Naledi Awards: Nominations Revealed

The 2016 Naledi Theatre Awards Nominations, introducing a 4 new Categories

The much anticipated Nominations for the Naledi Theatre Awards for productions staged during 2015 have been announced.

“This year, we have the highest standard of excellence ever” said Executive Director, Dawn Lindberg   “So much so that we have introduced 4 new categories: “Best Director of a Musical”, “Best Support/Featured performance in a Musical” and “Best Performance in a production for Children’s Theatre”. The fourth new category is in keeping with the new technology involved in design of sets: “Best AV/Animation”.

To help the judges to assess this new category, we held a “Techie Training” session at the Market Theatre Lab last year, at which experts in the fields of lighting, sound and set design as well as directing, were invited to share some of their techniques and vision. This will now become an annual Event for students of Theatre design and judges.

We have also expanded the judging panel by 6 new judges, who were chosen after extensive research following the highly successful “Forum” held last year to ascertain suggestions and input from the Industry as to how to improve and develop our modus operandi. The new judges started assessing productions from January 2016.

We have 26 categories, as well as 4 Special Award categories: The Life Time Achievement Award (for Theatre Stalwarts who have given more than 30 years to our Industry), the Executive Director’s Award, for individuals or companies who have contributed to the advancement and development of SA Theatre through their vision and commitment, the World Impact Award, for productions or individuals who have raised the bar of SA Theatre Internationally, and a new Award: “The Lesedi Spirit of Courage” Award, for individuals or companies who have transcended deep trauma or handicaps to make a life changing impact on SA Theatre.

Here are the Nominees:

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Ameera Patel – Cincinatti – Scenes from City Life

Dorothy Ann Gould – The Something

Janna Ramos Violante – Doubt

Liezl de Kock – Crazy in Love

Mwenya Kabwe – Doubt

Thami Ngoma – Crepuscule

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Carel Nel – People Are Living There

Conrad Kemp – Crepuscule

Phillip M Dikotla – Fishers of Hope

Phillip Tipo Tindisa – Fishers of Hope

Shaun Oelf – Fishers of Hope

Sven Ruygrok – Epstein – The Man who made the Beatles

BEST PRODUCTION FOR CHILDREN (Supported by Assitej SA) (0 – 12)

A Year With Frog and Toad

Disney’s The Little Mermaid

Patchwork

Shrek, The Musical. JR.

The Adventures of Oliver Twist

BEST PRODUCTION FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES (Supported by Assitej SA) (13 – 17)

Making Mandela

Mis

Short, Stories, Alive

So Where To

Uhambo The Journey

 

BEST PERFORMANCE IN A CHILDRENS’ THEATRE PRODUCTION

Shelley Simon – Disney’s The Little Mermaid

Andile Magxaki – Shrek, The Musical, JR.

Sarah Malherbe – Disney’s The Little Mermaid

Jana Louw – Shrek, The Musical, JR.

Devon Flemmer – A Year with Frog and Toad

Gamelihle Bovana – James and the Giant Peach

BEST NEWCOMER / BREAKTHROUGH (the Brett Goldin Award) Sponsored by Distell

Dionne Song – Sleeping Beauty

Francois Jacobs – People are Living There

Menzi Mkhwane – A Voice I cannot Silence

Nokuthula Ledwaba – Noise

Rowlen von Gericke – Noise

Sipho Mahlatshana – Hinterland

Thabo Rametsi – Noise

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Floris Louw – After Animals

Margo Fleisch – Miss Dietrich Regrets

Melissa van Eck – Aspoestertjie

Neil Stuart Harris – Sweeney Todd

Nthabiseng Makone – Lepatata

Thando Lobese – Crepuscule

BEST LIGHTING DESIGN (SPONSORED BY ROBE LIGHTING)

Declan Randall – Sister Act

Denis Hutchinson – Miss Dietrich Regrets

Kevin Stannet – After Animals

Michael Broderick – A Voice I Cannot Silence

Nomvula Molepo – Crepuscule

Patrick Curtis – Fishers of Hope

Tina Le Roux – Sweeney Todd

BEST AV / ANIMATION

Adam Pelkowitz – I’m Playing Your Song

Declan Randall – Sister Act

JanHendrik Burger – After Animals

Jurgen Meekel – Cincinatti – Scenes from City Life

Sue Pam-Grant – The Something Prince

Wilhelm Disbergen – Colour Me Human

BEST SET DESIGN (SPONSORED BY DREAMSETS)

Declan Randall – Sister Act

Denis Hutchinson – The Imagined Land

Greg King – Sweeney Todd

Nadya Cohen – A Voice I Cannot Silence

Nataniël – After Animals

Patrick Curtis – Fishers of Hope

Sue Pam-Grant – The Something Prince

 

BEST SOUND DESIGN (SPONSORED BY DWR DISTRIBUTION)

