It’s been an amazing fortnight of theatre – and the results are in! Congratulations to all our companies on a gripping, engaging, quality and emotive fortnight of theatre:
Oscar Wilde Award for Best New Writing:
Nominees:
Amanda Brunker for Curiosity
Amy Garner Buchanan for Babies and Bathwater
James Hindman for What Doesn’t Kill You
Alan Flanagan for The Silver Bell
Jim Dalglish for The Black Eye (part of Quickies from Provincetown)
Winner: Natalie Meisner for Legislating Love
Eva Gore Booth Award for Outstanding Performance in a Female-Identifying Role
Nominees:
Alix Bailey in Who Pays the Bill
Amy Garner Buchanan in Babies and Bathwater
Joanne Callum Powers in Miss Delta Township
Rachel Fayne as Suzanne in The Death of Me
WINNER: Sorcha Furlong as Martha in Curiosity
Michael Mac Liammoir Award for Outstanding Performance in aMale-Identifying Role:
Nominees:
Les Kurkendall Barrett in The Real Black Swan
James Hindman in What Doesn’t Kill You
Joe Mac Dougall in various role in Quickies From Provincetown
Jordan Payne as Rhu in 333
WINNER: Brendan O’Rourke and Alan Flanagan in The Silver Bell
Hilton Edwards Award for Best Aspect of Production:
Nominees:
Miss Delta Township, Use of soundtrack
The Silver Bell, lighting (Gilly Pardy)
What Doesn’t Kill You, Production values
WINNER: The Death of Me, Lighting and design
Sean Meehan Identity in Theatre Award:
Nominees:
Curiosity, Amanda Brunker, Bisexuality
The Real Black Swan, Les Kurkendall Barrett, Race
333, Theatre Outre, LGBT History
Brother’s Keeper, Wallace Norman, Voice for the abused
Aerach Aiteach Gaelach, LGBT themes in Irish language
WINNERS: Babies and Bathwater by Amy Garner Buchanan, Religion and control
Patrick Murray Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish LGBT Theatre
WINNER: Street 66
Amy Dalton Award for Volunteer of the Year:
WINNER: Kevin Maciel
Doric Wilson Award for Intercultural Dialogue:
Nominees:
Curiosity, Amanada Brunker, female sexuality
Look What You Made Me Do, Female domestic abuse
The Silver Bell, Loss
Brother’s Keeper, Religious abuse
WINNER: The Real Black Swan, Racial histories
