Melbourne’s Green Room Award Winners
Last night Melbourne’s theatre artists filled the Comedy Theatre for the 31st Green Room Awards presentation.
First awarded for 1983, the Green Room Awards celebrate and recognise excellence in theatre in Melbourne. With seven volunteer panels of practitioners seeing shows, the awards continue to be assessed and chosen by peers.
Some of last night’s most popular winners of the night included Yana Alana as best artist and best production for Between the Cracks in Cabaret, and Sisters Grimm’s The Sovereign Wife for Ash Flanders (best male performer) and for best production in Independent Theatre. But the standing ovation was held back for Jack Charles, who was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award: an award voted for by the entire Green Room Association.
There were also some controversial winners, especially from the Opera panel with an international production winning an award, but Victorian Opera still won the best production for Nixon in China.
2014 Green Room Awards Recipients
Alternative and Hybrid Performance
Outstanding Hybrid or Alternative Work
5 Short Blasts
Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey
City of Melbourne
Outstanding Contemporary Performance
Whelping Box
Branch Nebula, Matt Prest & Clare Britton
Intimate Spectacle
Innovation In Circus
Casus
Cabaret
Production
Between The Cracks
Yana Alana
Artiste
Yana Alana
Between The Cracks
Writing
Tommy Bradson
Tommy Bradson’s Sweet Sixteen Or The Birthday Party Massacre
Musical Direction
John Thorn
Tommy Bradson’s Sweet Sixteen or The Birthday Party Massacre
Original Songs
Gilian Cosgriff
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Lifetime Contribution to Cabaret
John Newman
Dance
Concept and Realisation
Conversation Piece
Lucy Guerin Inc. and Belvoir Theatre Company
Best Male Dancer
Daniel Gaudiello
‘Basilio’ Don Quixote and ‘The Prince’ Cinderella
The Australian Ballet
Best Female Dancer
Dalisa Pigrum
Gudirr Gudirr
Marrugeku
Shirley McKechnie Award for Choreography
Alexei Ratmansky
Cinderella
The Australian Ballet
Visual Design
Jérôme Kaplan
(Costume and Set Design)
Cinderella
The Australian Ballet
Visual Design
Thomas Pauchard (Video & Video Engineering), Mark Pennington (Lighting Design) and Geoff Cobham (Design Consultant)
Proximity
Australian Dance Theatre
Ensemble
Cast of Proximity
Australian Dance Theatre
Composition
Alisdair Macindoe
Black Project 2
Anthony Hamilton
Music Theatre
Actress In A Leading Role
Esther Hannaford
King Kong
Gerry Ryan and Carmen Pavlovic on behalf of Global Creatures
Actor In A Leading Role
David Harris
Legally Blonde
Howard Panter for the Ambassador Theatre Group and John Frost, supported by Marriner Group, in association with MGM ON Stage, Darcie Denkert and Dean Stolber
Actor In Supporting Roles
Tyler Coppin
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Tim Lawson Enterprises
Actress In A Supporting Role
Christina Tan
Gypsy
The Production Company
Ensemble
The King’s Men
King Kong
Gerry Ryan and Carmen Pavlovic on behalf of Global Creatures
Betty Pounder Award for Excellence in Choreography
David Atkins and Dein Perry
Hot Shoe Shuffle
David Atkins Enterprises
Musical Direction
Peter Casey
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Tim Lawson Enterprises
Design (Lighting)
Peter Mumford
King Kong
Gerry Ryan and Carmen Pavlovic on behalf of Global Creatures
Design (Sound)
Peter Hylenski
King Kong
Gerry Ryan and Carmen Pavlovic on behalf of Global Creatures
Design (Set/Costume)
Roger Kirk
(Costume)
King Kong
Gerry Ryan and Carmen Pavlovic on behalf of Global Creatures
Direction
Stuart Maunder
Sunday In The Park With George
Victorian Opera
Opera
Outstanding Director
Christopher Alden
Partenope
Opera Australia
Outstanding Production
Nixon In China
Victorian Opera
Outstanding Conductor
Fabian Russell
Nixon In China
Victorian Opera
Female Lead
Csilla Boross
‘Amelia’ A Masked Ball
Opera Australia
Female In A Supporting Role
Eva Jinhee Kong
‘Chiang Ch’ing’ Nixon In China
Victorian Opera
Male Lead
Bradley Daley
‘Mao Tse-tung’ Nixon In China
Victorian Opera
Male In A Supporting Role
Kanen Breen
‘Emilio’ Partenope
Opera Australia
Outstanding Design
Andrew Lieberman (Set), Jon Morrell (Costume) & Adam Silverman (Lighting)
Partenope
Opera Australia
Ensemble
Cast of The Magic Pudding
Victorian Opera
Theatre – Companies
Female Actor
Alison Whyte
‘Ensemble’ The Bloody Chamber
Malthouse Theatre
Male Actor
Steve Mouzakis
‘Lohakhin’ The Cherry Orchard
Melbourne Theatre Company
Lighting Design
Danny Pettingill (Bluebottle)
Other Desert Cities
Melbourne Theatre Company
Set, Costume and AV Design
Peter Mumford
(Set Design)
Fox Finder
Red Stitch Actors Theatre
Sound/Composition
David Chisholm (Composer) & Jethro Woodward (Sound Design)
The Bloody Chamber
Malthouse Theatre
Direction
Neil Armfield
The Book of Everything
Melbourne Theatre Company presents a Belvoir and Kim Carpenter’s Theatre of Image Co-Production
Production
The Bloody Chamber
Malthouse Theatre
Ensemble
Cast of The Book of Everything
Melbourne Theatre Company presents a Belvoir and Kim Carpenter’s Theatre of Image Co-Production
Writing/Adaptation for the Australian Stage
Tom E Lewis and Michael Kantor
The Shadow King
Malthouse Theatre
Theatre – Independent
Male Performer
Ash Flanders
‘Ensemble’ The Sovereign Wife
Sisters Grimm and NEON
Female Performer
Genevieve Giuffre
‘Berdine’ Psycho Beach Party
Little Ones Theatre and Theatre Works
Ensemble
Cast of M + M
Daniel Schlusser Ensemble, Theatre Works and Melbourne International Arts Festival
Set and Costume Design
Marg Horwell
(Set and Costume Design)
Savages
fortyfive downstairs
Lighting Design
Andy Turner
Savages
fortyfive downstairs
Sound/Music
Michael Pulsford, Darrin Verhaegen and James Paul
(Design and Composition)
M+M
Daniel Schlusser Ensemble, Theatre Works and Melbourne International Arts Festival
Direction
Susie Dee
Savages
fortyfive downstairs
Production
The Sovereign Wife
Sisters Grimm/NEON
Writing
Patricia Cornelius
Savages
fortyfive downstairs
Green Room Association Awards
Industry Contribution
Ilbijerri Theatre
Lifetime Achievement
Jack Charles
Technical Achievement
Global Creatures
Disclosure: Anne-Marie Peard from AussieTheatre is a member of the Independent Theatre panel
