DramaFest 2008 Results
Mon, 29 Sept 2008, 09:42 amKimberley5 posts in thread
DramaFest 2008 Results
Mon, 29 Sept 2008, 09:42 am2008 STATE DRAMA ONE ACT FESTIVAL
PERPETUAL AWARDS:
1. Best Overall Production (Dorothy Barber Memorial Trophy) – ‘The Return’ Kalamunda Dramatic Society (KADS).
2. Best Director (Mike Binns Award) – Jessica Messenger ‘Rain’ Arena Arts and Entertainment
3. Peter Kemeny Encouragement Award – Stage Left Kalgoorlie
4. Rob de Vaack Innovative Production Award – not awarded this year
5. Jenny McNae Adjudicators Award – (This year awarded for For Best Set Design and Execution) – ‘Stairway to Heaven’ A Lad Insane Co
6. Beryl Sylvester Award for New Writing (WA) – Martin Lindsay ‘One Night Stand-Off’ Garrick Theatre
INDIVIDUAL AWARDS:
1. Best Actor (Male) – Phil Barnett ‘The Return’ KADS
2. Best Actor (Female) – Chloe King ‘Trust’ Stirling Players and Jayma Knudson ‘One Night Stand Off’ Garrick Theatre
3. Best Supporting Actor (Male) – Ted Simpson ‘The Boor Hug’ Darlington Theatre Players
4. Best Supporting Actor (Female) – Sharon Edsall ‘Day Trippers’ Kwinana Theatre Workshop
5. Best Stage Manager – Mario Piccoli ‘Rain’ Arena Arts and Entertainment
6. Peter Mann Costume Award – Sallie Ketteringham ‘The Boor Hug’ Darlington Theatre Players
ADJUDICATOR'S CERTIFICATES:
1. Best Performance as a Character from TV or Film – Janet Moore ‘Vicar of Dibley The Arrival’ Stage Left Kalgoorlie
2. Best Hair Piece – Susan Hicks ‘Day Trippers’ Kwinana Theatre Workshop
3. For an Outstanding Acting Performance - Kristen Berry 'Postponing the Heat Death of the Universe' Blak Yak Theatre
Thankyou to Adjudicator Jeremy Rice, all of the volunteer support staff at Old Mill Theatre and the ITA Committee Members. Congratulations to all the Clubs who entered.
Kimberley Shaw
ITA President
What a great weekend!
Mon, 29 Sept 2008, 03:54 pmWhat a thoroughly entertaining and enjoyable weekend it's been down at the Old Mill! My hearty congratulations to all the award winners, all the theatre groups for putting in so much effort with their productions, and the festival organisers as well as The Old Mill for giving us all such a great and memorable time.
I do hope I'm not the only one who can get a bit choked up with emotion at watching fellow performers giving it their all on a stage and, by extension, reaching out to fellow human beings in order to tell a story with enough feeling to make it real. Somehow theatre seems to reaffirm my sometimes flagging faith in humanity . . . and I would hope that others might feel the same. I'm sure they do.
While I'm here, may I indulgently offer my special congratulations to Chloe King? Chloe was one of my fellow cast members in FRANKENSTEIN at the Octagon a few months ago (a somewhat odd little experience that one, as it turned out), and is a newcomer to Perth as well as community theatre here. Well done Chloe! See? I told you you'd do well in community theatre!
Best wishes to you all, newly made friends and old ones alike. I'm as proud as punch to call so many of you my friends.
Tim.