The 37th Annual Robert Finley Award Results

Youth Productions

Best Youth Production

E — St Norbert College

Musicals

Top Five Musicals (In No Particular Order)

Side Show — Playlovers

Boy from Oz — Playlovers

Little Women — Roleystone Theatre

Return to the Forbidden Planet — Stirling Players

Funny Business — Blak Yak

The Mary Webb Award for Best Director of a Musical

Tyler Jones for Sideshow — Playlovers

Ryan Taaffe for Return to the Forbidden Planet — Stirling Players

Lorna Mackie for Funny Business — Blak Yak

Daniel Burton & Ryan Taaffe for Boy from Oz — Playlovers

Paul Treasure for Little Women — Roleystone Theatre

Best Musical Director

Kate McIntosh for Boy from Oz — Playlovers

Andrew Dobosz for Children’s Letters to God — Darlington Theatre Players

Matt Austin for Funny Business — Blak Yak

Kate McIntosh for Return to the Forbidden Planet — Stirling Players

Best Choreographer

Hilary Readings for Boy from Oz — Playlovers

Kara Papalia for Children’s Letters to God — Darlington Theatre Players

Tammie Rafferty for Sideshow — Playlovers

Hilary Readings for Return to the Forbidden Planet — Stirling Players

Chrystelle DeCotter for E — St Norbert College

Best Musical Theatre Performer - Male

Ryan Taaffe in Boy from Oz — Playlovers

Sean Read in Monty Python’s Spamalot — Murray Music & Drama

Will Groucutt in Funny Business — Blak Yak

Charles McComb Funny Business — Blak Yak

Peter Carr Return to the Forbidden Planet — Stirling Players

Best Musical Theatre Performer - Female

Claire Taylor in Sideshow — Playlovers

Breeahn Jones Sideshow — Playlovers

Casey Edwards in Funny Business — Blak Yak

Vanessa Vance Company — Old Mill Theatre

Phoebe Jackson Funny Business ­— Blak Yak

Kimberley Harris in Little Women — Roleystone Theatre

Clare Wood in Blood Brothers — Wanneroo Repertory

Best Other Than Lead - Male

Paul Taylor-Byrne in Boy from Oz — Playlovers

Peter Rogers in Monty Python’s Spamalot — Murray Music and Drama Club

Paul Treasure in Return to the Forbidden Planet — Stirling Players

Chris Gerrish in Sideshow — Playlovers

David Bowyer Sideshow — Playlovers

Daniel Burton in Return to the Forbidden Planet — Stirling Players

Ian Cross in Blood Brothers — Wanneroo Repertory

Best Other Than Lead - Female

Emma Davis in Little Women — Roleystone Theatre

Claire Taylor in Gypsy — Darlington Theatre Players

Mirella Renel in Gypsy — Darlington Theatre Players

Rachael Monamy in Boy from Oz — Playlovers

Hayley Mayne in Gypsy — Darlington Theatre Players

Hilary Readings in Boy from Oz — Playlovers

The Veronica Overton-Low Award for Youth in a Musical

Emily Gelineau in Children’s Letters to God — Darlington Theatre Players

Charlie Darlington in Children’s Letters to God — Darlington Theatre Players

Sam Tye in Children’s Letters to God — Darlington Theatre Players

Best Costumes in a Musical

Sideshow — Playlovers

Little Women — Roleystone Theatre

Return to the Forbidden Planet — Stirling Players

Boy from Oz — Playlovers

Company — Old Mill Theatre

Monty Python’s Spamalot — Murray Music and Drama Club

My Son Pinocchio — 9 Lives

Best Set in a Musical

Return to the Forbidden Planet — Stirling Players

My Son Pinocchio — 9 Lives

Blood Brothers — Wanneroo Repertory

Children’s Letters to God — Darlington Theatre Players

Sideshow — Playlovers

Little Women — Roleystone Theatre

Third-placed Musical

Side Show — Playlovers

Second-placed Musical

Boy from Oz — Playlovers

Robert Finley Award for Best Musical

Funny Business — Blak Yak

Plays

Top Ten Plays (In No Particular Order)

All My Sons — The Graduate Dramatic Society

Amadeus — Old Mill Theatre

Hamlet — Old Mill Theatre

Last of the Red Hot Lovers — Garrick Theatre

Crimes of the Heart — Melville Theatre Company

Daisy Pulls It Off — Old Mill Theatre

Influence — Roleystone Theatre

The Miracle Worker — Stirling Players

A Lie of the Mind — Blak Yak

The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband — Kalamunda Amateur Dramatic Society

The Susan Hayward Award for Best Director of a Play

John Milson for Hamlet — Old Mill Theatre

Susan Lynch for Crimes of the Heart — Melville Theatre Company

Vanessa Jensen for Amadeus — Old Mill Theatre

Susan Lynch for Daisy Pulls It Off — Old Mill Theatre

Andrew Warwick for Last of the Red Hot Lovers — Garrick Theatre

Drew Stoker for Mnemonic — Midnite Youth Theatre

Best Actor in a Play

Izaak Lim in Hamlet — Old Mill Theatre

Dylan Sercombe in 1984 — Stage Left

Joe Isaia in The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband — Kalamunda Amateur Dramatic Society

