Last night, Melbourne’s theatre community gathered at the Comedy Theatre to celebrate achievements throughout the sector in 2024.
It’s so
wonderful to be a part of the Green Room panel for Independent Theatre, but I
also see and review shows across most of the art forms awarded and it’s
thrilling to see what my peers have judged best in the different categories.
Congratulations to all the winners!
Photo: Counting & Cracking, Brett Boardman Photography
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INDEPENDENT THEATRE
OUTSTANDING
ENSEMBLE:
Spring Has
Sprung or The Beautiful Show
OUTSTANDING
PERFORMER: (Two Awards)
Brigid
Gallacher for Milk and Blood
Hayley
Edwards for Shitbag
OUTSTANDING
LIGHTING DESIGN:
Meg Wilson
for The Exact Dimensions of Hell
OUTSTANDING
WRITING:
Liv
Satchell for Ballkids (or, scenes from a friendship)
OUTSTANDING
DIRECTION:
Kitan
Petkovski for The Inheritance
OUTSTANDING
SOUND DESIGN:
Yanto
Shortis for Twenty Million Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Pummel Squad
OUTSTANDING
PRODUCTION DESIGN: (Two Awards)
Alex Hines,
Alex Orlando-Smith and Riley McCullagh (Set & Costume Design) for Putting
On A Show
Pummel
Squad (Cooper Donald McDonald and Harry McGee) (AV / Production Design) for
Twenty Million Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
OUTSTANDING
PRODUCTION:
Interior –
presented by Rawcus
OPERA
OUTSTANDING
PERFORMANCE IN A LEAD ROLE: (Two Awards)
Michael
Petruccelli for Eucalyptus
Katherine
Allen for Candide
OUTSTANDING
PERFORMANCE IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: (Two Awards)
Juel Riggal
for The Children’s Bach
Doug Kelly
for La Rondine
OUTSTANDING
DESIGN:
Dann Barber
(Set and Costumes) Matt Scott (Lighting) for Candide
OUTSTANDING
DIRECTION:
Dean Bryant
(Direction) for Candide
OUTSTANDING
MUSICAL ACHIEVEMENT:
Orchestra
Victoria, Ben Northey (Conductor) for Candide
OUTSTANDING
PRODUCTION:
Candide
CABARET
OUTSTANDING
DIRECTION:
Stephen
Nicolazzo for Shrapnel
OUTSTANDING
ORIGINAL SONGS:
Geraldine
Quinn for The Passion of Saint Nicholas
OUTSTANDING
WRITING:
Geraldine
Quinn for The Passion of Saint Nicholas
OUTSTANDING
PRODUCTION DESIGN:
Joe Noonan
(Production Design) for Apocalipstik
OUTSTANDING
ENSEMBLE:
Otto &
Astrid – The Stages Tour
OUTSTANDING
MUSICAL DIRECTION:
Shanon D
Whitelock for Apocalipstik
OUTSTANDING
PRODUCTION:
The Passion
of Saint Nicholas – presented by Geraldine Quinn
OUTSTANDING
ARTISTE:
Geraldine
Quinn for The Passion of Saint Nicholas
OUTSTANDING
CONTRIBUTION TO CABARET:
Trevor
Jones for Outstanding Contribution to Cabaret
CONTEMPORARY AND EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE
OUTSTANDING
WORK:
The Crying
Room: Exhumed
OUTSTANDING
PERFORMER:
Marcus Ian
McKenzie for The Crying Room: Exhumed
OUTSTANDING
ENSEMBLE: (Two Awards)
Body of
Knowledge
In Place
OUTSTANDING
SOUND WORK: (Two Awards)
The Crying
Room: Exhumed
Desastres
OUTSTANDING
DESIGN:
Justin
Talplacido Shoulder, Matthew Stegh, Anthony Aitch, Fausto Brusamolino and Corin
Ileto for ANITO
OUTSTANDING
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT:
The team of
Conduit Bodies
OUTSTANDING
WORK BY OR FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES:
Body of
Knowledge
MUSIC THEATRE – INDEPENDENT/FRINGE