Ken Crossley & Larry Pullen – Aspoestertjie

Larry Pullen – After Animals

Mark Malherbe – Sweeney Todd

Paul Riekert – Noise

Mark Malherbe – Little Shop Of Horrors

Trevor Peters – Sister Act

BEST SCORE / ARRANGEMENT / ADAPTATION

Jonathan Roxmouth & Bryan Schimmel – I’m Playing Your Song

Joseph Makhanza – Lepatata

Kutlwano Masote – Masote’s Dream

Nataniël – After Animals

Nceba Gongxeka – Fishers of Hope

Steve Dyer – Colour Me Human

 

BEST MUSICAL DIRECTOR

Justin Southey – Little Shop Of Horrors

Machiel Roets – Aspoestertjie

Nataniël – After Animals

Rowan Bakker – Sweeney Todd

Rowan Bakker – Sister Act

Steve Dyer – Colour Me Human

BEST EMERGING VOICE (SPONSORED BY THE MARKET THEATRE)

Lidija Marelic – Writer / Director

Sonia Radebe – Choreographer

Phala Phala – Writer / Director

Joanna Evans – Writer / Director

 

BEST PRODUCTION: CUTTING EDGE

Broken Plates

Crazy in Love

Johnny Boskak Is Feeling Funny

Kafka’s Ape

Masote’s Dream

Undone / Ont

We Didn’t come to hell for the Croissants

Seven Deadly new Stories for Consenting Adults

BEST ENSEMBLE

Colour Me Human

Lepatata

Making Mandela

PYTHONesque

The Snow Goose

The Story I am about to Tell

BEST ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHY

Grant van Ster, Ian & Viv Von Memerty – Fishers of Hope

Ian & Viv Von Memerty – Fantastic 50

Martin van Heerden & Bradley Dreyer –                 After Animals

Nhlanhla Mahlangu – Crepuscule

Nicol Sheraton – Sister Act

Sonia Radebe – Colour Me

Nhlanhla Mahlangu – Human

BEST DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL / REVUE

Alan Swerdlow – I’m Playing Your Song

Janice Honeyman – Sister Act

Nataniël – After Animals

Steven Stead – Sweeney Todd

Steven Stead – Little Shop Of Horrors

Weslee Lauder – Aspoestertjie

BEST DIRECTOR OF A PLAY

Caroline Smart – Hinterland

Greg Homann – A Voice I Cannot Silence

James Cuningham – Doubt

Jenine Collocott – The Snow Goose

Khayelihle Dom Gumede – Crepuscule

Makhaola Ndebele – Lepatata

Marthinus Basson – As Die Broek Pas

Monageng Motshabi – The Story I am About to tell

BEST SUPPORT / FEATURED PERFORMANCE IN A MUSICAL

Adam Pelkowitz – Sweeney Todd

Clint Lesch – Aspoestertjie

Cobus Venter & Tiaan Rautenbach – Aspoestertjie

Michelle Levin – Sleeping Beauty

Phumi Mncayi – Sister Act

Soli Philander – Aspoestertjie

Zak Hendrikz – Little Shop of Horrors

BEST PERFORMANCE IN A MUSICAL (FEMALE)

Candice van Litsenborgh – Little Shop Of Horrors

Candida Mosoma         – Sister Act

Charon Williams-Ros – Sweeney Todd

Kate Normington – Sister Act

Marlee van der Merwe – Aspoestertjie

Sharon Spiegel-Wagner – I’m Playing Your Song

BEST PERFORMANCE IN A MUSICAL (MALE)

Alan Committie – Little Shop Of Horrors

Jonathan Roxmouth – Sweeney Todd

Jonathan Roxmouth – I’m Playing Your Song

Keith Smith – Sister Act

Nataniël – After Animals

Tobie Cronjé – Sleeping Beauty

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A PLAY (FEMALE)

Anna-Mart van der Merwe – People Are living There

Antoinette Kellerman – As Die Broek Pas

Clare Mortimer – A Voice I Cannot Silence

Fiona Ramsay – Miss Dietrich Regrets

Fiona Ramsay – Doubt

Lesedi Job – Fishers of Hope

Sylvaine Strike – Black and Blue

Warona Seane – Tin Bucket Drum

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A PLAY (MALE)

Attandwa Kani – Black and Blue

Craig Morris  – Johnny Boskak Is Feeling Funny

Craig Urbani – Morecambe

James Mac Ewan – Doubt

Mncedisi Shabangu – Fishers of Hope

Nicholas Pauling – Epstein – The Man Who Made The Beatles

Ralph Lawson – A Voice I Cannot Silence

Wessel Pretorius – Undone/Ont

BEST NEW SA SCRIPT (SPONSORED BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN STATE THEATRE)

A Voice I Cannot Silence

Broken Plates

Crepuscule

Fishers of Hope

Hinterland

Lepatata

The Imagined Land

BEST PRODUCTION OF A PLAY

A Voice I Cannot Silence

Black and Blue

Doubt

Fishers of Hope

Hinterland

Lepatata

Miss Dietrich Regrets

The Snow Goose

BEST PRODUCTION OF A MUSICAL (the Joan Brickhill Award)

After Animals

Aspoestertjie

I’m Playing Your Song

Little Shop Of Horrors

Sister Act

Sweeney Todd