Betty Mitchell Awards were created in 1998 to celebrate and honour outstanding achievement in Calgary's professional theatre community. It is commonly called the Betty Award and is named for Calgary theatre pioneer Dr. Betty Mitchell .[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
Awards
The awards ceremony for the 2018–19 season was held on June 24 at the Vertigo Theatre in Calgary.[ 4]
In 2019, Pakistani-Canadian actor Ahad Raza Mir , the first Pakistani actor to play Hamlet in Canada ,[ 5] [ 6] Tiffany Ayalik became the first Inuit recipient of a Betty Award.[ 7]
Categories
Awards are given in the following categories:
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble
Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Outstanding Lighting Design
Outstanding Set Design
Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
•Outstanding Projection or Video Design
2024
Beth Kates
Meteor Shower
Scott Reid
A Christmas Carol
Brendan Briceland
Selma Burke
David Bengali
Beaches The Musical
Brendan Briceland
Girl on the Train
2023
Andy Moro
Hookman
Scott Reid
Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
Andy Moro
The Extractionist
Cindy Mochizuki (Video Design & animation), Sammy Chien/Chimerik Collective (Projection Design)
Forgiveness
Wladimiro A. Woyno R.
STRUCK
2022
Nicolas Dostie, Irina Litvinenko, Rick Miller
Boom YZ
Jamie Nesbitt
Cipher
Jamie Nesbitt
In Wonderland
Scott Reid
A Christmas Carol
Scott Reid
Million Dollar Quartet
2019[ 8]
Nicolas Dotsie
BOOM X
Bretta Gerecke
The Invisible Agents of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Amelia Scott
A Love Letter to Emily C
Andy Moro
Honour Beat
Elaine J. McCarthy Everest
2018[ 9]
Jamie Nesbitt
Nine Dragons
Remy Siu
Empire of the Son
T. Erin Gruber
Easter Island
Corwin Ferguson
Julius Caesar
Amelia Scott
To the Light
2017[ 10]
Corwin Ferguson
Richard III
David Leclerc
BOOM
Jamie Nesbitt
The Big Sleep
Amelia Scott with illustrations by Tyler Jenkins
Crime Does Not Pay
JP Thibodeau
Lest We Forget
2016[ 11]
Jamie Nesbitt
Calamity Town
Sean Nieuwenhuis
The Little Prince
Scott Reid
Die Tote Stadt
JP Thibodeau
The Boy’s Own Jedi Handbook
Amelia Scott and Joel Adria
Cockroach
2015[ 12]
Andrzej Goulding
Silent Night
Jamie Nesbitt
Liberation Days
Jamie Nesbitt
Farewell, My Lovely
Kalyna Conrad
Legoland
Wladimiro A. Woyno R. , Matthew Waddell and Laura Anzola
The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
2014[ 13]
Kaely Dekker
n00b
Corwin Ferguson
You Will Remember Me
T. Erin Gruber
A Bomb in the Heart
Jamie Nesbitt
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sean Nieuwenhuis
The Mountaintop
Outstanding Costume Design
Outstanding Sound Design or Composition
Outstanding Choreography or Fight Direction
Outstanding Musical Direction
Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Comedy or Musical
Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Comedy or Musical
Outstanding New Play
Outstanding Direction
Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Drama
Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Drama Outstanding Production of a Musical
Outstanding Production of a Play
Ceremony
Betty Mitchell Award Ceremonies
Ceremony
Venue
Date
Host(s)
1st
Stage West
August 24, 1998
Lindsay Burns[ 14]
2nd
Stage West
August 30, 1999
[ 15]
3rd
Stage West
August 28, 2000
4th
Stage West
August 28, 2001
Dave Kelly [ 16]
5th
Stage West
August 26, 2002
Dave Kelly [ 17]
6th
Stage West
August 25, 2003
Mark Bellamy[ 18]
7th
Stage West
August 30, 2004
8th
Stage West
August 29, 2005
Bob White[ 19]
9th
Stage West
August 28, 2006
Grant Linneberg[ 20]
10th
Stage West
2007
11th
Stage West
August 25, 2008
Dave Kelly [ 21] [ 22]
12th
Max Bell Theatre, EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts
August 24, 2009
13th
Max Bell Theatre, EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts
August 30, 2010
AJ Demers
14th
Stage West
August 20, 2011
Karen Johnson-Diamond
15th
Stage West
August 27, 2012
Russell Bowers
16th
Stage West
August 26, 2013
Nicole Zylstra
17th
Stage West
August 18, 2014
Stephen Hair[ 23]
18th
Vertigo Theatre
August 24, 2015
Julie Orton
19th
Vertigo Theatre
2016
Josh Bertwistle, Carly McKee
20th
Vertigo Theatre
2017
Mark Bellamy
21st
Vertigo Theatre
June 25, 2018
Katherine Fadum[ 24]
22nd
Vertigo Theatre
June 24, 2019
Raven Virginia
Statue update
The original Betty Mitchell Award statue, designed by local Calgary sculptor, Petronella Overes, was inspired by the geography surrounding Calgary. It was a steel base containing a glass monolith with motifs of mountains and prairies. For the 10th anniversary of the awards in 2007 she redesigned it replacing the steel base with powder coated aluminum and increased the contrast in the tone and texture of the awards metal and glass.[ 25]
The Award received its most recent design update in 2014 when the Overes design was replaced with a multi-colour teardrop-shaped glass sculpture created by a local glass blowing collective, Bee Kingdom Glass. Each one is unique, as they are hand-blown.
