Achievements
2010 CONDA WINNERS
The following list includes current and former YPT members involved in YPT and other theatre company productions.
Professional categories:
Actor: Timothy Shearman, Ruby Moon
Actress: Giverny Lewis, The Shape of Things
Achievement in music, sound and lighting design: Scott Allan, lighting design, The Boy from Oz
Non-professional categories:
Actor in a leading role in a musical: Grant Drury-Green, The Boy from Oz
Actor in a supporting role: Mat Lee, The Witches of Eastwick
Juvenile male performance: Ben Freeman, Blackrock
Juvenile female performance: Brita Penfold, Cluedo
Ensemble acting: The Golden Masque of Agamemnon, Young People’s Theatre
Achievement in set, lighting and sound design: Cameron Elkin and Kelsie Clarke, set design, The Golden Masque of Agamemnon
2010 CONDA Nominations
Excellence by a Professional Actor
Timothy Shearman, Ruby Moon (Pantseat Productions)
Theo Rule, Shakespeare’s Fools (Stray Dogs Theatre)
Excellence by a Professional Actress
Giverny Lewis, Ruby Moon (Pantseat Productions)
Giverny Lewis, The Shape of Things (Stooged Theatre)
Stephanie Priest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stooged Theatre)
Excellence in Professional Achievement in Music, Sound and Lighting
Scott Allan, lighting design, The Boy from Oz (Metropolitan Players)
Best Non-Professional Dramatic Production
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Young People’s Theatre
Ben Freeman, Blackrock (Tantrum Theatre)
Excellence by a Non-Professional Actress in a Leading Role in a Drama or Comedy
Annabel Fleming, The Golden Masque of Agamemnon (Young People’s Theatre)
Excellence by a Non-Professional Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
Grant Drury-Green, The Boy from Oz (Metropolitan Players)
Excellence by a Non-Professional Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Emily Taylor, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Young People’s Theatre)
Excellence by a Non-Professional Actor in a Supporting Role
David Gray, Cinderella (Newcastle Theatre Company)
Mat Lee, The Boy from Oz (Metropolitan Players)
Mat Lee, The Witches of Eastwick (Newcastle Dramatic Art Club)
Michael Single, The Man Who Came to Dinner (DAPA Theatre)
Best Juvenile Male Performance
Matt Abell-King, A Taste of Honey (University of Newcastle School of Drama, Fine Art and Music)
Mitchell Bourke, The Golden Masque of Agamemnon (Young People’s Theatre)
Scott Eveleigh, The Boy from Oz (Metropolitan Players)
Ben Freeman, Blackrock (Tantrum Theatre)
Ben Freeman, The New Jungle Book (DAPA Theatre)
Jack Gow, The Golden Masque of Agamemnon (Young People’s Theatre)
David Gray, Cinderella (Newcastle Theatre Company)
Callan Purcell, The New Jungle Book (DAPA Theatre)
Best Juvenile Female Performance
Bianka Lee, The Golden Masque of Agamemnon (Young People’s Theatre)
Brita Penfold, Cluedo (Pantseat Productions)
Best Ensemble Acting in a Non-Professional Production
The Golden Masque of Agamemnon, Young People’s Theatre
Excellence by a Non-Professional Director
Katy Booth, Cameron Elkin and Kelsie Clarke, The Golden Masque of Agamemnon (Young People’s Theatre)
Barbara Delaney and Wendy Leis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Young People’s Theatre)
Excellence in Non-Professional Achievement in Music and Movement
Daniel Wilson, musical direction, The Witches of Eastwick (Newcastle Dramatic Art Club)
Excellence in Non-Professional Achievement in Costume Design and Make-up
Barbara Delaney, costume design, Anastasia (Newcastle Theatre Company)
Barbara Delaney, Jennifer Bell and Vivien Jones, costume design, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Young People’s Theatre)
Jennifer Ellicot and Hayley Stoddart, costume design, Disney’s Alice in Wonderland Jr (Hunter Region Drama School)
Excellence in Non-Professional Achievement in Set, Lighting and Sound Design
Chris Bird, set design, The Unvarnished Truth (Theatre on Brunker)
Cameron Elkin and Kelsie Clarke, set design, The Golden Masque of Agamemnon (Young People’s Theatre)
Newcastle Youth Theatre Development Grants
The presentations on the night of the CONDA Awards Ceremony will include the Newcastle Youth Theatre Development Grants which are sponsored by Newcastle groups and individuals and are aimed at assisting young people in improving and expanding their theatre skills.
