2017 Green Room Awards Nominations

The Green Room Awards Association has announced the nominees for the 2017 Green Room Awards, which will be held at Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre on Monday 27 March. 

Melbourne’s premier peer-presented, performing arts industry awards recognise excellence and innovation across a range of categories, including Cabaret, Contemporary and Experimental Performance, Dance, Independent Theatre, Music Theatre, Opera and Theatre Companies.

A total of 66 awards will be presented at this year’s Green Room Awards ceremony, including awards for Technical Achievement and Lifetime Achievement.

“It is clear from this year’s nominations that there is a profusion of extraordinary performing arts activity in Melbourne and around Victoria,” says Hilary Glow, President of Green Room Awards Association. “The Green Room Awards are here to celebrate the energy and talent of all the nominees and we look forward to recognising their achievements at the awards ceremony.”

Tickets to the 34th Green Room Awards will be on sale from 12pm, Wednesday 22 February at ticketmaster.com.au.

INDEPENDENT THEATRE

Performer (2 awarded)

• Jacob Boehme – Blood on the Dance Floor (ILBIJERRI Theatre Company and Jacob Boehme, Arts House)
• Paul Capsis – Resident Alien (Cameron Lukey, fortyfivedownstairs)
• Jing Xuan Chan – Wit (The Artisan Collective in association with fortyfivedownstairs)
• Natasha Herbert – Anti-Hamlet (New Working Group, Theatre Works)
• Ruby Hughes – Conviction (The Zoey Louise Moonbeam Dawson Theatre Company, Darebin Arts Speakeasy)
• Zoë Coombs Marr – Trigger Warning (Zoë Coombs Marr, Victoria Hotel as part of Melbourne International Comedy Festival)
• Jane Montgomery-Griffiths – Wit (The Artisan Collective in association with fortyfivedownstairs)
• Chris Ryan – Andre Tonight (Chris Ryan and Mark Winter as part of Melbourne Fringe)
• Anna Seymour – Black is the Colour (Deafferent Theatre as part of Melbourne Fringe)
• Yuchen Wang – The Gate to Paradise (One Tree Theatre as part of Melbourne Fringe)

Ensemble

• Animal (inFlux in association with Theatre Works)
• Taxithi (fortyfivedownstairs)
• The Merry Wives of Windsor (Nothing but Roaring, fortyfivedownstairs)
• The Mill on the Floss (Optic Nerve Performance Group and Theatre Works)
• Three Birds One Cock (Three Birds Theatre, Metanoia Theatre)

Lighting Design

• Amelia Lever-Davidson and Mat Adey – Ground Control (Darebin Arts’ Speakeasy in association with Next Wave Festival)
• Lisa Mibus – Member (A Fairly Lucid Production, La Mama as part of Midsumma Festival)
• Bronwyn Pringle – Yarn (La Mama)
• Andy Turner – Animal (inFlux in association with Theatre Works)
• Emma Valente – Cain and Abel (The Rabble and The Substation)

Set and Costume Design

• Kate Davis – Cain and Abel (The Rabble and The Substation)
• Keith Deverell (Projection) – Blood on the Dance Floor (ILBIJERRI Theatre Company and Jacob Boehme in association with Arts House)
• Romanie Harper (AV, Set & Costume) – Conviction (Darebin Arts’ Speakeasy in association with The Zoey Louise Moonbeam Dawson Theatre Company)
• Marg Horwell (Set & Costume) – Animal (inFlux in association with Theatre Works)
• Laura Pearse (Costume) – Coriolanus (Heartstring Theatre in association with Metanoia Theatre)

Music Composition and Sound Design

• shannyn.art (Sound Design) – Black is the Colour (Deafferent Theatre as part of Melbourne Fringe)
• James Henry (Sound Design) – Blood on the Dance Floor (ILBIJERRI Theatre Company and Jacob Boehme in association with Arts House)
• Marcus McKenzie (Sound Design) – Hyperspirit (Marcus McKenzie as part of Melbourne Fringe)
• Kelly Ryall (Sound Design) – Animal (inFlux in association with Theatre Works)
• Chris Wenn (Sound Design) – Rust and Bone (La Mama)

