Out of the Spotlight & Members' Day Award Nominations

Abbey Musical Society Shrek the musical Stage Management / Crew Stephen O’Tool Hair & Make – Up Jo Grainger

Assistant Stage Manager Josh Clarke Lighting Jennie Lewis & Pete Watts Production Manager David Massingham Sound Oli Chilton Alderley & Wilmslow Musical Theatre Company

Altrincham Little Theatre Abigail’s Party Wardrobe ALT Team Properties Charles Thomas Sound Design Steve Smith

Antrobus Players The Wizard of Oz the Pantomime Lighting Design Phil Pugh Properties Mary Cummin, Janet Featonby Set Design / Construction Antrobus Villagers Stage Management / Crew Maggie Pinfold (SM) Wardrobe Debbie Sutton

APeel Drama Club Jack and the Beanstalk / Educating Rita Set Design / Construction The APeel Team Jack and the Beanstalk / Ali Baba Lighting Design Paul Spence Wardrobe Mary Millard (Adult Costumes) Jean Kilburn (Junior / Dancers Costumes)

Ashton-Under-Lyne Operatic Society Let’s Sing the Music & Dance Stage Management / Crew Trevor Brown

Bacup Royal Court Theatre Group The Legend of Sleepy Hallow (BESTS) Props, costumes. Direction Rhieanna Thomas The Season Lighting Design Nick Daye, Andy Holden Properties Dawn-Marie Woodcock Set Design / Construction Paul Ashworth Sound Design Robert Hames, Leigh-Estelle Brown Cinderella, Vicar of Dibley Avenue Q Stage Management / Crew Adam Greenwood (SM)

Blackburn Drama Club Season Wardrobe Jacqui Mooney, Jane Stack Lighting Design Ryan Clegg Sound Kris Connell The Steamie Stage Management / Crew Andrew Smith, Martin Cottam, Pearce Darnell-Walsh Properties Alison Smith Dirty Dusting Stage Management (SM) Pearce Darnell-Walsh & Team Graham Haworth Properties Jackie Green & Jonathan Mallinson Loot Stage Management (SM) Martin Cottam Special Effects Keya Edge Wardrobe Jacqui Mooney Properties Alison Smith, Keya Edge, Carolanne Connolly & Martin Cottam Hound of the Baskervilles Stage Management (SM) Dave Batterby Properties Jonathan Mallinson

Bollington Festival Players Jack and the Beanstalk Set Painting Steph Evans

Burnley Garrick Theatre Group The Season Properties Jean Green and team Sound Design Richard I’Anson and team Wardrobe Anne Dunlop and team Set Design & Construction Chris Thornber and team

Burnley Pantomime Society Sleeping Beauty Musical Direction Tom Whittaker Wardrobe Lesley Johnstone, Glenise Kay, Hazel Hodder Hair & Make – Up Kayla Holland Lighting Design Paddy Keane Sound Design Lea Royse, Elodie Perrie

Colne Dramatic Society Season Lighting Design Richard I’Anson Set Design / Construction John Mills and Team Sound Design Richard I’Anson Best Staging in a restricted space John Mills and Team

Dukinfield A.D. & O. S. See How They Run / Pools Paradise Lighting Design Phil Steele, Steve Hartley Properties Marjorie Jones Set Design / Construction Darren Hill, Brian Hilton

Friends of the Art Theatre Cinderella Properties Sandra Bullen, Geoff Lunn & Moira Whiteford Outstanding Special Effect Cinderella’s Transformation Wardrobe Phil Dent, Carolyn Dent & Hazel Bowker Hair & Make – Up Brian Berriman & Pauline Rowe Assistant Stage Manager Keith Clayton Lighting and Sound Engineer Charles Denton Stage Manager Terry Barber

Furness Youth Theatre The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Stage Management / Crew Adam and Graham Barker Set Design Brian Loveless Projected Images Ed Norden

HATS Agatha Crusty and the Pantomime Murders Set Design / Construction Anita Partridge Barbara Williamson Stage Management / Crew Garry Blair (SM)

Hyde Little Theatre Sleeping Beauty Wardrobe Clare Peacock Lighting Design Steven Oliver-Grant Stage Management / Crew Gareth Cox Sound Design Martin Webber Stephen Rothwell & Team When We Are Married Wardrobe Josie Kirby Properties Mick Noonan, Moira Weir & HLT Stage Management / Crew HLT Team

Hyde Musical Society All Shook Up Lighting Design Andy Greenwood, Daniel Oliver-Grant, Paul Wilson Stage Management / Crew Gareth Cox (SM) Wardrobe Liz Lythe

