Finley Award Results

THE SUSAN HAYWARD AWARD - BEST DIRECTOR (PLAY)

Chris McRae, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Darlington Theatre Players

BEST ACTOR (PLAY)

Brett Hamilton, Arthur Roeder, Radium Girls, Old Mill Theatre

BEST ACTRESS (PLAY)

Natalie Burbage, Fran Price, Things I Know to be True, Melville Theatre Company

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (PLAY)

Thomas McCracken, Mark Price, Things I Know to be True, Melville Theatre Company

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS (PLAY)

Jennifer McGrath, Fury, When Dad Married Fury, Garrick Theatre

THE DAVID CREWES AWARD - BEST SET (PLAY)

Alex McLennan and Alida Chaney, My Mother Said I Never Should, Playlovers

THE BRENDA STANLEY AWARD - BEST COSTUMES (PLAY)

Marjorie DeCaux, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Darlington Theatre Players

THE BRIAN MADDOCKS AWARD - YOUTH IN A PLAY

Steven Jones, Teddie Deakin, The Ghost Train, Murray Music and Drama Club

THE TERRY HACKETT AWARD - BEST PLAY ENSEMBLE

Pack of Lies, Wanneroo Repertory 

THE MARY WEBB AWARD - BEST DIRECTOR (MUSICAL)

Drew Anthony, 42nd Street, Wanneroo Repertory

BEST ACTOR (MUSICAL)

Mark Thompson, Henry Higgins, My Fair Lady, Alexandra Theatre

BEST ACTRESS (MUSICAL)

Grace Edwards, Eliza Doolittle, My Fair Lady, Alexandra Theatre

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (MUSICAL)

Christopher Alvaro, Christopher Belling, Curtains, Koorliny Arts Centre

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS (MUSICAL)

Natasha Cove, Anytime Annie, 42nd Street, Wanneroo Repertory

BEST CHOREOGRAPHER

Drew Anthony, 42nd Street, Wanneroo Repertory

BEST MUSICAL DIRECTOR

Taui Pinker and Tara Oorjitham, Curtains, Koorliny Arts Centre

THE KEVAN HOOK AWARD - BEST SET (MUSICAL)

Stephen and Peter Carr, School of Rock, Koorliny Arts Centre 

THE TERRY MACAULEY AWARD - BEST COSTUMES (MUSICAL)

Lyn Hutcheon, Curtains, Koorliny Arts Centre 

THE VERONICA OVERTON-LOW AWARD - YOUTH IN A MUSICAL

Mary Carter, Lina Lamont, Singin’ in the Rain Jr, Bel Canto Performing Arts

TOP FIVE YOUTH PRODUCTIONS (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER)

Anne of Green Gables, Stirling Players
Singin’ in the Rain Jr, Bel Canto Performing Arts
Chicago, Wanneroo Secondary College
Getting to Know Oklahoma!, Primadonna Productions
Heroes, Darlington Theatre Players

THE AILSA TRAVERS AWARD - YOUTH PRODUCTION

Heroes, Darlington Theatre Players

THE YVONNE LYNCH BREAKTHROUGH AWARD

Ellis R Kinnear (Director), Radium Girls, Old Mill Theatre

THE HYWELL WILLIAMS AWARD - TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT

The Ghost Train, Murray Music and Drama Club

THE PAULINE LAWRENCE AWARD - BEST LIGHTING

John Woolrych, Radium Girls, Old Mill Theatre

THE ELIZABETH CREWES AWARD - FRONT OF HOUSE

Female Transport, Goldfields Repertory Club

THE SHIELA BUCHANEN ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Kieran Ridgway

THE YVONNE HOUGH NIELSEN AWARD

Ursula Kotara

TOP 10 PLAYS (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER)

