2015 Award Winners
Festival Award for Best Team
Winner: Woodhouse Players (Interview - a Fugue for Eight Actors)
Festival Award for Second Team
Winner: Wadham Players (The Old Lady Shows her Medals)
Romeril Award for Third Team (in memory of Phyl and Eric Romeril
Winner: St Monica's Players (Thank You for Protesting)
Festival Award for Best Performance by an Actress
Winner: Liz Butler, St Augustine's Players (Joining the Club)
Other nominations:
Linda Levy, St Monica's Players (Thank You for Protesting)
Carla Segal, St Monica's Players (Thank You for Protesting)
Rose Floyd, Wadham Players (The Old Lady Shows her Medals)
Festival Award for Best Performance by an Actor
Winner: Andy B. , Wadham Players (The Old Lady Shows her Medals)
Other nominations:
Adam Dryer, Tiger Productions (Bill and Ben)
Joe Krajewski, St Monica's Players (Thank You for Protesting)
Gary Catlin, Blitzed Theatre Company (On the Edge)
Festival Award for Best Stage Presentation of a play in the Adult Section
Wadham Players (The Old Lady Shows her Medals)
Other nominations:
Woodhouse Players (Interview - a Fugue for Eight Actors)
Vi Gostling New Writing Award
Winner: Paul Adam Levy, St Monica's Players (Thank You for Protesting)
Other nominations:
Blitzed Theatre Company (On the Edge)
Guy Gostling Award for Best Supporting Player
Joint Winners: Emily Zarate and Rosalinde Jade Morris, Woodhouse Players (Five Kinds of Silence)
Wanstead Players Pat Dancer Award for Best Supporting Player
Winner: Wendy Jones, St Monica's Players (Blue Remembered Hills)
Dick Williams Award for Comedy
Winner: Nikki Barlow, St Augustine's Players (Erica and Me)
Other Nominations:
Madeleine Emmerson, Thurrock Courts Players (Old Soldier)
Jill Atkins, Wadham Players, (The Old Lady Shows her Medals)
Peter Wade, St Augustine's Players (Erica and Me)
Roy Seammen Award for Adjudicator's Selection
Winner: St Augustine's Players (Joining the Club)
Other Nominations:
Abbie Knowles, Musician, Woodhouse Players (Interview - a Fugue for Eight Actors)
Teamwork, Wadham Players (Alarms)
Teamwork, Woodhouse Players (Interview - a Fugue for Eight Actors)
Teamwork, St Monica's Players (Blue Remembered Hills)
Sound effects, Wadham Players (Alarms)
Chris Levoir Best Stage Crew Award
Winner: St Monica's Players (Blue Remembered Hills)
Other Nominations:
St Augustine's Players (Poison)
Theatreskool (Ghost Writer)
Festival Award for Best Team in the Youth Section
Winner: Waltham Forest Youth Theatre (The Ragged School)
Wadham Players Award for Second Team in the Youth Section
Winner: Theatreskool (Ghost Writer)
CADOS Award for Most Promising Performer 18 and Under
Winner: Caitlin Elsworth, Blitzed Theatre Company (On the Edge)
Other Nomiations:
Jasmine Collier, Teenactors (The Board)
Jack Snell, Waltham Forest Youth Theatre (The Ragged School)
Arthur Phipps, Theatreskool (Ghost Writer)
Marcia Lee Award for Best Stage Presentation in the Youth Section
Winner: Waltham Forest Youth Theatre (The Ragged School)
2015 Running Order
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Monday 16 March 7.30pm
Teenactors present The Board
An original drama set in the 1950s by Members of the Group New Play
Waltham Forest Youth Theatre present The Ragged School
A drana set in Victorian London by Bill Owen
Tiger Productions present Bill and Ben
A comedy by Richard James
Tuesday 17 March 7.30pm
Woodhouse Players present Five Kinds of Silence
A powerful drama Exploring adult themes of abuse and violence by Shelagh Stephenson Unsuitable for children
St Monica's Players present Blue Remembered Hills by Dennis Potter Unsuitable for children
Wednesday 18 March 7.30pm
Thurrock Courts Players present Old Soldier
An original comedy by Michael McFarlane New Play
St Augustine's Players present Erica and Me
A one-act farce by Alan Robinson
Wadham Players present Alarms
A comady by Michael Frayn
Thursday 19 March 7.30pm
St Monica's Players present Thank You For Protesting
An original comedy by Paul Adam Levy New Play
St Augustine's Players present Joining the Club
A comedy by David Tristram
Friday 20 March 7.30pm
St Augustine's Players present Poison
A thriller, edged with black comedy by David Neale
Wadham Players present The Old Lady Shows her Medals
A domestic drama by J M Barrie
Woodhouse Players present Interview - a Fugue for Eight Actors
A drama by Jean-Claude van Italie
Saturday 21 March 7.30pm
Theatreskool present Ghost Writer
A comedy for young people by Nick Warburton
Blitzed Theatre Company present On the Edge
An original comedic drama by John Arthur Green New Play
2015 Adjudicator Details
After the final performance each evening the Festival Adjudicator, Colin Dolley GoDA SASDA, will give a critical appraisal of each play to aid performers’ learning and encourage their improvement.
An extremely busy adjudicator, Colin has assessed more than 2,500 productions at over 250 festivals over the past 30 years. His numerous engagements have ranged throughout the British Isles – and beyond. He has adjudicated the National Finals in England, Scotland, Wales, Ulster and All-Ireland One act Festival, the All-Winners Festival, and festivals in Europe.
Trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in the Art of Theatre Criticism, he was Head of English and Drama in a large Surrey secondary school. For many years he was theatre critic for a West London newspaper and has served on the Barclay’s Award Panel assessing professional productions nationwide.
He has recently completed his Chairmanship of the Guild of Drama Adjudicators and is also a Member of the Scottish Association of Speech and Drama Adjudicators.
Along with his friend and colleague Rex Walford he has co-written ‘The One-Act Play Companion, published by A & C Black. He has also edited the book ‘On Being a Drama Adjudicator’.
He is one of the three judges on the panel selecting the winners of the Annual National Drama Festivals Association New Playwriting Competition. In addition he is on the training team for a national telephone help-line.
He is delighted return to Waltham Forest for the sixth time to adjudicate the 2015 Festival.