Knutsford Little Theatre Hobson’s Choice Sound Tony Pickering Stage Management / Crew Paul Baston (SM)

Mid Cheshire MTC Sunshine on Leith / American Idiot Projected Images Simon Matthews American Idiot Stage Crew Martin Scrowther, Stuart Robinson

Mossley A.O. & D.S. Shrek Outstanding Special Effects Chris Anderson, No Eyed Theatre Wardrobe Margaret Perkins Chris Anderson Properties Janet Hinchcliffe Set Design / Construction John Buckley Stage Management / Crew Nigel Banks (SM)

North Manchester A.O. & D.S. The Black & White Mikado Accompanist Isobel Ritchie-Ingham Projected Images Nick Lowe Set Design / Construction Paul Allcock Wardrobe Catherine King, Lisa Sutton The Last Drop - A Murder Mystery Properties Isobel Ritchie-Ingham

PADOS Theatre Group Calendar Girls the musical Lighting Design Rob Armstrong Properties Claire Hartley Sound Design Dave Wilkinson Wardrobe Lorraine Parry Beauty and the Beast Hair & Make – Up Emma Kavanaugh Outstanding Special Effect Beast’s Transformation Set Painting Lighting Design Rob Armstrong

Players Theatre The Actress Lighting Design Matthew King Uncle Vanya Set Design / Construction Josh Holden Properties Josh Holden Time of My Life Sound Design Sophie Billington

Rochdale MTC Legally Blonde & The Producers Properties Kath Meredith, Sophie Lord, Chris Wright-Amis Stage Management Chris ‘Titch’ Amis Steve Brady Lighting Jamie Jackson James Lyon

Romiley Operatic Society Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Hair & Make – Up Rachel Halliwell, Wardrobe Michael McCaw, Tracy Harper

Sale Gilbert & Sullivan Society HMS Pinafore & The Zoo Stage Management / Crew Helena Connolly (SM) Wardrobe Jackie Brook

Tameside Youth Drama Group Jack and the Beanstalk Wardrobe Carole Levy Set Design / Construction Vicky Husband, Katie Hartley, Steve Hartley & Hollie Godber

TEMPO Chicago Hair & Make – Up The TEMPO Team Stage Management / Crew David Nock (SM) Stage Management / Crew The TEMPO Crew

East Cheshire MTC Sister Act Hair & Make – Up Kate Longden Stage Management / Crew Heidi Fletcher (SM)

The Three Towns Iolanthe Hair & Make – Up Lorraine Dakin, Emma Sharrock Set Design / Construction The Three Towns Team Wardrobe Ann Batchelor, Margaret Laithwaite

Trinity Amateur Operatic Society Comeback Cabaret, Projected Images Simon Mathews Lighting Design Nick Walker Properties Wendy Mckie Sound Design John McCarthy

Urmston MT` Little Shop of Horrors Properties Daniel Millor Wardrobe Yvonne Bissett Stage Management / Crew The Urmston Crew

Mid-Cheshire M.T.C. Sunshine on Leith / American Idiot Projected Images Simon Matthews Stage Management / Crew (American Idiot) Martin Scrowther & Stuart Robinson

Nomination Basic Programme David Owen See How They Run / Pools Paradise Dukinfield A.D. & O.S.

Nomination Basic Programme John Mills The Season Colne Dramatic Society

Nomination Basic Programme Catherine Kay & Kath Freeborn Iolanthe The Three Towns

Nomination Souvenir Programme Nick Daye The Season Bacup Royal Court Theatre Group

Nomination Souvenir Programme Gavin Chadwick All Shook Up Hyde Musical Society

Nomination Souvenir Programme Caitlin Sherwood & Alex Scrowther American Idiot Mid Cheshire M.T.C.

Nomination Souvenir Programme Emily Banks Shrek Mossley A.D. & O.S.

Nomination Souvenir Programme Jessica McEvoy Calendar Girls the musical PADOS Theatre Group

Nomination Souvenir Programme Leon Shufflebotham Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Romiley Operatic Society

Nomination Standard Programme Sarah Malkin & Scott Lees Let’s Sing the Music & Dance Ashton-Under-Lyne Operatic Society

Nomination Standard Programme David Lewis & Martin Chadwick The Season Burnley Garrick T.G.

Nomination Standard Programme John Hilliard Sister Act East Cheshire M.T.C.

Nomination Standard Programme Ruth Parkinson Legally Blonde Rochdale M.T.C.