Beautiful Thing, Old Mill Theatre
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Darlington Theatre Players
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Performing Arts Association of Notre Dame Australia
Radium Girls, Old Mill Theatre
Pack of Lies, Wanneroo Repertory
Ghosts, Melville Theatre Company
My Mother Said I Never Should, Playlovers
In Sight of the Sea, Harbour Theatre
Things I Know to be True, Melville Theatre Company
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Irish Theatre Players

THIRD-PLACED PLAY

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Darlington Theatre Players

SECOND-PLACED PLAY

My Mother Said I Never Should, Playlovers

ROBERT FINLEY AWARD FOR BEST PLAY

Things I Know To Be True, Melville Theatre Company

TOP FIVE MUSICALS (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER)

School of Rock, Koorliny Arts Centre
Curtains, Koorliny Arts Centre
The Marvellous Wonderettes, Primadonna Productions
My Fair Lady, Alexandra Theatre
42nd Street, Wanneroo Repertory

THIRD-PLACED MUSICAL

My Fair Lady, Alexandra Theatre

SECOND-PLACED MUSICAL

42nd Street, Wanneroo Repertory Inc.

ROBERT FINLEY AWARD FOR BEST MUSICAL

Curtains, Koorliny Arts Centre

ITA Awards

Hall of Fame inductees

Michael Hart
Brian Mahoney
Bree Hartley
Kent Acott

Finley Adjudicators' Certificates

For choreographing aggressive and realistic fight scenes – Nastassja Kruger, Romeo and Juliet, GRADS

For his sensitive, yet significant didgeridoo playing – Bradley Jeffrey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Darlington Theatre Players

For writing a poignant and effective play that proved as insightful as it was entertaining – Lis Hoffman and Phil Jeng Kane, In Sight of the Sea, Harbour Theatre

For the richness of his set design that paid appropriate homage to legendary local director Raymond Omodei – Jake Newby, Three Tall Women, Garrick Theatre

For being convincingly unconscious for most of the show – Carole Dhu, The Ghost Train, Murray Music and Drama Club.

For being convincingly dead for most of the show – Michael Rogers, Lucky Stiff, Primadonna Productions.

For playing long-term asylum residents who added to the creative authenticity of the setting – Michael Hart and Ray Egan, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Darlington Theatre Players

For their convincing and nuanced partnership as troubled housemates Adam and Tobey – Henry Freeman-Dick and Joe Haworth, In Sight of the Sea, Harbour Theatre.

For creating a believable and intimate on-stage courtship and romance despite very limited preparations and rehearsals – Cooper Gray and Felix Malcolm, Beautiful Thing, Old Mill Theatre.

For using skill, commitment and deftness to ensure a 140-year-old play had contemporary audience appeal – Ghosts, Melville Theatre Company.

For the high quality of their singing, interactions and characterisations – Caris Reid, Sian Wake, Bella Lambert and Gemma Little, The Marvellous Wonderettes, Primadonna Productions

For his creative and impressive sound design that included voices from notable community theatre identities – Alan Gill, The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race, Melville Theatre Company

For perfect blocking and staging to accommodate “dead people” who could be seen by some characters but not by others – director Carryn McLean, Rose & Walsh, Stirling Players

For an extraordinarily mesmerising monologue as the heartbroken Butch – Grant Malcolm, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Irish Theatre Players

For the creative use of film to enhance the imaginative stories of a young boy - Heroes, Darlington Theatre Players

For using simple techniques to create a set with the look and feel of an apartment – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Performing Arts Association of Notre Dame Australia.

For her acting growth across multiple roles – Orla Poole

For being able to combine great musical skills with an ability to act and sing – Jack Dudek, Tuppence Cornelius, Ash Brady and Logan Bin Bakar, School of Rock, Koorliny.

For using a QR-code to provide audiences with additional information about this engrossing real-life story – Pack of Lies, Wanneroo Repertory.

For exceptional harmonies that belied their age – the ensemble, Oklahoma Jr, Primadonna Productions

Best Pantomime

Cinderella – The Slightly Deviated Version, Irish Theatre Players