The 39th Annual Robert Finley Award Results

Youth Productions

Top Five Youth Productions (In No Particular Order)

Sleeping Beauty in the Woods — Primadonna Productions

My Very Own Story — St Norbert College

Les Misérables — Midnite Youth

Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat — Primadonna Productions

The Somewhat True Case of Robin Hood — Midnite Youth

The Ailsa Travers Award for Best Youth Production

Les Misérables — Midnite Youth

Musicals

Best Director of a Musical

Peter Clark for The Producers — Playlovers

Jenny Ferguson for Nevermore — Playlovers

Drew Stocker for Les Misérables — Midnite Youth

Ryan Taaffe for Eurobeat — Koorliny Arts Centre

Karen Francis for The Phantom of the Opera — Stray Cats Theatre Company

Best Musical Director

Joshua Webb for Nevermore — Playlovers

David Hardie for The Producers — Playlovers

Krispin Maesalu for Pirates of Penzance — Phoenix Theatre

Rhiannon Taylor for Les Misérables — Midnite Youth

Grace Crawford and Josh Haines for Hello, Dolly! — Murray Music and Drama Club

Best Choreographer

Jessica Russell – The Producers – Playlovers

Julia Minassian and Josephine McDonald for Viva La Restoration — University Dramatic Society

Jenny Ferguson for Nevermore — Playlovers

Tammy Anne Rafferty for Curtains — Playlovers

Allen Blachford for Eurobeat — Koorliny

Best Musical Performer - Male

Alex McLennan in The Producers — Playlovers

David Gregory in The Producers — Playlovers

Tyler Jones in Curtains — Playlovers

Paul Spencer in The Phantom of the Opera — Stray Cats Theatre Company

Jake Garner in The Phantom of the Opera — Wanneroo Repertory

Best Musical Performer - Female

Sarah Cosstick in Wind in the Willows — 9 Lives

Kimberley Harris in The Sound of Music — Koorliny Arts Centre

Kimberley Harris in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee — Koorliny Arts Centre

Cassie Skinner in The Phantom of the Opera — Stray Cats Theatre Company

Grace Cooper in Viva La Restoration — University Dramatic Society

Best Other Than Lead - Male

Craig Griffen in Wizard of Oz — Koorliny Arts Centre

Drue Goodwin in Wizard of Oz — Koorliny Arts Centre

John Taylor in The Producers — Playlovers

Patrick Cole in Sheerluck Holmes — Murray Music and Drama Club

Cameron Butler in The Producers — Playlovers

Best Other Than Lead - Female

Gemma Sharpe in Nevermore — Playlovers

Helen Carey in Curtains — Playlovers

Valerie Henry in Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs — Old Mill Theatre

Tanya Morrow in The Phantom of the Opera — Wanneroo Repertory

Jemma Armstrong in The Phantom of the Opera — Stray Cats Theatre Company

The Veronica Overton-Low Award for Youth in a Musical

Rebecca Cole in Les Misérables — Midnite Youth

Cassie Power in Joseph and His Technicolour Dreamcoat — Primadonna Productions

Holly Prentice in Next to Normal — Bunbury Musical Comedy

Shania Eliassen in Pirates of Penzance — Phoenix Theatre

Jenna Verryn in Les Misérables — Midnite Youth

Best Costumes in a Musical

Nevermore — Playlovers

Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat — Primadonna Productions

The Wizard of Oz — Koorliny Arts Centre

The Phantom of the Opera — Stray Cats Theatre Company

The Producers — Playlovers

Best Set in a Musical

The Producers — Playlovers

Nevermore — Playlovers

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — Old Mill Theatre

Cinderella — Darlington Theatre Players

Third-placed Musical

The Phantom of the Opera — Stray Cats Theatre Company

Second-placed Musical

Nevermore — Playlovers

Robert Finley Award for Best Musical

The Producers — Playlovers

Plays

Best Director of a Play

Amanda Crewes for A Merry Go Round in the Sea — The Graduate Dramatic Society

Terry Hackett for 39 Steps — Kalamunda Amateur Dramatic Society

Trevor Dhu for On Golden Pond — Harbour Theatre

Vanessa Jensen for Rabbit Hole — Melville Theatre Company

Cicely Binford for Oleanna — Kalamunda Amateur Dramatic Society

Best Actor

David Gardette in Rabbit Hole — Melville Theatre Company

Alan Morris in Pardon Me Prime Minister — Garrick Theatre

Tom Rees in On Golden Pond — Harbour Theatre

Kim Martin in A Month of Sundays — Roleystone Theatre

Eliot McCann in Oleanna — Kalamunda Amateur Dramatic Society

Best Actress

Joanna Zukowski in Rabbit Hole — Melville Theatre Company

Siobhan Vincent in Key for Two — Darlington Theatre Company

Breeahn Jones in The Rise & Fall of Little Voice — Koorliny Arts Centre

Lis Hoffman in A Conversation — Old Mill Theatre

Judi Johnson in The Rise & Fall of Little Voice — Koorliny Arts Centre

Best Other Than Lead - Male

Chris Juckes in Lost in Yonkers — Wanneroo Repertory

Brodie Masini in A Conversation — Old Mill Theatre

Clayton Zwanenburg in A Merry Go Round in the Sea — The Graduate Dramatic Society

