The Adelaide Festival Centre’s star-studded Walk of Fame today announces six new names in recognition of the powerful performances and blockbuster shows staged at its venues in 2020 and 2021.

Recipients for 2020 include musical theater performer Lisa Sontagaward-winning English actor David Suchet and former artistic director of the Patch Theater David Brown.

Award-winning actress Lisa Sontag won the public vote for her performance as Mrs. Wilkinson in Billy Elliot: The Musical. Highly acclaimed English actor David Suchet received the Adelaide Festival Center Trust Choice Vote for her iconic performance in Poirot and more: a retrospective. While David Brown won Critics’ Choice for his Helpmann Award-winning show Me and my shadow.

Walk of Fame winners for 2021 include famous actress Robyn Nevinconductor Nigel Westlake and rock band royalty Sarah McLeod.

Australian singer-songwriter known for rock band The Superjesus, Sarah McLeodreceived the public vote for his performance in Don’s Songs at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival reinventing the songs of Don Walker.

Admired composer, musician and conductor Nigel Westlake won the Adelaide Festival Center Trust Choice for his work in Nigel Westlake and the Grigoryan brothers in concert. Australian theater legend Robyn Nevin received the Critics’ Choice for Outstanding Performance at the Adelaide Festival A German life.

They will join more than 130 names of the great artists who have graced the stages of the Adelaide Festival Center since it opened in 1973 and whose names shine on the catwalk overlooking the River Torrens.

CEO and Artistic Director of Adelaide Festival Center Douglas Gautier AM: “It was a pleasure to review the remarkable programs of 2020 and 2021 and we congratulate the winners.

“I think everyone would agree that these accomplished artists are great additions to the Adelaide Festival Centre’s Walk of Fame..”

Each year three stars are added to the catwalk – in addition to the public’s choice, two further stars are selected by Adelaide Festival Center Trust and a panel of art critics. Past recipients include Roy Orbison, cold chisel, Olivia Newton John, Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett, Tim Minchin, Paul Kelly, Guy Sebastian and Kate Ceberano.

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