Eliot McCann in Amadeus — Old Mill Theatre

Peter Clark in The Last of the Red Hot Lovers — Garrick Theatre

Best Actress in a Play

Kaitlin Shawcross in The Miracle Worker — Stirling Players

Michelle Berg in A Lie of the Mind — Blak Yak

Lucy Eyre in All My Sons — The Graduate Dramatic Society

Grace Edwards in Amadeus — Old Mill Theatre

Elethea Sartorelli in Crimes of the Heart — Melville Theatre Company

Best Other Than Lean - Male

Ray Condy in Influence — Roleystone Theatre

Rodney Van Gronigen in Twelfth Night — The Graduate Dramatic Society

Matt Longman in Hamlet — Old Mill Theatre

Jeff Hansen in Zastrozzi — Melville Theatre Company

Best Other Than Lead - Female

Olivia Darby in Charley’s Aunt — Garrick Theatre

Taylor Bartels When We Are Married — Darlington Theatre Players

Cassie Vagliviello in Twelfth Night — The Graduate Dramatic Society

Laura Djanegara in Twelfth Night — The Graduate Dramatic Society

Bianca Kenna in Crimes of the Heart — Melville Theatre Company

The Brian Maddocks Award for Youth in a Play

Richard Kalukal in E — St Norbert College

Lucinda Pearson in Antigone — Midnite Youth Theatre Company

Zac Bowles in On Golden Pond — Wanneroo Repertory

Ellis Ormonde in Pericles, Prince of Tyre — Midnite Youth Theatre Company

Best Costumes in a Play

All My Sons — The Graduate Dramatic Society

The Magdelean White Wash — Stage Left

Zasrozzi — Melville Theatre Company

E — St Norbert College

Amadeus — Old Mill Theatre

Best Set in a Play

The Miracle Worker — Stirling Players

Noises Off — Playlovers

Charley’s Aunt — Garrick Theatre

Twelfth Night — The Graduate Dramatic Society

Lend Me a Tenor — Wanneroo Repertory

All My Sons — The Graduate Dramatic Society

Daisy Pulls It Off — Old Mill Theatre

The Last of the Red Hot Lovers — Garrick Theatre

When We Are Married — Darlington Theatre Players

Third-placed Play

Hamlet — Old Mill Theatre

Second-placed Play

The Miracle Worker — Stirling Players

Robert Finley Award for Best Play

Last of the Red Hot Lovers — Garrick Theatre

Special Awards

Adjudicators

The Shiela Buchanan Achievement Award

Stirling Players

The Yvonne Lynch Breakthrough Award

Rachael Maher for The Miracle Worker — Stirling Players

Janyang Williamson for Mnemonic — Midnite Youth Theatre

Sian Chin for Daisy Pulls It Off — Old Mill Theatre

Zoe Cole for Daisy Pulls It Off — Old Mill Theatre

Jack Farrar for Antigone — Midnite Youth Theatre Company

Elizabeth Crewes Front of House Award

Murray Music and Drama Club

ITA

ITA Hall of Fame

John Milson

Kerri Hilton

The Norma Davis Award

Norma Davis

Adjudication Certificates

For excellent use of shadow puppetry and screen work, The 39 Steps — Stage Left Theatre Troupe

For overall Alice theme, front of house, Alice in Wonderland — Phoenix Theatre

For outstanding Perth debut performance, Ian Cross in Blood Brothers — Wanneroo Repertory

For stage presence, Mahalia Bowles in Boy from Oz — Playlovers

For intelligent and creative set design for small stage space, Charley’s Aunt

For creative design for the band’s costumes and integration with performance, Children’s Letters to God

For encouraging new talent, Susan Lynch for Daisy Pulls It Off

For technical expertise and wizardry in creation of the E pad, E — St Norbert

For excellent use of gobo lighting, Five Blue-Haired Ladies Sitting on a Green Park Bench — Darlington Theatre Players

For ensemble acting, seamless and outstanding performance by the whole cast, Funny Business

For excellence in sound and lighting for creation of the storm, Hamlet — Old Mill Theatre

For effectiveness of the Giant’s machine, Jack and the Beanstalk — Darlington Theatre Players

For ensemble work, The Kid — Kwinana Theatre Workshop

Encouragement award, Ellis Ormonde for Pericles, Prince of Tyre — Midnite Youth Theatre

For the creation of ocean journey scenes, Pericles, Prince of Tyre — Midnite Youth Theatre

For the creation of atmosphere by both costume and voice, Grace Edwards as Feste in Twelfth Night — Graduate Dramatic Society

For effective props, Monty Python’s Spamalot — Murray Music & Drama Club

For robotic excellence, Daniel Burton in Return to the Forbidden Planet — Stirling Players