December 9, 2011

THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR POSTS AND EMAIL SUBMISSIONS – THE HACKMAN MEGA COMPUTER HAS BEEN WORKING OVERTIME COLLATING THE NOMINEES AND HERE THEY ARE:

The Shortland Street Award for Best Break up of the Year…
Nic Sampson and Chelsea Ewan McGregor – These are the Skeletons of us
Andrew Munroe And Delaney Tabron – Reasons to be Pretty
Elizabeth Hawthorne and Robyn Malcolm – Mary Stuart.

The Kathryn Rawlings Award for Best Entrance of the Year…
Johnny Moffat and Toby Leach – The Chatham’s
Jennifer Ward-Lealand – Rita and Douglas
Eve Gordon – Venus Is

The Elephant Publicity Award for Best Poster of the Year…
Death by Cheerleader
Constantinople
The Keepers

The Auckland Actors Award for Smallest Part of the Year…
Morgan Albrecht – Disorder
Devlin Bishop – Boys Life

The TAPAC Award for Best Cross Gender Acting of the Year…
Josephine Stewart-Tewhiu – Space Race
Tom Sainsbury – Joseph and Mahina
Cameron Rhodes – Tartuffe

The Oryza Award for Best Accent of the Year…
Natalie Medlock – I am Yeti
Michael Hurst – Red
Anya Tate-Manning in Glorious

The Armstrong Creative Award for Best Technical ***k up of the Year…      

The Wizard of Oz: The Hot Air Balloon fail in
Speeddaters: Starting the show while Grae Burton was still flirting at the bar next door
Disorder: Graham Candy getting hit in the face by falling wheelchair that fell through Basement’s trap door.

The Basement Award for Best Dry of the Year…
The cast of any Tom Sainsbury play
Benjamin Teh – The First Asian All Black

The Johnson Laird Management Award for Best Weapon of the Year…
The Dildo – Tartuffe
Lara Fischel Chisholm’s wooden spoon in In Flagrante
The Cardboard Robot – Barnaby Fredric / Stitch in Time

The Play Press Award for an Actress/Actor playing a character with a disability/medical condition of the year…
Sophie Henderson – Yours Truly
Kura Forrester – Awhi Tapu
Chris Molloy – Cancer – Heroes

The Playmarket Award for Best Line in a Kiwi Play…
“Homebrand, that’s a good brand!” – Silent Night
“I hate Midgets. They steal things” – Death of a Cheerleader
” ‘Ah, no, Dingus. Life modelling is when you’re doing modelling alive. Durr” Crims  

The Q Theatre Award for Best Special Effect of the Year…
Synchronised Swimming – Sirens
The Lamp Dance – Faux Real
Blood Splatter in Disorder – Young and Hungry

The Auckland Festival Award for Best Pash of the Year…
Sophie and Nathan – Tartuffe
Dena Kennedy and Andi Crown – Yours Truly
Dwayne Cameron and Nicola Valeta in Reasons to be pretty

The Auckland Theatre Company Award for Best Nudity of the Year…
Sam Snedden – The Only Child
Gypsy Katua – The Sex Show
Yvette Parsons – I am Yeti

The Silo Award for Best Ensemble acting of the Year…
The Cast of Bare
Isla Adamson and Josephine Stewart-Tewhiu – Chalk
End of the Golden Weather – Auckland Theatre Company

The APRA Award for Best Singing in a Play…
The Factory – Killa Kokonut Krew  
The Laramie Project – PIPA
Man Bits – Mark Scott and his Penis song 

The DANZ Award for Best Dancing in a Play…
Olivia Tennet – The Wizard of Oz
Mia Blake – Tartuffe  
Devlin Bishop and Cathy Rood – The Sex Show 

The Karen Kay Award for Best Performance of “A Hooped Skirt wearing Racially Naive 19th century character”
Laurel Devenie
Laurel Devenie
Laurel Devenie

The Elizabeth Whiting Award for Best Costume of the Year…
Edward Clendon’s cape – Stranger things 4
Alex Ellis’s white gown – Drowning in Veronica Lake
Sophie Henderson’s Wedding Dress – Tartuffe

The Theatreview Award for Best Review Quote of the Year…
Lexie Matherson: “The Pumphouse Theatre was as immaculate as always which is no mean feat considering that most of their current audience is made up of under fives and the age gap between the kids and their accompanying family members could mostly be counted in decades rather than years.”  
James Wenley: “More satisfying than all 5 of the Bring it On films put together, Death by Cheerleader has the spirit and much, much more.” On Death by Cheerleader
“Needed Moor” – Matt Baker on Othello

The NZ Actors Equity Award for Best Death 
Todd Emerson – The Family Wilder
Andi Crown – Yours Truly
Ben Van Lier – Making a Killing

The Robert Bruce Award for Best Stage manager
Josh Hyman 
RUBY Reihana-Wilson 
Stacey Donaldson 

BOOK NOW if you haven’t already:

THE HACKMAN Theatre Awards, Auckland. 2011.  
Monday December 12th.  
The Wintergarden. The Civic. 7.30pm. $20! 

Book Here! http://www.the-edge.co.nz/Event-Pages/H/Hackman-Awards.aspx