See also
References
^ Northof, Anne (February 18, 2018), Betty Mitchell Athabasca University Press , retrieved June 16, 2019 ^ Morrow, Martin (18 June 1998), "City theatre launches Betty Mitchell Awards" , Calgary Herald , retrieved 15 June 2019 ^ Brooks, Bill (4 September 2014), "Betty Mitchell Awards honor the best of city's theatre world" , Calgary Herald , retrieved 15 June 2019 ^ Louis B. Hobson, Schemers and spies top the Betty Mitchell Award nominations , Calgary Herald , June 5, 2019
^ News Desk, Ahad Raza Mir becomes first Pakistani to star as Hamlet in Canada , Daily Times (Pakistan) , March 31, 2019
^ Ahad Raza Mir Wins the Betty Mitchell Award for Hamlet! , Hip In Pakistan^ "Inuit actress wins 'Outstanding Performance' prize" . Windspeaker ^ Louis B. Hobson, Schemers and spies top the Betty Mitchell Award nominations , Calgary Herald , June 5, 2019
^ Louis B. Hobson, Puppets and sisters big winners at Betty Mitchell Awards , Calgary Herald , June 26, 2018
^ Louis B. Hobson, Betty Mitchell Theatre Awards go Crazy for Theatre Calgary , Calgary Herald , August 22, 2017
^ Louis B. Hobson, Best of Calgary theatre honoured at Betty Mitchell Awards , Calgary Herald , August 23, 2016
^ Bill Brooks, Betty honors Calgary's shining stars , [Calgary Herald], September 12, 2015
^ Bill Brooks, Betty Mitchell Awards honor the best of city's theatre world , Calgary Herald , September 5, 2014
^ Boettcher, Shelley (August 30, 1998). "Bright Lights" . Calgary Herald . Retrieved August 25, 2019 . ^ Morrow, Martin. "Sage Theatre dominates Betties" . Calgary Herald . ^ Muretich, James (July 3, 1999). "Comedy, drama at Betties" . Calgary Herald . Retrieved August 25, 2019 . ^ Clark, Bob (August 27, 2002). "Calgary's theatre community bestows Bettys" . Calgary Herald . Retrieved August 25, 2019 . ^ Clark, Bob (August 26, 2003). "Filumena, ATP stage major wins" . Calgary Herald . Retrieved August 25, 2019 . ^ Clark, Bob (August 30, 2005). "Pinocchio , Black Rider lead way at sold-out Bettys" . Calgary Herald . p. D2. Retrieved August 25, 2019 . ^ Clark, Bob (September 3, 2006). "Betty shines on Calgary stars" . Calgary Herald . p. C6. Retrieved August 25, 2019 . ^ Clark, Bob (August 26, 2008). "Ties the tale at 2008 Betty Mitchell Awards" . Calgary Herald . Retrieved August 25, 2019 . ^ "The Drowning Girls surfaces with 4 Calgary theatre awards" . CBC Arts , Aug 26, 2008^ Brooks, Bill (September 5, 2014). "Betty Mitchell Awards honour the best of city's theatre world" . Calgary Herald . Retrieved August 25, 2019 . ^ Theatre Alberta Staff (June 20, 2018). "Interview with Braden Griffiths: 21st Annual Betty Mitchell Awards" . Theatre Alberta . Retrieved August 25, 2019 . ^ Clark, B (27 August 2014), "Award gets an update" , Calgary Herald , retrieved 15 June 2019
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