2016 NOMINEES & RECIPIENTS
Winners are in bold.
BEST MAINSTAGE PRODUCTION
All My Sons (Sydney Theatre Company)
The Drover’s Wife (Belvoir)
Faith Healer (Belvoir)
The Hanging (Sydney Theatre Company)
BEST INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION
Antigone (Sport for Jove)
The Block Universe (Cross Pollinate Productions and Old 505 Theatre)
Hurt (White Box Theatre and The Old 505)
Inner Voices (Don’t Look Away in association with Red Line Productions)
The Whale (Red Line Productions)
BEST DIRECTION OF A MAINSTREAM PRODUCTION
Leticia Caceres (The Drover’s Wife)
Lee Lewis (Gloria)
Janice Muller (Lake Disappointment)
Kip Williams (All My Sons)
BEST DIRECTION OF AN INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION
Shane Anthony (The Whale)
Kate Gaul (Good With Maps)
Phillip Rouse (Inner Voices)
Damien Ryan and Terry Karabelas (Antigone)
BEST FEMALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE IN A MAINSTREAM PRODUCTION
Ana Maria Belo (Tribes)
Marta Dusseldorp (Gloria)
Robyn Nevin (All My Sons)
Leah Purcell (The Drover’s Wife)
BEST MALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE IN A MAINSTREAM PRODUCTION
Colin Friels (Faith Healer)
John Howard (All My Sons)
Luke Mullins (Lake Disappointment)
David Woods (A Flea In Her Ear)
BEST FEMALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE IN AN INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION
Andrea Demetriades (Antigone)
Paige Gardiner (Three Sisters)
Danielle King (4 Minutes 12 Secs)
Meredith Penman (Hurt)
BEST MALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE IN AN INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION
Keith Agius (The Whale)
Damien Strouthos (Inner Voices)
Jacob Warner (The Block Universe)
William Zappa (Antigone)
BEST FEMALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MAINSTREAM PRODUCTION
Tracy Mann (Relatively Speaking)
Eryn Jean Norvill (All My Sons)
Sarah Peirse (The Golden Age)
Alison Whyte (Faith Healer)
BEST MALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MAINSTREAM PRODUCTION
Benedict Hardie (The Drover’s Wife)
Pip Miller (Faith Healer)
Jamie Oxenbould (The Literati)
Chris Ryan (All My Sons)
BEST FEMALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN AN INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION
Deborah Galanos (Antigone)
Meredith Penman (The Whale)
Ella Prince (The Shadow Box)
Matilda Ridgway (The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant)
BEST MALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN AN INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION
Alex Beauman (The Whale)
Thomas Campbell (Three Sisters)
Anthony Gooley (Inner Voices)
Sam O’Sullivan (Journey’s End)
BEST STAGE DESIGN OF A MAINSTREAM PRODUCTION
Alicia Clements (Hay Fever)
Owen Phillips (Little Shop of Horrors)
Brian Thomson (Faith Healer)
Gabriela Tylesova (A Flea In Her Ear)
BEST STAGE DESIGN OF AN INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION
Charlie Davis (The Whale)
Anna Gardiner (Inner Voices)
Georgia Hopkins (Three Sisters)
Melanie Liertz (Antigone)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A MAINSTREAM PRODUCTION
Tim Chappel (Little Shop of Horrors)
Alicia Clements (Hay Fever)
Tess Schofield (The Drover’s Wife)
Gabriela Tylesova (A Flea In Her Ear)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF AN INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION
Martelle Hunt (Inner Voices)
Melanie Liertz (Antigone)
Emma Vine (Three Sisters)
Angela White (Side Show)
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A MAINSTREAM PRODUCTION
Damien Cooper (The Golden Age)
Matt Cox (Lake Disappointment)
Ross Graham (Little Shop of Horrors)
Nicholas Rayment (The Hanging)
Nick Schlieper (A Flea In Her Ear)
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF AN INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION
Alexander Berlage (The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant)
Alexander Berlage (The Whale)
Matt Cox (Antigone)
Sian James-Holland (Inner Voices)
BEST SCORE OR SOUND DESIGN OF A MAINSTREAM PRODUCTION
James Brown (Broken)
James Brown (Lake Disappointment)
Nate Edmondson (Savages)
The Sweats (The Drover’s Wife)
BEST SCORE OR SOUND DESIGN OF AN INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION
Nate Edmondson (Good With Maps)
Bryce Halliday with Thomas Royce-Hampton (Antigone)
