The 2019 Brickenden Awards

Wolf Performance Hall
Monday, February 10, 2020
Host: Aiden Thomas

Outstanding Drama

• Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn (Ausable Theatre)
• Get Away (Banished By The King Productions)
• Left Behind (Trina Brooks)
• Painting Churches (London Community Players)
• The Laramie Project (Theatre Aezir)

Outstanding Comedy

• A Red Plaid Shirt (London Community Players)
• Bakersfield Mist (Calithumpian Theatre Collective)
• Reunited Shorts (Fridge Door Live Theatre Company)
• Skin Flick by Norm Foster (Maybles’ Productions)
• Stag & Doe (London Community Players)

Outstanding Musical

• Catch Me if You Can (King’s Players Theatre Company)
• Damn Yankees (London Community Players)
• Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical (Original Kids Theatre Company)
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Allswell & MTP)
• The Wedding Singer (Musical Theatre Productions)

Outstanding Director

• Dave Semple (Bakersfield Mist)
• Hailey Hill (Sweeney Todd)
• Hailey Hill (The Laramie Project)
• Martha Zimmerman (Susannah)
• Thalia Ranjbar (Catch Me If You Can)

Outstanding Male Actor – Lead Role

• Andrew Rethazi (Miss. Trunchbull, Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical)
• Ben Kennes (Charley Fox, Left Behind)
• George Jolink (Lionel Percy, Bakersfield Mist)
• Matthew Stewart (Jack, Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn)
• Patrick Avery-Kenny (Kevin Woolfe, Left Behind)

Outstanding Female Actor – Lead Role

• Alicia D’Ariano (Lola, Damn Yankees)
• Ana Govedarica (Matilda Wormwood, Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical)
• Deborah Mitchell (Maude, Bakersfield Mist)
• Elizabeth Durand (Elsie, Falling: A Wake)
• Melissa Metler (Mrs Lovett, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)

Outstanding Female Actor – Supporting Role

• Alex Tremblay (Actor 7, The Laramie Project)
• Brittany Balina (Holly, The Wedding Singer)
• Elizabeth Durand (Actor 3, The Laramie Project)
• Margot Stothers (Julia Warhola, Blank Slate)
• Sarah Abbott (Mrs. Wormwood, Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical)

Outstanding Male Actor – Supporting Role

• Carson Brayton (Actor 6, The Laramie Project)
• Chris Wood (Pontius Pilate, Jesus Christ Superstar)
• Connor Boa (Eddie, Get Away)
• Dan Ebbs (Actor 4, The Laramie Project)
• Phil Cal (Actor 1, The Laramie Project)

Outstanding Lighting Design

• Joe Recchia (Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical)
• Joe Recchia (The Wedding Singer)
• Laura Sepulveda (Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn)
• Stephen Mitchell (Falling: A Wake)
• Steve Allen (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)

Outstanding Sound Design

• Andrew Rethazi & Steve Allen (The Wedding Singer)
• David Bogaert (The Laramie Project)
• Jennifer Cahill & Lisa Desgroseilliers (Damn Yankees)
• Kevin Grater (Falling: A Wake)
• Michael James Brown (Painting Churches)

Outstanding Set Design

• Joe Recchia (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)
• Laura Sepulveda (Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical)
• Laura Sepulveda (Susannah)
• Laura Sepulveda (The Wedding Singer)
• Stephen Mitchell (Bakersfield Mist)

Outstanding Costume Design

• Becky Lenko & Patt Brocksom (Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical)
• Elona Thielen (Catch Me If You Can)
• Kate Deman (The Wedding Singer)
• Marg Bildy (1949)
• Tania Harvey (Susannah)

Outstanding Makeup

• Eva Mien (Susannah)
• Eva Mien (The Who’s Tommy)
• Lindsay Alvaro (Damn Yankees)
• Marina Sheppard (Blank Slate)
• Simmie Patoka & Nicola Klein (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)

Outstanding Youth Drama

• Clue (Original Kids Theatre Company)
• The Great Gatsby (Original Kids Theatre Company)
• The Jungle Book (Westminster Secondary School)
• The Wolves (London Youth Theatre Education (LYTE))

Outstanding Youth Musical

• Cinderella (Original Kids Theatre Company)
• Newsies (AB Lucas Secondary School)
• Newsies (Original Kids Theatre Company)
• Seussical (London Youth Theatre Education (LYTE))
• Working (South Collegiate Institute Musical Theatre)

Outstanding Youth Actor – Female

• Sydney Thompson (The Wolves)

Outstanding Youth Actor – Male

• Tanner Hamlin (Seussical)

Outstanding Original Script

• Aimee O’Beirn (Of Some Importance)
• Jason Rip (Party in Petrograd)
• Stefannie Flannigan (Dirt)
• Tricia West (When Life Gives You Apples)
• Trina Brooks (Left Behind)

People’s Choice

• Damn Yankees (London Community Players)
• Matilda The Musical (OKTC Alumni)
• Sweeney Todd (AllsWell/MTP)
• The Lost Boy (King’s Players)
• The Wedding Singer (Musical Theatre Productions)

Chris Doty Award

• Sookie Mei