Professional categories
Production: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (HVTC and Freewheels)
Actress: Anne Frost, Letters from the Inside (Freewheels)
Actor: Rod Ansell, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Director: Brian Joyce, Letters from the Inside
Technical achievement: Vicki Newman, set design, Letters from the Inside
Open category
New play written for a Newcastlecompany: Vanessa Bates, Here is the Beehive (Freewheels)
Non-professional categories
Dramatic production: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (NDAC)
Musical production: Oklahoma! (NDAC)
One-act production: Line (University Drama)
Actress (two awards): Amanda Helmers, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Jenny Newman, Man of La Mancha (Novocastrian Productions)
Actor (two awards): Carl Caulfield, Christie in Love (Hunter Workers Theatre), and Jonathon Lewis, Teen Sex Scandal (2 Til 5)
Director: Peggy Thompson, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Technical achievement: Don McEwen and Alex Adams, set design, Brigadoon (Novocastrian Productions)
Commonwealth Bank award for outstanding achievement in Newcastle theatre Amanda Helmers, for consistently excellent work as actor and choreographer