UHT Awards & Party
UHT Awards ✨
What an incredible year of student theatre it has been. Thank you to all our student theatre groups that deliver exceptional performances and fun processes when they create theatre - while balancing uni, work and social life. In our eyes, everyone is a winner. But as tradition, this year, the student theatre community and UHT staff have selected the below award winners.
2023 Award Winners
Hannah Barry Memorial Award
Brodie Murray
Louise Homfrey Trust Prize
Elaine Yen Yan Wong
Hazel Pigrum
Murray Sutherland Trust Prize
Gryff Connah
Emma Parfitt
Dancehouse award for a dance maker and lover
Simin Dolatkhah
La Mama Award for an emerging theatre maker
James Madsen-Smith
UHT Peer Mentor Award for Sick Creative Unconventional New Theatremaker
Julie Tran
MTC Robert McDonald Award for a student theatre maker
Bridie Noonan
UHT Peer & Self Nominated Awards
UHT Outstanding Performer Award
Mietta Kerger: UMMTA's 'Spamalot'
UHT Best New Work Award
Ethan Francis-D'Amour: Four Letter Word Theatre's 'The Scarlet Sun'
UHT Outstanding Direction Award
Charlotte Rogers: Short Straw Theatre Company's | Four Letter Word Theatre's 'The Effect | Lord of the Flies'
UHT Best Ensemble Award
'Scalpels Out': Medleys the Med Revue
UHT Outstanding Costume, Hair or Makeup Design Award
Eden McLean and Ella McDermott: MUSC's 'Patience | Patroclus and Achilles'
UHT Oustanding Lighting Design Award
Jacques Cooney-Adlard: Short Straw Theatre Company's 'The Effect'
UHT Outstanding Sound Design Award
Erik Havryluk: UMMTA's 'Sitzprobe 2023 | Spamalot'
UHT Oustanding Set Design Award
Juliana Neild, Stephanie Nguyen and Nathan Dinh: UMMTA's 'Spamalot'
MTC Backstage Awards
Natasha Wilson - UMMTA's 'Spamalot'
Estella Koce - UMMTA's 'Sitzprobe 2023' | Mudfest'
Chloe Baxter - Medleys the Med Revue's 'Scalpels Out'
UHT Instagram Famous Award
Grace Pandy: Newman Theatre Association's 'The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon'
UHT Emerging Artist Award
Lewis Nicolson: Flare Dance Ensemble's 'Feast'
UHT Stepping out of Comfort Zone
Alina Konovalov: International House's 'This is not what I ordered'
UHT Skilful Show Juggler Award
Esther Luk: Sitzprobe 2023 | Spamalot | Charlie's Cultish Christmas | The Scarlet Sun | Emergency Exit
UHT Magical Music Award
Milo Cooper: Ormond College Drama Society's 'Spring Awakening'
UHT Good Egg Awards
Oscar Lidgerwood
Weiying (Irene) Lu
Sonya Chong
Sophia Murphy
Congratulations to all our award winners and nominees ✨