Awards and achievements
The Ovations Awards
2023
- Outstanding Supporting Performance – Comedy – Joe Dinn as Richard Greatham, Hay Fever, ACT Hub
- Outstanding Supporting Performance – Drama – Mischa Rippon as Damian, Ruben Guthrie, ACT Hub
- Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play – Comedy – Andrea Close as Judith Bliss, Hay Fever, ACT Hub
- Outstanding Lead Performance – Drama (2 awards) – Karen Vickery as Hazel, The Children, Chaika Theatre AND Steph Roberts as Sonja and Sarah, Speaking in Tongues, Free-Rain Theatre Company
- Outstanding Director – Tony Knight and Sophie Benassi, The Children, Chaika Theatre
- Outstanding Set – Michael Sparks, Marry Me A Little, Everyman Theatre
- Outstanding Supporting Performance – Darcy Kinsella as Patsy, Spamalot, Free-Rain Theatre Company
- Outstanding Production of a Play – Independent (2 Winners) – The Children, Chaika Theatre AND Speaking in Tongues, Free-Rain Theatre Company
- Behind the Scenes Award – Theatre – Emma Rowland, Puppet Designer, Holding the Man, Everyman Theatre
2022
- Best Set – Luke Rogers for Collected Stories, Chaika Theatre
- Best Costume Design – Fiona Leach for The Importance of Being Earnest, ACT Hub
- Best Supporting Male Performance – Josh Wiseman as Nick, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Free-Rain Theatre Company
- Best Supporting Female Performance – Natasha Vickery as Lisa Morrison, Collected Stories, Chaika Theatre
- Best Youth Performance (18yo and under) – Liam Prichard as Ste, Beautiful Thing, Everyman Theatre
- Best Lead Male Performance in a Play – Michael Cooper as Jason/Tyrone, Hand to God, Everyman Theatre
- Best Lead Female Performance – Karen Vickery as Ruth Steiner, Collected Stories. Chaika Theatre
- Best Promotion Concept – The Importance of Being Earnest, ACT Hub
- Best Production of a Play – Independent – Collected Stories, Chaika Theatre
- Judges award for outstanding achievement -theatre – Sophia Carlton as Stage Manager and Lighting and Sound operation for four productions at ACT Hub in 2022
Canberra Critics Circle awards
2023
Natasha Vickery – Theatre
For her performance in Collected Stories for Chaika Theatre at ACT Hub, a challenging role in which she skilfully introduced subtle changes that hinted at past emotional damage as her character matured over the years.
Andrea Close – Theatre
For her fast-paced, witty performance as the eccentric Judith Bliss in Hay Fever by Noel Coward, at ACT Hub.
2022
Karen Vickery – Helen Tsongas Award for Excellence in Acting
The Helen Tsongas award goes to the best Canberra actor of the year, with no restrictions on age or gender, as judged by the theatre panel of the Canberra Critics Circle.
Read the full award citation here.
Jarrad West – Theatre
For his accomplished direction of Everyman Theatre’s production of a confronting but very funny play, Hand To God.
Andrea Close – Theatre
For her ferociously real performance as Martha in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Free-Rain Theatre at ACT Hub.