The recipients, aged 12 to 20, nominated by Newcastle’s youth theatre groups are:
* Phoebe Clark (DAPA Theatre)
* Adam Grossenbacher (Hunter Region Drama School)
* Rileigh Schmitzer (Pantseat Productions)
* Ben Freeman (Tantrum Theatre); and
* Anna Lambert (Young People’s Theatre)
Ray Brooks Awards 2010
The Ray Brooks Awards are encouragement awards established to promote participation and excellence in performance in YPT productions. Awards for our 2010 season were announced at a ceremony held on 13 November 2010.
The Golden Masque of Agamemnon
Bianka Lee, Catherine Cook, Bridgette Lawrence, Mitchell Bourke
The Golden Goose
Ben Stuart, Leilani Smith, Linden Truscott, Montana Little, David Gray
Hating Alison Ashley
Sarah Gordon, Naomi De Lyall, Beth Traynor
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Jake Nye, Liam Ralston, Grace Elkin, Lachlan Buck, Robert Wisener, Amy McDonald
Outstanding Performance by a previous winner of an encouragement award
David Barlow
John Shearman wins VCA School of Performing Arts award
Former YPT member, John Shearman, is in his second year of study at the Victorian College of the Arts. He was recently one of two students awarded Pratt Bursaries (Theatre) for 2010. The bursary, which is financed from philanthropic contributions, will provide John with financial assistance to support his final year of study in 2011.
2009 YPT CONDA nominations
Excellence in Professional Technical Achievement
Ross Brown, masks, Three Little Pigs (Young People’s Theatre)
Excellence by a Non-Professional Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
Matthew Bevan, Three Little Pigs (Young People’s Theatre)
Cameron Elkin, Three Little Pigs (Young People’s Theatre)
Excellence by a Non-Professional Director
Matthew Bevan, Dags (Young People’s Theatre)
Excellence in Non-Professional Achievement in Costume Design and Make-up
Vivien Jones & Jennifer Ellicott, costume design, Three Little Pigs (YPT)
Claire Thomas, make-up and masks, Pinocchio (Young People’s Theatre)
Excellence in Non-Professional Achievement in Set Design
Matthew Bevan, Dags (Young People’s Theatre)
Greg Shearer, Mary Shearer, Stephen Hill & Mary Ann Hill, Three Little Pigs (YPT)
Excellence in Non-Professional Achievement in Lighting and Sound Design
Matthew Bevan, sound and visual design, Dags (Young People’s Theatre)
2009 CONDA Youth Theatre Development Grant – Cameron Elkin
Cameron Elkin, 17, joined Young People’s Theatre when he was eight. He has appeared in at least one YPT show a year since then and has been a crew member on most of the group’s productions since he was 12. His expertise as a lighting designer and operator is widely recognised in the Hunter theatre community. He has worked in the past 12 months on productions for Newcastle Theatre Company, Lollipops Performing Arts, Tomaree Musical Theatre Company, Newcastle Festival Opera, Pantseat Productions, Upstage Youth Theatre and Hunter Lifestyle Magazine at venues in Newcastle, Maitland and Cessnock. He is a drama tutor at YPT and at HVT Performing Arts at Maitland. This year he wrote and performed in a 30-minute show about the importance of physical activity that was staged at the Hunter Valley Gardens at Pokolbin at Easter. Cameron, who lives at Metford, will be assistant director on YPT’s February production The Golden Masque of Agamemnon, but plans a theatrically quiet year after that. He will be doing the Higher School Certificate at Hunter School of the Performing Arts, as well as serving as the school captain. He is looking at doing a university course combining communications, media and theatre after the HSC. Cameron has two nominations for this year’s CONDAs – one for best non-professional actor in a musical for his performance as the Wolf in YPT’s Three Little Pigs and for his lighting design for Pantseat’s Lucky Stiff. The Youth Development Grant is sponsored by Newcastle Permanent.