Basil Hogios and Katelyn Shaw (The Whale)
Hamish Michael and Hue Blanes (80 Minutes No Interval)
BEST NEW AUSTRALIAN WORK
Benedict Andrews (Gloria)
Angela Betzien (The Hanging)
Kate Mulvany (Jasper Jones)
Lachlan Philpott and Luke Mullins (Lake Disappointment)
Leah Purcell (The Drover’s Wife)
BEST NEWCOMER
Jonny Hawkins (Relatively Speaking)
James Raggatt (Spring Awakening)
Jessica Rookeward (Spring Awakening)
Mia Rorris (The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant)
Elijah Williams (Black Jesus)
BEST ENSEMBLE
Broken (Darlinghurst Theatre Company)
Savages (Darlinghurst Theatre Company)
Slut (Edgeware Forum and Rue de la Rocket)
Swallow (National Theatre of Parramatta)
BEST PRODUCTION OF A MUSICAL
Fiddler on the Roof (The Works Entertainment)
Little Shop of Horrors (Luckiest Productions and Tinderbox Productions in association with Hayes Theatre Co)
My Fair Lady (Opera Australia and John Frost)
Spring Awakening (atyp)
You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown (Hayes Theatre Co)
BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL
Dean Bryant (Little Shop of Horrors)
Mitchell Butel (Spring Awakening)
Roger Hodgman (Fiddler on the Roof)
Shaun Rennie (You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown)
JUDITH JOHNSON AWARD FOR BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Laura Bunting (Side Show)
Kerrie Anne Greenland (Side Show)
Esther Hannaford (Little Shop of Horrors)
Anna O’Byrne (My Fair Lady)
Jessica Rookeward (Spring Awakening)
JUDITH JOHNSON AWARD FOR BEST PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
David Campbell (Dream Lover)
Brent Hill (Little Shop of Horrors)
James Raggatt (Spring Awakening)
Anthony Warlow (Fiddler on the Roof)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Kate Cheel (Spring Awakening)
Hannah Fredericksen (Dream Lover)
Sheridan Harbridge (You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown)
Laura Murphy (You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Blake Bowden (Fiddler on the Roof)
Scott Johnson (Little Shop of Horrors)
Reg Livermore (My Fair Lady)
Mark Mitchell (Fiddler on the Roof)
BEST MUSICAL DIRECTION
Lucy Bermingham (Spring Awakening)
Daniel Edmonds (Dream Lover)
Michael Tyack (The Detective's Handbook)
Andrew Worboys (Little Shop of Horrors)
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY IN A MUSICAL
Amy Campbell (Spring Awakening)
Andrew Hallsworth (Dream Lover)
Andrew Hallsworth (Little Shop of Horrors)
Cameron Mitchell (Mack and Mabel)
BEST CABARET PRODUCTION
Cathartic (Cath Alcorn)
Liza’s Back (is broken) (Trevor Ashley)
Working Class Boy: An Evening of Stories and Songs (Jimmy Barnes)
To the Moon and Back (Gillian Cosgriff)
BEST PRODUCTION FOR CHILDREN
Hamlet: Prince of Skidmark (Sydney Theatre Company and The Listies)
Mr Stink (CDP)
The Peasant Prince (Monkey Baa)
BEST PRODUCTION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
The Big Dry (atyp and Ensemble Theatre)
Girl Asleep (Belvoir)
Jasper Jones (Belvoir)
Spring Awakening (atyp)
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Judi Farr
HONOUR ROLL
Des Davis – director
Anne Deveson – board member
Bob Ellis – playwright
Jon English – performer
Ronald Falk - actor
Lewis Fiander - actor
William Gaskill – director
Russell Kiefel - actor
John Martin - arts advocate and board member
David Page – composer and performer
Diana Perini – actor
Lois Ramsey – actor
Andris Toppe – choreographer
PRESENTERS
Damien Bermingham, Adam Cook, Mel Dyer, Danielle Ironside, Madeleine Jones, Angharad Lindley, Luke McGettigan, Pacharo Mzembe, Tyran Parke, Anthony Phelan, Rebecca Poulter, Ellen Simpson, Minka Stevens, Ben Wood, Vanessa Wright, Meyne Wyatt
PERFORMANCES
“A Musical”
David Whitney and Kurt Phelan
Taylor Anthony, Olivia Carniato, Joseph Donovan, Sally Hare, Sam Parkes, Stephen Perez, Monique Salle, Suzanne Steele, Kuki Tipoki, Max Trengrove, Jess Voivenel, Zachary Webster
Sally Alrich-Smythe, Jessica Balzer, Rachel Breeze, Devon Campbell, Jack Dawson, Sabrina Durante, Mannon Gunderson-Briggs, Zoe Ioannou, Brandyn Kaczmarczyk, Tom Lattimore, Savannah Lind, Chaye Mogg, Alexis O'Donnell, Zac Selmes, Hannah Wood
Director Tyran Parke
Choreographer Cameron Mitchell
Musical Director Daniel Edmonds
Rehearsal Pianist Matthew Reid
“Only Heaven Knows”
Ben Hall, David Campbell
Musical Director Daniel Edmonds
“Hard Times”
Robyn Archer
