2021 Anywhere Awards.
Along with the always popular audience vote for each region of the festival, this year we partnered with amazing creative people and organisations to sponsor awards.
The awards give more than just the kudos; they provide mentorship, expertise and resources for producers and performances makers to acknowledge the incredible performances we've experienced and to take their work to the next stage.
The awards and winners are below.
Voting opens Monday 24 May and closed midnight Thursday 27 May 2021.
Numbers alone don't tell the story, as a one-off performance to thirty people can have as much chance as a performance with 500 audience members over its run. It is about the number of votes relative to the total number who saw the show along with the comments made by voters.
The Anywhere Award winners will be announced on Saturday 29 May 2021 live on the Anywhere Festival Facebook page.
2021 Anywhere Award Winners
ArTour Anywhere Award
For a show or team at Anywhere Festival that show great touring promise.
SHORTLISTED shows that will now go into the next phase: Minola Theatre, Broccolini Productions Room To Play Independent Theatre Act React, Tim Jackman & Tammy Tresillian, Sunshine Troupe Inc, Menaka Thomas, Whittleberry (Julie Berry Vivien Whittle), Libby Myers, ImproMafia
Brisbane Immersive Anywhere Award
For Outstanding New Immersive Production.
Horizon Festival
For a Sunshine Coast based individual or group creating exciting work and showing further creative potential.
DIVE Theatre Collective for "Exodus"
MILKE Emerging Producers Anywhere Award
For a promising emerging producer of an Anywhere Festival work ready to take the next stage in their career with mentorship.
Nothing Ever Happens In Brisbane Emergin Reviewer Anywhere Award
For a promising emerging reviewer writing reviews as an Anywhere Reviewer in the 2021 Anywhere Festival.
Georgia Mckenzie
Noosa Shire Council Anywhere Award
For a show presented in the Noosa region that received a combination of the most audience member votes relative to the total number of attendees and best audience feedback.
Snap Crackle Theatre for "Pooch Park
Brisbane City Council Anywhere Award
For a show presented in Brisbane that received a combination of the most audience member votes relative to the total number of attendees and best audience feedback.
Whittleberry for Plucked
Brisbane Powerhouse Anywhere Award
For a promising emerging performance maker or ensemble presenting a new work in Anywhere Festival.
Room To Play Independent Theatre for "I Am King. I Am Queen"
m4m Marketing Anywhere Award
For an exciting emerging or established act that would benefit from specific marketing advice to develop their brand and audiences.
Oubliette Theatre for "The Women In The Wallpaper"
Melbourne Fringe Anywhere Award
For a producer or company to take their work to the next level at this year's Melbourne Fringe.
Sunshine Coast Regional Council Anywhere Award
For a show presented on the Sunshine Coast that received a combination of the most audience member votes relative to the total number of attendees and best audience feedback.
BYTE - Buderim Youth Theatre of Excellence for "Avalon"
Queensland Theatre Emerging Theatre Makers Anywhere Award
A promising local emerging theatre maker or theatre making team of an Anywhere Festival production.
Apt.13 Productions for "Comedy of Errors"
Brisbane Fringe Anywhere Award
For an exciting performance making team we'd like to see at the inaugural Brisbane Fringe in 2022.
Act React for "The Great Grandiosa" and "The Importance of Being Wasted"
communify Anywhere Award
For a group or individual presenting in Brisbane who would benefit from support with free rehearsal spaces to develop a new or existing work.
Heather & Bourke for "Golden Dreams
Ipswich Festivals Anywhere Award
For a show presented in Ipswich that received a combination of the most audience member votes relative to the total number of attendees and best audience feedback.
The Black Box Collective for "Talking To Brick Walls"
Moreton Bay Regional Council Anywhere Award
For a show presented in Moreton Bay Region that received a combination of the most audience member votes relative to the total number of attendees and best audience feedback.
Misery Inc. for "Bow Down To Your Queen"
Sydney Fringe Tour Ready Anywhere Award
To a Queensland based company looking to tour to Sydney Fringe who the Sydney Fringe would love to see at the festival.
