Skeena Zone Awards

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• 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”
  

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

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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”
  

TLT Production History

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• 1953
  --- "Father of the Bride"
• 195?
  --- "Master Dudley"
  --- "The Mask"
  --- "Our Hearts were Young and Gay"
• 1955
  --- "The Heiress"
  --- "Sparkin"??
  --- "Dark Victory"??
  --- "The Queen of Hearts"??
• 1956
  --- "The Early Bird"
• 1957
  --- "Ladies in Retirement"
  --- "A Continental Bouquet" - "Grey Bread"
  --- "The Laboratory"
  --- "Merchant of Venice: Courtroom Scene" (Act IV Scene 1)
• 1958
  --- "Quiet Weekend"
  --- "Red Queen, White Queen"
  --- "Eros at Breakfast"
  --- "Harvey"??
  --- "Dear Charles"??
  --- "Nicollo & Nicollette"??
  --- "The Puppet Prince" ??
  --- "The Barrets of Whimpole Street"??
• 1959
  --- "The Diary"
  --- "The Anniversary"
  --- "A Marriage has been Arranged"
• 1960??
  --- "Advantages of Paternity"
  --- "Paradise Enow"
  --- "Bleeding Heart" or "Wee Jon"
  --- "The Cloak"
• 1961
  --- "Four Queens Wait for Henry"
  --- "Shivering Shock" or "The Hiding Place"
  --- "The Parpot Assination"
• 1964
  --- "The Neighbours"
  --- "The Monkey's Paw"
  --- "Rumpus at Railsford"
• 1965
  --- "The Bald Soprano"
• 1966
  --- "So Long As They're Happy":
• 196?
  --- "The Birthday Party"
• 1967
  --- "Jack and the Beanstalk"
• 1971
  --- "The Killing of Sister George"
  --- "Lovers and Other Strangers"
• 1972
  --- "Krapp's Last Tape"
• 1973
  --- "The Glass Menagerie"
  --- "Dark of the Moon"
• 1974
  --- "Butterflies are Free"
• 1975
  --- "Good Night Mrs Puffin"
  --- "Last of the Red Hot Lovers"
  --- "Save Me a Place at Forest Lawn"
  --- "The Fall of Man"
• 1976
  --- "A Streetcar Named Desire"
  --- "Village Wooing"
  --- "One Spring Morning"
  --- "Relatively Speaking"
  --- "Walking Back"
  --- "A Potted Melodrama" written by Ken Morton and Dave Phillips
  --- "Cinder Ella"
• 1977
  --- "Silver Wedding"
  --- "After Antietam"
  --- "Hisses & Kisses" (76 or 77)
  --- "Adaptation"
  --- "Hot..L Baltimore"
  --- "Arsenic and Old Lace"
  --- "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
• 1978
  --- "Leaving Home"
• 1979
  --- "Isadore and G.B."
  --- "Doubles" ("Mixed Doubles")
  --- "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown"
• 1980
  --- "Dirty Linen"
  --- "Newfoundland"
• 1981
  --- "California Suite"
• 1982
  --- "Amicable Parting"
  --- "The Drunkard; Or Between the Boos and Hisses"
  --- "Next"
  --- "The Man Who Tossed Himself Off"
  --- "Beauty and the Beast"
• 1983
  --- "The Hand that Cradles the Rock"
  --- "The Doll's House"
• 1984
  --- "A Letter From the General"
  --- "Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii"
• 1985
  --- "Love Among The Women"
  --- "One Night Stand"
• 1986
  --- "The Station"
  --- "Vanities"
  --- "Young Dracula"
  --- "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf"
• 1987
  --- "Heaven's to Betsy"
  --- "One Spring Morning"
  --- "Couch Potato"
  --- "Sylvester's Surprise Christmas"
• 1988
  --- "The Creation and Fall of Lucifer"
  --- "The Wiz"
  --- "Mothers and Fathers"
  --- "Triplet"
  --- "The Emperor's New Clothes"
• 1989
  --- "Ladies in Retirement"
  --- "Curse of the Starving Class"
  --- "The Art of War"
• 1990
  --- "Room 44"
  --- "Forever Yours Mary Lou"
  --- "No Problem"
  --- "Sinners"
• 1991
  --- "A Chip in the Sugar"
  --- "Hooters"
  --- "Talking with…"
  --- "Brighton Beach Memoirs"
• 1992
  --- "The Glass Bottle"
  --- "Living Together"
  --- "Under Control"
  --- "The Utter Glory of Morrisey Hall
• 1993
  --- "Father of the Bride"
  --- "Thriller of the Year"
  --- "Lemonade"
  --- "Salt Water Moon"
  --- "The Diary of Adam and Eve"
  --- "The Hand that Cradles the Rock"
• 1994
  --- "Orphans"
  --- "I'll be Back Before Midnight"
• 1995
  --- "Windfall"
  --- "Escape From Happiness"
  --- "Firebugs"
  --- "Blood Relations"
  --- "Waiting for the Parade"
• 1996
  --- "Hey Naked Lady"
  --- "The Night of January 16th"
  --- "Oleanna"
  --- "Midnight Madness"
  --- "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"
  --- "Harvey"
• 1997
  --- "Buried Child"
  --- "The Watering Place"
  --- "The Babysitter"
  --- "Alone Together"
  --- "Three to the Moon"
• 1998
  --- "The Caretaker"
  --- "Better Living"
  --- "The Long Weekend"
  --- "Cruel Tears"
  --- "7 Stories"
• 1999
  --- "The Motor Trade"
  --- "A Life in the Theatre"
  --- "Butterflies are Free"
  --- "Murder is a Game"
  --- "The Odd Couple"
• 2000
  --- "Suitehearts"
  --- "Vigil"
  --- "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom"
  --- "Bordertown Café"
• 2001
  --- "Round and Round the Garden"
  --- "How I Learned to Drive"
  --- "The Foursome"
  --- "A Hotel on Marvin Gardens"
• 2002
  --- "Drinking Alone"
  --- "Art Attack"
  --- "Traffic"
  --- "Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief"
  --- "Ravenscroft"
• 2003
  --- "The Affections of May"
  --- "Psychopathia Sexualis"
  --- "Speaking in Tongues"
  --- "Ethan Claymore"
• 2004
  --- "Cinderella"
  --- "Here on the Flight Path"
  --- "Wawatay" a co production with the First Nations Theatre Collective
  --- "Three Viewings"
  --- "The Attic, The Pearls & Three Fine Girls"
• 2005
  --- "Jack & the Beanstalk"
  --- "Maggie's Getting Marred"
  --- "Mary's Wedding"
  --- "Lil's Closet"
• 2006
  --- "Nunsense"
  --- "The Karaoke Killer"
  --- "The Laramie Project"
• 2007
  --- "Puss in Boots"
  --- "I Burried an Idol"
  --- "The Drawer Boy"
  --- "The Secret Garden"
  --- "Zoo Story"
• 2008
  --- "The Odd Couple - Female Version"
  --- "Looking"
  --- "A Lie of the Mind"
• 2009
  --- "Treasure Island"
  --- "Casting for Murder"
  --- "Self Help"
• 2010
  --- "Nunsense II"
  --- "Bedtime Stories"