FINLEY AWARDS 2019
Best Costumes in a Play ‘Present Laughter’ – Old Mill Theatre (Brenda Stanley Award)
Best Costumes in a Musical ‘Kinky Boots’ – Wanneroo Repertory (Terry McAuley Award)
Technical Achievement ‘The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe’ – Koorliny Arts Centre (Hywell Williams Award)
Best Set in a Play ‘August: Osage County’ – Playlovers (David Crewes Award)
Best Set in a Musical ‘Kinky Boots’ – Wanneroo Repertory (Kevan Hook Award)
Front of House ‘Popcorn’ – Garrick Theatre (Elizabeth Crewes Award)
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
Adjudicators’ Award by Myles Wright – musical creativity in ‘August: Osage County’ and ‘Glass Menagerie’ (Yvonne Hough Neilson)
Best Youth in a Play Jacob Miles, ‘The Man Who Was Peter Pan’, Old Mill Theatre (Brian Maddocks Award)
Best Youth in a Musical Patrick O’Donoghue, ‘Fiddler on the Roof Jr’, Bel Canto Performing Arts (Veronica Overton Low Award)
Best Supporting Actor in a Musical Thomas Dimmick, ‘Les Misérables’, Darlington Theatre Players
Best Supporting Actress in a Musical Marli van der Bijl, ‘Les Misérables’, Darlington Theatre Players
Best Actor in a Musical Manuao TeAotonga, ‘Kinky Boots’, Wanneroo Repertory
Best Actress in a Musical Gorgia McGivern, ‘Oliver!’ Laughing Horse Productions
Best Ensemble ‘Picnic At Hanging Rock’, Darlington Theatre Players (Terry Hackett Award)
Breakthrough Award from Yvonne Lynch – Erik Bibaeff, ‘Driving Miss Daisy’, Koorliny Arts Centre
Achievement Award from Sheila Buchanan 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
Best Director of a Musical Brad Tudor, ‘The Boy from Oz’, Koorliny Arts Centre (Mary Webb Award)
Best Director of a Play Barry Park, ‘August: Osage County’, Playlovers (Susan Hayward Award)
Best Youth Production ‘Fiddler On The RoofJr’, Bel Canto Performing Arts (Ailsa Travers Award)
The Robert Finley Award for Best Play
Winner ‘August: Osage County’, Playlovers
Second Placed Play ‘Six Dance Lessons, In Six Weeks’ – Melville Theatre Company
Third Placed Play ‘Popcorn’, Garrick Theatre
The Robert Finley Award for Best Musical
Winner ‘The Boy From Oz’, Koorliny Arts Centre
Second Placed Musical ‘Kinky Boots’ – Wanneroo Repertory
Third Placed Musical ‘Les Misérables’, Darlington Theatre Players
DRAMAFEST 2019
Encouragement Award (from Peter Kemeny) Performing Arts Association of Notre Dame Aust
Adjudicators Award (from Jenny McNae) Ursula Johnson
Best New Writing James Forte – ‘At Ten The Time Will Be’, Darlington Theatre Players (Beryl Silvester Award)
Best Costumes ‘Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon’ – Darlington Theatre Players (Peter Mann Award)
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
Most Innovative Production ‘At Ten The Time Will Be’ – Darlington Theatre Players (Rob De Vaack Award)
Best Overall Production DRAMAFEST ‘Kinetics’, Bobblehead Nanna Productions (Dorothy Barber Award)
Best Director DRAMAFEST Kim Angus, ‘Kinetics’, BobbleHead Nanna Productions (Mike Binns Award)