IFAC/ Equity Guild Awards - complete list of nominees

THEATRE AWARDS NOMINEES ANNOUNCED.

The nominees in six core categories for the 4th Annual I.F.A.C./Equity Guild Awards have been announced. The six categories include: Best Actor – Female, Best Actor – Male, Best Newcomer, Best Director, Best Production and Best New Play.

“2003 has proven to be a record year for the Awards in terms of the number of productions submitted for final assessment” President of the Equity Benevolent Guild Jay Walsh said.

Mr Walsh said “Such a result means that the Awards have an increasing importance for the WA theatre industry as a major promotional event. It has always been the intention that the awards would become performing arts awards, and with this growing industry recognition and an audience increase of 32% in 3 years, the inclusion of other performing arts categories may happen sooner rather than later”.

A list of all nominees in each category is attached.

All finalists and eventual winners will be announced by AFI Award Winner Ms Rachel Blake (Lantana, Wildside), and the Minister for Culture and the Arts the Hon. Sheila McHale MLA at the I.F.A.C./Equity Guild Awards presentation ceremony. The ceremony will again be held at the art deco restored Mt Lawley Bowling Club on Saturday 15th November. Ticket bookings are now open and enquiries should be directed to Ms Sandra Woodham on 9227 7924.

THE NOMINEES.

BEST ACTOR – FEMALE

Rosemary Barr (Copenhagen)
Nicola Bartlett (The Unexpected Man)
Laura Black (Lipstick Dreams)
Jenny Davis (Breast Stroke)
Vivienne Glance (The Elephant Man)
Rene McIntosh (Educating Rita)
Jenny McNae (Irish Stew)
Sarah McNeill (Affairs In A Tent/Events On A Hotel Terrace)
Jill Perryman (Death Of A Salesman)
Karen Roberts (Skin Tight)

BEST ACTOR – MALE

Stuart Halusz (Skin Tight)
Luke Hewitt (Tough Love)
Geoff Kelso (Shadow Of The Eagle)
Michael Loney (Irish Stew)
Sam Longley (Stones).
Dan Luxton (McBeth)
George Shevtsov (The Drawer Boy)
James Sollis (Affairs in a Tent)
Ian Toyne (Some Enchanted Evening)
Craig Williams (Stones)

BEST NEWCOMER

Roderick Cairns (Glenn)
Elisia Doucas (McBeth)
Stephen Lee (McBeth)
Matthew Lutton (The Bald Prima Donna)
Michael McCall (McBeth)
Rene McIntosh (Educating Rita)
Heath Miller (X-Stacey)
Illana OÂ’Halloran (X-Stacey)
Karen Roberts (Skin Tight)
Paul Whiteley (Some Enchanted Evening)

BEST DIRECTOR

Alan Becher (Skin Tight)
Chris Edmund (The Unexpected Man)
Andy King (Tough Love)
Monica Main (Blood Relations)
John Milson (Some Enchanted Evening)
Andrew Ross (The Drawer Boy).
Marcelle Schmitz (Affairs in a Tent/Events on a Hotel Terrace)

BEST PRODUCTION

Blood Relations (Not The Mama Productions)
Copenhagen (Black Swan Theatre Company [BST])
Cox Four (Lyons Productions/PTC)
Death Of A Salesman (Hole in the Wall Theatre Co.)
Last Cab to Darwin (BST)
On Our Selection (LRF Productions/BST).
Shadow Of The Eagle (PTC)
Skin Tight (Perth Theatre Company [PTC])
Stones (Larrikin Theatre/Barking Gecko)
The Brick and the Rose (Damage Theatre)
The Drawer Boy (BST)
The Unexpected Man (BST)

BEST NEW PLAY.

Across Hellfire (Luke Milton)
Cox Four (Robert Jeffreys)
Last Cab To Darwin (Reg Cribb)
Shadow Of The Eagle (George Blazevic/Ingle Knight)
The Other Woman (Heather Nimmo).
We Are Family (Francis D. Italiano/Sarah Wilkinson)

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