2024-2025 ACT-CO Festival Gala Results
Congratulations to the production teams of Having Hope at Home, All My Sons and Silver Dagger for the nominations and awards at the 2025 Association of Community Theatres – Central Ontario Festival Gala on June 6 at the Meridian Centre in North York. We received 15 nominations and won 5 Thea Awards.
Having Hope at Home
Received 6 Nominations
• Best Direction of a Comedy – Sharon Dykstra nominated
• Best Stage Management for a Comedy – Mary Jane Boon
nominated
• Best Performance by an Individual in a male leading role in a Comedy – Cam Lund nominated
Won 3 Awards
• Best Production of Comedy – Won the Thea Award
• Best Set Design for a Comedy – Wayne Milliner won the Thea Award
• Best Hair & Makeup Design for a Comedy – Myda Khan won the Thea Award
All My Sons
Received 7 Nominations
• Best Production of a Drama – nominated
• Best Direction of a Drama –
Peter Shipston nominated
• Best Lighting Design for a Drama – Mary Jane Boon
nominated
• Best Costume Design for a Drama – Amanda Eason and Suzanne Stoner nominated
• Best Stage Management for a Drama – Joan Burrows and Naomi Knight nominated
• Best Ensemble for a Drama – Cast nominated
Won 1 Award
• Best Performance by an Individual in a male leading role in a Drama – Phil Dionne won the Thea Award
Silver Dagger
Received 2 Nominations
• Best Set Design for a Drama – Julian Mulock nominated
Won 1 Award
• Best Hair & Makeup Design for a Drama – Myda Khan won the Thea Award
Huge congratulations to all our nominees and winners! See all the ACT-CO Award results here.
2019 ACT-CO Awards
ACT-CO Festivals
2018-2019
ACT-CO Festival Awards 2019
2017-2018
ACT-CO is the Association of Community Theatres-Central Ontario, a not-for-profit umbrella organization with 40 to 50 theatre group members from Oakville to Bowmanville, Muskoka to Lake Ontario. Every year about 40-something productions enter into an adjudicated festival and, in April at the annual dinner/dance gala, awards go to the professional adjudicators’ picks.
We are pleased to announce that two of the Curtain Club’s 2017-2018 productions—Butcher and Quartet— received several nominations and awards!
Drama
Winner, Best Presentation
Butcher, Steve Hetherington, Producer
“A tightly knit production, well acted and creatively designed, displaying trust and total collaboration.”
Winner, Set Design – Drama
Alice Torrance & Wayne Milliner
“For the design and execution of the perfect illusion—a wonderful collaboration with attention to the smallest nuance.”
Winner, Adjudicator’s Award #1
Cast, Butcher
“A company of characters undeniably intertwined together, each actor trusting and depending on the others.”
Nomination, Best Direction
Joan Burrows, Butcher
Nomination, Best Performance by a Male in a Leading Role
Cam Lund as Harrison Barnes, Butcher
Nomination, Best Performance by a Female in a Leading Role
Tamara Van Bakel as Elena, Butcher
Nomination, Best Performance by a Male in a Supporting Role
Phil Dionne as Joseph, Butcher
Comedy
Nomination, Best Presentation
Quartet, Anne Kim, Producer
Nomination, Best Performance by a Male in a Leading Role
Kingsley Owen as Wilfred Bond, Quartet
Nomination, Best Set Design
Wade Pitman & Mary Rose, Quartet