Green Room Award Nominations announced

It’s the third Tuesday in February, folks! (And we all know what THAT means)

It’s THEATRE DAY! (#TheatreDay16) and the official announcement day for The Green Room Award Nominations in Victoria.

The 2015 Green Room Award noms were released this morning in the categories of Cabaret, Musical Theatre, Independent Theatre, Dance, Opera, Design, Experimental Performance,

Interesting fact: sibling Ross, Calvin and Esther Hannaford are all nominated this year for their work in Sweeney Todd, Filigree and Shadow and Nice Work If You Can Get It, respectively.

Check out the full list of nominations below.

Congratulations to all individuals and companies who have produced work in Victoria in 2015.

Cabaret

Production

• Briefs
• Strange Bedfellows
• The Candy Topps
• The Orchid and The Crow
• The Road To Shangri La

Artiste

• Daniel Tobias – The Orchid and The Crow
• Jude Perl – Is It Just Me?
• Sheridan Harbridge – Songs For The Fallen
• Gillian Cosgriff – Whelmed
• Tim Mager and Kai Smythe – The Road To Shangri La

Best Ensemble

• Briefs – Fez Fa’anana, Mark ‘Captain Kidd’ Winmill, DallasDellaforce, Evil Hate Monkey, Louis Biggs, Ben Lewis, Thomas Worrell
• The Candy Topps – Elenor Smith Adams, Jennifer Robinson and EmmaClair Ford
• The Road To Shangri La – Tim Mager and Kai Smythe
• Miss Friby, All Alone…at Last – Elizabeth Dawson-smith, Essie Thomas, Maddie Weybury, Oscar France, Annistasijah Scales
• Songs for the Fallen – Sheridan Harbridge, Ben Gerrard, Basil Hogios, Garth Holcombe and Michael Whalley

Writing

• Daniel Tobias – The Orchid and The Crow
• Sheridan Harbridge – Songs For The Fallen
• Tim Mager and Kai Smythe – The Road To Shangri La

Musical Direction

• Tim Mager and Kai Smythe – The Road To Shangri La
• Jennifer Robinson with Elenor Smith Adams and Emma Clair Ford for The Candy Topps – Femme Fatale
• Daryl Wallis – StrangeBedfellows
• Jane Patterson and Chris Blain – Match Made in Harmony with Suade and Ginger & Tonic.
• Hayden Barltrop, Libby Wood, Maeve Marsden, FionaPearson, Annaliese Szota, Anna Martin, Hannah James and Lauren Allison – Lady Sings It Better

Original songs

• Jude Perl – Is It Just Me?
• Peter J Casey – I am Sick to Death of Hearing about the Weimar Republic
• John Thorn – Background Boy
• Tim Mager and Kai Smythe – The Road To Shangri La
• Alice Tovey – Malice

Outstanding Contribution to Cabaret

• John Thorn

Contemporary & ExperimentalPerformance

Innovation in Contemporary Performance for YoungPeople

There was only one nomination in this category. To be announced on the night.

Innovation in Site Specific Work.

• Rainbow Leprechaun – Jackson Castiglione (Presented by Field Theory)
• Bodies over Bitumen – Skye Gellmann, Naomi Francis, Alex Gellmann, Kieran Law (Presented by Melbourne Fringe)
• Mass – Zoe Scoglio (Presented by Field Theory)

Innovation in Contemporary Circus

• Bodies over Bitumen – Skye Gellmann, Naomi Francis, Alex Gellmann, Kieran Law (Presented by Melbourne Fringe)
• Perhaps there is Hope Yet – Rockie Stone, Vincent van Berkel, Callan Morgan and Sam Keevers (Presented by Melbourne Fringe)

Curatorial Contribution to Contemporary Performance

There was only one nomination in this category. To be announced on the night

Design and Realisation in Contemporary Performance

• Will Heathcote, Isobel Knowles, Van Sowerwine with JessicaWilson and Nigel Bertram (Set and Animation) – Dwelling (Presented by Big West Festival and Jessica Wilson)
• Ben Cobham, Peter Knight, Tamara Saulwick, Paddy Mann& Nick Roux (Lighting, Sound Design and Composition) – Endings (Presented by ArtsHouse and Tamara Saulwick)
• Adrienne Chisholm, Melinda Hetzel, Steph O’Hara.Rainbow Sweeny and Nassiem Valamanesh (Visual and Digital App) – Fly by Night (Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and Melinda Hetzel & Co.)
• Anthony Lucas and Julia Lucas (Set and Puppet) – A Moon Safari by Steam Bicycle (Presented by The Australian Centre for the Moving Image and Spindly Figures)
• Sarah, Kriegler, David Young, Jethro Woodward, Dave Jones, Jacob Williams, Ben Grant, Rainbow Sweeny, Mark Cauvin, Adam Pierzchanlski,Matthias Schack–Arnott (Sound and Visual) – Captive of the City (Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne, Chamber Made Opera and Lemony S Puppet Theatre)