Writing

• Jacob Boehme – Blood on the Dance Floor (ILBIJERRI Theatre Company and Jacob Boehme in association with Arts House)
• Zoë Coombs Marr – Trigger Warning (Zoë Coombs Marr as part of Melbourne International Comedy Festival)
• Zoey Dawson – Conviction (Darebin Arts’ Speakeasy in association with The Zoey Louise Moonbeam Dawson Theatre Company)
• Katy Warner – A Prudent Man (Lab Kelpie as part of Melbourne Fringe)
• Mark Wilson – Anti-Hamlet (New Working Group in association with Theatre Works)

Direction

• Susie Dee – Animal (inFlux in association with Theatre Works)
• Isaac Drandic – Blood on the Dance Floor (ILBIJERRI Theatre Company and Jacob Boehme in association with Arts House)
• Declan Greene – Conviction (Darebin Arts’ Speakeasy in association with The Zoey Louise Moonbeam Dawson Theatre Company)
• Petra Kalive – Taxithi (fortyfivedownstairs)
• Mark Wilson – Anti-Hamlet (New Working Group in association with Theatre Works)

Production

• Animal (inFlux in association with Theatre Works)
• Anti-Hamlet (New Working Group in association with Theatre Works)
• Blood on the Dance Floor (ILBIJERRI Theatre Company and Jacob Boehme in association with Arts House)
• Cain and Abel (The Rabble and The Substation)
• Tales of a City by the Sea (La Mama)

 

MUSIC THEATRE

Female Lead

• Dusty Bursill, Tiana Mirra, Alannah Parfett and Ingrid Torelli (THE MATILDAS) – Matilda the Musical (The Royal Shakespeare Company and Louise Withers, Michael Coppel and Michael Watt with Chokey Productions, Just for laughs Theatricals, Glass Half Full Productions, Paula Marie Black, Greenleaf Productions And Michael Lynch)
• Jayme-Lee Hanekom – The Color Purple (StageArt)
• Verity Hunt-Ballard – The Last Five Years (Vic Theatre Company)
• Sarah Morrison – Ladies in Black (Melbourne Theatre Company and Queensland Theatre)
• Caroline O’Connor – Funny Girl (The Production Company)

Male Lead 

• Callum Francis – Kinky Boots (Michael Cassel Group)
• Simon Gleeson – Curtains (The Production Company)
• Brent Hill – Little Shop of Horrors (Luckiest Productions and Tinderbox Productions)
• James Millar – Matilda the Musical (The Royal Shakespeare Company and Louise Withers, Michael Coppel and Michael Watt with Chokey Productions, Just for laughs Theatricals, Glass Half Full Productions, Paula Marie Black, Greenleaf Productions And Michael Lynch) 

Female in a Supporting Role

• Robyn Arthur – Singin’ in the Rain (Lunchbox Theatrical Productions, David Atkins Enterprises, Michael Cassel Group and Dainty Group)
• Madison Green – The Light in the Piazza (Life Like Company)
• Elise McCann – Matilda the Musical (The Royal Shakespeare Company and Louise Withers, Michael Coppel and Michael Watt with Chokey Productions, Just for laughs Theatricals, Glass Half Full Productions, Paula Marie Black, Greenleaf Productions And Michael Lynch)
• Christen O’Leary – Ladies in Black (Melbourne Theatre Company and Queensland Theatre)
• Naomi Price – Ladies in Black (Melbourne Theatre Company and Queensland Theatre)

Male in a Supporting Role

• Jack Chambers – Singin’ in the Rain (Lunchbox Theatrical Productions, David Atkins Enterprises, Michael Cassel Group and Dainty Group)
• Bobby Fox – Ladies in Black (Melbourne Theatre Company and Queensland Theatre)
• Daniel Frederiksen – Matilda the Musical (The Royal Shakespeare Company and Louise Withers, Michael Coppel and Michael Watt with Chokey Productions, Just for laughs Theatricals, Glass Half Full Productions, Paula Marie Black, Greenleaf Productions And Michael Lynch)
• Jonathan Hickey – The Light in the Piazza (Life Like Company)
• David Roberts – Ghost the Musical (Ambassador Theatre Group, GWB Entertainment and Red Live)

