MAINSTAGE 2008 Results

Sharon Lynch received the Eric Hamber Award for outstanding and long-term contribution to Theatre B.C. The Terrace Little Theatre is elated in this recognition of Sharon's 43 years of service to community theatre.

Tim Keenan, Sound Designer and Musical Director for "A Lie of the Mind," accepted the award for Best Technical: Sound for his and his band-mates contribution to this well received play.

The cast and crew of "A Lie of the Mind" wishes to thank everyone who helped us to travel to MainStage in Nanaimo and participate in what was an amazing week theatre.

For more results, please visit theatrebc.org

2008 Skeena Zone Drama Festival

Awards Night Results

People's Choice:

• Best Performance by a woman: Janin Hamming (A Lie of the Mind)(LOTM)
• Best Performance by a man: Garnett Doel (LOTM)
• Best Set: A Lie of the Mind
• Best Play: A Lie of the Mind

Thomas P. Rooney Award (Contribution to the Zone): Harbour Theatre

Back Stage Coordination: An Absent Man

Special Merit Awards:

• Harbour Theatre (HT): Spririt of the Festival
• Russell Bowers (HT): Debut Directing
• Rob Shearer (HT): Original Script
• Tim Keenan, James Powell, Jean Cook, Jack Cook (LOTM): Musical Ensemble

Best Sound: A Lie of the Min(LOTM)
Best Lighting: Mark Robinson: An Absent Man (AAM)
Best Costumes: A Lie of the Mind
Best Visual Presentation: An Absent Man
Best Ensemble: A Lie of the Mind
Honourable Mention > Best Supporting Actress: Sandy Watson (LOTM)
Best Supporting Actress: Debbie Haynes (LOTM)
Honourable Mention > Best Supporing Actor: Ryan Sergerie (LOTM) & Lyle McNish (AAM)
Best Supporting Actor: Patrick McIntyre (LOTM)
Best Director: Marianne Brorup Weston
Honourable Mention > Best Actor: Brent Nixon (Love Letters)
Best Actor: Garnett Doell (LOTM)
Honourable Mention > Best Actress: Barb Botelho (Love Letters)
Best Actress: Janine Hamming (LOTM)
Best Production: A Lie of the Mind

Thank-you to everyone to came to see the shows, our sponsors, the volunteers, and all those thespians who made this weekend a wonderful experience.

Skeena Zone Awards

This list is a living, breathing document. We will be adding and correcting entries as time permits. Please email us if you see anything that needs changing.

