2022 Green Room Awards Recipients

The 2022 Green Room Awards, showcasing the diverse talent in Melbourne’s theatre community have been announced.

 

CABARET

BEST PRODUCTION 

Reuben Kaye: The Butch is Back presented by Pietagogetter as part of Melbourne International Comedy Festival  

BEST WRITING 

Michelle Brasier for Average Bear by Michelle Brasier presented by Century as part of Melbourne International Comedy Festival 

BEST VARIETY SHOW [Joint Recipients]

Take Back! Directed by Candy Bowers and presented by Darebin FUSE Festival and Multicultural Arts Victoria

F*ck Fabulous presented by Fat Fruit Projects and Arts Centre Melbourne as part of  Midsumma Festival

INNOVATION

Durkh a Modne Gloz Kadimah Yiddish Theatre in association with Kadimah Jewish Cultural Centre 

BEST MUSICAL DIRECTION 

Shanon Whitelock for Reuben Kaye: The Butch is Back presented by Pietagogetter as part of Melbourne International Comedy Festival

ARTISTE 

Reuben Kaye for Reuben Kaye: The Butch is Back presented by Pietagogetter as part of Melbourne International Comedy Festival

 

CONTEMPORARY & EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE

CURATORIAL AND ARTISTIC DIRECTION

Let’s Take Over 2021 Darebin Arts Speakeasy Darebin Arts Speakeasy

PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE [Joint Recipients]

Joel Bray Considerable Sexual License Darebin Arts Speakeasy

Na Djinang Arterial Circus Yirramboi

PARTICIPATORY [Joint Recipients]

The Ball Room The Ball Room Projects Chapel Off Chapel

Not a Drop to Drink Keg de Souza Arts House, Refuge 2021

EXPERIMENTAL PRACTICE

Alter Edith Holly Durant fortyfivedownstairs

SOUND SCULPTURE

PENDULUM Lucy Guerin Inc & Matthias Schack-Arnott Rising & NGV International

 

DANCE

BEST PERFORMER [Joint Recipients]

Amber McCartney Project F. Prue Lang in association with Abbotsford Convent as part of the Keir Choreographic Award Public Program

Geoffrey Watson Reference Material. Alisdair Macindoe in association with Darebin Arts Speakeasy

BEST DUET/ENSEMBLE 

Birrpai. Ngioka Bunda-Heath co-commissioned by Next Wave and Chunky Move as part of Yirramboi Festival 

BEST LIGHTING 

Thomas Roach Reference Material .Alisdair Macindoe in association with Darebin Arts Speakeasy 

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY

Project F. Prue Lang in association with Abbotsford Convent as part of the Keir Choreographic Award Public Program

BEST PRODUCTION

I am Maggie. Jonathan Homsey as part of as part of Arts Centre Melbourne Take Over for Melbourne Fringe 2020

BEST SOUND

Nick Roux and Ensemble Tikoro Metal. Lucy Guerin in association with Arts Centre Melbourne as part of Asia TOPA

BEST VISUAL DESIGN 

Odd Hours.  Jacqui Stockdale and ButohOUT! Ensemble 2021 in association with Abbotsford Convent

BEST DIGITAL WORK

Sour Sweet. Victoria Chiu and RDYSTDY

 

INDEPENDENT THEATRE

BEST NEW WRITING

Olivia Satchell with Chanella Macri, Belinda McClory and Emily Tomlins let bleeding girls lie The Voice In My Hands in association with La Mama

BEST DIRECTION

Benjamin Nichol and Izabella Yena Kerosene Jack Dixon-Gunn in association with Theatre Works

BEST PERFORMER

Fabio Motta Spot Fabio Motta in association with Theatre Works

BEST ENSEMBLE

Enlightenment Elbow Room in association with Darebin Arts Speakeasy and FUSE Festival 

BEST LIGHTING DESIGN

Rachel Burke The Mermaid Cassandra Fumi in association with La Mama

BEST SET AND/OR COSTUME DESIGN

Dann Barber (Set and Costume Design) The Mermaid Cassandra Fumi in association with La Mama

BEST SOUND DESIGN AND COMPOSITION

Rachel Lewindon The Gospel According to Jesus Queen of Heaven Ben Anderson Presents in association with Theatre Works

BEST PRODUCTION (IN-PERSON) [Joint Recipients]

Kerosene Jack Dixon-Gunn in association with Theatre Works

The Gospel According to Jesus Queen of Heaven Ben Anderson Presents in association with Theatre Works 

BEST PRODUCTION (DIGITAL)

Juniper Wilde: Wilde Night In The Social Validation Club as part of Melbourne Fringe

 

MUSIC THEATRE

ARTISTS – LEADING [Joint Recipients] 

Cherine Peck Into The Woods Watch This

James Millar Into The Woods Watch This

ARTISTS – SUPPORTING 

Kirby Burgess The Wedding Singer David Venn Enterprises

THE BETTY POUNDER AWARD FOR ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHY

(In Celebration of 100 years since Miss Pounder’s birth.

Michael Ralph - The Wedding Singer David Venn Enterprises

DESIGN [Joint Recipients]

Kim Bishop: Costume – The Wedding Singer David Venn Enterprises

Declan O'Neill: Lighting – The Wedding Singer David Venn Enterprises

DIRECTION – MUSIC  

Stephen Gray The Music Of The Night Spears Entertainment

DIRECTION – STAGE  

Alister Smith The Wedding Singer David Venn Enterprises

NEW AUSTRALIAN WRITING FOR MUSIC THEATRE

Yve Blake Fangirls Arts Centre Melbourne with Belvoir, Queensland Theatre, and Brisbane Festival in association with Australian Theatre for Young People

PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR

The Wedding Singer David Venn Enterprises

 

OPERA

OUTSTANDING PERFORMER IN A LEADING ROLE [Joint Recipients]

Vida Miknevičiūtė Salome Victorian Opera (2020)

James Egglestone Das Rheingold Melbourne Opera   

OUTSTANDING PERFORMER IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Adrian Tamburini Das Rheingold Melbourne Opera

NEW AUSTRALIA OPERA

Echo and Narcissus Kevin March (Composer) Jane Montgomery Griffiths (Libretto) Victorian Opera

OUTSTANDING DESIGN

Christina Smith (Set) Gavan Swift (Lighting) Salome Victorian Opera (2020)

BEST DIRECTION 

Sven-Eric Bechtolf Ernani Opera Australia 

BEST PRODUCTION

Das Rheingold Melbourne Opera

 

THEATRE COMPANIES

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE [Joint Recipients]

Dan Spielman Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes Melbourne Theatre Company

Jessica Clarke Iphigenia In Splott Red Stitch 

OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN

Dale Ferguson, Marg Horwell, Matilda Woodroofe Because The Night Malthouse Theatre 

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN

Kat Chan The Lifespan of a Fact Melbourne Theatre Company

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN

Niklas Pajanti Berlin Melbourne Theatre Company

OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN/COMPOSITION

J. David Franzke Because The Night Malthouse Theatre

OUTSTANDING DIRECTION

Gary Abrahams Iphigenia In Splott Red Stitch

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION

Iphigenia In Splott Red Stitch

The Kristian Fredrikson Scholarship for Design in the Performing Arts [Joint Recipients]

-        Paula Levis (VIC)

-        Isabel Hudson (NSW)

Lifetime Achievement Award [Joint Recipients]

-        Graeme Murphy

-        Janet Vernon

Technical Achievement Award [Joint Recipients]

-        Emma Valente

-        Kate Davis

Geoffrey Milne Award

-        Jason Cavanagh