Lighting Design

• Tim Mitchell – Singin’ in the Rain (Lunchbox Theatrical Productions, David Atkins Enterprises, Michael Cassel Group and Dainty Group)
• Kenneth Posner – Kinky Boots (Michael Cassel Group)
• Hugh Vanstone – Ghost the Musical – (Ambassador Theatre Group, GWB Entertainment and Red Live)
• Hugh Vanstone – Matilda the Musical (The Royal Shakespeare Company and Louise Withers, Michael Coppel and Michael Watt with Chokey Productions, Just for laughs Theatricals, Glass Half Full Productions, Paula Marie Black, Greenleaf Productions And Michael Lynch)
• David Walters – Ladies in Black (Melbourne Theatre Company and Queensland Theatre)

Set Design

• Simon Higlett – Singin’ in the Rain (Lunchbox Theatrical Productions, David Atkins Enterprises, Michael Cassel Group and Dainty Group)
• Rob Howell – Matilda the Musical (The Royal Shakespeare Company and Louise Withers, Michael Coppel and Michael Watt with Chokey Productions, Just for laughs Theatricals, Glass Half Full Productions, Paula Marie Black, Greenleaf Productions And Michael Lynch)
• Owen Phillips – Little Shop of Horrors (Luckiest Productions and Tinderbox)
• David Rockwell – Kinky Boots (Michael Cassel Group)
• Gabriela Tylesova – Ladies in Black (Melbourne Theatre Company and Queensland Theatre)

Costume Design

• Gregg Barnes – Kinky Boots (Michael Cassel Group)
• Kim Bishop – The Light in the Piazza (Life Like Company)
• Tim Chappel – Little Shop of Horrors (Luckiest Productions and Tinderbox Productions)
• Rob Howell – Matilda the Musical (The Royal Shakespeare Company and Louise Withers, Michael Coppel and Michael Watt with Chokey Productions, Just for laughs Theatricals, Glass Half Full Productions, Paula Marie Black, Greenleaf Productions And Michael Lynch)
• Gabriella Tylesova – Ladies in Black (Melbourne Theatre Company and Queensland Theatre)

Sound Design

• Simon Baker – Matilda the Musical (The Royal Shakespeare Company and Louise Withers, Michael Coppel and Michael Watt with Chokey Productions, Just for laughs Theatricals, Glass Half Full Productions, Paula Marie Black, Greenleaf Productions And Michael Lynch)
• Kelvin Gedye – Violet (Blue Saint Productions)
• Kelvin Gedye – Songs for a New World (Blue Saint Productions)
• David Greasley, David Tonion and Kelvin Gedye for System Sound – Funny Girl (The Production Company)
• Michael Waters – Singin’ in the Rain (Lunchbox Theatrical Productions, David Atkins Enterprises, Michael Cassel Group and Dainty Group)

Music Direction/Supervision

• Geoffrey Castles – Songs for a New World (Blue Saint Productions)
• Paul Grabowsky – Banquet of Secrets (Victorian Opera)
• Adrian Kirk – Singin’ in the Rain (Lunchbox Theatrical Productions, David Atkins Enterprises, Michael Cassel Group and Dainty Group)
• Peter Rutherford – Matilda the Musical (The Royal Shakespeare Company and Louise Withers, Michael Coppel and Michael Watt with Chokey Productions, Just for laughs Theatricals, Glass Half Full Productions, Paula Marie Black, Greenleaf Productions And Michael Lynch)
• Vanessa Scammell – The Light in the Piazza (Life Like Company)