Puppetry Performance

• Nightmare – Such As They Are (Presented by Melbourne Festival of Puppetry)
• Transplant – Such As They Are (Presented by Melbourne Fringe)
• Captives of the City – Chamber Made Opera and Lemony S Puppet Theatre (Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne)

Performance (by an Individual or Ensemble) inContemporary and Experiment Performance

• Nicola Gunn – Piece for Person & Ghetto Blaster (Presented by Arts House and Mobile States)
• Emma Hall – We May Have to Choose (Presented by Melbourne Fringe)
• Mish Grigor – The Talk (Presented by Field Theory)
• Rocky Stone – Perhapsthere is Hope Yet (Presented by Melbourne Fringe)
• Rawcus Ensemble – Catalogue (Presented by Arts House and Rawcus)

ContemporaryPerformance Text

• Oedipus Schmoedipus – post (Presented by Arts House)
• We May Have to Choose – Emma Hall (Presented by Melbourne Fringe)
• Piece for Person & Ghetto Blaster – Nicola Gunn (Presentedby Arts House and Mobile States)
• Is This Somewhere You’ve Been Before? – Hallie Shellam (Presented by Metanoia at The Mechanics Institute Brunswick)

Contemporary and Experimental Performance

• Oedipus Schmoedipus – post (Presented by Arts House)
• A Singular Phenomenon – Aphids (Presented byMalthouse Theatre)
• Piece for Person & Ghetto Blaster – Nicola Gunn / SAN HOTEL (Presented by Arts House and Mobile States)
• Endings –Tamara Saulwick (Presented by Arts House)

Dance

Concept& Realisation

• Antony Hamilton & Alisdair Macindoe – Meeting
• Chunky Move – Depth of Field
• Rosalind Crisp/Omeo Dance – The Boom Project

Duet & Ensemble Performance

• Filigree and Shadow –The Australian Ballet
• Frame of Mind & Quintet –Sydney Dance Company
• Meeting – Antony Hamilton & Alisdair Macindoe
• Motion Picture – Lucy Guerin Inc.
• Nyx – Antony Hamilton

Shirley Mckechnie Award For Choreography

• Antony Hamilton – Meeting (Antony Hamilton & Alisdair Macindoe)
• Lucy Guerin – Motion Picture (Lucy GuerinInc.)
• Timothy Harbour – Filigree and Shadow (The Australian Ballet)

Female Dancer

• Jesse Scales – Quintet (Sydney DanceCompany)
• Lilian Steiner – Bunker (Lilian Steiner& Leah Landau) and Motion Picture (Lucy Guerin Inc.)
• Rosalind Crisp – The Boom Project (RosalindCrisp/Omeo Dance)
• Vivienne Wong – Filigree and Shadow (TheAustralian Ballet)
• Yolanda Lowatta – Lore (Bangarra Dance Theatre)

Male Dancer

• Alisdair Macindoe – Motion Picture (LucyGuerin Inc.)
• Cass Mortimer–Eipper – Quintet & Frame ofMind (Sydney Dance Company)
• David Mack – Quintet & Frame of Mind(Sydney Dance Company)
• Joseph Simons – First Things First (Joseph Simons)
• Kevin Jackson – Giselle (The AustralianBallet)

Design

• Lilian Steiner and Leah Landau (Spatial Design) and Andrew Treloar (Costume Design) – Bunker (Lilian Steiner & LeahLandau)
• BenCobham – The Boom Project (Rosalind Crisp/Omeo Dance)
• Kelvin Ho (set) – Filigree and Shadow (TheAustralian Ballet)
• Jacob Nash (Set), Jennifer Irwin (Costume) and Karen Norris (Lighting) – Sheoak (as part of lore, Bangarra Dance Theatre)

Music & Sound Composition & Performance

• 48 Nord(Ulrich Müller and Siegfried Rössert)– Filigreeand Shadow (The Australian Ballet)
• Alisdair Macindoe – Meeting (Antony Hamilton& Alisdair Macindoe)
• Daniel Jenatsch – Body of Work (Atlanta Eke)
• David Page – Sheoak and Steve Frances – I.B.I.S. (as part of lore, Bangarra Dance Theatre)
• Emah Fox – This is What’s Happening (Slown, Smallened & Son)