Nomination Standard Programme Bekah Murray & Janice Rendel H.M.S. Pinafore / The Zoo Sale Gilbert & Sullivan Society

Nomination Standard Programme Tiffany Henry Chicago TEMPO

NOMINATION Front of House including Box Office Barbara Cochrane & Team Shrek the musical Abbey Musical Society

NOMINATION Front of House including Box Office Linda Midgeley The Season Colne Dramatic Society

NOMINATION Front of House including Box Office The APeel Team Jack and the Beanstalk / Ali Baba APeel Drama Group

NOMINATION Front of House including Box Office The Ashton Team Let’s Sing the Music & Dance Ashton-Under-Lyne Operatic Society

NOMINATION Front of House including Box Office Jackie Mooney The Season Blackburn Drama Club

NOMINATION Front of House including Box Office Susan Hardwick Sleeping Beauty Burnley Pantomime Society

NOMINATION Front of House including Box Office Janet Hewitson The Season Colne Dramatic Society

NOMINATION Front of House including Box Office Peter Marshall See How They Run / Pools Paradise Dukinfield A.D. & O.S

NOMINATION Front of House including Box Office Pat Peach The Season Friends of the Art (New Mills AODS)

NOMINATION Front of House including Box Office Lynne Woodward The Season Friends of the Art (New Mills AODS)

NOMINATION Front of House including Box Office Jill Thomason-Stewart A Show With No Name Alderley & Wilmslow M.T.C.

NOMINATION Front of House including Box Office Andrea Parkin Let’s Sing the Music & Dance Ashton-Under-Lyne Operatic Society

NOMINATION Front of House including Box Office Eleanor Wales Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Romiley Operatic Society

NOMINATION Front of House including Box Office Rachel Darling Chicago TEMPO

NOMINATION Front of House including Box Office The HATS Team Agatha Crusty and the Pantomime Murders HATS

NOMINATION Front of House including Box Office The Knutsford LT Team Hobson’s Choice Knutsford Little Theatre

NOMINATION Front of House including Box Office The NMAODS Team The Black & White Mikado North Manchester A.O. & D.S.

NOMINATION Front of House including Box Office The DLT Team The Season Droylesden Little Theatre

NOMINATION Hospitality Anne Chadwick, Kathleen Riley and team The Season Burnley Garrick Theatre Group

NOMINATION Hospitality Keith Mayne All Shook Up Hyde Musical Society

NOMINATION Marketing / Publicity including Social Media Campaign Paddy Darnell-Walsh The Season Blackburn Drama Club

NOMINATION Marketing / Publicity including Social Media Campaign Bradley Snelling & Katy Thomason-Stewart A Show With No Name Alderley & Wilmslow M.T.C.

NOMINATION Marketing / Publicity including Social Media Campaign Gavin Chadwick The Season Hyde Little Theatre

NOMINATION Marketing / Publicity including Social Media Campaign Lauren Stirzaker-Jackson & team The Season Burnley Garrick Theatre Group

NOMINATION Marketing / Publicity including Social Media Campaign Laura Kay, Becky Wright, Louise Young Sleeping Beauty Burnley Pantomime Society

NOMINATION Marketing / Publicity including Social Media Campaign James Eckersley Agatha Crusty and the Pantomime Murders HATS

NOMINATION Marketing / Publicity including Social Media Campaign Samuel Glyde-Rees & Rachel Perrin Hobson’s Choice Knutsford Little Theatre

NOMINATION Marketing / Publicity including Social Media Campaign Becky Woolstencroft & Nick Lowe The Black & White Mikado North Manchester A.O. & D.S.

NOMINATION Marketing / Publicity including Social Media Campaign Michelle Barker, Lauren Bates, Emma Wild, Kath Meredith Legally Blonde Rochdale M.T.C.

NOMINATION Marketing / Publicity including Social Media Campaign Tiffany Henry Chicago TEMPO

NOMINATION Marketing / Publicity including Social Media Campaign Michelle Speakman & Adam Brame Little Shop of Horrors Urmston M.T.C.

NOMINATION Marketing / Publicity including Social Media Campaign Angela Hulme The Season Friends of the Art (New Mills AODS)

NOMINATION Front of House including Box Office John Houghton Sunshine on Leith / American Idiot Mid-Cheshire M.T.C.

Nomination Most Creative Artwork including Photography/ Video Matthew Ainsworth, Martin Cottam, Keya Edge & Cato Soria St Pierre The Season Blackburn Drama Club

NOMINATION Marketing / Publicity including Social Media Campaign Caitlin Sherwood, Alec Scrowther, Ric Gauld Sunshine on Leith / American Idiot Mid-Cheshire M.T.C.

Nomination Society Official of the Year Judith Hilton Dukinfield A.D. & O.S.

