2011 SATAward Nominees & Recipients

Recipients are in bold

Outstanding Performance (Male)

Simon Webb – Great Expectations (Persephone Theatre)
Tom O'Hara – Rabbit Hole (Persephone Theatre)
Aaron Hursh – Dying City (Fire in the Hole Productions)
Matthew Burgess – The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Persephone Theatre)
Gordon Tootoosis – Gordon Winter (Persephone Theatre)
Michael Spencer-Davis – Lawrence & Holloman (Persephone / Prairie Theatre Exchange)

Heather Morrison and Aaron Hursh in Dying City Fire in the Hole Productions

Outstanding Performance (Female)

Marie-Claire Marcotte in La Macluée/sTain La Troupe du Jour

Susan Williamson – Great Expectations (Persephone / Blackbird Theatre)
Patricia Drake – Rabbit Hole (Persephone Theatre)
Jamie Lee Shebelski – Velocity (Persephone Theatre)
Heather Morrison – Dying City (Fire in the Hole Productions)
Carol Greyeyes – Two Rooms (Persephone Theatre)
Marie-Claire Marcotte – La Maculee (sTain) (La Troupe du Jour)

Outstanding Direction

Jim Guedo – Dying City (Fire in the Hole Productions)
Jim Guedo – Rabbit Hole (Persephone Theatre)
Ann Hodges – Urinetown (Persephone Theatre)
Del Surjik – Velocity (Persephone Theatre)
Robert Metcalfe – Lawrence & Holloman (Persephone / Prairie Theatre Exchange)

Outstanding Design

Mark von Eschen – Lighting – La Maculee (sTain)
(La Troupe du Jour)
Jim Guedo – Set – Gordon Winter (Persephone Theatre)
Hans Becker – Set – Urinetown (Persephone Theatre)
Brian Perchaluk – Set – Lawrence & Holloman (Persephone / Prairie Theatre Exchange)
Marti Wright – Costumes – Great Expectations (Persephone / Blackbird Theatre)
Beverley Kobelsky – Costumes – Urinetown (Persephone Theatre)
Beverley Kobelsky – Costumes – A Winter's Tale (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan)

Gordon Tootoosis and Josh Beaudry in Gordon Winter Persephone Theatre

Outstanding Playwriting

Kenneth T. Williams – Gordon Winter
Mansel Robinson – Two Rooms
Daniel Macdonald – Velocity
Madeleine Dahlem – La Maculée/sTain

Outstanding Production

Urinetown, Persephone Theatre
Lawrence & Holloman, Persephone / Prairie Theatre Exchange
La Maculee (sTain), La Troupe du Jour
Rabbit Hole, Persephone Theatre
Velocity, Persephone Theatre

Gordon Tootoosis, Continuing Achievement Award

2010 SATAward Nominees & Recipients

Recipients are in bold

Matthew Burgess and Jamie Lee Shebelski in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan photo by Deborah Marshall

Outstanding Achievement in Performance

Sharon Bakker – Leaves of Glass (Theatre Ecstasis)
Ryan Beil – Billy Bishop Goes To War (Persephone / Arts Club Theatre)
Robert Benz – An Act of Elusion (Press Play Players / Elusion Co-op)
Natascha Girgis – The Drowning Girls (Bent Out of Shape Productions, presented by Persephone Theatre)
Jamie Lee Shebelski – body of work, 2009-2010 Season
Joey Tremblay – Elephant Wake (The Globe Theatre, presented by Persephone Theatre)
Henry Woolf – The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan) 

Outstanding Achievement in Direction

Pam Haig Bartley – Leaves of Glass (Theatre Ecstasis)
Angus Ferguson – The Little Prince (Dancing Sky Theatre)
Bretta Gerecke – Elephant Wake (The Globe Theatre, presented by Persephone Theatre)
Charles Tomlinson – The Drowning Girls (Bent Out of Shape Productions, presented by Persephone Theatre)
Johnna Wright – Little Women (Persephone Theatre)

Outstanding Achievement in Design

Kennetch Charlette – An Act of Elusion (Press Play Players / Elusion Co-op)
Bretta Gerecke – Elephant Wake (The Globe Theatre, presented by Persephone Theatre)
Beverley Kobelsky – The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan)
Kevin McAllister – Billy Bishop Goes To War (Persephone / Arts Club Theatre)
Narda McCarroll and Bretta Gerecke – The Drowning Girls (Bent Out of Shape Productions, presented by Persephone Theatre)
Carla Orosz – body of work, 2009-2010 Season
Gilles Zolty – Bonneau et la Bellehumeur (Troupe du Jour)

Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting

Raoul Granger – Bonneau et la Bellehumeur (La Troupe du Jour)
Catherine Harrison, Amber McGrath Huck, Clare Middleton – Pocket Plays (400 lbs of Sunshine)
Curtis Peeteetuce – An Act of Elusion (Press Play Players / Elusion Co-op)
Geoffrey Ursell – The Walnut Tree (Persephone Theatre)
Dancing Sky Collective – The Little Prince (Dancing Sky Theatre)

Daniela Vlaskalic, Natascha Girgis and Beth Graham in The Drowning Girls, Bent out of Shape Productions, presented by Persephone Theatre photo by Cylla von Tiedemann

Outstanding Emerging Artist

Jacklyn Green – John & Jen (Top Drawer Dramatics)
Kate Herriot – The Little Prince (Dancing Sky Theatre)
Byron Hnatuk – Leaves of Glass (Theatre Ecstasis)
Brody Morris – Leaves of Glass (Theatre Ecstasis)
Kaitlyn Semple – Little Women (Persephone Theatre)

Outstanding Ensemble

The Drowning Girls, Bent Out of Shape Productions, presented by
Persephone Theatre

John & Jen, Top Drawer Dramatics           
The Little Prince, Dancing Sky Theatre
Little Women, Persephone Theatre

Outstanding Achievement in Production

Billy Bishop Goes To War, Persephone Theatre / Arts Club Theatre
The Drowning Girls, Bent Out of Shape Productions, presented by Persephone Theatre
Elephant Wake, Globe Theatre, presented by Persephone Theatre
John & Jen, Top Drawer Dramatics

2009 SATAward Recipients

Emcee Joshua Beaudry

Gilles Poulin-Denis, Outstanding Achievement in New Playwriting: Rearview, La Troupe du Jour

Carla Orosz, Outstanding Achievement in Design: set for Bite the Hand, Persephone Theatre

Jacques Poulin-Denis, Outstanding Achievement in Design: sound for Rearview, La Troupe du Jour

Mark von Eschen, Outstanding Achievement in Design: lighting for A Skull in Connemara, Persephone Theatre

Jody Longworth, Outstanding Achievement in Design: set for A Skull in Connemara, Persephone Theatre

Hans Becker, Outstanding Achievement in Design: properties for A Skull in Connemara, Persephone Theatre

Robert Benz and Kent Allen

Kent Allen, Outstanding Achievement in Performance, The Pillowman, Wild Side Productions

La Troupe du Jour, Outstanding Achievement in Production, Rearview

Jim Guedo, Outstanding Achievement in Direction, Shining City, Persephone Theatre

Ralph Blankenagel, Continuing Achievement Award

Del Surjik accepts the award for Outstanding Direction on behalf of Jim Guedo

Jody Longworth, Deborah Buck

Johnna Wright, Deborah Buck, Angus Ferguson

Devon Dubnyk, Janessa Johnsrude

Courteney Lato, Kristina Hughes, Jody Longworth

Jeff Pufahl and Leora Joy Godden

Ralph Blankenagel accepts the 2009 Continuing Achievement Award

2008 SATAward Recipients

Louisa Ferguson and Jamie Lee Shebelski with Steering Committee Chair Aaron Hursh

Kelley Jo Burke, Outstanding Achievement in New Playwriting: The Selkie Wife (Dancing Sky Theatre)

Dancing Sky Theatre, Outstanding Achievement in Ensemble work: The Alchemist

Jim Guedo, Outstanding Achievement in Design: set and lighting, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me (Skinny Walrus)

Beverley Kobelsky, Outstanding Achievement in Design: costumes, The Tempest (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan)

Pam Haig Bartley, Outstanding Achievement in Design: set, Animals and Plants (Theatre Ecstasis)

Paula Costain, Outstanding Achievement in Performance, The Selkie Wife (Dancing Sky)

2008 Continuing Achievement recipient Sheldon Born

Joshua Beaudry, Outstanding Achievement in Performance, Animals and Plants (Theatre Ecstasis)

Robert Benz, Outstanding Achievement in Performance, The Tempest (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan)

Deborah Buck, Outstanding Contribution to Theatre, Beauty and the Beast and Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (Persephone Theatre)

Dancing Sky Theatre, Outstanding Achievement in Production: The Selkie Wife

Angus Ferguson, Outstanding Achievement in Direction, The Alchemist and The Selkie Wife (Dancing Sky)

Sheldon Born and Tibor Feheregyhazi, Continuing Achievement Award