Green Room Award Winners
With the Green Room Awards done and dusted for another year, here is a full list of the winners.
Congratulations to all the nominees and everyone involved.
Alternative & Hybrid
Outstanding Production: Taxi (D & Associates / Big West Festival)
Conceptual Realisation: At the Sans Hotel (Nicola Gunn / La Mama)
Ensemble Performance: Ganesh Versus the Third Reich (Back to Back Theatre / Malthouse Theatre / Melbourne Festival)
Design Integration: Special (The Rabble / La Mama)
Mise-en-Scene: Taxi (D & Associates / Best West Festival)
Cabaret
Outstanding Production: Little Match Girl (Malthouse Theatre in association with Meow Meow Revolution)
Artiste: Meow Meow, Little Match Girl (Malthouse Theatre in association with Meow Meow Revolution)
Musical Direction: Iain Grandage, Little Match Girl (Malthouse Theatre in association with Meow Meow Revolution)
Original Songs: Geraldine Quinn, You’re the Voice: Songs for the Ordinary by an Anthemaniac & The Last Gig in Melbourne (Geraldine Quinn)
Director: Marion Potts, Little Match Girl (Malthouse Theatre in association with Meow Meow Revolution)
Contribution to Cabaret: Finucane & Smith
Dance
Betty Pounder Award for Choreography: Gideon Obarzanek, Assembly (Chunky Move / Victorian Opera, presented by Melbourne Festival in association with Sydney Festival & Brisbane Festival)
Design: Toni Maticevski (Costumes), Richard Nylon (Millinery), Matthew Bird (Nest Design & Backdrop), Gavin Brown (Curtain Design) & Benjamin Cisterne (Lighting), Aviary (Phillip Adams BalletLab in association with Melbourne Festival)
Sound and Music Composition and/or Performance:
TIE BETWEEN:
Cast of Assembly (Live Performance), Assembly (Chunky Move / Victorian Opera presented by Melbourne Festival in association with Sydney Festival & Brisbane Festival)
AND
Soloists and Victorian Opera Chorus & Orchestra Victoria (Live Performance), Requiem (The Australian Ballet)
Male Dancer: Luke George, Body of Work (Luke George / Jo Lloyd / Phillip Adams BalletLab in association with Melbourne Festival)
Female Dancer: Kirsty Martin, The Merry Widow (The Australian Ballet)
Ensemble: Concerto (The Australian Ballet)
Concept & Realisation: Becky, Jodi & John (Becky Hilton, Jodi Melnick & John Jesperse / John Jesperse Company and Dancehouse)
Music Theatre
Direction: Kristin Hanggi, Rock of Ages
Design: Gabriella Tylesova (Costumes & Set), Love Never Dies
Lighting: Nick Schlieper, Love Never Dies
Sound: TIE BETWEEN:
Peter Hylenski, Rock of Ages
AND
Mick Potter, Love Never Dies
Choreography: Kelly Devine, Rock of Ages
Musical Direction: Guy Simpson, Love Never Dies
Female Artist Leading Role: Pamela Rabe, Grey Gardens
Male Artist Leading Role: Brent Hill, Rock of Ages
Ensemble or Full Ensemble Performance:
TIE BETWEEN:
The Ensemble, Rock of Ages
AND
The Cast of Flower Children
Male Artist Featured Role: Matt Hetherington, Next to Normal
Female Artist Featured Role: Emma Jones, The Hatpin
Opera
Direction: Bruce Beresford, Of Mice and Men (Opera Australia)
Production: Of Mice and Men (Opera Australia)
Conductor: Tom Woods, Of Mice and Men (Opera Australia)
Principal Male: Anthony Dean Griffey (Lennie Small), Of Mice and Men (Opera Australia)
Principal Female: Jacqueline Dark (Donna Elvira), Don Giovanni (Opera Australia)
Supporting Male: Bradley Daley (Curley), Of Mice and Men (Opera Australia)
Supporting Female: Suzanne Johnston (Mrs Herring), Albert Herring (Victorian Opera)
Theatre (Companies)
Lighting: Nick Schlieper, Baal (Malthouse Theatre / Sydney Theatre Company)
Set/Costume: Anna Cordingley, Body of Work
Sound/Composition: Iain Grandage, Body of Work
Female Actor: Zahra Newman (Performer), Random (Real TV / Melbourne Theatre Company / Brisbane Powerhouse / Sydney Opera House)
Male Actor: Robert Menzies (Performer), The End (Malthouse Theatre / Belvoir)
Direction: Bruce Gladwin, Ganesh Versus the Third Reich (Back to Back Theatre / Malthouse Theatre / Melbourne Festival)
Production: Ganesh Versus the Third Reich (Back to Back Theatre / Malthouse Theatre / Melbourne Festival)
Theatre (Independent)
Male Performer: Ben Grant (Alfie) Save for Crying (doubletap / La Mama)Female Performer: Marta Kaczmarek (Masha), Cafe Scheherazade (fortyfivedownstairs)
Ensemble: After all this (Elbow Room / Melbourne Fringe – Dear Patti Smith)
Design: Sebastian Peters Lazaro & Ellen Strasser (Set Design & Construction), Undine (Four Larks)
Lighting Design: Richard Vabre, Small Odysseys (Rawcus / Arts House)
Sound/Composition: Mat Diafos Sweeney (Music Composition & Direction), Undine (Four Larks)
Direction:
TIE BETWEEN:
Marcel Dorney, After all this (Elbow Room / Melbourne Fringe /Dear Patti Smith)
AND
Laurence Strangio, Six characters in search of an author… (La Mama)
Production: Save for Crying (doubletap / La Mama)
Association Awards
Lifetime Achievement Award: John Romeril
Technical Achievement Award: Dori Dragon Bicchierai
New Writing for the Australian Stage: Angus Cerini, Save for Crying (doubletap / La Mama)
Special Awards
Outstanding Contributions to the Melbourne Stage:
Anna McCrossin-Owen
David McSkimming
Debbie Phyland
Nigel Poulton
Ongoing Standard of Excellence: Orchestra Victoria
Outstanding Support for New Australian Music Theatre: Magnormos
