December 18, 2010

THE DUNEDIN THEATRE AWARDS: WINNERS  

What a wonderful evening of glitz, glam, and theatre! The first Dunedin Theatre Awards have now been handed out by Mayor Dave Cull and the bubbly continues to flow. Plan D sends a hearty well done to all nominees and a standing ovation to the winners.

In a surprise move the Panel of Critics gave out THREE Wild Card Awards rather than one which had the crowd cheering.

And the winners are (in bold):

Best Design (Technical)
Peter King: Wuthering Heights, Fortune Theatre
Stephen Kilroy: The Pitmen Painters, Fortune Theatre
Stephen Kilroy: The 39 Steps, Fortune Theatre

Best Design (Scenographic) 
Andrew Cook: The Dumb Waiter, Globe Theatre
Peter King: The Pitmen Painters, Fortune Theatre
Peter King: Wuthering Heights, Fortune Theatre

Wild Card Award 
Kathryn Hurst & Vicki Cross: For their contribution to the development of Anti-Social Tap as the leading provider of Stand-Up and Improv 

Best Dunedin Script
Harry Love: All’s Well that Ends
Paul Rothwell: You Be The Angel, I’ll Be The Ghost
Richard Huber & Simon O’Connor & Barbara Power: One Day – Vauxhall

Wild Card Award
Janice Y. Cheng: For her energetic contribution to many Dunedin theatre groups 

Best Performance (Male)
Andrew Morrison: The Dumb Waiter, The Globe Theatre
John Glass: The Pitmen Painters, Fortune Theatre
Simon O’Connor: One Day – Vauxhall

Best Performance (Female)
Anna Henare: The 39 Steps, Fortune Theatre
Anna Henare: Wuthering Heights, Fortune Theatre
Barbara Power: One Day, RSB Productions 

Wild Card Award
Karen Elliot: For her contributions as interim Manager of the Fortune Theatre

Best Director
Hilary Norris: The 39 Steps, Fortune Theatre
Lisa Warrington: Wuthering Heights, Fortune Theatre
Patrick Davies: The Pitmen Painters, Fortune Theatre

Production of the Year
The Dumb Waiter: The Globe Theatre
One Day: RSB Productions
The Pitmen Painters: Fortune Theatre
Wuthering Heights: Fortune Theatre

The award for Outstanding Contribution to Dunedin Theatre
Nicholas McBryde: For his contributions in creating the Otago Festival of the Arts – a world class event bringing International and National works of art to Otago. His unending and heroic efforts in developing the event into a one of the few national arts festival which is artistically and financially successful and which has an ‘Otago’ flavour. 

Congratulations to all the Winners
All award nominations are independently scrutinised by Cara Paterson, DCC Arts Officer.