Results of the 45th Annual Robert Finley Awards

Made in January 2020, these awards celebrate the 2019 performance season.

Finley Award Results

Brenda Stanley Award-Best Costumes in a Play

PRESENT LAUGHTER, Old Mill Theatre

Terry McAuley Award -Best Costumes in a Musical

KINKY BOOTS, Wanneroo Repertory

Hywell Williams Award -Technical Achievement

THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE, Koorliny Arts Centre

David Crewes Award-Best Set in a Play

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, Playlovers

Kevan Hook Award-Best Set in a Musical

KINKY BOOTS, Wanneroo Repertory

The Elizabeth Crewes Award- Front of House

POPCORN, Garrick Theatre

Best Supporting Actor in a Play

TIM PRESANT, Popcorn, Garrick Theatre

Best Supporting Actress in a Play

SUSAN LYNCH, Sense and Sensibility, Old Mill Theatre

Best Actor in a Play

JUDD MILNER, Merchant of Venice, GRADS

Best Actress in a Play

CHANDRA WYATT, August: Osage County, Playlovers

Yvonne Hough Neilson Adjudicators’ Award

MYLES WRIGHT-musical creativity in August: Osage County and Glass Menagerie

Brian Maddocks Award-Best Youth in a Play

JACOB MILES, The Man Who Was Peter Pan, Old Mill Theatre

Veronica Overton Low Award- Best Youth in a Musical

PATRICK O’DONOGHUE, Fiddler on the Roof Jr, Bel Canto Performing arts

Best Supporting Actor in a Musical

THOMAS DIMMICK, Les Miserables, Darlington Theatre Players

Best Supporting Actress in a Musical MARLI van der BIJL

Best Actor in a Musical

MANUAO TeAOTONGA, Kinky Boots, Wanneroo Repertory

Best Actress in a Musical

GEORGIA McGIVERN, Oliver, Laughing Horse Productions

Terry Hackett Award-Best Ensemble

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK, Darlington Theatre Players

Yvonne Lynch Breakthrough Award

ERIK BIBAEFF, Driving Miss Daisy, Koorliny Arts Centre

Sheila Buchanan Achievement Award

PRIMADONNA PRODUCTIONS

Best Choreographer

ALLEN BLACHFORD, The Boy from Oz, Koorliny Arts Centre

Best Musical Director

Taui Pinker, The Boy from Oz, Koorliny Arts Centre

Mary Webb Award-Best Director of a Musical

BRAD TUDOR, The Boy from Oz, Koorliny Arts Centre

Susan Hayward Award-Best Director of a Play

BARRY PARK August; Osage County, Playlovers

Ailsa Travers Award -Best Youth Production

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF Jr, Bel Canto Performing Arts

Third Placed Play

POPCORN, Garrick Theatre

Second Placed Play

SIX DANCE LESSONS, IN SIX WEEKS

The Robert Finley Award for Best Play

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, Playlovers

Third Placed Musical

LES MISERABLES, Darlington Theatre Players

Second Placed Musical

KINKY BOOTS, Wanneroo Repertory

The Robert Finley Award for Best Musical

THE BOY FROM OZ, Koorliny Arts centre


DRAMAFEST 2019

Peter Kemeny Encouragement Award

PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION OF NOTRE DAME AUST

Jenny McNae Adjudicators Award

Ursula Johnson

Beryl Silvester Award -Best New Writing

JAMES FORTE- AT TEN THE TIME WILL BE, Darlington Theatre Players

Peter Mann Award-Best Costumes

BROTHERS GRIMM SPECTACULATHON-Darlington Theatre Players

Best Supporting Actress

AUDREY POOR- Between Mouthfuls, PAANDA

Best Supporting Actor

ELIAS CUZENS- The Greening of Grace, Stirling Players

Best Actress

NATALIE BURBAGE- Kinetics, Bobblehead Nanna Productions

Best Actor

MATTHEW MANNING- Kinetics, Bobblehead Nanna Productions

Rob De Vaack Award-Most Innovative Production

AT TEN THE TIME WILL BE-Darlington Theatre Players

Dorothy Barber Award -Best Overall Production

DRAMAFEST KINETICS, Bobblehead Nanna Productions

Mike Binns Award -Best Director DRAMAFEST

KIM ANGUS, Kinetics, BobbleHead Nanna Productions

Finley Adjudicators' Certificates

*Kerry Goode and Jacque Warner for on stage partnership in Arsenic and Old Lace

*Martyn Churcher for onstage monologue to start August: Osage County

*Aaron O’Neil and Katie E Williams , the Beavers from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

*Garrick Theatre for creating a villain to be the perfect image of Donald Trump in Puss in Boots.

* Rowan Marley, the security guard in Elf

* The theatrical style of Glass Menagerie

*Tim Presant and Sjaan Lucas for on stage chemistry in Popcorn

*George O’Doherty for his trilogy of roles in the year.

*The Chorus in Sense and Sensibility

*Guy Jackson for continuing to perform in Chorus of Disapproval with a broken arm

*John Taylor for stepping in as late replacement as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables

* Owen Davis for his work designing three sets

* Lara Brunini and Peter Neaves in Ten Quid

* The Greek Chorus in Agatha Rex

* Irish Theatre Players for their management of a small stage for Da

* Flynn Creelman for maintaining character as Lurch in Addams Family

*Alethea Gordon for Community engagement in A Year With Frog and Toad

*Michael Nichols,Alec Federer, Charlie Young and Jacob Miles for their ensemble performance inThe Man Who Was Peter Pan

*The cast of Puss in Boots for their cup routine

* Declan Waters for successfully coping with

costume and character in Managing Carmen

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