Winners announced for Green Room Awards
The 32nd Annual Green Room Awards were announced Monday, April 20, at the Comedy Theatre. The recipients of this year’s 62 awards included many dance companies and individual performers and choreographers. While The Australian Ballet went home empty-handed, Chunky Move received three awards and Bangarra Dance Theatre earned two. Shaun Parker was presented the Shirley McKechnie Award for Choreography for Am I, which was recently toured to the Movimentos Festival in Wolfsburg, Germany.
Former Australian Dance Theatre and Sydney Dance Company dancer and current Chunky Move member Lauren Langlois was awarded the Female Dancer Award for her performance in Anouk van Dijk’s Complexity of Belonging, presented by Melbourne Theatre Company and Chunky Move. Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Waangenga Blanco won the Male Dancer Award for his role in Patyegarang, which also earned the company Best Ensemble.
Chunky Move’s Next Move program was a winner as well, being recognised in individual awards and in a special Industry Contribution Award for Outstanding Contribution to Choreographic Development.
Furthermore, in the Music Theatre category, Susan Kikuchi received the Betty Pounder Award for Choreography for her rendition of Jerome Robbins’ The King And I, produced by John Frost, Opera Australia.
See the complete list of 2015 Green Room Award Winners below. For more information, visit www.greenroom.org.au.
CABARET
Production
Eurosmash
Die Roten Punkte
Artist
Geraldine Quinn
All Out Of Pride & MDMA: Modern Day Maiden Aunt
Writing
Ash Flanders
Special Victim
Musical Direction
Jane Patterson
Ginger & Tonic’s Desperate & Dateless
Original Songs
Andrew Strano and Loclan Mackenzie-Spencer
Nailed It!
Outstanding Contribution to Cabaret
Ali McGregor
Ali McGregor’s LateNite Variety-Nite Night
CONTEMPORARY AND EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE
Outstanding Work by an Emerging Artist
Fluvial
Matthias Schack-Arnott
Next Wave Festival, Speak Percussion
Outstanding Contemporary Circus
A Simple Space
Gravity and Other Myths
Darebin Arts’ Speakeasy
Curatorial Contribution to Contemporary Performance
Going Nowhere, Arts House
Outstanding Contemporary and Experimental Performance
Reach Out Touch Faith
Sarah Rodigari in collaboration with Joshua Sofaer
Going Nowhere, Arts House
Geoffrey Milne Memorial Award
Margaret Cameron
DANCE
Shirley McKechnie Award for Choreography
Shaun Parker
Am I
Shaun Parker & Company
Concept and Realisation
Lilian Steiner
Noise Quartet Meditation
Lilian Steiner
AND
James Batchelor
Island
James Batchelor
Ensemble
Cast of Patyegarang
Bangarra Dance Theatre
Female Dancer
Lauren Langlois
Complexity of Belonging
Melbourne Theatre Company and Chunky Move
Male Dancer
Waangenga Blanco
Patyegarang
Bangarra Dance Theatre
Music, Sound Design and Performance
Alisdair Macindoe
Princess
Benjamin Hancock/Chunky Move
Visual Design
Jack Hancock (costume) and Bosco Shaw (lighting)
Princess
Benjamin Hancock/Chunky Move
INDEPENDENT THEATRE
Production
The Trouble With Harry
MKA, Darebin Arts’ Speakeasy, Melbourne Festival
Costume Design
Chloe Greaves
Body of Work
Director
Alyson Campbell
The Trouble With Harry
MKA, Darebin Arts’ Speakeasy, Melbourne Festival
Ensemble
Cast of I Heart John McEnroe
Clare Watson, Uninvited Guests, Theatre Works
Female Performer
Maria Mercedes
Master Class
Left Bauer Productions, fortyfivedownstairs
Male Performer
Angus Cerini
Resplendence
Angus Cerini/Doubletap, Neon Festival of Independent Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company
