2025 Green Room Award Winners


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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