Nomination Society Official of the Year Janice Rendel Sale Gilbert & Sullivan Society

Nomination Society Official of the Year Margaret Laithwaite The Three Towns

Nomination Society Official of the Year David Kay The Three Towns

Nomination Society Official of the Year Isobel Ritchie-Ingham North Manchester A.O. & D.S.

Nomination Society Official of the Year Anita Partridge HATS

Nomination Society Official of the Year Barbara Williamson HATS

Nomination Most Creative Artwork including Programme & Poster Design John Mercer & David Owen See How They Run / Pools Paradise Dukinfield A.D.& O.S.

Nomination Most Creative Artwork including Programme & Poster Design Stephanie Niland Little Shop of Horrors Urmston M.T.C.

Nomination Most Creative Artwork including Programme & Poster Design Gareth Baddeley Sister Act East Cheshire M.T.C.

Nomination Most Creative Artwork including Programme & Poster Design Stuart Dutton Sunshine on Leith Mid Cheshire M.T.C.

Nomination Most Creative Artwork including Programme & Poster Design John Mills The Season Colne Dramatic Society

Nomination Most Creative Artwork including Programme & Poster Design David Owen & John Mercer The Season Dukinfield A.D. & O.S.

Nomination Most Creative Artwork including Programme & Poster Design Bradley Snelling A Show With No Name Alderley & Wilmslows M.T.C.

Nomination Most Creative Artwork including Programme & Poster Design Paddy Darnell-Walsh The Season Blackburn Drama Club

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3 Dear Member, AN INVITATION TO THE ACT MEMBERS’ DAY 2022 ACT is delighted to announce its Annual Members’ Day Members’ Day will be held at the Cresta Court Hotel, Altrincham on Sunday, 10thJuly, 2022 commencing at 11.00 a.m. The programme for the day will include: • Presentation to Society Official of the Year • Our Guest Speakers for the day • Society Official of the Year Award • ACT in Training awards • Members’ Forum • Society and Trade Displays • Lunch (£10.00 per head) {to be pre ordered. See form on page 8 • Morning & Afternoon Coffee – to be purchased at bar • Programme and Artwork Awards • The Annual Members’ Quiz (£1.00 per head) Further information, including your papers for the day, agenda, minutes, order forms, etc., will be forwarded to your ACT contact in early June. We look forward to seeing you there John Flay ACT Board Chair

4 Notice of the Members’ Forum We hereby give notice that the Members’ Forum of the Association of Community Theatre will be held on Sunday, 10th July, 2022 at the Cresta Court Hotel, Altrincham at 11.00 a.m. to consider the business of the Association of Community Theatre. Running order and speakers might be subject to last minute changes. Members’ Day 2022 Programme of Events An opportunity the meet the Traders and Society Members Introduction and welcome to Members’ Day Annual General Meeting of the Association of Community Theatre Chairman’s Report Secretary’s Report Financial Report and Accounts Election of Officers Any other business * Members’ Forum Guest Speaker for the day Chris Anderson demonstrating prosthetic make up Sound and Lighting Design (speaker to be confirmed) Annual Quiz Lunch ACT in Training Awards Presentation Society Official of the Year Award Presentation ACT in Action Certificate presentation * (where such notice has been given in advance)

5 LUNCH ORDER FORM An optional lunch. will be available on the 10th July 2020 a special rate has been negotiated for the ACT members and their guests of £10.00 per person The lunch will be Meat & Potato Pie or Cheese Pie (suitable for vegetarians) served with mushy peas and red cabbage. Morning and afternoon tea / coffee at cost will be available in the bar area. Member’s Name ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Society Name ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Total number of lunches required ��������������������������������� Number of vegetarian lunches required ����������������������� Please send your Lunch Order form and remittance (cheques payable to the ACT Events) by post to ACT Events, 38 Rowan Avenue, Lowton St Mary’s, WARRINGTON, WA3 2DD no later than 29th June 2022 Cheque enclosed for £ ����������������������������������������������������� Please make cheques payable to ACT Events Please enclose a stamped addressed envelope if you require a receipt ACT Members’ Day 2022 " "

6 NOMINATE YOUR SOCIETY OFFICIAL OF THE YEAR This is to recognise the contribution made to ensure the smooth running of your society Name of the Person nominated .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Office held ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Your Name......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Society Name............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Brief reason for nominating ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ " " Please return your completed form to Out of the Spotlight Awards at 38 Rowan Avenue, Lowton St Mary’s, WARRINGTON, WA3 2DD or email to admin@actuk.org no later than 30 May 2022 We look forward to receiving your nomination(s) Association of Community Theatre Supporting the Performing Arts

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