Afdis Awards Nominations 2012

Congratulations to all the nominees for 2012 Reps Afdis Awards, announced this week. The awards ceremony will take place at Reps on Saturday March 9, 2013, when winners of each of the categories will be named.

Each year the Reps Afdis Awards are handed out in recognition of achievement and effort and to reward and encourage excellence, covering all Repertory Players productions staged during the previous year. The awards ceremony is open to everyone and takes the form of an entertaining show which enables members of the audience to support and applaud all those people nominated.

Nominees are:

The John Keeling Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Zoran Zec (Leading Ladies)
• Musa Saruro (Leading Ladies)
• Paul Shephard (Boeing Boeing)
• Ryan Lawrence (Boeing Boeing)

The George Barnes Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Vanessa Vos (Table Manners)
• Chipo Chikara (Leading Ladies)
• Amy Bolt (Peter Pan)
• Erin Sticklen (Chapter Two)

The Alan Parkinson Award for Best Supporting Actor

• Larry Greef (Hairspray)
• John Dennison (Table Manners)
• Mufaro Muyambo (Hysterical History of the Trojan War)
• Stephane Thomas (Peter Pan)
• Mike Blackburn (Boeing Boeing)
• Adriano Gorassini (Julius Caesar)

The Allan Shaw Award for Best Supporting Actress

• Emily Greeff (Hysterical History of the Trojan War)
• Jamie McLaren (Boeing Boeing)
• Victoria Carter (Hairspray)
• Kayla Thomas (Peter Pan)
• Min’enhle Nguni (Hysterical History of the Trojan War)
• Thea Cutler (Julius Caesar)
• Meredith Render (Hysterical History of the Trojan War)
• Chloe Cattin (Chapter Two)
• Fiona Garrity (Table Manners)

The Prentice Trophy for Best Minor Performance

• Min’enhle Nguni (Hairspray)
• Marc Thomas (Shout!)
• Gail Cooper (Peter Pan)
• Philippa Johnston (Leading Ladies)
• Linda Hyde (Peter Pan)
• Richard Sticklen (Hairspray)

The Reps Award for best performance by a junior under the age of 16

• Kayla Thomas (Peter Pan)
• Amy Bolt (Peter Pan)
• Jordan Charnley (Peter Pan)

The Alistair and Wendy Booth Award for Best Comedy Performance

• Zoran Zec (Leading Ladies)
• Chipo Chikara (Leading Ladies)
• Paul Shephard (Boeing Boeing)
• Mike Blackburn (Boeing Boeing)
• Musa Saruro (Leading Ladies)
• Larry Greeff (Hairspray)
• Martin Bolt (Peter Pan)

Dave Roberts Memorial Trophy for most outstanding musical performance

• Charlene Fireyi (Hairspray)
• David Bvumbe (Shout!)
• Munya Gurumatunhu (Shout!)
• Chris van der Walt (The A-Z Of Rock)
• Collina Mvududu (Shout!)

The Sue Greener Technical Award

• Karen Howard-Beard (lighting design and operation for Chapter Two)
• Mike Blackburn (set design for Boeing Boeing)
• Aileen Taylor (wardrobe for Hairspray)
• Hesbe Chivers (wardrobe for Peter Pan)
• Linda Hyde (set design for Eclipsed)
• Linda Hyde (set design for Chapter Two)

The Hugh Dornhurst Trophy for best first Reps performance

• Min’enhle Nguni (Hysterical History of the Trojan War)
• Victoria Carter (Hairspray)
• Mande Snyman (Shout!)
• Jordan Charnley (Peter Pan)
• Charlene Fireyi (Hairspray)

The Reps Trophy for best contribution to dance and movement

• June Cloete, Michelle Nativel and Timikha Fisher (Shout!)
• Michelle Nativel (Hairspray)

All Reps productions, stage managers, amateur directors and properties people automatically go forward as nominees in their respective categories and for 2013 these are:

• Boeing Boeing (Jonathan Hall – Stage Manager; Sue McLaren - props)
• Shout! (Jane Burne, Stan Higgins, Jane Burne)
• Chapter Two (Ryan Lawrence, Sue McLaren and Libby Cattin)
• The Hysterical History of the Trojan War (a Repteens production – Kyla Render, Sue Bolt, Munya Magwaro and Amy Bolt)
• Move It (Jane Burne, Stan Higgins)
• Eclipsed (Jonathan Hall, David Bvumbe and Sue McLaren)
• The A-Z Of Rock (Mike Blackburn, Mario Ciampi)
• Table Manners (Tim Garrard, Gloria Prentice, Gail Cooper)
• Leading Ladies (Mike Blackburn and Gail Cooper)
• Ipi ‘n’ Tombi (undertaken by St George’s College and the Dominican Convent – Peter Blackburn)
• The Way We Were (Jane Burne, Stan Higgins)
• Julius Caesar (Jane Burne, John Dennison, Colleen Hardy and Ursula Gripper)
• Hairspray (Ryan Lawrence, Sue Bolt and Philippa Johnston)
• Six Shades of Awkward (Gail Cooper, Joakim Daun, Chloe Cattin)
• Holka Polka (a Repteens production – Larry Greeff and KJ Greeff)
• Peter Pan (Tim Garrard, Graham Crutchley and Linda Hyde)
• The 2011 Reps Afdis Awards show (Tim Garrard, Sue Bolt).

Three special awards are also given out for individual contribution to the Repertory Players, at the discretion of the judges

• The Adrian Stanley Award
• The Steve Bonney Award
• The Munro Trophy.

The awards event is sponsored by African Distillers and the award for Best production of the year is the Oude Meester Award of Excellence.

Stan Higgins

Chairman