OUTSTANDING
ARTIST – LEADING ROLE:
Jude Perl
for Share House – The Musical
OUTSTANDING
ARTIST – SUPPORTING ROLE:
Jennifer
Vuletic for The Grinning Man
OUTSTANDING
ENSEMBLE OR FEATURED ENSEMBLE:
The Company
for The Grinning Man
OUTSTANDING
NEW AUSTRALIAN MUSIC THEATRE WRITING:
Jude Perl,
Desiree Munro, Brendan Tsui for Share House – The Musical
OUTSTANDING
DESIGN:
Britni
Leslie (Costume) for Ruthless! The Musical
OUTSTANDING
CHOREOGRAPHY:
Freya List
for The Grinning Man
OUTSTANDING
DIRECTION – MUSIC:
Brendan
Tsui for Share House
OUTSTANDING
DIRECTION – STAGE:
Tyran Parke
for Elegies: A Song Cycle
OUTSTANDING
PRODUCTION:
Share House
– The Musical
DANCE
OUTSTANDING
ENSEMBLE
Arkadia
(Melanie Lane)
OUTSTANDING
CHOREOGRAPHY
Safehold
(Sandra Parker)
OUTSTANDING
DESIGN – SOUND:
Anna
Whitaker for Fertile Ground
OUTSTANDING
DESIGN – LIGHT:
Damien
Cooper for Momenta
OUTSTANDING
DESIGN – VISUAL:
Eugyeene
Teh (Set & Costume) for Arkadia
OUTSTANDING
PERFORMER(S): (Two Awards)
Trevor Dunn
for The Solos
Arabella
Frahn-Starkie for Pictures & Ghosts
BREAKING
GROUND AWARD:
Harrison
Ritchie-Jones for 2024 body of work
OUTSTANDING
CREATION:
Cuddle
(Harrison Ritchie-Jones)
MUSIC THEATRE – COMMERCIAL/FUNDED
OUTSTANDING
ARTIST – LEADING ROLE:
Ruva
Ngwenya for TINA – The Tina Turner Musical
OUTSTANDING
ARTIST – SUPPORTING ROLE:
Genevieve
Lemon for Sister Act
OUTSTANDING
ENSEMBLE/FEATURED ENSEMBLE:
The Company
for My Brilliant Career
OUTSTANDING
NEW AUSTRALIAN MUSIC THEATRE WRITING:
Dean Bryant
& Sheridan Harbridge (Book) Mathew Frank (Music) Dean Bryant (Lyrics) for
My Brilliant Career
OUTSTANDING
DESIGN: (Two Awards)
Rob Howell
(Set & Costume) for Groundhog Day
Paul Kieve
(Visual-Illusions) for Groundhog Day
OUTSTANDING
CHOREOGRAPHY:
Amy
Campbell for My Brilliant Career
OUTSTANDING
DIRECTION – MUSIC:
Victoria
Falconer for My Brilliant Career
OUTSTANDING
DIRECTION – STAGE:
Matthew
Warchus for Groundhog Day
OUTSTANDING
PRODUCTION:
My
Brilliant Career
THEATRE COMPANIES
OUTSTANDING
NEW AUSTRALIAN WRITING:
S.
Shakthidharan (writer) with Eamon Flack (associate writer) for Counting and
Cracking
OUTSTANDING
ENSEMBLE:
Counting
and Cracking
OUTSTANDING
COMPOSITION & SOUND DESIGN:
Stefan
Gregory for Counting and Cracking
OUTSTANDING
LIGHTING DESIGN:
Katie
Sfetkidis for Body of Work – Homo Pentecostus, Blak in the Room
OUTSTANDING
SET+ COSTUME DESIGN:
Dale
Ferguson for Counting and Cracking
OUTSTANDING
DIRECTION:
Eamon Flack
(director) & S. Shakthidharan (associate director) for Counting and
Cracking
OUTSTANDING
PERFORMANCE: (Two Awards)
Heather
Mitchell for RBG: Of Many, One
Nadie
Kammallaweera for Counting and Cracking
OUTSTANDING
PRODUCTION:
Counting
and Cracking
OUTSTANDING
CREATIVE COLLABORATION: (Special Award)
Ilbijerri
Theatre and Melbourne Theatre Company for Blak in the Room
ASSOCIATION AWARDS
LIFETIME
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD:
Margaret
Haggart OAM
TECHNICAL
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD:
Phillip
Rhodes
Goffredo
Mameli
OUTSTANDING
CONTRIBUTION TO SECTOR OR COMMUNITY:
Soft
Centre: Supermodel Late Night
GEOFFREY
MILNE AWARD FOR CONTRIBUTION TO INDEPENDENT THEATRE:
Yvonne Virsik
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