The 2018 Brickenden Awards

Wolf Performance Hall
Monday, January 28, 2019
Hosted by: Keith Tomasek

Photos by Richard Gilmore

Outstanding Drama

• Albertine in Five Times (London Community Players)
• Lunar Landing (Theatre Nemesis)
• Point of Honour (Arbitrary Angle Theatre Company)
• The December Man (L’homme de decembre) (London Community Players)
• This Above All (London Community Players)

Outstanding Comedy

• A Creetin Christmas! (Banished By The King Productions)
• Harvest (London Community Players)
• HIR (Calithumpian Theatre Company)
• Old Fart (Theatre Praxis)
• The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of Macbeth (London Community Players)

Outstanding Musical

• Beauty and the Beast (London Community Players)
• Dogfight (Allswell Productions)
• Hello Dolly (Musical Theatre Productions)
• Next To Normal (Calithumpian Theatre Company)
• The Light in the Piazza (Musical Theatre Productions)

Outstanding Director

• Ceris Thomas (Beauty and the Beast)
• Hailey Hill (Dogfight)
• John Gerry (HIR)
• Julia Webb (Point of Honour)
• Stephen Mitchell (The December Man (L’homme de decembre))

Outstanding Male Actor – Lead Role

• Colton Abel (Beast, Beauty and the Beast)
• Mbayo Bona (CB, Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead)
• Patrick Avery-Kenny (Bernstein, Dogfight)
• Stephen Ingram (Eddie Birdlace, Dogfight)
• Todd Baubie (Lawren Harris, This Above All)

Outstanding Female Actor – Lead Role

• Alicia D’Ariano (Belle, Beauty and the Beast)
• Bronwyn Powell (Dolly Levi, Hello Dolly)
• Catharine Sullivan (Prudence Heward, This Above All)
• Kate Deman (Rose Fenny, Dogfight)
• Mary Jane Walzak (Charlotte, Harvest)

Outstanding Female Actor – Supporting Role

• Bronwyn Powell (Signora Nacarelli, The Light in the Piazza)
• Danie Dixon (Maureen Johnson, RENT)
• Deana Sigut (Thelma playing Macbeth, The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of Macbeth)
• Jesslyn Hodgson (Marcy, Dogfight)
• Melissa Metler (Mrs Potts, Beauty and the Beast)

Outstanding Male Actor – Supporting Role

• Ben Kennes (Gaston, Beauty and the Beast)
• Justin Eddy (Angel Dumott Schunard, RENT)
• Matt Butler (Lumiere, Beauty and the Beast)
• Sean Brennan (Cogsworth, Beauty and the Beast)
• Zoe Bernard (Max, HIR)

Outstanding Lighting Design

• Andrew Bragg (Dogfight)
• John Knight (Next To Normal)
• Karen Crichton (Hello Dolly)
• Mark Mooney (Beauty and the Beast)
• Stephen Mitchell (The Light in the Piazza)

Outstanding Sound Design

• Andrea Stewart (Hello Dolly)
• Andrew Rethazi (The Light in the Piazza)
• Lisa Desgroseilliers (Beauty and the Beast)
• Lisa Desgroseilliers (HIR)
• Paul Venesoen (The December Man (L’homme de decembre))

Outstanding Set Design

• Joe Recchia (Hello Dolly)
• Kathleen Sykora & Julia Webb (Point of Honour)
• Kerry Bishop (Beauty and the Beast)
• Laura Sepulveda (The Light in the Piazza)
• Stephen Mitchell (HIR)

Outstanding Costume Design

• Anne Humberstone, Annette Kavelaars-Burrows, Debra Chantler, Mary Jane Walzak, Tania Harvey & Whitney Bolam (Beauty and the Beast)
• Becky Lenko & Kim McCuaig (Hello Dolly)
• Elona Thielen (Dogfight)
• Kristina Baron-Woods (The Light in the Piazza)
• Marg Bildy (This Above All)

Outstanding Makeup

• Candice Burgo (Beauty and the Beast)
• Dawn Gosney (Hello Dolly)
• Demra Paul-Green (It’s All Holly Jolly)
• Eva Jacomien (Dogfight)
• Heather Heywood (The Light in the Piazza)

Outstanding Youth Drama

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream (London Central Secondary School)
• Almost, Maine (Original Kids Theatre Company)
• It’s A Wonderful Life – A Live Radio Play (Original Kids Theatre Company)
• Peter and the Starcatcher (AB Lucas Secondary School)
• The Laramie Project (London South C.I.)

Outstanding Youth Musical

• A Christmas Story – The Musical (Original Kids Theatre Company)
• BIG FISH (Original Kids Theatre Company)
• Fame (Saunders Musical Theatre)
• Heathers (High School Edition) (Original Kids Theatre Company)
• The Theory of Relativity (Original Kids Theatre Company)

Outstanding Youth Actor – Female

• Olivia Farquhar (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

Outstanding Youth Actor – Male

• Devon Dixon (Big Fish)

Outstanding Original Script

• Finding Fox (Len Cuthbert)
• Lunar Landing (Jason Rip)
• Point of Honour (John Krisak)
• Recovery Show (Clara Madrenas)
• This Above All (Diane Vandenhoven)

People’s Choice

• A Creetin Christmas! (Banished By The King Productions)
• Beauty and the Beast (London Community Players)
• Dogfight (Allswell Productions)
• HIR (Calithumpian Theatre Company)
• SHORT OF 30: A Musical (Fridge Door Live Theatre Company)

Chris Doty Award

• Jason Rip