The Mary Hamilton Award

Mary Hamilton joined the Society in 1955 when it re-formed and she played the part of Peep-Bo in the 1956 production of "The Mikado". She continued to take many high soprano leads for the Society for many years.

She also served on the Executive Committee for many years. Mary stopped performing on stage in 1996, following our production of "A Little NIght Music". After 40 years of devotion to the Society she was made a life member.

She continued to show an interest in all the activities of the Society and attended rehearsals on a regular basis. She was always willing to give of her experience and expertise, especially to youngsters just starting out on their stage development.

When she passed away, Mary had served DMTC for over 50 years. The Committee of DMTC was delighted when her daughter Judith decided to mark Mary's contribution to the work of the Society by founding an award to be given in her name.

The Mary Hamilton Award is to be given annually to one recipient, in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the work of the Company. This may be in any sphere of stage work, ranging from performance to backstage work.


Roll of Honour

2010 - Nicky Tones

2009 - David O'Donnell

2008 - Sarah Jackson

2007 - Sophie Begg

Nicy Tones has been a member since 1998 and it was decided that Nicky was a worthy winner for the 2010 Mary Hamilton Award for all the work he has done in revamping the rule books and designing;
1. new booklets for the company to use to record their floor moves for
every chorus number
2. booklets for new members explaining stage terminology and etiquette.

This was on top of serving on the executive committee and taking parts in our recent shows.

David O'Donnell has been a member since 2002 and has performed some minor principal roles as well as being a stalwart chorus member.

He has made useful contributions to both Entertainment's and Executive Committees and has recently taken on the job of DMTC Librarian.

Sarah Jackson has done all the jobs behind the scenes for DMTC and decided in 2006 to see what it would be like to be on stage in one of our shows. Sarah perfomed in the chorus of our productions 'Company' and 'Gigi' and then successfully auditioned for the part of Lottie Ames in 'Mack & Mabel'.

If you came to see the show you would never have guessed this was Sarah's first principal role as she amazed and entertained everyone with her singing, tap dancing and acting.

For her work backstage and now on stage, Sarah is a worthy recipient of the Mary Hamilton Award for 2008.

In it's inaugural year it was felt that there was one outstanding candidate - Sophie Begg, who had just taken the title role in our production of "Gigi". Sophie joined us in 1998 to play one of the von Trapp children in our production of "The Sound of Music". Sophie has grown up with the Society and is now 18 years old. Her dedication to her work with us has been an inspiration to see. She fully deserves this award.