2015 Winners
Professional
Theatre
Best Professional Performance (Male)
JUSTUS NEUMANN
Alzheimer Symphony
Tasmania Performs
Best Professional Performance (Female)
KATIE ROBERTSON
Venus in Fur
Loud Mouth Theatre
Best Professional Production
ALZHEIMER SYMPHONY
Tasmania Performs
Best Professional Direction
HANS PETER HORNER
Alzheimer Symphony
Tasmania Performs
Best Professional Original Work
ALZHEIMER SYMPHONY
Tasmania Performs
Best Professional Writing
JUSTUS NEUMANN & HANS PETER HORNER
Alzheimer Symphony
Tasmania Performs
Best Professional Ensemble
The Cast of WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
Tasmanian Theatre Company
Best Professional Technical Design
JASON JAMES & HEATH BROWN: Lighting & Audio Design
Big Baby
Terrapin Puppet Theatre
Best Professional Design
LIMINAL SPACES: Set Design
Born from Animals
Tasmanian Theatre Company
Professional Theatre Judges’ Awards
JULIUS SCHWING for original composition, Alzheimer Symphony
SCOTT FARROW for exceptional contribution to ensemble playing in The State of The Tasmanian Economy and Born from Animals
Community
Theatre
Best Community Theatre Performance (Male)
JEFF KEOGH
Journey’s End
Hobart Repertory Theatre Society
Best Community Theatre Performance (Female)
FRAN SUITOR
The Vicar of Dibley
Encore Theatre Company
Best Community Theatre Production
JOURNEY’S END
Hobart Repertory Theatre Society
Best Community Theatre Direction
ROBERT JARMAN
Journey’s End
Hobart Repertory Theatre Society
Best Community Theatre Ensemble
The Cast of JOURNEY’S END
Hobart Repertory Theatre Society
Best Community Theatre Technical Design
STUART GRANT: Lighting Design
ALISDAIR MACINDOE: Sound Design
My Heart is a Hall
Stompin
Best Community Theatre Design
WILLIAM DOWD: Costume & Set Design
Journey’s End
Hobart Repertory Theatre Society
Best Community Theatre Original Work
MY HEART IS A HALL
Stompin
Community Theatre Judges’ Awards
FINEGAN KRUCKEMEYER for My Heart is a Hall
ANDREW PERRY for Special Effects, Life & Beth
Community
Musical Theatre
Best Community Musical Theatre Performance (Male)
DEREK MCPHIE
Spamalot
Burnie PCYC
Best Community Musical Theatre Performance (Female)
KATY PAKINGA
The Great American Trailer Park Musical
Ulverstone Repertory Theatre Society
Best Community Musical Theatre Production
THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL
Ulverstone Repertory Theatre Society
Best Community Musical Theatre Direction
SID SIDEBOTTOM
The Great American Trailer Park Musical
Ulverstone Repertory Theatre Society
Best Community Musical Theatre Musical Direction
MARIAN BISSET
A Little Night Music
The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Tasmania
Best Community Musical Theatre Ensemble
BRONWYN DARVELL, ANNETTE DAWES & ELIZABETH VINEY
The Great American Trailer Park Musical
Ulverstone Repertory Theatre Society
Best Community Musical Theatre Technical Design
JASON BOVAIRD & MARCELLO LO RICCO
The Phantom of the Opera
Encore Theatre Company
Best Community Musical Theatre Design
LUCY WILKINS: Costume Design
A Little Night Music
The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Tasmania
Best Community Musical Theatre Choreography
MANDY LOWRIE
Anything Goes
Musical Theatre Crew
Community Musical Theatre Judges’ Awards
JAMES BOURKE for Jesus Christ Superstar and Anything Goes
JOEL KING for The Wizard of Oz
Lifetime Achievement Awards
MICHAEL EDGAR
JOHN UNICOMB (posthumous)
Impresario of the Year
BELINDA J KING & JAMIE HILLARD, Encore Theatre Company
Other Awards
The 2015 Judging Panels
Professional Theatre: David Lander (Convenor), Briony Kidd, Michael McLaughlin, Alwyn Lewis, Bill Pearson, Gillian Unicomb
Community Theatre: Suzie Bower (Convenor), Christine Bailey, Stephanie Briarwood, Chris Cabalzar, Michael Edgar, Karissa Lane
Community Musical Theatre: Jeff Kevin (Convenor), Merlene Abbott, Liz Bennett, Maggi Gillham, Georgie Perry, Sid Sidebottom, Rob Viney