Dramafest 2020-21 Results
The Dramafest Awards for the 2020-21 seasons were presented at the Finley Awards on Saturday 15 January 2022.
DRAMAFEST 2020-21 AWARDS
THE DOROTHY BARBER AWARD FOR BEST OVERALL PRODUCTION
Still Lives, Irish Theatre Players
THE MIKE BINNS AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR
Suzannah Churchman, Taking Sides, Melville Theatre Company
THE ROB DE VAACK AWARD FOR MOST INNOVATIVE PRODUCTION
Bockey’s Bridge, Irish Theatre Players
THE PETER KEMENY ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD
Jack Churchman and Bella Freeman, Taking Sides, Melville Theatre Company
THE JENNY MCNAE ADJUDICATORS AWARD
Noel O’Neill as the writer of all six plays in OId Mill Theatre’s A View from the Park collection
THE BERYL SILVESTER AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITING
Shirley Toohey, The Heist, Melville Theatre Company
THE PETER MANN AWARD FOR BEST COSTUMES
Oh, What a Tangled Web!, Wanneroo Repertory
BEST ACTOR
Luke Miller, These are the Isolate, Darlington Theatre Players
BEST ACTRESS
Marian Byrne, Still Lives, Irish Theatre Players
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Madeleine Breheny, Still Lives, Irish Theatre Players
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Jason Craig, A Dame Remembers, Melville Theatre Company
TOP SIX PRODUCTIONS
A Dame Remembers, Melville Theatre Company
Oh, What a Tangled Web!, Wanneroo Repertory
Taking Sides, Melville Theatre Company
Bockey’s Bridge, Irish Theatre Players
These are the Isolate, Darlington Theatre Players
Still Lives, Irish Theatre Players
DRAMAFEST 2020-21 ADJUDICATORS’ CERTIFICATES
Gail Palmer and Michael Hart for their gentle, layered and beautifully created on-stage relationship in Darlington Theatre Players’ Harry’s Bounty
Carmen Dohle for her impressive directorial debut in Melville Theatre Company’s staging of the American classic Fourteen
Marsha Holt, Julie Holmshaw, Kate Nosworthy and Ellie Cutbush for their adorable and amusing ensemble work as elderly bridge players in Melville Theatre Company’s The Heist
James Hagan for two memorable and distinctive characterisations in Old Mill Theatre’s A View From the Park – one as a dying friend and the other as an arrogant playboy director
Darlington Theatre Players for their all-Australian collection of plays that proved different, insightful and entertaining
Sueanne McCumstie and Phil Bedworth for cleverly playing multiple characters in Wanneroo Repertory’s Chinamen
Mary Del Casale and Curig Jenkins for their magical, almost naïve chemistry created in Irish Theatre Players’ Bockey’s Bridge.
For real-life partners who managed to create different and engaging on-stage relationshipsL
o Luke and Shelly Miller in Darlington Theatre Players’ These Are the Isolate; and
o Niall O’Toole and Marian Byrne in Irish Theatre Players’ Still Lives