Karlee Verna Laudzevics was a founding member of Perth Youth Theatre in 2002/3 and performed in many of our inaugural theatre schools. Over the next few years, she worked with Trevor and Katrina on various shows and productions, including ‘Godspell’, ‘A Tribute To The Blues Brothers’, ‘A Tribute To Sister Act’ and was the choreographer for PYT’s production of ‘A High School Musical 2’ in 2008.

Karlee’s mum, Ingrid, was also involved with us as a designer, costumier and scenic artist. Over the years, we all became good friends.

Karlee went over east a few years ago to continue her studies in the performing arts sector – committed, dedicated and persistent, she made lots of friends and was destined for a wonderful career ‘treading the boards’.

Sadly, back in November 2013, Karlee was diagnosed with an extremely rare form of cancer and just like that was given 2 weeks to live. Ever the fighter, she managed to turn that into 7 weeks. The final curtain closed mid-January 2014.

We shall henceforth honour her by presenting an annual award to one Perth Youth Theatre member for dedication, passion and commitment to performing arts.

We would like to congratulate our Karlee Award Winners so far

Inaugural Amber Radalj • 2nd Hayleigh French-Bluhm • 3rd Madelaine Batten

4th Hannah Logan • 5th Billy Jaffray • 6th Olivia Christiansen • 7th Chelsea Rubie

8th Emily Mackenzie • 9th Shay Dowley • 10th Camryn Ward • 11th Logan Bin Bakar

12th Chloe Christiansen • 13th Katherine Power

Thank you for your hard-work, dedication, passion and commitment to the performing arts and the Perth Youth Theatre. You continue to inspire many performers to 'find themselves on stage'.