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2012 Groundlings – and the award goes to …

Congratulations to all of the winners of The 2012 Groundlings, Queensland’s only peoples’ choice award for the best of Queensland-made theatre.

Thanks as well to all who nominated and voted. You are helping to keep the conversation and the spirit alive! Heartiest thanks to you.

It was clear from the nominations and the voting process that fan bases for particular artists and their work are very strong. There were some instances of multiple nominations and ballot stuffing during the voting. Our automated process picked these up and they were disqualified.

Greenroom is very grateful to Claire Christian, Director of Empire Youth Arts who performed the scrutineering task for the final ballot with such aplomb!

 

Outstanding Contribution by an Actor

Bryan_ProbetsBrian Probets (As You Like It; 1984)

Outstanding Contribution by an Actress

Nelle_Lee-2010_smallNelle Lee (1984)

Outstanding Contribution by a Director

Michael-Futcher_150x150Michael Futcher (1984)

Outstanding Contribution to Set Design & Outstanding Contribution to Costume Design

Josh_McIntosh

Josh McIntosh (Body of Work includes Hairspray; 1984; The Never Ending Story)

Outstanding Contribution to Lighting Design

Jason_GlenwrightJason Glenwright (Body of Work includes A Tribute of Sorts; 1984)

Outstanding Contribution to Sound Design or Composition

Guy_WebsterGuy Webster (Body of Work includes As You Like It; 1984; Kelly)

Outstanding Contribution to Multimedia Design

pete-foleyPete Foley (Body of Work)

Outstanding Contribution to Innovative Theatre Practice

shake&stir_montage1984: shake and stir theatre company for providing quality productions and access to theatre for young Queenslanders

Best New Play in an Inaugural Queensland Season

1984 1984 by George Orwell adapted by Nick Skubij and Nelle Lee – shake and stir theatre company

Best Production

19841984 by George Orwell adapted by Nick Skubij and Nelle Lee; shake and stir theatre company – Directed by Michael Futcher

Best Musical Theatre Production

UndergroundUnderground – Motherboard Productions – Directed by Jeremy Neideck – Produced by Dave Sleswick

Best Co-Production

a_tribute_of_sortsA Tribute of Sorts – La Boite Indie and Monsters Appear

Outstanding Contribution to Queensland theatre

Bille Brown AMBille Brown AM (1952-2013) for his contribution to our theatre, his inspiration, and his legacy

 

 

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2011 Groundlings: the winners!

Here’s Greenroom’s annual touch of love on Valentine’s Day.
Warmest congratulations to the following winners of the 2011 Groundling Awards for Queensland Theatre.
Thank you to all those who nominated and those who voted in the second year of the state’s people’s choice awards.
Athough there are no shiny trophies, certificates, or galas where you can applaud and shout, ‘Hoorah!’ all nominees can all bask in the knowledge that your work is admired and respected by your audiences. Well done!
Greenroom will follow up soon with another post on some intriguing facts and figures we’ve gathered during the Groundlings nomination and voting process. Follow us on Twitter or Facebook to keep posted.
Thank you to Claire Christian, Youth Director Empire Theatre Toowoomba for her assistance in scrutinising the results.

 

 

2011 Groundling Awards

Outstanding Contribution by an Actor: Bryan Probets – body of Work including Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness (La Boite Theatre Company); Animal Farm (shake and stir theatre company) Pygmalion (QTC)

Outstanding Contribution by an Actress: Nelle Lee – Animal Farm (shake and stir theatre company)

Outstanding Contribution by a Director: Steven Mitchell Wright – The Hamlet Apocalypse (The Danger Ensemble/La Boite Indie)

Outstanding Contribution to Set Design: Josh McIntosh – body of work including Animal Farm (shake and stir theatre company)

Outstanding Contribution to Costume Design: Josh McIntosh – body of work including Aladdin (Harvest Rain Theatre Company) and Animal Farm (shake and stir theatre company)

Outstanding Contribution to Lighting Design: Ben Hughes – body of work including Orphans and Fractions (QTC) The Hamlet Apocalypse (The Danger Ensemble/La Boite Indie), and Studio Shorts (JUTE).

