The 2016 Brickenden Awards

Wolf Performance Hall
Monday, January 30, 2017
Hosted by Meghan Brown and Matthew Stewart

Outstanding Drama

• Skylight (Troubadour Theatre Collective)
• Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (London Community Players)
• To Ashes (Dormant Collective)
• Twelve Angry Men (Theatre Western)
• Widow’s Wedding Dress (OPIA Theatre Collective)

Outstanding Comedy

• 1-900-DEE-LITE (Maybles’ Productions)
• Arcadia (London Community Players)
• Flemming (An American Thriller) (Out of Sight Productions)
• Much Ado About Nothing (Western Summer Shakespeare)
• Sleuth (Funeral Pyre Theatre)

Outstanding Musical

• Heathers: The Musical (Musical Theatre Productions)
• She Loves Me (Musical Theatre Productions)
• Spring Awakening (Theatre Western)
• The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O’Brien (Pacheco Theatre)
• The Secret Garden – A Musical (London Community Players)

Outstanding Director

• Brenda Bazinet (Skylight)
• Cassidy Hicks (Widow’s Wedding Dress)
• Jeff Culbert (To Ashes)
• John Gerry (The History Boys)
• Rick Kish (The Secret Garden – A Musical)

Outstanding Male Actor – Lead Role

• Conlan Gassi (Archibald, The Secret Garden – A Musical)
• George Jolink (Hector, The History Boys)
• Jeff Miller (Tom Sergeant, Skylight)
• Sean Brennan (Jim “Sharky” Harkin, The Seafarer)
• Tyler Parr (Thomas Ash, To Ashes)

Outstanding Female Actor – Lead Role

• Aimee Adler (Madame Curie, Madame Curie)
• Alexandrea Gaistman (Juror 8, Twelve Angry Men)
• Francesca Ranalli (Kyra Hallis, Skylight)
• Kathleen Welch (Catherine, Widow’s Wedding Dress)
• Robin Luckwaldt Ross (Rosaleen, Widow’s Wedding Dress)

Outstanding Female Actor – Supporting Role

• Deborah Mitchell (Dorothy Lintott, The History Boys)
• Hailey Hill (Hamlet, Q1 Hamlet)
• Jenn Marino (Magenta, The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O’Brien)
• Melanie Stewart (Columbia, The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O’Brien)
• Melissa Metler (Martha, The Secret Garden – A Musical)

Outstanding Male Actor – Supporting Role

• Alan Legg (Old Man, Prelude to a Kiss)
• Alex Bogaert (Dakin, The History Boys)
• John Reid (Edward Sheridan, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me)
• Stephan Flindal (Michael Watters, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me)
• Trevor Richie (Riff Raff, The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O’Brien)

Outstanding Lighting Design

• Eric Bernard (Widow’s Wedding Dress)
• Meaghan Marchand (Skylight)
• Rob Coles (August: Osage County)
• Rob Coles (The Catering Queen)
• Rob Coles (The Weir by Conor McPherson)

Outstanding Sound Design

• Anne Moniz (Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me)
• David Bogaert (The Weir by Conor McPherson)
• Lisa DesGrosseilliers (The Secret Garden – A Musical)
• Lisa DesGrosseilliers & Michael James Brown (The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O’Brien)
• Rob Richardson (She Loves Me)

Outstanding Set Design

• Alina Subrt (Skylight)
• Janice Johnston (To Ashes)
• Joe Recchia (August: Osage County)
• Karen Crichton (The History Boys)
• Mark Mooney (The Weir by Conor McPherson)

Outstanding Costume Design

• Ashton Otten (Heathers: The Musical)
• Becky Lenko (The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O’Brien)
• Janet Hong (Twelve Angry Men)
• Kathryn Sherwin (The Secret Garden – A Musical)
• Meghan Biddle (Arcadia)

Outstanding Makeup

• Amanda Belmonte (Twelve Angry Men)
• Eva Mien and Janice Johnston (The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O’Brien)
• Heather Heywood (Heathers: The Musical)
• Juan Martin (The Secret Garden – A Musical)
• Sidney Hicks (Widow’s Wedding Dress)

Outstanding Youth Drama

• And Then There Were None (London Central Secondary School)
• Anne of Green Gables (Medway High School)
• Les Belles-Soeurs (Original Kids Theatre Company)
• Sense and Sensibility (Beal Drama)
• The Importance of Being Earnest (Original Kids Theatre Company)

Outstanding Youth Musical

• All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten (Fridge Door Live Theatre Company)
• Godspell (Original Kids Theatre Company)
• Mary Poppins (Beal Musical Theatre)
• Seussical, the Musical (Original Kids Theatre Company)
• The Drowsy Chaperone (Original Kids Theatre Company)

Outstanding Youth Actor – Female

• Danielle Dixon (H.B. Beal Secondary School)

Outstanding Youth Actor – Male

• Nathan Marcus (Central Secondary School)

Outstanding Original Script

• Almost Alice (Julia McCarthy)
• Chicken Feather (Jeff Culbert)
• Madame Curie (Aimee Adler)
• Swallow (Tyler Graham)
• The Porno Play (Nick Regan)
• Widow’s Wedding Dress (Cassidy Hicks)

Chris Doty Award

• John Turner