2024 Committee
President: Ang Cuy
Vice President: Elly Foster
Secretary: Mark Spencer
Treasurer: Leah Osburn
General Committee:
Damien Calvert
Daragh Wills
David Crawshaw
Meg Warren
Tamara Finch
Expression of Interest : Judging Panels
We are looking for some enthusiastic volunteers to add to our judging panels both full time and relief.
If you’ve ever been interested, now is the time to put up your hand!
Please submit your expression of interest with your Performing Arts CV to our Secretary, Mark Spencer via our website
https://www.musictheatreguildvic.org/home-store/contact-us/
If you know someone that would be a brilliant judge for the MTGV, please share this with them!
Did you know?
- Both the open and junior judging panels follow a set of guidelines and criteria set out by the Music Theatre Guild in regard to nomination and commendations. The panels attend a training session with our Judges Administrator and committee as well as meeting four times a year to calibrate and begin the process of collating the nomination and commendation list from these meetings.
- There are five full time panel members. On some occasions, the entire complement of the panel may not be able to attend a production. We have a bank of relief judges who will attend on the panels’ behalf.
- For the 2023 season =
The Open Panel saw 58 individual productions. This included 24 regional shows and 34 metropolitan shows, with judges travelling as far as Warrnambool, Horsham, Traralgon, Echuca, and Albury.
The Junior Panel attended 14 shows by youth companies and 38 productions presented by schools. This equalled 45 metropolitan shows and 7 regional shows, and travelled as far as Ballarat, Bendigo, and Albury for productions. - Music Theatre Guild Victoria Judges are not permitted to participate in the discussion of a show with which they, their partner, or immediate family have been associated or any other productions of a show they’ve been associated with in the same year. Judges are not eligible to be a recipient of an Award within their panel.
| Read the full list of Judging Guidelines here |
Introducing our
Production Team:
Director: Elise Cavallo
Musical Director: Peter Verhagen
Host Company: Latrobe Theatre Company
Award Nominations:
Edith Harrhy & Musician’s Award
Each year, the MTGV has the opportunity to present two additional awards, other than those within the regular categories.
They are the Edith Harrhy Award and a Musicians Award.
These two awards are given by the Committee, not by the members of the judging panel, and are selected from nominations received from our member companies.
Accordingly, the Committee is inviting you, our members, to put forward any person who fulfils the appropriate criteria and are therefore worthy of consideration by the Guild.
Please give this matter some serious thought and send your nomination, together with supporting information regarding their experience and services, to [email protected] by FRIDAY 18th OCTOBER 2023
All nominations will then be considered by the committee.
EDITH HARRHY AWARD:
For Outstanding Contribution to Musical Theatre There are numerous people associated with musical theatre who have given their expertise, time and energy to the promotion and advancement of the art form as well as assisting many others to further their artistic careers or simply to gain enjoyment from it. Edith Harrhy devoted a great deal of her life doing just that. She died in 1975 and this award is in acknowledgement of her outstanding musical life.
The award is for outstanding contribution to musical theatre (contributed in an honorary capacity) and is not necessarily awarded each year.
MUSICIANS AWARD:
This award was instigated in 1991 and acknowledges the musicians whose dedication is paramount and essential to the productions staged by music theatre companies. Whilst their services often do not come freely, they supply their talent and expertise at a reduced rate without which companies virtually could not operate. The all-important rehearsal pianist is normally recruited from amongst their ranks.
The award is not granted in recognition of any particular performance but acknowledges the recipient’s years of service or expertise and is not necessarily awarded each year.
Award Night Acknowledgements
During the 2023 Award Ceremony we would like to make the following acknowledgements
IN MEMORIAM:
The Music Theatre Guild of Victoria encourages our members to let us know when a member of their community has passed away. Let us know who has left us during the last year and what impact they had on your company and the wider theatre community. Please send an image with the person’s name and member company.
LIFE MEMBERS:
We wish to acknowledge any Life Members who have been appointed by our member companies over the last year and ask for you to send images of these significant members. Please send an image with the person’s name and the member company they have received life membership with.
Please email any nominations for the categories below to [email protected]
Award Sponsorship
The Guild acknowledges the companies, individuals, corporate bodies and foundations that sponsor our Bruce Awards each year in support of the Awards Night.
The Music Theatre Guild of Victoria Inc. is a not-for-profit organisation for the ongoing support, encouragement and development of non-professional music theatre in the state of Victoria, Australia.
We would like to thank our confirmed Award Sponsors for 2024
Babirra Music Theatre (in honour of Leigh Barker)
BeOnd Electrical
Bev Woodford
BLOC Music Theatre (in honour of Ian Morris)
Carole Cuthbertson & Fran Boyd
David Crawshaw
Elly & Simon Foster
FAMDA inc
Leongatha Lyric Theatre
Music Theatre Guild of Victoria
Music Theatre International, Australasia
Origin Theatrical
Osburn Family
PLOS Musical Productions (in honour of Sue Dyer OAM)
Tamara Finch
Wendy Tomkins
Wonthaggi Theatrical Group
Currently we are seeking Expressions of Interest for sponsorship of the following Awards
- Design Award (Junior Section)
- Junior Supporting Performer in a Female presenting Role (Junior Section)
- Junior Supporting Performer in a Male presenting Role (Junior Section)
- Concert Award (Open Section)
- Sound Award (Open Section)
- Lighting Award (Open Section)
- Rob Constable Open Supporting Performer in a Male presenting Role (Open Section)
- Marie Cumisky Choreography Award (Open Section)
For more information please email [email protected]