Drama Festival

Another fabulous festival week. Here are the awards:
Audience Award – Rebellious Women, Sedgefield Players
John Walker Memorial Award for Technical Presentation – Check Please (Richmond Amateur Dramatic Society)
Most Effect Set – Far Away (Sedgefield Players)
Most Effective 30 Seconds – Far Away (The hat parade)
Jayne’s Award for Best Costume – Can You Hear the Music (Nunthorpe Players Youth Theatre)
Ray Tate Award for Endeavour – A Wrinkle in Time (Sedgefield Players Youth Theatre)
The Tim & Anne Jeanes Ensemble Award – Rebellious Women (Sedgefield Players)
The Adjudicators Award – Lucy Atkinson – writing, directing, acting, box office…
The Ruby Award for Originality – Shari Gledhill (Bananadrama)
Best Performance in a Cameo Role – Chloe Ryner – A Wrinkle in Time (SPYS)
Youth Award – Can You Heart the Music (NPYT)
Best Supporting Actor – James Muldowney – Rebellious Women (Sedgefield Players)
Best Supporting Actress – Ace Warrand – Rebellious Women (Sedgefield Players)
Simon Whitely Memorial Awards – Isabella Beaston (SPYS) Felix Dunning & Jack Winspear (Saltburn ’53)
Russell Whiteley Award for New Writing – Shari Gledhill for I’ll be Home for Christmas (Bananadrama)
Best Actor – Tom Guest – Far Away (Sedgefield Players)
Best Actress – Amy Henery – Rebellious Women (Sedgefield Players)
The Hewgill & Holmes Award for Best Director – Katie Legg, Grace Spence, Eve Henman – Can You Hear the Music (NPYT)
Mayor’s Award for Runner-Up – The River (Bishop Auckland Theatre Society)
Best Production – Far Away (Sedgefield Players)

What a great week at the 47th Sedgefield Drama Festival. Nomination and award winners below. **denotes the winner.

Audience Award – SPYS with Twelfth Night
Technical Presentation – Drag Queen’s Story Hour, SPYS with Twelfth Night**
Most Effective Set – Buckets, Drag Queens Story Hour, My Best Friend**
Most Effective 30 seconds – Bishop Auckland Theatre Society with the long pause
Costume Award – My Best Friend, History Man, Twelfth Night**
Endeavour – Richmond Amateur Dramatic Society with Anger Management
Ensemble Award – Twelfth Night
Adjudicators Award – Evie Legender for opening the whole festival with an acoustic guitar song
Ruby Award for Originality – Twelfth Night
Best Cameo – Lynda Hillerby for Buckets
Best Supporting Actor – Anthony Monarch, RADS, Nathan Cox, Sedgefield Players**
Best Supporting Actress – Ruth Stapleton, Bishop Auckland Theatre, Lucy Atkinson, Sedgefield Players, Eleanor Harland, RADS, Helen Crawford Sedgefiel Players**
Simon Whitely Memorial Awards – Sophie Richards, SPYS, Charlotte Hook, SPYS, Eve Edgoose-Clubley, SPYS**, Charlie Lines, Sedgefield Players**
New Writing – Shari Gledhill, Bananadrama for History Man
Best Actor – Chris Parinder, Bananadrama, Peter Hook, Sedgefield Players**
Best Actress – Kelsey White, Sedgefield Players, Rachel Emmerson, Banandrama**
Best Director – Duncan Lewis, Bananadrama, Tom Guest – Buckets by Sedgefield Players
Runner Up – History Man by Bananadrama
Best Production – Buckets by Sedgefield Players

The 46th Sedgefield Drama Festival ended on Saturday 14th September 2024 with Cliffe Theatre coming out on top with their production on Marrers. This Geordie play set down a pit first won in 1984 and again in 1994 so was right it won again this year. A full list of winner is listed below:-
Audience Award – Shakers by Sedgefield Players
Most Effective Set – Marrers by Cliffe Theatre
Technical Presentation – Shakers by Sedgefield Players
Most Effective 30 seconds – George Nott, Charlie Lines & Tammy Smith for Idyll (rubbish throwing scene)
Best Costume – Curses, Foiled Again – Bishop Auckland Theatre Society
Endeavour – Idyll by Sedgefield Players
Ensemble Award – A Day in Fimbulwinter – Sedgefield Players Youth Section
Adjudicators Award – Lucy Atkinson – Sedgefield Players (for writing A Day in Fimbulwinter)
Originality – Mike Young – Cliffe Theatre (for singing opening song for Marrers)
Best Cameo – Eve Edgoose-Clubley – A Day in Fimbulwinter – SPYS
Best Supporting Actor – Paul Walker – Sedgefield Players – Idyll
Best Supporting Actress – Elizabeth Flanagan – Sedgefield Players – Idyll
Best Under 21 awards – Millie Malloy – Shakers – Sedgefield Players and Bea Edgoose-Clubley – A Day in Fimbulwinter – SPYS
Best Actor – Andy Fox and Mike Wood – Marrers – Cliffe Theatre
Best Actress – Lucy Atkinson – Shakers – Sedgefield Players
Best Director – Sarah Atkinson – Shakers and A Day in Fimbulwinter
Runner Up – Shakers – Sedgefield Players.