youth Musical
The Wizard Of Oz
Parkes Musical & Dramatic Society, Parkes
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Best Production of a School or Youth Play
Le School
Canberra Grammar School, Canberra
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Best Production of a Variety Show
Opera at the Dish
Parkes Under the Stars, Parkes
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Best Production of a Play
The Pig Iron People
Canberra Repertory Society, Canberra
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Best Production of a Musical
Avenue Q
Supa Productions, Canberra
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In the Spirit of the Community Award
ACT Education and Training Directorate, Canberra
For involving ACT public schools at all levels in theatre
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ActewAGL Gold CAT Award
For outstanding achievement simultaneously in many categories
Jordan Kelly
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