NL Drama Festival Awards
Best Actor
2023
Scott Simms - Northcliffe Drama Club, Grand Falls-Windsor - as Hal Savage in “Self Help”
2022
Drama Festival cancelled amid COVID-19 risks.
2021
Drama Festival cancelled amid COVID-19 risks.
2020
Drama Festival cancelled amid COVID-19 risks.
2019
Mike Payne - Off·Broadway Players, Corner Brook - as Katurian in “The Pillowman”
Honourary Chairman's Award for the best performance by a man
2018
Scott Simms - Northcliffe Drama Club, Grand Falls-Windsor - as Tom in “Dinner with Friends”
2017
Jim Healey - St. John's Players, St. John's - as the Narrator in “The Good Doctor”
2016
Jacob Bradbury - Off·Broadway Players, Corner Brook - as Mike in “Cherry Docs”
2015
Chris Bishop - St. John's Players, St. John's - as Will in “Vimy”
2014
Jim Parson - Off·Broadway Players, Corner Brook - as Ian in “Blasted”
2013
Mike Payne - Off·Broadway Players, Corner Brook - as the man in “The Play About the Baby”
2012
Bert Peddle - Avion Players, Gander - as Ludwig van Beethoven in “33 Variations”
2011
Troy Turner - Off·Broadway, Corner Brook - as Lee in “True West”
2010
Bert Peddle - Avion Players, Gander - as Stanley in “Caught in the Net”
2009
Lester Simmons - Northern Lights Theatre Company, Labrador West - as Jack in “Dancing at Lughnasa”
2008
James MacDonald - Beothuck Street Players, St. John's - as Michael in “The Elephant Song”
2007
Philip Daniel - Beothuck Street Players, St. John's - as Dodge in “Buried Child“
2006
Lloyd White - Avion Players, Gander - as Brian in “The Shadow Box”
2005
Mike Payne - Off·Broadway Players, Corner Brook - as Tyrone M. Power in “The Art of War”
2004
Ray Saunders - Carol Players, Labrador West - as Patrick Finnerty in “Craddock's Well”
2003
Kevin Lewis - Beothuck Street Players, St. John's - as Willy Loman in “Death of a Salesman”
2002
Ray Saunders - Carol Players, Labrador West - as Jack Griffin in “Thy Will Be Done”
2001
Stephen Holmes - Beothuck Street Players, St. John's - as Coleman Connor in “The Lonesome West“
2000
Greg Blumer - Avion Players, Gander - as John Smith “Run for Your Wife”
1999
Bert Peddle - Avion Players, Gander - as Edward in “Someone Who'll Watch Over Me”
1998
Fred Hawksley - St. John's Players, St. John's - as C. S. Lewis in “Shadowlands”
1997
John Thompson - Northcliffe Drama Club, Grand Falls‐Windsor - as Garland Moyes in “Corner Green”
1996
Robin Walters - Carol Players, Labrador City - as Neelus Conlee in “Sharon's Grave”
1995
Jim Healey - St. John's Players, St. John's - as Groucho in “Groucho - A Life in Revue”
1994
Jerry Doyle - Centre Stage Players, Avondale - as as Chris White (narrator) in “Yesterday's Men”
1993
Bert Peddle - Avion Players, Gander - as Dr. Hubert Bonney in “It Runs in the Family”
John Moyse - St. John's Players - as Charlie Baker in “The Foreigner”
John Moyse - St. John's Players - as Charlie Baker in “The Foreigner”
1992
John Ryan - Centre Stage Players, Avondale - as Jack in “Dancers”
1991
Craig Goudie - Northcliffe Drama Club, Grand Falls‐Windsor - as Arthur in “Tell Me That You Love Junie Moon”
1990
John Ryan - Centre Stage Players, Avondale - as Colm Primrose in “Sea Marks”
1989
Tom Barron - Carol Players, Labrador West - as Vito in “P.S. Your Cat Is Dead”
1988
David Anthony - Northcliffe Drama Club, Grand Falls - as Eddie in “View from the Bridge”
1987
Reg Harte - Carol Players, Labrador West - as Philip in “Orphans”
Kevin Lewis - Carol Players, Labrador West - as Treat in “Orphans”
Jerry Doyle - Carol Players, Labrador West - as Harold in “Orphans”
Kevin Lewis - Carol Players, Labrador West - as Treat in “Orphans”
Jerry Doyle - Carol Players, Labrador West - as Harold in “Orphans”
1986
Stuart Fairhurst - Mokami Players, Goose Bay - as King Henry II in “The Lion in Winter”
1985
Paul Rowe - Carol Players, Labrador West - as Norman in “The Dresser”
1984
Jerry Doyle - Carol Players, Labrador West - as Father Jim Farley in “Mass Appeal”
1983
Michael Chiasson - Avion Players, Gander - as Dylan in “Dylan”
1982
Ray Penton Jr. - Avion Players, Gander - as John Merrick in “The Elephant Man”
1981
Jerry Doyle - Carol Players, Labrador West - as Tim Cullen in “Not Recommended for?”