Paul Treasure in 39 Steps — Kalamunda Amateur Dramatic Society

Adrian Lewis in 39 Steps — Kalamunda Amateur Dramatic Society

Best Other Than Lead - Female

Helen Kerr in Lost in Yonkers — Wanneroo

Susan Lynch in Secret Bridesmaids Business — Old Mill Theatre

Lee Thompson in The Shifting Heart — Darlington Theatre Players

Bonnie Coyle in Merry Go Round In The Sea — The Graduate Dramatic Society

Hilary Readings in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice — Koorliny Arts Centre

The Brian Maddocks Award for Youth in a Play

Stephanie Shaw in The Secret Garden — Stirling Players

Leo Rimmer in Peter Pan — Roleystone Theatre

Ethan Gosatti in Lost in Yonkers — Wanneroo Repertory

Sarah Munsie in Peter Pan — Roleystone Theatre

Brittany Isaia in Little Women — Kalamunda Amateur Dramatic Society

The Brenda Stanley Award for Best Costumes in a Play

Project Macbeth — Garrick Theatre

The Secret Garden — Stirling Players

Twelfth Night — Melville Theatre Company

Lost In Yonkers — Wanneroo Repertory

Peter Pan — Roleystone Theatre

The David Crewes Award for Best Set in a Play

The Shifting Heart — Darlington Theatre Players

Key for Two — Darlington Theatre Players

A Month of Sundays — Roleystone Theatre

Pardon Me Prime Minister — Garrick Theatre

Born Yesterday — Old Mill Theatre

Third-placed Play

Merry Go Round In The Sea — The Graduate Dramatic Society

Second-placed Play

Oleanna — Kalamunda Amateur Dramatic Society

Robert Finley Award for Best Play

Rabbit Hole — Melville Theatre Company

Special Awards

Adjudicators

The Shiela Buchanan Achievement Award

For excellence in musicals — Playlovers

The Hywell Williams Award for Technical Achievement

The Patriot Games — Irish Theatre Players

The Yvonne Lynch Breakthrough Award

Kate Raine – 12th Night– Melville

Cameron Butler for The Producers — Playlovers

Therese Cruise for Curtains — Playlovers

Sandra DeWitt Hemala for Boeing Boeing — Playlovers

Andrew Dunstan for The Merry Go Round in the Sea — The Graduate Dramatic Society

Front of House Award

Don’s Party — Goldfields Repertory

ITA

ITA Life Members

Terry Hackett

ITA Hall of Fame

Gwynne Marshall

Adjudication Certificates

For her performance and outstanding costuming, Cassie Power forJoseph and The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods — Primadonna Productions

For his musical direction, score and performance, Tim Newhouse in The Merry-Go-Round In The Sea — The Graduate Dramatic Society.

For their extremely moving finale, Robert Benson-Parry and the cast in Calendar Girls — Wanneroo Repertory

For the creative lighting of their production, Alex Coutts-Smith for Eurobeat — Koorliny Arts Centre

For the attention to detail and authenticity in the set dressing, Abigail’s Party — Wanneroo Repertory Company

For sound development of performance skills, Jesse Watts in Hello, Dolly! — Murray Music and Drama Club

For her story-telling, Zoe Griffin as the Narrator in The Patriot Games — Irish Theatre Players

For the choreographed human scenery, The Merry-Go-Round In The Sea — The Graduate Dramatic Society

For a strong ensemble presentation, God of Carnage — Garrick Theatre

For outstanding artwork on the set, Tim Prosser for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

For the combination of choreographed timing, the tempo and the colour of ‘Racing with the Clock’, The Pyjama Game — Stirling Players

For the most creative poster and program design, Audience With Murder — Melville Theatre Company

For demonstrating the true spirit of community theatre through her joy of performing and her promotion of theatre on social media, Claire Marshall

For the great choreographed co-ordinated movement performed by the stage crew, The 39 Steps — Kalamunda Amateur Dramatic Society

For their energetic and thoroughly entertaining performance of ‘With Cat-like Tread’, Peter Carr, Sam Burnett and Mark Thompson in The Pirates of Penzance — Phoenix Theatre

For their great on-stage partnership, Kim Martin and Ray Condy in A Month of Sundays —Roleystone Theatre

For the best pantomime of 2013, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — Old Mill Theatre