The Gold Palm Theatre Awards 2019
WINNERS







Best Set Design
(Community Groups)
(Sponsored by Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society Gold Coast Inc.)
Ipswich Musical Theatre Company
MAMMA MIA
JOSHUA McINTOSH


Best Costumes
(Community Groups)
(Sponsored by Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society Gold Coast Inc.)
Gold Coast Little Theatre
THE KING AND I
SHIRLEY WHITEHOUSE


Best Lighting Design
(Community Groups)
Queensland Musical Theatre
CATS
CHRIS CATHCART


Best Sound Design
(Community Groups)
Moreton Bay Theatre Company
X-STACY
MAL BOAL


Best Technical Achievement or Effect
(excluding Lighting and Sound)
(Community Groups)
Beenleigh Theatre Group
THE CRUCIBLE
Projections design and operation


Best Program
(Both Streams)
Beenleigh Theatre Group
BONNIE & CLYDE
STUART FISHER


The Jock and Beverly McIlwain
Special Encouragement Award

(Both Streams)
A.B. Paterson College
WICKED
GEORGIA MERCER


Magic Moment of Theatre
(Both Streams)
(In Memory of Lucky Grills - Sponsored by Mr Ian Lake & Ms Alison Lake)
Ipswich Musical Theatre
MAMMA MIA
The use of the mirrors on wheels on the boat



Best Vocal or Musical Director in a Youth Production
(Youth Program)
(Sponsored by Friends of the Arts Foundation)
Toowoomba Choral Society
NARNIA
DAMIAN DORE


Best Choreographer in a Youth Production
(Youth Program)
(Sponsored by Friends of the Arts Foundation)
Toowoomba Choral Society
NARNIA
DANIEL ERBACHER


Best Choreographer in a Community Theatre Play,
Musical or Musical Revue

(Community Groups)
Ballina Players
WICKED
ANNA JAQUES


Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Community Theatre Play
(Community Groups)
Moreton Bay Theatre Company
X-STACY
ARUN CLARK


Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Community Theatre Play
(Community Groups)
Moreton Bay Theatre Company
X-STACY
ALISON TELFER-McDONALD


Best Actor or Actress in a Supporting Role in a Youth Production
(Play or Musical)
(Youth Program)
Emmanuel College
ROMEO & JULIET
KAI LATTER


Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Community Theatre Play
(Community Groups)
The Spotlight Theatrical Company
KELLY
BRAD KENDRICK


Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Community Theatre Play
(Community Groups)
Sunnybank Theatre Group
CHAPTER TWO
LESLEY DAVIS


Best Actor or Actress in a Leading Role in a Youth Production
(Play or Musical)
(Youth Program)
St. Hilda's School
ALADDIN Jr.
SUMMER LEDINGHAM


Best Vocal Director in a Community Theatre Musical
or Musical Revue

(Community Groups)
Redcliffe Musical Theatre
NUNSENSE
HELEN DREW


Best Musical Director of a Community Theatre Musical
(Community Groups)
Beenleigh Theatre Group
BONNIE & CLYDE
JULIE WHITING


Best Director of a Youth Production
(Play or Musical)
(Youth Program)
(Sponsored by HOTA, Home of the Arts)
Toowoomba Choral Society
NARNIA
VICKI BRAVERY


Best Youth Production
(Play or Musical)
(Youth Program)
(Sponsored by HOTA, Home of the Arts)
Toowoomba Choral Society
NARNIA


Best Director of a Community Theatre Play
(Community Groups)
(Sponsored by Dracula's Cabaret Restaurant)
The Spotlight Theatrical Company
KELLY
CILLA SCOTT


Best Director of a Community Theatre Musical
or Musical Revue

(Community Groups)
(Sponsored by Dracula's Cabaret Restaurant)
Beenleigh Theatre Group
BONNIE & CLYDE
KAITLYN CARLTON


Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a
Community Theatre Musical or Musical Revue

(Community Groups)
Toowoomba Choral Society
MY FAIR LADY
KEN MORRISSEY


Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a
Community Theatre Musical or Musical Revue

(Community Groups)
Gold Coast Little Theatre
THE KING AND I
ROWENA ORCULLO RYAN


Best Actor in a Leading Role in a
Community Theatre Musical or Musical Revue

(Community Groups)
Toowoomba Choral Society
MY FAIR LADY
JON MASKELL


Best Actress in a Leading Role in a
Community Theatre Musical or Musical Revue

(Community Groups)
Redcliffe Musical Theatre
NUNSENSE
TRISH DEARNESS


Outstanding Community Theatre Production
(Community Groups)
Moreton Bay Theatre Company
X-STACY



Judges' Discretionary Award
SUNNYBANK THEATRE COMPANY
The Award is given for promoting and staging new original playwriting,
and for the staging of new and locally devised work by local playwrights.



Gold Palm Award
BEENLEIGH THEATRE GROUP - BONNIE & CLYDE
Given to the production receiving the most Awards over all Categories


Platinum Palm Award
MORETON BAY THEATRE COMPANY
Given to the individual or company deemed to have presented/supplied/staged or
appeared in a production, or given a service to the theatrical community which is considered outstanding
This company, as first time Palm Awards entrants, presented ten productions that were of a consistently high quality. They chose shows that were not the community theatre norm, a little alternative and not well known, but very entertaining. Their company operates from a more restrictive space than most theatres in a commercial area that displays creative thinking to make it work. They appeared 14 times in our category finalists this year.