NIDA Student Grants
The William Fletcher Foundation has supported NIDA students in their 3rd year of the BFA (Design for Performance) since 1999, via the tertiary grants.
From 2022, the Foundation will award a grant of $1000 to each student in their third year of the course, subject to an individual student’s work being regarded as worthy. This award recognises that the students have difficulty with working part-time, as the course requires a high degree of commitment with a full study course and extra hours involved with productions through the year.
The recipients of this award will be listed each year.
2023
Paris Burrows, Madaleine Cooper, Rebecca Howarth, Cosette Mangas, Taylah Miller, Jessi Seymour and James Stibilj
2022
Meg Anderson, Hailley Hunt, Benedict Janeczko-Taylor, Ruby Jenkins, Kathleen Kershaw, Jade McElroy and Lachlan Odgers.
Sydney Theatre Awards
Since 2009, the William Fletcher Foundation has supported the area of Stage and Costume Design at the annual Sydney Theatre Critic Awards. The commitment is currently $1000 for each of the 4 categories.
2022
Mel Page: Best Stage Design of a MainStage Production for A Raisin in the Sun
Grace Deacon and Kelsey Lee: Best Stage Design of an Independent Production for Destroy, She Said
Esther Zhong: Best Costume Design of an Independent Production for Moon Rabbit Rising
Romance was Born and Anna Cordingley : Best Costume Design of a MainStage Production for Amadeus
2021
Marg Horwell and David Bergman: Best Stage of a MainStage Production for The Picture of Dorian Gray
Genevieve Blanchett: Best Costume Design of a MainStage Production for Home I’m Darling
Charles Davis:Best Stage Design for an Independent Production for Happy Days
Esther Zhong: Best Costume Design of an Independent Production for Three Fat Virgins Unassembled
2020
No awards due to COVID-19
2019
Renée Mulder: Best Stage Design of a Mainstage Production for The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Mel Page: Best Costume Design of a Mainstage Production for Mary Stuart
Isabel Hudson: Best Stage Design for an Independent Production for American Psycho
Mason Browne: Best Costume Design of an Independent Production for American Psycho
2018
Robert Cousins: Best Stage Design of a Mainstream Production for The Resistable Rise of Arturio Ui
Renée Mulder: Best Costume Design of a Maistage Production for Top Girls
Isabel Hudson: Best Stage Design of an Independent Production for Cry-Baby
Jonathon Hindmarsh: Best Costume Design of an Independent Production for Metamorphoses
2017
Michael Hankin: Best Stage Design of a Mainstream Production for Hir
Jonathon Oxlade: Best Costume Design of a Mainstream Production for Mr Burns
Alicia Clements: Best Stage Design of an Independent Production for Assassins, and Best Costume Design of an Independent Production for Assassins
2016
Owen Phillips: Best Stage Design of a Mainstream Production for Little Shop of Horrors
Tim Chappell: Best Costume Design of a Mainstream Production for Little Shop of Horrors
Melanie Liertz: Best Stage Design of an Independent Production for Antigone, and Best Costume Design of an Independent Production for Antigone
2015
Nick Schlieper: Best Stage Design of a Mainstream Production for Endgame (Sydney Theatre Company)
Michael Hankin: Best Stage Design of an Independent Production for Of Mice and Men (Sport for Jove and Seymour Centre)
Alice Babidge: Best Costume Design of a Mainstream Production for Suddenly Last Summer (Sydney Theatre Company)
Angela White: Best Costume Design of an Independent Production for Heathers (Showqueen Productions and Working Management in association with Hayes Theatre Co.)
($500 each)
2014
Lauren Peters: Best Stage Design ($500) and Elizabeth Franklin: Best Costume Design for an Independent Production ($500) for The Drowsy Chaperone (Squabbalogic, in association with Hayes Theatre Company)
Anna Gardiner: Best Stage Design for a Mainstream Production ($500) for Henry V (Bell Shakespeare)
Julie Lynch: Best Costume Design for a Mainstream Production ($500) for Noises Off (Sydney Theatre Company)
2013
Gabriela Tylesova: Best Stage Design ($500) and Best Costume Design ($500) for a Mainstream Production for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Sydney Theatre Company)
Marg Horwell: Best Stage Design ($500) and Best Costume Design ($500) for an Independent Production for Summertime in the Garden of Eden (Griffin Theatre Company)
2012
Gabriela Tylesova: Costume Design Award ($500) for musical Love Never Dies (The Really Useful Company, at the Capitol Theatre)
Claude Marcos: Stage Design Award – mainstream production ($500) for Thyestes (Sydney Festival 2012 and Belvoir Theatre associated with Carriageworks)
Michael Hankin & Sean Bacon: Stage Design Award – independent production ($250 each) for Truck Stop (Q Theatre Company)
2011
Alice Babidge: Costume Design Award ($500) for Gross und Klein (Sydney Theatre Company)
Nick Schlieper: Set Design Award ($500) for Baal (Sydney Theatre Company)
2010
Tess Schofield: Costume Design Award ($500) for The Diary of a Madman (Belvoir)
Ralph Myers and Sean Bacon: Set Design Award ($250 each) for Measure for Measure (Belvoir)
2009
Julie Lynch: Costume Design Award ($500) for Travesties (Sydney Theatre Company)
Robert Cousens: Set Design Award ($500) for The War of the Roses (Sydney Theatre Company)