Independent Theatre

Male Performer

• Stephen Gome – John Padan and the Discovery ofthe Americas (Hoy Polloy & Terra Incognita, fortyfivedownstairs)
• Kevin Kiernan-Molloy – Lord Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise (MKA, MTC Neon)
• Ben Pfeiffer – Grief and the Lullaby (Fabricated Rooms, Theatre Works)
• Brian Lipson – Edmund. The Beginning (ArtsHouse)
• Syd Brisbane – Ryan (La Mama)

Female Performer

• Jan Friedl – Lord Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise (MKA, MTC Neon)
• Alex Aldrich – Rivers of China (Don’t LookBack, Theatre Works)
• Emily Tomlins – Dream Home (Speak Easy /Northcote Town Hall)
• Maurial Spearim – We Get It (Elbow Room, MTCNeon)
• Jillian Murray – L’Amante Anglaise (La Mama)

Ensemble

• SHIT (Dee & Cornelius,MTC Neon)
• The Bacchae (St MartinsYouth Theatre & Fraught Outfit, Melbourne Festival / Theatre Works)
• FAG/STAG (The LastGreat Hunt, Melbourne Fringe)
• The Yellow Wave (15 Minutes from Anywhere, Poppy Seed /Butterfly Club)
• Magic Chicken (Theatre Beating, Arts Centre Melbourne)

Set and Costume Design

• Dayna Morrissey & Chloe Greaves (Design)– The Bacchae (St Martins Youth Theatre & Fraught Outfit, Melbourne Festival/ Theatre Works)
• Owen Philips (Design – Set) – The Dust and Us (Human Animal Exchange, La Mama)
• Emily Collett (Design – Set & Costume) Dream Home ( Speak Easy / Northcote TownHall)
• Marg Horwell (Design Set/Costume) SHIT (Dee& Cornelius, MTC Neon)
• Andrew Bailey (Design Set/Costume) Grief and the Lullaby (Fabricated Rooms, Theatre Works)

LightingDesign

• Matt Adey (Design) – The Dust and Us (Human Animal Exchange, La Mama)
• Bronwyn Pringle – Songbirds and Angels (LaMama)
• Lisa Mibus – Grief and the Lullaby (Fabricated Rooms, Theatre Works)
• Amelia Lever–Davidson – Body of Work
• Danny Pettingill – The Bacchae (St MartinsYouth Theatre & Fraught Outfit, Melbourne Festival / Theatre Works)

Sound/Music

• Christopher De Groot – Dream Home (Speak Easy /Northcote Town Hall)
• Andrew McMillan – Magic Chicken (TheatreBeating, Arts Centre Melbourne)
• Raya Slavin – Ryan (La Mama)
• Kelly Ryall – The Bacchae (St Martins YouthTheatre & Fraught Outfit, Melbourne Festival / Theatre Works)
• Marco–Cher Gebbard – Give Me Your Love (Ridiculusmus,Arts House)

Direction

• Luke Kerridge – Dream Home (Speak Easy /Northcote Town Hall)
• Susie Dee – SHIT (Dee & Cornelius, MTCNeon)
• Prue Clark – Reasons to stay inside (Melbourne Fringe)
• Adena Jacobs – The Bacchae (St MartinsYouth Theatre & Fraught Outfit, Melbourne Festival / Theatre Works)
• Stephen Nicolazzo – Dracula (Little OnesTheatre, Theatre Works)

Production

• Dream Home (Speak Easy/ Northcote Town Hall)
• SHIT (Dee &Cornelius, MTC Neon)
• FAG/STAG (The LastGreat Hunt, Melbourne Fringe)
• The Bacchae (St MartinsYouth Theatre & Fraught Outfit, Melbourne Festival / Theatre Works)
• HART (She SaidTheatre / Melbourne Fringe)

Writing

• Emilie Collyer – Dream Home (Speak Easy / Northcote Town Hall)
• Patricia Cornelius – SHIT (Dee & Cornelius, MTC Neon)
• Patrick McCarthy – Grief and the Lullaby (Fabricated Rooms, Theatre Works)
• Jeffrey Jay Fowler and Chris Isaacs – FAG/STAG (TheLast Great Hunt, Melbourne Fringe)
• Brian Lipson – Edmund. The Beginning (Antechamber,Arts House)