Outstanding Contribution to Sound Design or Composition: Guy Webster body of work including Water Wars (Umber Productions/La Boite Indie and Empire Theatre Projects Company),  Animal Farm (shake and stir theatre company), and Ruben Guthrie (La Boite Theatre Company).

Outstanding Contribution to Multimedia Design: Dead Puppet Society with The Harbinger (Dead Puppet Society/La Boite Indie)

Outstanding Contribution to Innovative Theatre Practice: Steven Mitchell Wright & The Danger Ensemble for pushing performance and theatrical boundaries

Best New Play in an Inaugural Queensland Season: Animal Farm by George Orwell, adapted  by Nick Skubij (shake and stir theatre company)

Best Production: The Hamlet Apocalypse – The Danger Ensemble/La Boite Indie

Best Musical Theatre Production: Cabaret – Zen Zen Zo

Best Co-Production: Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness – La Boite Theatre Company and STC

Outstanding Contribution to Queensland theatre: Tim O’Connor & Harvest Rain Theatre Company for the company’s contribution to the development of a sustainable independent theatre model (Brisbane)

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2011 Groundling Awards: Nominees

Voting is now open in the 2011 Groundling Awards. Thanks to the many hundreds of you who sent in your nominations since the start of January. The people have spoken!

Click on this hotlink to register your vote on the ballot paper

VOTING WILL CLOSE at 5pm on Friday, 10th February.

First up, a couple of things to note: you may vote only once and, in the interests of fair play and to avoid ballot crashing or spamming, multiple, identical votes from the same IPA address will be disqualified.

Voting will close at 5pm on Friday, 10th February.

Here are the nominees in each category for your consideration. Hot links on nominees’ names will take you to their webpage or related materials for further information.

2011 Categories:

Outstanding Contribution by an Actor

Leon Cain (Orphans – QTC)
Bryan Probets (Body of Work including Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness- La Boite; Animal Farm – Shake and Stir; Pygmalion – QTC)
Lucas Stibbard (restaged season of boy girl wall – La Boite)

Outstanding Contribution by an Actress

Melanie Zanetti (Pygmalion – QTC)
Amy Ingram (Rabbit: the good room – Metro Arts)
Nelle Lee (Animal Farm – shake and stir theatre company)

Outstanding Contribution by a Director

Steven Mitchell Wright (The Hamlet Apocalypse for The Danger Ensemble/La Boite Indie)
Tim O’Connor (JC Superstar for Harvest Rain Theatre Company)
Shaun Charles (Water Wars for Umber Productions/La Boite Indie)
Michael Futcher (Animal Farm for Shake and Stir)

Outstanding Contribution to Set Design

Josh McIntosh (Body of work including Animal Farm)
Penelope Challen (Water Wars)
Simone Romaniuk (Fractions)

Outstanding Contribution to Costume Design

Romance Was Born (Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness)
Josh McIntosh (Body of work including Aladdin and Animal Farm)
Stephen Curtis (Pygmalion)

Outstanding Contribution to Lighting Design

David Walters (Body of Work and innovation in Water Wars for sustainable lighting practices)
Jason Glenwright (Body of Work including Ruben Guthrie; Animal Farm)
Ben Hughes (Body of Work including Orphans; Fractions; The Hamlet Apocalypse; Studio Shorts JUTE)

Outstanding Contribution to Sound Design or Composition

Guy Webster (Body of Work including Water Wars; Animal Farm; Ruben Guthrie)
Dane Alexander (The Hamlet Apocalypse)

Outstanding Contribution to Multimedia Design

Freddy Komp (Body of work including Water Wars; Empire Burning)
Dead Puppet Society  (The Harbinger)

Outstanding Contribution to Innovative Theatre Practice

Paul Osuch and Anywhere Theatre Festival for creating an imaginative infrastructure for theatre-making
Umber Productions and its contribution to sustainable theatre practice through the production of Water Wars
Steven Mitchell Wright and the Danger Ensemble for pushing performance and theatrical boundaries

Best New Play in an Inaugural Queensland Season

Water Wars by Elaine Acworth – Umber Productions/La Boite Indie/Empire Projects Company
Animal Farm  by George Orwell, adapted  by Nick Skubij (shake and stir theatre company)
Fractions by Marcel Dorney – Queensland Theatre Company