Betty Pounder Award for Excellence in Choreography

• Kelley Abbey – Funny Girl (The Production Company)
• Peter Darling – Matilda the Musical (The Royal Shakespeare Company and Louise Withers, Michael Coppel and Michael Watt with Chokey Productions, Just for laughs Theatricals, Glass Half Full Productions, Paula Marie Black, Greenleaf Productions And Michael Lynch)
• Andrew Hallsworth – Little Shop of Horrors (Luckiest Productions and Tinderbox Productions)
• Jerry Mitchell – Kinky Boots (Michael Cassel Group)
• Andrew Wright – Singin’ in the Rain (Lunchbox Theatrical Productions, David Atkins Enterprises, Michael Cassel Group and Dainty Group)

Direction

• Mitchell Butel – Violet (Blue Saint Productions)
• Jonathan Church – Singin’ in the Rain (Lunchbox Theatrical Productions, David Atkins Enterprises, Michael Cassel Group and Dainty Group)
• Jerry Mitchell – Kinky Boots (Michael Cassel Group)
• Matthew Warchus – Matilda the Musical (The Royal Shakespeare Company and Louise Withers, Michael Coppel and Michael Watt with Chokey Productions, Just for laughs Theatricals, Glass Half Full Productions, Paula Marie Black, Greenleaf Productions And Michael Lynch)
• Paul Watson – Tick, Tick…Boom! (Pursued by Bear)

Production

• Kinky Boots (Michael Cassel Group)
• Ladies in Black (Melbourne Theatre Company and Queensland Theatre)
• Matilda the Musical (The Royal Shakespeare Company and Louise Withers, Michael Coppel and Michael Watt with Chokey Productions, Just for laughs Theatricals, Glass Half Full Productions, Paula Marie Black, Greenleaf Productions And Michael Lynch)
• Singin’ in the Rain (Lunchbox Theatrical Productions, David Atkins Enterprises, Michael Cassel Group and Dainty Group)
• Tick, Tick…Boom! (Pursued By Bear)...

 

OPERA

Female Lead

• Nicole Car (Luisa) – Luisa Miller (Opera Australia)
• Lianna Haroutounian (Mimi) – La Bohème (Opera Australia)
• Lise Lindstrom (Brünnhilde) – The Ring Cycle (Opera Australia)
• Jessica Pratt (Lucia) – Lucia di Lammermoor (Victorian Opera)
• Amber Wagner (Sieglinde) –The Ring Cycle (Opera Australia)

Male Lead

• Warwick Fyfe (Alberich) – The Ring Cycle (Opera Australia)
• Jeremy Kleeman (Magus) – Voyage to the Moon (Victorian Opera)
• James Johnson (Wotan/The Wanderer) – The Ring Cycle (Opera Australia)
• Daniel Sumegi (Hagen) – The Ring Cycle (Opera Australia)
• Gianluca Terranova (Rodolfo) – La Bohème (Opera Australia)
• Marius Vlad (Tannhauser) – Tannhauser (Melbourne Opera)

Female in a Supporting Role

• Anna-Louise Cole (Gerhilde/Third Norn) – The Ring Cycle (Opera Australia)
• Eva Kong (Laura) – Luisa Miller (Opera Australia)
• Sarah Sweeting (Venus) – Tannhauser (Melbourne Opera)

Male in a Supporting Role

• Richard Anderson (Colline) – La bohème (Opera Australia)
• Jud Arthur (Fafner/Hundig) – The Ring Cycle (Opera Australia)
• James Clayton (Tonio) – Laughter and Tears (Victorian Opera)
• Graeme Macfarlane (Mime) – The Ring Cycle (Opera Australia)
• Raphael Wong (Musiklehrer) – Ariadne auf Naxos (CitiOpera)

Conductor

• Phoebe Briggs – Four Saints in Three Acts (Victorian Opera)
• Pietari Inkinen – The Ring Cycle (Opera Australia)
• David Kram – Ariadne auf Naxos (CitiOpera)
• Andrea Licata – Lusia Miller (Opera Australia)
• Richard Mills – Laughter and Tears (Victorian Opera)
• Andrea Molino – La Bohème (Opera Australia)

Design

• Robert Kemp (Set) and Matt Scott (Lighting) – The Pearl Fishers (Opera Australia)
• Zoe Scoglio (Video) – Tannhauser (Melbourne Opera)
• Lucy Wilkins (Costumes) – Pygmalion (Lyric Opera)