MusicTheatre

Female In A Leading Role

• Phoebe Panaretos – Strictly Ballroom
• Verity Hunt–Ballard – Sweet Charity
• Caroline O’Connor – Anything Goes
• Anna O’Byrne – West Side Story
• Esther Hannaford – Nice Work If You Can Get It

Male In A Leading Role

• Martin Crewes – Sweet Charity
• Jordan Pollard – Avenue Q
• Alex Rathgeber – Anything Goes
• Nick Simpson – Deeks – Company
• Nick Afoa – The Lion King

Male In A Supporting Role

• Drew Forsythe – Strictly Ballroom
• Ross Hannaford – Sweeney Todd
• Adam Fiorentino – City Of Angels
• Cameron Goodall – The Lion King
• Josh Piterman – Cats

Female In A Supporting Role

• Debora Krizak – Sweet Charity
• Heather Mitchell – Strictly Ballroom
• Anne Wood – City Of Angels
• Buyi Zama – The Lion King
• Amy Berrisford – Cats

Outstanding Ensemble

• Loving Repeating
• Strictly Ballroom
• The Lion King
• Cats

Betty Pounder Award For Excellence In Choreography

• Michael Ralph – Loving Repeating
• John O’connell – Strictly Ballroom
• Andrew Hallsworth – Anything Goes
• Michael Ralph – Georgy Girl

Musical Direction

• Daniel Edmonds – Strictly Ballroom
• Peter Casey – Anything Goes
• Guy Simpson – West Side Story
• Kellie Dickerson – City Of Angels
• Stephen Amos – Georgy Girl

Design (Lighting)

• Travis Macfarlane – Loving Repeating
• Hugh Vanstone – Strictly Ballroom
• Trudy Dalgleish – West Side Story
• Phillip Lethlean – Sweeney Todd
• Tom Willis – City Of Angels

Design (Sound)

• Peter Grubb – Strictly Ballroom
• John Scandrett, David Tonion and Julian Spink – West Side Story
• Julian Spink – Georgy Girl
• Ki Young Kim – Cats

Design (Set/ Costume)

• Nathan Weyers (Set) – Loving Repeating
• Shaun Gurton (Set) – West Side Story and Georgy Girl
• Daniel Harvey (Costume) – Loving Repeating
• Catherine Martin (Set and Costume) – Strictly Ballroom
• Dale Ferguson (Costume) – Anything Goes

Direction

• Jason Langley – Loving Repeating
• Gale Edwards – West Side Story
• Baz Luhrmann – Strictly Ballroom
• Roger Hodgman – Nice Work IfYou Can Get It
• Martin Croft – City Of Angels

Production

• Loving Repeating (Vic Theatre Company & Glenn Ferguson)
• Strictly Ballroom (Gerry Ryan & Carmen Pavlovic On Behalf Of Global Creatures, Baz Luhrmann & Catherine Martin On Behalf Of Bazmark InAssociation With Stage Entertainment, Michael Watt , James L Nederlander, Terry Allen Kramer & Peter Arvanitis)
• West Side Story (The Production Company)
• City Of Angels (Life Like Company)
• Cats (Lunchbox Theatrical Productions, David Atkins Enterprises And Base Entertainment Asia In Association With The Really Useful Group)

Opera

Direction

• Sir David McVicar – Le Nozze di Figaro (Opera Australia)
• Roger Hodgman – The Flying Dutchman (Victorian Opera)
• Cameron Menzies – The Grumpiest Boy in the World (Victorian Opera)

Production

• Le Nozze di Figaro – Opera Australia
• The Flying Dutchman – Victorian Opera

Conductor

• Fr. Richard Divall – Mary Stuart (Melbourne Opera)
• Andrea Licata – Don Carlo (Opera Australia)
• GuilaumeTourniaire – Madama Butrterfly (OperaAustralia)
• Richard Mills – The Flying Dutchman (Victorian Opera)

Female Lead

• Taryn Fiebig – Susanna, Le Nozze Di Figaro (Opera Australia)
• Elena Xanthoudakis – Mary Stuart, Mary Stuart (Melbourne Opera)
• Milijana Nikolic – Eboli, Don Carlo (OperaAustralia)

Female In A Supporting Role

• EvaKong – Gianetta, Elixir of Love (Opera Australia)
• EvaKong – Barbarina, Le Nozze di Figaro (Opera Australia)
• Anna Dowsley – Tebaldo, Don Carlo (Opera Australia)
• Jessica Hitchcock – Flinch, The Rabbits (Opera Australia/Barking Gecko)

