NOMINEES & AWARDEES
1. Poster Design
Shirley
Berko (Beauty and The Beast, The Rise
of... The Insanity League, Twitch and Venus
in Fur); Janna Ramos-Violante: Callum’s
Will
WINNER:
Shirley Berko: Beauty and The Beast
2. Sound Design
Megan
Levy: (Beauty and The Beast and The
Wizard of Oz); Andre Norden: Take
Five; Colin Peddie: Shaken not
Stirred, and Clinton Stevenson: The African Passion
WINNER:
Megan Levy: Beauty and The Beast
3. Lighting Design
Michael
Broderick: The Rise of... The Insanity
League and Tina le Roux (Beauty and
The Beast; The Erl King; The Ladykillers; Twitch and Venus in Fur)
WINNER: Tina le Roux: Beauty
and The Beast
4. Costume Design
Peter
Court: The Erl King; Kevin Ellis
& Gareth Greaves: The Wizard of Oz;
Greg King: Beauty and The Beast; Neil
Stuart Harris: The Ladykillers, and Themi
Venturas: The 39 Steps
WINNER:
Neil Stuart Harris: The Ladykillers
5. Set Design
Michael
Broderick: The Rise of... The Insanity
League; Bryan Hiles: The Black
Psychologist; Themi Venturas: The 39
Steps, and Greg King: (Beauty and The
Beast, The Ladykillers, Twitch
and Venus in Fur)
WINNER:
Greg King: The Ladykillers
6. New Performer –
Female
Madelaine
Davis: Transition; Prenasha
Govindasamy: Consenting Silence; Nompilo
Maphumulo: The Weeping Candle, and Ayanda
Sibisi: Beauty and The Beast
WINNER:
Madelaine Davis: Transition
7. New Performer –
Male
Sashin Kandhai: Consenting Silence; Brandon Moulder: Transition; Musa Ntuli: The Weeping Candle, and Thabiso Radebe: High Heels... with Balls
WINNER: Thabiso Radebe: High Heels... with Balls
CHILDREN’S THEATRE –
no nominations
MUSICAL THEATRE &
MUSIC REVUE / MUSIC COMPILATION / CABARET
14. Choreography
Janine
Bennewith: Beauty and The Beast and Daisy
Spencer: (The African Passion, Shaken not Stirred and The Wizard of Oz)
WINNER:
Janine Bennewith: Beauty and The Beast
15. Performer: Music
Revue / Music Compilation / Cabaret
Rory
Booth, Lyle Buxton, Liesl Coppin and Marion Loudon – all for Shaken not Stirred, Shelley McLean: Take Five and Jacobus van Heerden: The Wizard of Oz
WINNER:
Jacobus van Heerden: The Wizard of Oz
16. Supporting
Actress: Musical Theatre
Liesl
Coppin and Charon Williams-Ros, both for Beauty
and The Beast and Caitlin Kilburn: The
African Passion
WINNER:
Liesl Coppin and Charon Williams-Ros both for Beauty and The Beast
17. Supporting Actor:
Musical Theatre
Rory
Booth, Peter Court, Bryan Hiles and Darren King- all for Beauty and The Beast
WINNER:
Bryan Hiles: Beauty and The Beast
18. Lead Actress:
Musical Theatre
Natalia
da Rocha and Sandra Dee, both for The
African Passion; Sam Hlope: Sophiatown
and Georgina Mabbett: Beauty and The
Beast
WINNER: Georgina Mabbett: Beauty and The Beast
19. Lead Actor:
Musical Theatre
Lyle
Buxton and Sascha Halbhuber, both for Beauty
and The Beast and Grant Jacobs: The African Passion
WINNER:
Sascha Halbhuber: Beauty and The Beast
20. Musical Director
Shelley
McLean: Take Five; Shelley McLean,
Justin Southey & Nik Sakallerides: Beauty
and The Beast; Dawn Selby: Book Club
and Charon Williams-Ros: Shaken not
Stirred
WINNER: Shelley McLean, Justin Southey & Nik Sakellarides:
