Avon Festival Results
 

The Avon Short Play Festival concluded on the Saturday night after 4 sessions featuring 9 very different plays.
The trophies were presented by Councillor James Ball,  the Mayor of Chipping Sodbury. 
Our Adjudicator, Chris Jaeger MBE FRSA GoDA,  awarded the trophies to

Denning award for Youth (Encouragement)
Nominated
Hattie Powell, Holly Pine, Immie Hutchins (Sodbury Players Youth Section - SPYS)
Winner
Izzie Williamson (St Alban’s Players)

West Town Workshop for Youth (Most Promising Youth Performance)
Nominated
Josh Wrighton (Sodbury Players Youth Section - SPYS)
Grace Flynn (Junior Actonians)
Alice Grubb (Junior Actonians)
Winner
Abigail Cowen (St Alban’s Players)

AAD Award for Youth Drama (Winning Youth Team)
Sodbury Players Youth Section - SPYS

Richard Brayshaw Cup (Technical award)
St Alban’s Players

The Ruth Perrett Award (Costume)
Nominated
Sodbury Players (Untucked)
Athelstan Players
St Alban’s Players
Bleadon Players
Winner
Sodbury Players (For All The Saints)

Pauline Pincott Trophy (Best original play)
Nominated
Bleadon Players - The Weatherman's Harvest by Adrienne Howell
Winner
St Alban’s Players - Holding On by Barbara Crass

Graham Bradshaw Cup (Best supporting performance)
Nominated
Lisa Stapleton (The Oldland Players)
Sandra Tomkins (St Alban’s Players)
Winner
Dean Harris (Bleadon Players)

Priory Plate (Best Actress)
Nominated
Kit Muffet (The Oldland Players)
Megan Mills (Athelston Players)
Sarah  Martin (Sodbury Players)
Winner
Sandra Fenlon (St Alban’s Players)

Goodway Memorial Cup (Best actor)
Nominated
Steve Crump (Sodbury Players)
David Lord (Sodbury Players)
Peter Gibbon  (Bleadon Players)
Stephen Coles (Oldland Players)
Winner
Bob Charman (Athelstan Players)

Adjudicator’s Award (Adjudicator’s discretion)
Nominated
Sodbury Players Youth Section - SPYS (ensemble work in The Hanging  Tree)
Barbara Crass - St Alban's Players (direction of Holding On)
Winner
Simon Carney - Sodbury Players (direction of Untucked)

The Peter English Award (Runners up)
Sodbury Players (Untucked)

The Alexander Trophy (Overall winner)
St Alban’s Players

The All England Theatre Festival (AETF) winning team to go forward to the Divisional Quarter Final at The Mission in Bath is Sodbury Players with Untucked.

The AETF runners up also go forward to the Divisional Quarter Final this year; they are Sodbury Players with For All The Saints.

They will meet the winners of the Bristol Festival - St Alban's Players and the winners of the Somerset Festival; which takes place on 23rd & 24th March.