News from the 2025 South East QLD Drama Festival Circuit
🎭 2025 Murrumba Drama Festival Awards
🏆 Youth Section Awards
* 2nd Best Play -
Red Flags
* Adjudicators Award -
Jake – Red Flags
* Encouragement Award - Flynn Taylor – Red Flags
🏆 Open Section Awards
*Best Play Shine Performing Arts – Community Guidelines
* Best Director
Teagan and Paula Mary- Community Guidelines
* Best Actor in a Female Role
Theo Hunt – Community Guidelines
* Best Actor in a Male Role
Jeremy Hayes – Community Guidelines
* Adjudicator's Award
James Read –Community Guidelines
🏆 ⏱ 10-Minute Section
* 3rd Best Play
Institute of Absurd Inquiry
* Best Actor in a Male Role
- Jeremy Hales – Institute of Absurd Inquiry
🏆 Best Backstage Etiquette
Shine Performing Arts Academy
Well done Team Shine !!! Nanango 2025 Playfest
⭐️ Best New Australian Script - Community Guidelines
⭐️ Adjudicator’s Award - Theo Hunt - Community Guidelines
⭐️ Best Supporting Youth Actor - Jeremy Hales - Community Guidelines
⭐️ Runner up Best Comedy - Community Guidelines
Congratulations Team Shine !!! Awesome job at the KSP Drama Festival winning multiple awards in different categories.
We are so proud of your efforts and achievements.
Youth Awards
Youth Encouragement Award - Flynn Taylor
Best Supporting Youth Female Grace Hine – Red Flags
Second Best Youth Play - Red Flags
Open Awards
Best Costume - Institute of Absurd Inquiries
Best Actor (10-Minute Play) Jeremy Hales – Institute of Absurd Inquiries
Best Director (10-Minute Play) Institute of Absurd Inquiries - Teagan Fudge
Best 10-Minute Play -Institute of Absurd Inquiries – Shine
Best Actor (Comedy, Female) Theo Hunt – Community Guidelines
Best Actor (Comedy, Male) Jeremy Hales – Community Guidelines
Best Director (Comedy) Community Guidelines - Teagan Fudge & PM Camilleri
Third Best Play - Community Guidelines
The 2025 South East Drama Festival was a huge success in our first year on the circuit. Go Team Shine!
Check out the awards from the Frist Drama Festival - Beenleigh 2025
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Institute of Absurd Inquiry
A 10-Minute Comedy by Tegan Fudge
The Institute of Absurd Inquiry follows two eccentric scientists as they comically debunk everyday myths—ranging from food storage to the great toilet paper debate. Through quirky experiments and offbeat critical thinking, they reveal the surprising (and often hilarious) truths hiding in our homes. This short play invites audiences to question the ordinary with a dose of laughter, curiosity, and a touch of madcap science.
Shine Senior Drama students embarked on an exciting collaborative journey to create their entry for the South East QLD Drama Festival Circuit – an original play titled Red Flags.
Over several weeks, they explored ideas through devising scenes and improvising dramatic moments, sharing their evolving work with each other in an atmosphere of creativity and trust. Under the guidance of teacher and drama-maker Paula-Mary Camilleri, these imaginative fragments were woven together into a cohesive script, giving the piece a clear artistic vision while preserving the students’ unique voices. This collaborative process offers rich learning opportunities. By contributing their own ideas, students develop a strong sense of ownership over the final work and feel empowered as co-creators. They learn that theatre-making is not just about performing a finished script—it’s about experimenting, problem-solving, and shaping ideas together.
When we take this approach, we not only nurture confident, skilled drama-makers but also help students understand the creative process itself—an essential part of building their capacity as artists, thinkers, and collaborators.
Community Guidelines
A Comedic Verbatim-Style Play by Tegan Fudge and Paula Mary Calamilleri
Community Guidelines dives into the chaos, drama, and hilarity of online community groups, where petty arguments, power-hungry admins, and endless neighbourhood complaints collide on a daily basis. Drawn from the very words of the internet, this one-act play captures the absurdity of digital squabbles and transforms them into laugh-out-loud theatre.