December 3, 2015

AUCKLAND THEATRE AWARDS 2015 

THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD nominations have been counted, see you next Monday to find out who the winners are!!!

The HACKMAN Cup for Most Original Production…
– Hudson & Halls Live!
– All Your Wants and Needs Fulfilled Forever
– If there’s not Dancing at the Revolution, I’m not coming
– Cafe Paradiso

Mangere Arts Centre Award for Best Ensemble…
– Snort
– The First 7500 Days of my Life
– Little Shop of Horrors (Live Live Cinema)
– The Book of Everything

The Auckland Actors Award for Best Death…
– Rose Matafeo, Rose Matafeo is Finally Dead
– Cast of Not Psycho
– Sandy Vukalokalo, Club Paradiso
– Cast of Fun Run

The Elephant Publicity Award for Best Poster…
– Hudson & Halls
– Ernest Rutherford: Everyone Can Science!
– Officer 27
– Orangutan

The Gail Cowan Award for Best Viral Marketing Campaign…
– Twisted
– The talking light bulb, All Your Wants and Needs Fulfilled Forever
– Hudson & Halls
– Tiny Deaths

The TAPAC Award for Best Entrance…
– Kate McGill & Frith Horan, The Best Possible Album Party that Anybody has Ever Been to
– The men of Lysistrata
– Jackie Van Beek, Hudson & Halls
– Taylor Barrett, Officer 27

The Equity New Zealand Award for Best show by Emerging Artists…
– Alice Canton in Orangutan
– The 21st Narcissus
– The First 7500 Days Of My Life
– Dogfight

The Playmarket Award for Best line in a Kiwi Play…
– “I want to redress rising social inequity without sacrificing my hegemony as a straight white male.” – On the conditions and possibilities of Hilary Clinton taking me as her young lover
– “She doesn’t have a phone in her car – it’s not Star Trek” – Hudson and Halls Live!
– “I’m paying you in exposure!” – The First 7500 Days Of My Life
– “Do you think John Key’s kids have to do NCEA?” – I’ll Be Fine

The Johnson & Laird Management Award for Best Accent…
– Julia Croft in Not Psycho
– Frith Horan & Kate McGill in The Best Possible Album Party that Anybody has Ever Been to.
– Luci Hare in Lysistrata
– Nic Sampson in Ernest Rutherford: Everyone Can Science!

The APRA Award for Best Music…
– John Gibson, Lysistrata
– Gareth Hobbs, All Your Wants and Needs Fulfilled Forever
– Adrian Hooke & Oswell Didsbury for The Best Possible Album Party that Anybody Has Ever Been To
– Robin Kelly, The Events

The Kathryn Rawlings and Associates Award for Best Comeback…
– Ben Crowder directing Sit on it again
– Luci Hare returning to Lysistrata in a moon boot
– Mark Wright in Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography
– Sam Brooks in Stutterpop

The South Pacific Pictures Award for Best Technical F*‪#‎k up…
– The Black, projector being unplugged
– Declan Greene’s note before Eight-Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography
– The whiteboard almost hitting the audience in The First 7500 Days Of My Life
– Dogfight, when the lights came up too early and the audience saw the marines leaving stage after they had just died.

The Actors Program Award for Best Nudity…
– Edwin Beats in Not Psycho
– Julia Croft, If there’s not Dancing at the Revolution, I’m not coming
– Andy Grainger backstage in every show he does

The Sharu Loves Hats Award for Best Pash…
– Hudson & Halls Live! – Chris Parker & Todd Emerson
– All Your Wants and Needs Fulfilled Forever – Eli Kent and the mannequin
– Not Psycho – Bryony Skillington & Virginia Frankovich
– The Mooncake and the Kumara – Awhina Rose Ashby & Yoson An

The Pantograph Punch Award for Best Critic…
– James Wenley
– Sam Brooks
– Dione Joseph
– Matt Baker

The Tour-Makers Award for Travelling Hero…
– A Boy Wonder
– The Mooncake and the Kumara
– Daffodils
– Ngā Pou Wahine