Best Production

The Hamlet Apocalypse – The Danger Ensemble/La Boite Indie
Animal Farm – shake and stir
Water Wars – Umber Productions/La Boite Indie

Best Musical Theatre Production

Cabaret – Zen Zen Zo
Spring Awakening – Oscar Theatre Company
Jesus Christ Superstar – (return season) Harvest Rain Theatre Company

Best Co-Production

Faustus (QTC and Bell Shakespeare)
Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness (La Boite and STC)
No Man’s Land (QTC and STC)

Outstanding Contribution to Queensland theatre

Brendan O’Connor and Terri Brabon (Producers) for the development of the long-running project Shakespeare Under the Stars (Townsville)
Julie Whiting (Founder and Musical Director Blue Fish Theatrical) for leadership in the development of musical theatre training (Brisbane)
Tim O’Connor (Artistic Director) and Harvest Rain Theatre Company for the company’s contribution to the development of a sustainable independent theatre model (Brisbane)

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2011 Groundling Awards Nominations are open …

Thanks to anyone485 on Flickr for the image

Greenroom’s The Groundlings are a people’s choice award. You nominate the individuals or productions for each category.

You can submit up to 3 (three) nominations beside each of the 14 (fourteen) categories listed below, but only once please.

Please note that Groundlings will only be awarded to Queensland theatre-makers. Yes, we’re proudly parochial.

focus, as per its byline, is on Professional and Independent theatre in Queensland.

Amateur, community and student theatre productions are not eligible for a Groundling award. Nominations will not be considered.

Co-productions qualify but only insofar as nominees are Queensland residents. There is a separate category for the Best Co-production anyway.

2011 Categories:

  • Outstanding Contribution by an Actor
  • Outstanding Contribution by an Actress
  • Outstanding Contribution by a Director
  • Outstanding Contribution to Set Design
  • Outstanding Contribution to Costume Design
  • Outstanding Contribution to Lighting Design
  • Outstanding Contribution to Sound Design or Composition
  • Outstanding Contribution to Multimedia Design
  • Outstanding Contribution to Innovative Theatre Practice
  • Best New Play in an Inaugural Queensland Season
  • Best Production 
  • Best Musical Theatre Production 
  • Best Co-Production
  • Outstanding Contribution to Queensland theatre

HOW TO NOMINATE

Go to the nomination page where you will find a listing of  all categories pre-printed for your convenience.

You can fill in up to (3) three nominees in all or just in some categories. Order doesn’t matter. When you are finished, click the submit button at the bottom of the submission form page. You may only submit one nomination mail message.

HOW THE NOMINATIONS WILL BE COLLATED

Nominations close at midnight on 31 January, 2012. Greenroom will then total all the nominations.

The 3 (three) highest-scoring nominees in each category will be published for voting here on Greenroom. We anticipate this will happen on 1st February or very close to this day.

HOW FINAL VOTING WILL HAPPEN

Voting will be done via an automated Word Press plugin, and results will be available on Greenroom on February 14, 2012. The day has significance!

To avoid any taint of conflict of interest, Greenroom will not be nominating or casting any votes.

So, companies and individuals please spread the word, and start your nominations. Yes, Virginia, you can nominate yourself or your company. Here come the Groundlings!

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The World Theatre Day Message for 2011

It’s been a tradition for the International Theatre Institute to ask a leading theatre practitioner to create the message for World Theatre Day. It’s also something of a tradition for companies to read the message before the curtain on performances on WTD and/or to post it on callboards or in foyers. This year WTD falls on Sunday March 27.

Last year it was Judi Dench’s turn to meditate on theatre; the year before – Augusto Boal. This year it is from Jessica Kaawha from Uganda. It’s sobering, uplifting and inspirational.

I was alerted to it this morning via a tweet from the World Theatre Day blog.
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Do read it, consider sharing with your company either by linking to it on your Facebook page or retweeting or …

And, speaking of WTD, do you know about this this year’s ‘meme’? It’s called ‘This is my theatre.’ Read some more about it on the WTD Blog, get some ideas, and get going on sharing what you’re going to do on March 27. There’s a link and submission page on the blog site. NYC, Chicago, Vancouver, London … come on Brisbane, Toowoomba, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Rockhampton, Townsville, Cairns (add your place) ! We’ve done it before.

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