• 196?
  --- Best Play “The Birthday Party”
• 1971
  --- Best Play “The Killing of Sister George” Robin McColl Director
• 1972
  --- Best Play “Krapp’s Last Tape”
  --- Best Actor Ken Morton “Krapp’s Last Tape”
• 1976
  --- Best Play “A Streetcar Named Desire” Robin McColl Director
  --- Best Actor Paul Kjekstad “A Streetcar Named Desire”
  --- Best Actress Marlene Xenis “Village Wooing”
• 1977
  --- Best Actress Betty Ann (Birch) Xenis "After Antietam"
  --- Best Director Ken Morton "After Antietam"
• 1979
  --- Best Play “Isadore and G.B.” Ken Morton Director
• 1982
  --- Best Play “Amicable Parting”
• 1984
  --- Best Play “A Letter From the General” Ken Morton Director
  --- Best Actor Tony Ruksys “A Letter from the General”
  --- Best Supporting Actress Garth Webber “A Letter from the General”
  --- Best Costumes Sharon Bergen
• 1985
  --- Best Supporting Actress Debra Keane “Love Among The Women”
  --- Best Actor Brendon Elliot “Love among The Women”
• 1986
  --- Best Actors Ken Morton and Brendon Elliot “The Station”
  --- Best Ensemble TLT “The Station”
  --- Best Actress Gloria Nichols “Vanities”
• 1987
  --- Best Set Design “One Spring Morning”
• 1988
  --- Best Play “The Creation and Fall of Lucifer” Richard Wood Director
  --- Best Director Richard Wood “The Creation and Fall of Lucifer”
  --- Best Set Design Dave Battison “The Creation and Fall of Lucifer”
  --- Best Actor Daniel Barnswell “The Creation and Fall of Lucifer”
• 1989
  --- Best Play “Curse of the Starving Class” Daniel Barnswell Director
  --- Best Technical Direction TLT ”Curse of the Starving Class”
  --- Best Supporting Actress Connie Silveria “Curse of the Starving Class”
• 1990
  --- Best Supporting Actress Connie Silveria “Room 44”
  --- Best Supporting Actor Urs Gasser “Forever Yours Mary Lou”
• 1991
  --- Best Play “A Chip in the Sugar” Merry Hallsor Director
  --- Best Director Merry Hallsor “A Chip in the Sugar”
  --- Best Actor Alan Weston “A Chip in the Sugar”
• 1992
  --- Best Play “Living Together” Ken Morton Director
  --- Best Director Ken Morton “Living Together”
  --- Best Backstage co-ordination Annette Canute “Living Together”
  --- Best Ensemble TLT “Living Together”
• 1993
  --- Best Actor John McGowan
• 1994
  --- Best Play “Orphans” Marianne Brorup Weston Director
  --- Best Supporting Actor Alan Weston “Orphans”
  --- Best Sound “Orphans”
• 1995
  --- Best Production “Escape From Happiness” Marianne Brorup Weston
  --- Best Director Marianne Brorup Weston
  --- Best Actor Russ Sangster “Firebugs”
  --- Best Supporting Actor Alan Weston “Escape from Happiness”
  --- Best Actress Karla Hennig “Escape From Happiness”
  --- Best Visual “Firebugs”
  --- Best Backstage Co-ordination Annette Martindale “Firebugs”
• 1996
  --- Best Ensemble “Olenna”
• 1997
  --- Best Actor John McGowan “The Watering Place”
  --- Best Actress Sharon Lynch “The Watering Place”
  --- Best Backstage Co-ordination Stan Ginter and Evan Lyons
• 1998
  --- Best Actor Alan Weston “Better Living”
  --- Best Director Marianne Brorup Weston “Better Living”
  --- Best Visual “Better Living”
  --- Best Backstage Co-ordination “Better Living”
• 1999
  --- Best Play “A Life in the Theatre” Marianne Brorup Weston Director
  --- Best Actors John McGowan and Alan Weston “A Life in the Theatre”
• 2000
  --- Best Play “Vigil” Marianne Brorup Weston Director
  --- Best Actor Alan Weston “Vigil”
  --- Best Director Marianne Brorup Weston “Vigil”
  --- Best Supporting Actress Sharon Lynch “Vigil”
• 2001
  --- Best Play “How I Learned to Drive” Daniel Barnswell Director
  --- Best Director Daniel Barnswell Director “How I Learned to Drive”
  --- Best Actress Annette Martindale “How I Learned to Drive”
  

Skeena Zone Drama Festival Results

The Adjudicator made special mention of Marianne Weston and the cast and crew of "The Zoo Story" for honouring their committment and putting in the extra effort to appear at the Festival, in spite of having to change from the original entry of "The Drawer Boy."

PEOPLES CHOICE AWARDS

Set – The Secret Garden (Garnett Doell)
Male Actor – Adam Kirkwood – The Zoo Story
Female Actor – Katie Hollett - The Secret Garden
Play – The Secret Garden

ADJUDICATORS AWARDS

Special Achievement Mentions
- Rudy Kelly for Original Work (playwriter for “Stuck”) – Habour Theatre
- Rod McNish for producing and directing a new work - "Stuck"

SKEENA ZONE AWARDS

Secret Garden Awards:
Visual – Garnett Doell
Supporting Actress – Robin Hollett
Supporting Actor – Garnett Doell
Actress – tied – Katie Hollett (SG) and Janelle Rector(PRSS production of “Oh What a Tangled Web”)
Costumes - Annette McImoyle and assistants
Lighting – Janine Hamming
Sound – Patrick McIntyre
Director – Chris Stone
Production (all the cast, crew and workers of Secret Garden)

Other Awards
Best Actor – Rudy Kelly – “Stuck”
Best Ensemble – “Stuck”
Back Stage Merit – “Stuck” (awarded by the techie from the theatre)

“Secret Garden” is now headed to Kamloops for Mainstage in July.

Watch for benefit performance dates and other fundraising events as they are planned.

Tom Rooney Award

The Theatre BC Skeena Zone's most prestigious award is presented on an annual basis, if merited, as a part of the Skeena Zone Drama Festival awards ceremony. The Tom Rooney Award is given to a person, group or institution having made an outstanding contribution to community theatre in the Skeena Zone over a long period.

• 1993 Tom Rooney
• 1994 Ken & Lorna Morton
• 1995 Merry Hallsor
• 1996 Combined with 1995
• 1997 The Then Family
• 1998 Drew Borland
• 1999 Sharon Lynch
• 2000 Mary Lester
• 2001 Not awarded
• 2002 Marianne Brorup Weston
• 2003 Alan Weston
• 2004 Not awarded
• 2005 Not awarded
• 2006 Not awarded

The Eric Hamber Award

Theatre BC's most prestigious award is presented on an annual basis, if merited, as a part of the provincial MAINSTAGE Festival awards Ceremony. The Eric Hamber Award is given to a person, group or institution having made an outstanding contribution to community theatre in British Columbia over a long period.