Lighting Design
Lisa Mibus
My Lovers’ Bones
Brown Cab Productions, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne Festival
Sound Design and Composition
Jesse Cox, Luke Mynott and Joff Bush
Wael Zuaiter: Unknown
Theatre Works, Next Wave Festival
Writing
Marcel Dorney
Prehistoric
Elbow Room Productions, Darebin Arts’ Speakeasy, Melbourne Fringe
MUSIC THEATRE
Actor In A Leading Role
Hayden Tee
Les Miserables
Cameron Mackintosh
AND
Tom Parsons
Once
John Frost, Melbourne Theatre Company
Actress In A Leading Role
Madeleine Jones
Once
John Frost, Melbourne Theatre Company
Actor In A Supporting Role
Adrian Li Donni
Pacific Overtures
Watch This, Auspicious Projects, Theatre Works
Actress In A Supporting Role
Yong Ying Woo
The King And I
John Frost, Opera Australia
Ensemble
The cast of Once
John Frost, Melbourne Theatre Company
Direction
John Tiffany
Once
John Frost, Melbourne Theatre Company
Betty Pounder Award for Choreography
Jerome Robbins and Susan Kikuchi
The King And I
John Frost, Opera Australia
Musical Direction
Martin Lowe and Kellie Dickerson
Once
John Frost, Melbourne Theatre Company
Sound Design
Clive Goodwin
Once
John Frost, Melbourne Theatre Company
Costume and Set Design
Roger Kirk (costume) and Brian Thomson (set)
The King And I
John Frost, Opera Australia
Lighting Design
Natasha Katz
Once
John Frost, Melbourne Theatre Company
Production
Once
John Frost, Melbourne Theatre Company
OPERA
Direction
Kasper Holten
Eugene Onegin
Opera Australia
Production
Eugene Onegin
Opera Australia
Conductor
Guillaume Tourniaire
Eugene Onegin
Opera Australia
Female Lead
Nicole Car
Tatyana, Eugene Onegin
Opera Australia
Female In A Supporting Role
Dominica Matthews
Madame Larina, Eugene Onegin
Opera Australia
Male Lead
Barry Ryan
Scully, The Riders
Victorian Opera, Malthouse Theatre
Male In A Supporting Role
Daniel Sumegi
Sparafucile, Rigoletto
Opera Australia
Design
Mia Stensgaard (set), Katrina Lindsay (costume), Wolfgang Goebbel (lighting)
Eugene Onegin
Opera Australia
New Australian Opera
The Riders
Victorian Opera, Malthouse Theatre
THEATRE COMPANIES
Writing/Adaptation for the Australian Stage
Roslyn Oades and Collaborators
Hello, Goodbye and Happy Birthday
Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Festival
Female Actor
Melita Jurisic
Miriam Sword, Night On Bald Mountain
Malthouse Theatre
Male Actor
Andre de Vanny
Ray’, Glory Dazed
Red Stitch Actors Theatre
Ensemble
The Cast of Henry V
Bell Shakespeare
Lighting Design
Paul Jackson
Body of Work
Audio Visual Design and Animation
Matthew Gingold (audio visual design) and Matt Greenwood (animation)
Calpurnia Descending
Sisters Grimm, Malthouse Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company
Set and Costume Design
Dale Ferguson
Night On Bald Mountain
Malthouse Theatre
Sound Design and Composition
Pete Goodwin (The Sweats)
Yellow Moon
Melbourne Theatre Company
Direction
Kirsten Von Bibra
Grounded
Red Stitch Actors Theatre
Production
Henry V
Bell Shakespeare
SPECIAL AWARDS
Outstanding Contribution to Choreographic Development
Next Move
Chunky Move
Technical Achievement Award
Maruska Blyszczak
Lifetime Achievement Award
Nance Grant
Photo (top): Shaun Parker & Company performs AM I. Photo courtesy of Shaun Parker. Photo (left): Waangenga Blanco in Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Patyegarang. Photo by Jess Bialek. Photo (bottom right): Lauren Langlois in Chunky Move and Melbourne Theatre Company’s Complexity of Belonging. Photo by Jeff Busby.