The recent 37th annual Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards celebrated excellence in professional theatre as well saluting all the talent who contribute to Vancouver’s fantastic theatre scene.
Fifty theatrical productions were nominated from last years’ dynamic theatre season.
The Jessie Awards are divided into three categories –Small Theatre, Large Theatre, and Theatre for Young Audiences – along with a variety of special awards and prizes.
Below is a complete list of all winners.
Small Theatre
Outstanding Performance by an Actor – Small Theatre
Warren Kimmel – Sweeney Todd: The Demon of Fleet Street – The Snapshots Collective
Outstanding Performance by an Actress – Small Theatre
Colleen Winton - Sweeney Todd: The Demon of Fleet Street – The Snapshots Collective
Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role – Small Theatre
Oliver Castillo - Sweeney Todd: The Demon of Fleet Street – The Snapshots Collective
Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role – Small Theatre
Alannah Ong – The Ones We Leave Behind – Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre
Outstanding Lighting Design – Small Theatre
James Proudfoot – Camera Obscura (hungry ghosts) – the frank theatre company/Queer Arts Festival
Outstanding Set Design – Small Theatre
Marshall McMahen – Les Filles du Roi – Fugue Theatre/Raven Theatre/Urban Ink/The Cultch
Outstanding Costume Design – Small Theatre
Marshall McMahen & Konwahonwá:wi Stacey – Les Filles du Roi – Fugue Theatre/Raven Theatre/Urban Ink/The Cultch
Outstanding Sound Design or Original Composition – Small Theatre
Corey Payette & Kyra Soko - Les Filles du Roi – Fugue Theatre/Raven Theatre/Urban Ink/The Cultch
Outstanding Direction – Small Theatre
Corey Payette - Les Filles du Roi – Fugue Theatre/Raven Theatre/Urban Ink/The Cultch
Outstanding Production – Small Theatre
Camera Obscura (hungry ghosts) – the frank theatre company/Queer Arts Festival
Outstanding Production – Musical – Small Theatre
Sweeney Todd: The Demon of Fleet Street – The Snapshots Collective
Significant Artistic Achievement – Small Theatre
Molly MacKinnon & Christine Quintana – Never the Last – Delinquent Theatre - Outstanding interdisciplinary collaboration involving the imaginative integration of dance, live musical performance and theatre
Large Theatre
Outstanding Performance by an Actor – Large Theatre
Félix Beauchamp- Le Soulier - Théâtre la Seizième
Outstanding Performance by an Actress – Large Theatre
Colleen Wheeler – Timon of Athens – Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival
Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role – Large Theatre
Adam Grant Warren – Kill Me Now – Touchstone Theatre
Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role – Large Theatre
Nora McLellan – The Matchmaker – Arts Club Theatre Company
Outstanding Lighting Design – Large Theatre
Itai Erdal – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Arts Club Theatre Company
Outstanding Set Design – Large Theatre
Drew Facey - Timon of Athens – Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival
Outstanding Costume Design – Large Theatre
Barbara Clayden – Lysistrata - Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival
Outstanding Sound Design or Original Composition – Large Theatre
Malcolm Dow – Le Soulier - Théâtre la Seizième
Georgia Straight Outstanding Direction – Large Theatre
Esther Duquette & Gilles Poulin-Denis - Le Soulier - Théâtre la Seizième
Outstanding Production – Large Theatre
Kamloopa – The Cultch – (in partnership with Western Canada Theatre, Persephone Theatre and Gordon Tootoosis Nīkānīwin Theatre, and in collaboration with National Arts Centre Indigenous Theatre)
Outstanding Production - Musical – Large Theatre
As You Like it – Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival
Significant Artistic Achievement – Large Theatre
Kim Senklip Harvey & Lindsay Lachance – Kamloopa - The Cultch – (in partnership with Western Canada Theatre, Persephone Theatre and Gordon Tootoosis Nīkānīwin Theatre, and in collaboration with National Arts Centre Indigenous Theatre) Outstanding decolonization of theatre spaces and practices.