IFAC/ Equity Guild Awards - complete list of nominees

Mon, 13 Oct 2003, 02:58 am

crgwllms8 posts in thread

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 Â– Female, Best Actor Â– Male, Best Newcomer, Best Director, Best Production and Best New Play.

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

Mr Walsh said Â“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 laterÂ”.

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 Â– 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 Â– 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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crgwllmsMon, 13 Oct 2003, 02:58 am

crgwllmsMon, 13 Oct 2003, 03:58 am

Re: IFAC/ Equity Guild Awards - complete list of nominees

And the same information, rearranged by production & nominations...

SKIN TIGHT
Best Actor Female - Karen Roberts
Best Newcomer - Karen Roberts
Best Actor Male - Stuart Halusz
Best Director - Alan Becher
Best Production - Perth Theatre Co

McBETH
Best Actor Male - Dan Luxton
Best Newcomer - Elisia Doucas
Best Newcomer - Stephen Lee
Best Newcomer - Michael McCall

AFFAIRS IN A TENT/EVENTS ON A HOTEL TERRACE
Best Actor Female - Sarah McNeill
Best Actor Male - James Sollis
Best Director - Marcelle Schmitz

SHADOW OF THE EAGLE
Best Actor Male - Geoff Kelso
Best Production - Perth Theatre Co
Best New Play - George Blazevic/Ingle Knight

SOME ENCHANTED EVENING
Best Actor Male - Ian Toyne
Best Newcomer - Paul Whiteley
Best Director - John Milson

STONES
Best Actor Male - Sam Longley
Best Actor Male - Craig Williams
Best Production - Larrikin Theatre/Barking Gecko

THE DRAWER BOY
Best Actor Male - George Shevtsov
Best Director - Andrew Ross
Best Production - Black Swan Theatre Co

THE UNEXPECTED MAN
Best Actor Female - Nicola Bartlett
Best Director - Chris Edmund
Best Production - Black Swan Theatre Co

BLOOD RELATIONS
Best Director - Monica Main
Best Production - Not The Mama Productions

COPENHAGEN
Best Actor Female - Rosemary Barr
Best Production - Black Swan Theatre Company

COX FOUR
Best New Play - Robert Jeffreys
Best Production - Lyons Productions/PTC

DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Best Actor Female - Jill Perryman
Best Production - Hole In The Wall Theatre Co.

EDUCATING RITA
Best Actor Female - Rene McIntosh
Best Newcomer - Rene McIntosh

IRISH STEW
Best Actor Female - Jenny McNae
Best Actor Male - Michael Loney

LAST CAB TO DARWIN
Best New Play - Reg Cribb
Best Production - Black Swan Theatre Co

TOUGH LOVE
Best Actor Male - Luke Hewitt
Best Director - Andy King

X-STACEY
Best Newcomer - Heath Miller
Best Newcomer - Illana OÂ’Halloran

ACROSS HELLFIRE (Luke Milton)
Best New Play

BREASTSTROKE
Best Actor Female - Jenny Davis

GLENN
Best Newcomer - Roderick Cairns

LIPSTICK DREAMS
Best Actor Female - Laura Black

ON OUR SELECTION
Best Production - LRF Productions/BST

THE BALD PRIMA DONNA
Best Newcomer - Matthew Lutton

THE BRICK AND THE ROSE
Best Production - Damage Theatre

THE ELEPHANT MAN
Best Actor Female - Vivienne Glance

THE OTHER WOMAN
Best New Play - Heather Nimmo

WE ARE FAMILY
Best New Play - Francis D. Italiano/Sarah Wilkinson

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Walter PlingeMon, 13 Oct 2003, 10:42 pm

Re: IFAC/ Equity Guild Awards - complete list of nominees

Is it just me, or has every single actor and every single actress in every single play just been "carpet-bomb" nominated?

A bit boring, nay?

c.o.

Walter PlingeTue, 14 Oct 2003, 06:35 am

Re: IFAC/ Equity Guild Awards - complete list of nominees

No, that is not the case at all. Rather than being simply announcing the short lists for the awards, Craig has very kindly posted all of the nominees this year. Surely by having a large field it indicates that the standard of work was uniformly high.

The judges are asked to make four choices in each category and then the choose their preferred option. Usually the public dont get to hear all the nominees, just the short listed ones. This way, everyone knows who was in the running from the beginning. It's just good pr.

Thank you Craig for taking the time to put the postings up in the first place and congratulations to all of the nominees. As one of the judges, I know that the decisions this year were not at all easy.

Kerri

Walter PlingeThu, 16 Oct 2003, 01:42 pm

Re: IFAC/ Equity Guild Awards - complete list of nominees

Couple of questions...

What time period are the shows from?

What is a newcomer?

And who are the judges?

Thanks

Thou droning reeling-ripe boar-pig!

crgwllmsThu, 23 Oct 2003, 12:38 am

Re: couple of answers

Curious wrote:
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> Couple of questions...
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> What time period are the shows from?

Not certain of the exact month that nominations had to be submitted by...August?. Anyway, the time period is the year covering the period since whenever nominations were finalised last year. :-)

> What is a newcomer?

Remembering that to be nominated, you must be a member of WA Actors Equity. Therefore there may be occasions when somebody has actually been acting for some time, but is only this year recognised as an Equity member and therefore is a professional newcomer. For a production to be nominated, it must have included Equity members.

('Professional' is one of those words you can obviously argue about, however the Tax office and the DSS recognise Equity membership as automatically conferring professional status, so that's the definition for this purpose. Also the awards are organised by the Equity Guild so their definitions are the ones that count.)

> And who are the judges?
>

Off the top of my head, and apologies to anyone I've missed, Kerri Hilton, Jenni Cohen, Ivan King (retired), Sarah McNeil (retired) were judges last year. This year (ie next year's awards) Rita Clarke and Gerald Hitchcock are incoming judges.
I know they all make a point of seeing as much as possible, and between all of them they probably see everything - but there's no harm in making sure they go on your invites list for your next production, if you want to be considered.

And yes, I got the nominations list off a press release from Guild Secretary Steve Shaw, and thought it was well worth broadcasting the fact that good work is happening in this town, regardless of how poorly our media- and self-images continue to paint us. There will be a shortlist of finalists and the eventual winners announced on the night, but the reason this list I posted seems like everybody's getting a look-in is precisely because: everybody on that list has been recognised enough to score a nomination. Good work, and good luck!

Cheers
Craig

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crgwllmsMon, 3 Nov 2003, 12:20 pm

Re: another answer

Curious wrote:
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> Couple of questions...
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> What time period are the shows from?

> And who are the judges?

Just amending to my above responses;

the productions are chosen from those that happen July-June (ie: a tax year).

Yes, I included all the judges in the previous post.

Cheers
Craig

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crgwllmsSun, 16 Nov 2003, 04:11 am

Re: Nay.

Casual Observer wrote:
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> Is it just me, or has every single actor and every single
> actress in every single play just been "carpet-bomb" nominated?
>
> A bit boring, nay?
>

Sorry it's taken a while to respond; the Awards have just happened, and the results have just been posted (see that thread for details).

From ALL the eligible productions submitted last year, 55 nominees were selected to 'bomb the carpet', from which 30 were chosen as finalists, eventually coming down to 6 winners (plus the peer-nominated Guild Award and Stage Manager's Award).

So it was just you. Hope you're no longer so bored...and far less casual in your observations.

Cheers
Craig

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