In Pictures: All the hugely deserving prizewinners from Ballyshannon Drama Festival

The 73rd Ballyshannon Drama Festival drew appreciative audiences to a fantastic eight nights of amateur dramatics. See results below, and click on the arrows to see a gallery of Philip Mulligan’s photos from the awards night in the Abbey Arts Centre

Results:

Blue Riband - ‘Sive’, Dalkey Players 

Open Section:

First Place - ‘Sive’, Dalkey Players

Second Place - ‘Heaven’, Balally Players

Third Place - ‘I Never Sang For My Father’, Clontarf Players

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Best Director - Emma Jane Nulty, ‘Sive’, Dalkey Players

Best Actress - Sarah Coughlan, Mena Glavin, ‘Sive’, Dalkey Players

Nominations - Jackie Murphy, Margaret, Clontarf Players; Clare Parker, Balally Players

Best Actor - Dermot Byrne, Thomasheen Sean Rua , ‘Sive’, Dalkey Players

Nomination - Declan O’Loughlin, Heaven, Balally Players 

Confined Section: 

First Place - ‘Playboy of the Western World’, Clones

Second Place - ‘From Under the Bed’, Bualadh Bos

Third Place - ‘Doubt: A Parable’, Enniskillen

Best Director - Harry Cleary, ‘Playboy of the Western World’, Clones

Nominations - Ena Trimble, ‘Doubt’, Enniskillen; Paulene Kennelly, ‘Under the Bed’, Bualadh Bos. 

Best Actress - Zara Kavanagh, Pegeen Mike, ‘Playboy of the Western World’, Clones

Nominations - Joanna Aryeh, ‘Doubt’; Christine Maher Irvine, ‘Doubt’, Enniskillen

Best Actor - Brian O’Harte, Christy Mahon, ‘Playboy of the Western World’

Noms: Christian Carbin, Enniskillen, Kieran Begley 

DLI Summer School Bursary - Dervla Kelly, Rose in “Dancing At Lughnasa”, Pomeroy Players

Outstanding Achievement by a Young Person - Hannah Clabby, 'Sive', Dalkey Players

Adjudicator’s Awards 

• ⁠  ⁠Extraordinary Accomplishment - Terence Rafferty, Musical Director, ‘The Dead', Newpoint Players
• ⁠  ⁠Notable Contribution by an Actor - Joanna Aryeh, Enniskillen, ‘Mrs. Muller’
• ⁠  ⁠Ensemble Work between Two Actors - John Morley and Joe Walsh, ‘From Under the Bed’, Bualadh Bos 

Best Lighting - Brian Lally, Clontarf, ‘I Never Sang for my Father’.

Nominations: 'Heaven', Ballally Players; 'Sive', Dalkey Players

Best Stage Management - 'The Dead', Newpoint Players

Best Set - Balally Players, ‘Heaven’

Nominations -  Bualadh Bos, Dalkey

The Audience Award - Dalkey Players ‘Sive’