Rideau Awards

The 2nd Annual Les Prix Rideau Awards winners were announced and , once again, SevenThirty Productions is well represented:

Iron claimed two wins with Margo MacDonald for Outstanding Performance - Female Award and Ivo Valentik for Outstanding Set Design. In addition, Ivo Valentik also walked away with the Emerging Artist Award.

Erin Finn won the Oustanding Stage Management Award for her work on Kings of the Kilburn Highroad. SevenThirty regular, Pierre Brault, competed against himself for his work in Catalpa and walked away with the Outstanding Performance Award - Male with 5 O'Clock Bells.

Les Prix Rideau Awards Rideau Awards are celebrate achievement in professional theatre in Ottawa. For a full list of winners, visit the Rideau Awards website.

About SevenThirty

Founded in 2004, by John P. Kelly, with the assistance of Alan Dean and Andrea Cochrane, SevenThirty has presented to date thirteen successful plays and is fast developing a name for itself as a home of high quality production values, with innovative use of production spaces.

SevenThirty's first production was Eugene O'Brien's Eden, staged at the Mercury Lounge on the Byward Market.

This was followed by Jimmy Murphy's The Kings of the Kilburn High Road, for which the upstairs lounge at The Pour House Bar/Auld Dubliner was adapted to create a multi-level playing area.

Then, in 2007, the Ottawa School of Speech and Drama became several spaces from Belfast to New York City, for Marie Jones's wonderful piece A Night in November. This production was so successful that a remount was quickly arranged at the larger Arts Court Theatre in the centre of Ottawa.

In June 2007, John P. Kelly directed four separate plays at the Ottawa Fringe Festival:

• The Donahue Sisters by Geraldine Aron
• A Galway Girl by Geraldine Aron
• Melody by Deirdre Kinahan
• Nothing Personal by Hugh Leonard.

And in November 2007, SevenThirty inaugurated the studio space at the new Irving Greeberg Theatre Centre, with their hugely successful production of Christian O'Reilly's The Good Father.

In 2008, SevenThirty presented Molly Sweeney by Brian Friel and Iron by Rona Munro.

Then the company settled in for a season at The Gladstone with Catalpa, a remount of The Kings of the Kilburn High Road, and The Lieutenant of Inishmore. John P. Kelly directed all three shows in addition to two more for The Gladstone, How The Other Half Loves and Doubt .