2016 Naledi Theatre awards nominees are…

The Nominations reveal took place at the Laager Theatre at the Market Precinct in Newtown, Johannesburg. It was also announced that this year’s ceremony will be televised. The Naledi Theatre awards takes place in April. Below is the full list of nominees.

Best Supporting Actress
Ameera Patel – Cincinatti – Scenes from City Life
Dorothy Ann Gould – The Something Prince
Janna Ramos-Violante – Doubt
Liezl de Kock – Crazy in Love
Mwenya Kabwe in 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
A Year With Frog and Toad – The National Children’s Theatre
Disney’s The Little Mermaid – People’s Theatre
Patchwork – Pillow Fort Productions
Shrek The Musical – People’s Theatre
The Adventures of Oliver Twist – The National Children’s Theatre

Best production for young audiences (13 to 17)
Making Mandela
Mis
Short, Stories, Alive
So Where To
Uhambo The Journey

Best performance in a children’s 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 
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
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
Jan-Hendrik Burger – After Animals
Jurgen Meekel – Cincinatti – Scenes from City Life
Sue Pam-Grant – The Something Prince
Wilhelm Disbergen – Colour Me Human

Best set design
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
Ken Crossley and 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 and 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
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

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 – Fishers of Hope
Ian and Viv Von Memerty – Fantastic 50
Martin van Heerden and Bradley Dreyer – After Animals
Nhlanhla Mahlangu – Crepuscule
Nicol Sheraton – Sister Act
Sonia Radebe and Nhlanhla Mahlangu – Colour Me Human

Best director of a musical or 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 “Vice” Motshabi – The Story I am about to Tell

Best support/ featured performance in a musical
Adam Pelkowitz – Sweeney Todd
Clint Lesch – Aspoestertjie
Cobus Venter en 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 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 performance in a play (Male)
Atandwa 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 South African script
A Voice I Cannot Silence by Greg Homann and Ralph Lawson
Broken Plates by Renos Spanoudes.
Crepuscule by Can Themba
Fishers of Hope by Lara Foot
Hinterland by Duncan Buwalda
Lepatata by Moagi Modise
The Imagined Land by Craig Higginson

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
After Animals
Aspoestertjie
I’m Playing Your Song
Little Shop Of Horrors
Sister Act
Sweeney Todd