Male Lead

• Michael Honeyman – Sharpless, Madama Butterfly (Opera Australia)
• Oskar Hillebrandt – The Dutchman, The Flying Dutchman (Victorian Opera)
• Bradley Daley, Erik – The Flying Dutchman (Victorian Opera)
• Giacomo Prestia – Phillip II, Don Carlo (Opera Australia)

Male In A Supporting Role

• Henry Choo – Earl of Leicester, Mary Stuart (Melbourne Opera)
• Roger Howell – The Hermit, Die Freischutz (Melbourne Opera)
• Carlos E. Barcenas – Steuermann, The Flying Dutchman (Victorian Opera)

Design

• Gabriella Tylesova (Set and Costume) – The Rabbits (Opera Australia/Barking Gecko)
• Jenny Tiramani (Design) – Le Nozze di Figaro (Opera Australia)
• Robert Jones (Set and Costume) – Don Giovanni (Opera Australia)
• Cristina Smith and Matt Scott, 3D Motion, Deakin Motion Lab (Set and Visual Design) – The Flying Dutchman (Victorian Opera)

Lighting

• David Finn – Le Nozze di Figaro (Opera Australia)
• Trent Suidgeest – The Rabbits (Opera Australia/Barking Gecko)

Theatre Companies

Female Actor

• Anna Samson – Wet House (Red Stitch Actors Theatre)
• Jem Nicholas – Love Love Love (Red Stitch Actors Theatre)
• Melita Jurisic – I am a Miracle (Malthouse Theatre)
• Sophie Ross– What Rhymes With Cars and Girls (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Julie Forsythe – Endgame (Melbourne Theatre Company)

Male Actor

• Nicholas Bell – Wet House (Red Stitch Actors Theatre)
• Osamah Sami – I Call my Brothers (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Ben Prendergast – Dead Centre/Sea Wall (Red Stitch Actors Theatre)
• Mark Leonard Winter – Birdland (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Bert La Bonte – Body of Work

Ensemble

• North by North West (MelbourneTheatre Company and Kay + McLean Productions)
• Birdland (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Love and Information (Malthouse Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company)
• The Boy at the Edge of Everything (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• The Listies Ruin Christmas (The Listies presented by Malthouse Theatre)

Lighting Design

• Paul Jackson – Endgame (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Katie Sfetkidis – Meme Girls (Malthouse Theatre)
• Paul Jackson – I am a Miracle (Malthouse Theatre)
• Lisa Mibus– The Boy at the Edge of Everything (Melbourne Theatre Company)

Set andCostume

• Callum Morton (Set) and Eugyeene Teh (Costume) – Endgame (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Simon Phillips and Nick Schlieper (Set),Josh Burns (Audio-Visual) and Esther Hayes (Costume Design)– North by North West (MelbourneTheatre Company and Kay + McLean Productions)
• Eugeene Teh (Setand Costume) – Meme Girls (MalthouseTheatre)
• Marg Horwell(Set and Costume) and Paul Jackson (Set) – I am a Miracle (Malthouse Theatre)
• AndrewBailey (Set and Costume) – The Boy at the Edge of Everything (Melbourne Theatre Company)

Sound &Composition

• Russell Goldsmith (Composition)– Endgame (MelbourneTheatre Company)
• David Chisolm and Marco Cher – Gibard (Composition and SoundDesign) and I am a Miracle (Malthouse Theatre)
• J David Franzke (Sound Design) –The Boy at the Edge of Everything (Melbourne TheatreCompany)
• Ian Moorhead (Compositionand Sound Design) –Jurassica (Red Stitch Actors Theatre)
• Ian MacDonald(Composition and Sound Design)– North by North West (Melbourne Theatre Company and Kay + McLean Productions)

Writing/Adaptationfor the Australian Stage

• Aidan Fennessey – What Rhymes With Cars and Girls (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Finnegan Kruckmeyern – The Boy at the Edge of Everything (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Declan Greene – I am a Miracle (Malthouse Theatre)
• Dan Giovannoni– Jurassica (RedStitch Actors Theatre)

Production 

• Birdland – Melbourne Theatre Company
• I am a Miracle – Malthouse Theatre
• The Boy at Edge of Everything – Melbourne Theatre Company
• North by North West – Melbourne Theatre Company and Kay + McLeanProductions
• Jurassica – Red Stitch Actors Theatre

Direction             

• Leticia Caceras – Birdland (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Matthew Lutton – I am a Miracle (MalthouseTheatre)
• Bridget Balodis –Jurassica (Red Stitch Actors Theatre)
• Peter Houghton – The Boy at the Edge of Everything (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Kip Williams –Love and Information (Malthouse Theatre, SydneyTheatre Company)