1980
Jerry Doyle - Carol Players, Labrador West - as Randle Patrick McMurphy in “One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest”
1979
Kevin Lewis- Carol Players, Labrador West - as John Proctor in “The Crucible”
Ed Kielly - Freelance Players, St. John's - as Patrick Flannigan in “The Loud Red Patrick”
Ed Kielly - Freelance Players, St. John's - as Patrick Flannigan in “The Loud Red Patrick”
1978
Jerry Doyle - Carol Players, Labrador West - as Martin Dysart in “Equus”
1977
Peter Byrne - Playmakers Company, Corner Brook - as Zoditch in “Journey of the Fifth Hourse”
1976
Joe Mullins - Playmakers Company, Corner Brook - as Crispin Cringe in “The Mumberley Inheritance”
1975
Jerry Doyle - Carol Players, Labrador West - as Bert Clark in “Relocation”
1974
Pat Byrne - Open Group, St. John's - as Winston in “Jacob's Wake”
1973
Pat Byrne - Open Group, St. John's - as Uncle John in “Head, Guts and Sound Bone Dance”
Clyde Rose - Open Group, St. John's - as Skipper Pete in “Head, Guts and Sound Bone Dance”
Clyde Rose - Open Group, St. John's - as Skipper Pete in “Head, Guts and Sound Bone Dance”
1972
Ross Goldsworthy - Avion Players, Gander - as Phonse Delaney in “Jody”
1971
Garth Cook - St. John's Players, St. John's - as Lenny in “The Homecoming”
1970
Denys Ferry - St. John's Players, St. John's - as George in “Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?”
1969
Denys Ferry - St. John's Players, St. John's - as Henry II in “The Lion in Winter”
1968
Garth Cook - St. John's Players, St. John's - as Billy Fisher in “Billy Liar”
1967
Denys Ferry - St. John's Players, St. John's - as Thomas Markadt in “Tommorow Will Be Sunday”
1966
Michael Cook - St. John's Players, St. John's - as 'The Common Man' in “A Man for All Seasons”
1965
Allan Vanan - St. John's Players, St. John's - as Deputy Govenor Danforth in “The Crucible”
1964
David Candow - Playmakers Company, Corner Brook - as Sakini in “Teahouse of the August Moon”
Regional Deputy Chairman's Cup for the best performance by a man
1963
Ted Henley - Avion Players, Gander - as Mr. Malcolm and Major Angus Pollock in “Separate Tables”
1962
Dennis Ferry - St. John's Players, St. John's - as His Man in “Man With a Load of Mischief”
1961
Ted Henley - Avion Players, Gander - as George Beesdale in “Mountain Air”
1960
Dr. Neil Walsh - Amateur Players, Corner Brook - as Edward Scarlett in “Duet for Two Hands”
1959
Dennis Ferry - St. John's Players, St. John's - as Sir Paul Martin in “Miranda”
1958
Clifford Allen - Northcliffe Drama Club, Grand Falls - as Uncle Chris in “I Remember Mama”
1957
Paul O'Neill - Theatre Arts Club, St. John's - as Lachlen in “The Hasty Heart”
1956
Clifford Allen - Northcliffe Drama Club, Grand Falls - as Grandpa Ben Walcott in “The Holdin' Ground”
1955
Denys Ferry - St. John's Players, St. John's - as Henry Hutton in “Gioconda Smile”
1954
Charles Mardel - Pegasus Players, St. John's - as Colonel Desmond De S. Rinder-Sparrow in “The Love of Four Colonels”
Robert Chapline - Theatre Guild, St. John's - as Thomas Mendip in “The Lady's Not for Burning”
Robert Chapline - Theatre Guild, St. John's - as Thomas Mendip in “The Lady's Not for Burning”
Chairman's Cup for the most outstanding performance
1953
Estelle Wall - Northcliffe Drama Club, Grand Falls - as Elizabeth Graham in “Edwina Black”
1952
Joan Collins - St. John's Players, St. John's - as Ellen Creed in “Ladies in Retirement”
1951
Ben Pryde - Amateur Players, Corner Brook - as Dan in “Night Must Fall”
Silver Cup for the most outstanding performance
1950
Sylvia Wigh - St. John's Players, St. John's - as Mrs. Phelps in “The Silver Cord”