• 1998 - Merry Hallsor
• 1981 - Terrace Little Theatre
• 1979 - Mien Van Heek

Theatre BC Mainstage Awards

This list is a living, breathing document. We will be adding and correcting entries as time permits. Please email us if you see anything that needs changing.

This is a list of awards and honourable mentions we have received at the Theatre BC Mainstage Festivals.

• 1956
  --- Best Original Play Loreen McColl and Mary Juby - “The Early Bird”
• 196?
  --- Best Actress Molly Nattress “The Birthday Party”
• 1965
  --- Best Visual “The Bald Soprano”
• 1976
  --- Best Actress Elaine Shepard “A Streetcar Named Desire”
  --- Best Supporting Actress Sharon Lynch “A Streetcar Named Desire”
  --- Best Supporting Actor Garth Young A Streetcar Named Desire”
• 1989
  --- Most Promising New Director, Daniel Barnswell, “Curse of the Starving Class”
• 1991
  --- Burnaby Trophy “A Chip in the Sugar”
• 1992
  --- Best Costumes “Living Together”
  --- Best Set “Living Together”
  --- Burnaby Trophy “Living Together”
  --- Best Director Ken Morton “Living Together”
  --- Best Set Design Brian Slater “Living Together”
  --- Best Costumes Cindy Dumont “Living Together”
  --- Honourable Mention Best Supporting Actress – Marianne Brorup Weston & Alison Thomson, “Living Together”
• 1994
  --- The Sidney Award Best Backstage co-ordination “Orphans”
  --- Best Ensemble “Orphans”
  --- Best Supporting Actor TJ MacKenize “Orphans”
• 1995
  --- Burnaby Trophy “Escape From Happiness”
  --- Best Ensemble “Escape From Happiness”
  --- Best Actress Joan Sangster “Escape from Happiness”
  --- Best Graphics Package Grant Piffer “Firebugs”
  --- Best T-shirt design Grant Piffer “Firebugs”
• 1998
  --- Best Graphics Season
• 1999
  --- Best Costumes “A Life in the Theatre”
  --- Honourable Mention Best Actor Alan Weston, “A Life in the Theatre”
  --- Honourable Mention Best Lighting Gary Mills, “A Life in the Theatre”
• 2000
  --- Honourable Mention Burnaby Trophy, “Vigil”
  --- Honourable Mention Best Director Marianne Brorup Weston, “Vigil”
  --- Honourable Mention Best Actor Alan Weston “Vigil”
  --- Honourable Mention Best Supporting Actress Sharon Lynch, “Vigil”
  --- Honourable Mention Best Set Design, “Vigil”
  --- Honourable Mention best Technical, “Vigil”
• 2001
  --- Burnaby Trophy “How I Learned to Drive”
  2003
  --- Best Supporting Actor Jason Marshall, “Speaking in Tongues”
  --- Honourable Mention Best Supporting Actress Dawn Marshall, “Speaking in Tongues”
  --- Honourable Mention Best Costumes Sharon Lynch, “Speaking in Tongues”
• 2005
  --- Best Sound Patrick McIntyre, “Mary’s Wedding”
  --- Honourable Mention Best Actor Brian Wyatt, “Mary’s Wedding”
  --- Honourable Mention Best Actress Janine Hamming, “Mary’s Wedding”
  --- Peoples Choice Best Play (tie), “Mary’s Wedding” (and “Proof”)
  --- Best Sound Patrick McIntyre, “Mary’s Wedding”
  --- Honourable Mention Best Actor Brian Wyatt, “Mary’s Wedding”
  --- Honourable Mention Best Actress Janine Hamming, “Mary’s Wedding”
  --- Peoples Choice Best Play (tie), “Mary’s Wedding” (and “Proof”)
• 2006
  --- Burnaby Trophy “Nunsense”
  --- Best Actress Mary Ann Lawrence, “Nunsense”
  --- Outstanding Direction of a Musical Tim Keen & Marianne Brorup Weston, “Nunsense”
  --- Honourable Mention best Director Marianne Brorup Weston, “Nunsense”
  --- Honourable Mention bvest Supporting Actress, Amy Turner & Arlene Sheppard, “Nunsense”
  --- Honourable Mention Best Ensemble, “Nunsense”
  --- Honourable Mention Best Costumes, Ann Kantakis & Sharon Lynch, “Nunsense”