King Kong Melbourne. Image by Belinda Strodder
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
5 Short Blasts
Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey
City of Melbourne
Whelping Box
Branch Nebula, Matt Prest & Clare Britton
Intimate Spectacle
Casus
Between The Cracks
Yana Alana
Yana Alana
Between The Cracks
Tommy Bradson
Tommy Bradson’s Sweet Sixteen Or The Birthday Party Massacre
John Thorn
Tommy Bradson’s Sweet Sixteen or The Birthday Party Massacre
Gilian Cosgriff
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
John Newman
Conversation Piece
Lucy Guerin Inc. and Belvoir Theatre Company
Daniel Gaudiello
‘Basilio’ Don Quixote and ‘The Prince’ Cinderella
The Australian Ballet
Dalisa Pigrum
Gudirr Gudirr
Marrugeku
Alexei Ratmansky
Cinderella
The Australian Ballet
Jérôme Kaplan
(Costume and Set Design)
Cinderella
The Australian Ballet
Thomas Pauchard (Video & Video Engineering), Mark Pennington (Lighting Design) and Geoff Cobham (Design Consultant)
Proximity
Australian Dance Theatre
Cast of Proximity
Australian Dance Theatre
Alisdair Macindoe
Black Project 2
Anthony Hamilton
Esther Hannaford
King Kong
Gerry Ryan and Carmen Pavlovic on behalf of Global Creatures
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
Tyler Coppin
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Tim Lawson Enterprises
Christina Tan
Gypsy
The Production Company
The King’s Men
King Kong
Gerry Ryan and Carmen Pavlovic on behalf of Global Creatures
David Atkins and Dein Perry
Hot Shoe Shuffle
David Atkins Enterprises
Peter Casey
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Tim Lawson Enterprises
Peter Mumford
King Kong
Gerry Ryan and Carmen Pavlovic on behalf of Global Creatures
Peter Hylenski
King Kong
Gerry Ryan and Carmen Pavlovic on behalf of Global Creatures
Roger Kirk
(Costume)
King Kong
Gerry Ryan and Carmen Pavlovic on behalf of Global Creatures
Stuart Maunder
Sunday In The Park With George
Victorian Opera
Christopher Alden
Partenope
Opera Australia
Nixon In China
Victorian Opera
Fabian Russell
Nixon In China
Victorian Opera
Csilla Boross
‘Amelia’ A Masked Ball
Opera Australia
Eva Jinhee Kong
‘Chiang Ch’ing’ Nixon In China
Victorian Opera
Bradley Daley
‘Mao Tse-tung’ Nixon In China
Victorian Opera
Kanen Breen
‘Emilio’ Partenope
Opera Australia
Andrew Lieberman (Set), Jon Morrell (Costume) & Adam Silverman (Lighting)
Partenope
Opera Australia
Cast of The Magic Pudding
Victorian Opera
Alison Whyte
‘Ensemble’ The Bloody Chamber
Malthouse Theatre
Steve Mouzakis
‘Lohakhin’ The Cherry Orchard
Melbourne Theatre Company
Danny Pettingill (Bluebottle)
Other Desert Cities
Melbourne Theatre Company
Peter Mumford
(Set Design)
Fox Finder
Red Stitch Actors Theatre
David Chisholm (Composer) & Jethro Woodward (Sound Design)
The Bloody Chamber
Malthouse Theatre
Neil Armfield
The Book of Everything
Melbourne Theatre Company presents a Belvoir and Kim Carpenter’s Theatre of Image Co-Production
The Bloody Chamber
Malthouse Theatre
Cast of The Book of Everything
Melbourne Theatre Company presents a Belvoir and Kim Carpenter’s Theatre of Image Co-Production
Tom E Lewis and Michael Kantor
The Shadow King
Malthouse Theatre
Ash Flanders
‘Ensemble’ The Sovereign Wife
Sisters Grimm and NEON
Genevieve Giuffre
‘Berdine’ Psycho Beach Party
Little Ones Theatre and Theatre Works
Cast of M + M
Daniel Schlusser Ensemble, Theatre Works and Melbourne International Arts Festival
Marg Horwell
(Set and Costume Design)
Savages
fortyfive downstairs
Andy Turner
Savages
fortyfive downstairs
Michael Pulsford, Darrin Verhaegen and James Paul
(Design and Composition)
M+M
Daniel Schlusser Ensemble, Theatre Works and Melbourne International Arts Festival
Susie Dee
Savages
fortyfive downstairs
The Sovereign Wife
Sisters Grimm/NEON
Patricia Cornelius
Savages
fortyfive downstairs
Ilbijerri Theatre
Jack Charles
Global Creatures
Disclosure: Anne-Marie Peard from AussieTheatre is a member of the Independent Theatre panel
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