Beauty and The Beast
21. Director
Darren
King: The Wizard of Oz; Steven Stead:
Beauty and The Beast and Charon Williams-Ros: Shaken not Stirred
WINNER: Steven Stead: Beauty and The Beast
22. Music Revue
Production
Shaken not Stirred:
Gary McKenzie; Take Five: Shelley
McLean and The Wizard of Oz: Sue
Clarence Promotions in assoc with Suncoast Casino, Hotel and Entertainment
WINNER:
Shaken not Stirred: Gary McKenzie
23. Musical Theatre
Production
The African Passion: Catalina
UnLtd and Beauty and The Beast:
KickstArt
WINNER: Beauty
and The Beast: KickstArt
DRAMA / COMEDY
24. Script
Madelaine
Davis: Transition; Robert Fridjhon: Twitch; Marc Kay: The Erl
King; Aaron McIlroy, John van de Ruit & Ben Voss: The Rise of... The Insanity League and Janna Ramos-Violante: Callum’s Will
WINNER:
Madelaine Davis: Transition
25. Supporting
Actress
Kamini
Govender and Shona Johnson, both for Consenting
Silence and Clare Mortimer and Daisy
Spencer, both for Othello
WINNER: Clare Mortimer: Othello
26. Supporting Actor
Lyle
Buxton and Peter Court, both for The
Ladykillers; Michael Gritten: Othello; Loyiso MacDonald: The 39 Steps and Iain Robinson and Jacobus
van Heerden, both for The Ladykillers
WINNER:
Lyle Buxton and Peter Court, both for The
Ladykillers
27. Comedic Performance
Lisa
Bobbert, Jailoshini Naidoo, Iain Robinson and Tim
Wells, all for Twitch; Charon
Williams-Ros: The Ladykillers, and Aaron
McIlroy, John van de Ruit and Ben Voss, all for The Rise of... The Insanity League
WINNER:
Iain Robinson: Twitch
28. Solo Performance
Frank
Graham: There was a Time...; Marc
Kay: The Erl King and Hamish Kyd: Knowing
You... Knowing Me
WINNER: Marc Kay: The Erl King
29. Lead Actress
Lisa
Bobbert and Jailoshini Naidoo, both for Twitch;
Liesl Coppin: The Black Psychiatrist;
Madelaine Davis: Transition; Janna
Ramos-Violante: Venus in Fur and Charon Williams-Ros: The Ladykillers
WINNER: Janna Ramos-Violante: Venus in Fur
30. Lead Actor
Neil
Coppen: Venus in Fur; Michael Gritten: The 39 Steps; Marc Kay: The
Erl King; Darren King and Clinton Small, both for Callum’s Will; Thabiso Radebe: High
Heels... with Balls, Iain Robinson: Twitch
and Tim Wells: The Ladykillers
WINNER:
Neil Coppen: Venus in Fur
31. Director
Bryan
Hiles: The Erl King; Janna
Ramos-Violante: Callum’s Will, and Steven
Stead for The Ladykillers; Twitch and
Venus in Fur
WINNER: Steven
Stead: Venus in Fur
32. Production
Callum’s Will -
ThinSkin; The Erl King -The Actors
Unemployed Company; The Ladykillers -
KickstArt; Transition - Brandon
Moulder and Venus in Fur - KickstArt
WINNER: Venus
in Fur - KickstArt
33. Monica Fairall
Memorial Award
Doreen
Stanley, manager of the Hilton Theatre and administrator of the Witness Hilton
Arts Festival
34. Judges Award
Brandon
Bunyan, Black Coffee Designs
35. The Mercury
Theatre Personality of the Year Award
Readers’
vote - Babuyile Shabalala
Judges: Stavros
Anthias, Musa Hlatshwayo, Glynis Horning, Debbie Lutge, Sally Scott, Caroline
Smart, Billy Suter, Jean van Elden, Janet Whelan
Awards Administrator: Peter
Taylor
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