Direction

• Neil Armfield – The Ring Cycle (Opera Australia)
• Giancarlo del Monaco – Luisa Miller (Opera Australia)
• Lara Kerestes – Il Signor Bruschino (Lyric Opera)

Production

• Luisa Miller (Opera Australia)
• Tannhauser (Melbourne Opera)
• The Ring Cycle (Opera Australia)

 

THEATRE COMPANIES

Female Performer 

• Candy Bowers – Lilith: The Jungle Girl (Melbourne Theatre Company and Sisters Grimm)
• Belinda McClory – Splendor (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre)
• Robin McLeavy – Miss Julie (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Rose Riley – The Glass Menagerie (Belvoir and Malthouse Theatre)
• Andrea Swifte – Trevor (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre)

Male Performer 

• Tony Briggs – Which Way Home (Ilbijerri Theatre Company)
• Darcy Brown – Peddling (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Marco Chiappi – Edward II (Malthouse Theatre)
• Rory Kelly – Trevor (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre)
• Mark Leonard Winter – Miss Julie (Melbourne Theatre Company)

Ensemble 

• Jasper Jones (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Lilith: The Jungle Girl (Melbourne Theatre Company and Sisters Grimm)
• Picnic at Hanging Rock (Malthouse Theatre)
• Shakespeare’s Best Bits (Australian Shakespeare Company)
• The Secret River (Sydney Theatre Company)

Lighting Design 

• Ben Cisterne – Lilith: The Jungle Girl (Melbourne Theatre Company and Sisters Grimm)
• Mark Howitt – The Secret River (Sydney Theatre Company)
• Paul Jackson – Edward II (Malthouse Theatre)
• Paul Jackson – Miss Julie (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Matt Scott – Jasper Jones (Melbourne Theatre Company)

Set and Costume Design 

• Alice Babidge (Set & Costume Design) – Miss Julie (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Anna Cordingley (Set & Costume Design) – Jasper Jones (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Stephen Curtis (Set Design) – The Secret River (Sydney Theatre Company)
• Chloe Greaves (Set Design) – The River (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre)
• Marg Horwell (Set & Costume Design) – Lilith: The Jungle Girl (Melbourne Theatre Company and Sisters Grimm)

Music Composition & Sound Design 

• Christopher de Groot – The River (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre)
• David Franzke – Picnic at Hanging Rock (Malthouse Theatre)
• Stefan Gregory – The Glass Menagerie (Belvoir and Malthouse Theatre)
• Kelly Ryall – Edward II (Malthouse Theatre)
• THE SWEATS – Miss Julie (Melbourne Theatre Company)

Digital Media Design and Integration 

• Lilith: The Jungle Girl (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Miss Julie (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• The Glass Menagerie (Belvoir and Malthouse Theatre)
• You and Me and the Space Between (Terrapin Puppet Theatre) 

Writing/Adaptation for the Australian Stage 

• Kate Beckett – Which Way Home (Ilbijerri Theatre Company)
• Rachael Coopes and Wayne Blair – Sugarland (Australian Theatre for Young People)
• Declan Greene and Ash Flanders – Lilith: The Jungle Girl (Melbourne Theatre Company and Sisters Grimm)
• Kate Mulvany – Jasper Jones (based on the novel by Craig Silvey) (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Joanna Murray-Smith – Switzerland (Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company)

Direction 

• Susie Dee – Peddling (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Eamon Flack – The Glass Menagerie (Belvoir/Malthouse Theatre)
• Declan Greene – Lilith: The Jungle Girl (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Sam Strong – Jasper Jones (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Kip Williams – Miss Julie (Melbourne Theatre Company)

Production

• Jasper Jones (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Lilith: The Jungle Girl (Melbourne Theater Company/Sisters Grimm)
• Miss Julie (Melbourne Theatre Company)
• Picnic at Hanging Rock (Malthouse Theatre)
• The Glass Menagerie (Belvoir/Malthouse Theatre)

 

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