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