AWGIE Award for Stage

The AWGIE Award for Stage is awarded by the Australian Writers' Guild at the annual AWGIE Awards for Australian performance writing. The award is for the playscript. To be eligible, the play must have had its first professional production (as distinct from reading) in the previous year.^[1]

David Williamson has received the award five times, over the period 1972 to 1988. Andrew Bovell has also won five times (once jointly), over the period 1997 to 2014. Hannie Rayson, Nick Enright and Patricia Cornelius have all won three times.

Award recipients are:^[2]

1971: Michael Boddy & Bob Ellis for The Legend of King O'Malley*
1972: David Williamson for The Removalists*
1973: David Williamson for Don's Party
1974: Dorothy Hewett for Bon-Bons & Roses for Dolly and Ron Blair for President Wilson in Paris
1975: Jim McNeil for How Does Your Garden Grow?*
1976: Not awarded
1977: Steve J. Spears for The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin*
1978: David Williamson for The Club*
1979: Ron Blair for Marx
1980: David Williamson for Travelling North and David Allen for Upside Down at the Bottom of the World
1981: Gordon Graham for Demolition Job
1982: Ron Elisha for Einstein*
1983: Stephen Sewell for Welcome the Bright World
1984: Ron Elisha for Two
1985: John Upton for Machiavelli Machiavelli
1986: Jack Davis for No Sugar and Hannie Rayson for Room to Move
1987: Michael Gow for Away*
1988: David Williamson for Emerald City
1989: Paul M. Davies for On Shifting Sandshoes
1990: Nick Enright for Daylight Saving*
1991: Hannie Rayson for Hotel Sorrento
1992: Gordon Graham for The Boys
1993: Alma DeGroen for The Girl Who Saw Everything
1994: Nicholas Parsons for Dead Heart
1995: Scott Taylor for Clipped Wings^[3]
1996: Nick Enright for Blackrock
1997: Andrew Bovell for Speaking in Tongues
1998: Andrea Lemon for Rodeo Noir*
1999: Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Melissa Reeves, Christos Tsiolkas for Who's Afraid of the Working Class* and Justin Monjo & Nick Enright for Cloudstreet*
2000: Timothy Daly for The Private Visions of Gottfried Kellner
2001: Hannie Rayson for Life After George
2002: Andrew Bovell for Holy Day
2003: Katherine Thomson with Angela Chaplin & Kavisha Mazzella for Mavis Goes To Timor
2004: Stephen Sewell for Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America
2005: Melissa Reeves for The Spook*
2006: Patricia Cornelius for Love
2007: Tommy Murphy for Holding The Man^[4]
2008: Tom Holloway for Beyond the Neck
2009: Andrew Bovell for When the Rain Stops Falling
2010: Tom Holloway for And No More Shall We Part
2011: Patricia Cornelius for Do Not Go Gentle*
2012: Lachlan Philpott for Silent Disco
2013: Kate Mulvany & Anne-Louise Sarks for Medea
2014: Andrew Bovell for The Secret River
2015: Donna Abela for Jump for Jordan^[5]
2016: Angus Cerini for The Bleeding Tree^[6]
2017: Leah Purcell for The Drover's Wife*^[7]
2018: Michelle Lee for Rice
2019: Kate Mulvany for The Harp in the South*
2020: Suzie Miller for Prima Facie*
2021: Kodie Bedford for Cursed!*

Note: [*] indicates where the play was also awarded the Major AWGIE Award across all categories

References[]

^ "2017 AWGIE Award - Categories and Conditions of Entry" (PDF). Australian Writers Guild. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
^ "AWGIE Award Winners 1968 - 2016" (PDF). Australian Writers' Guild. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
^ "The 'unknown' Awgies go upmarket". The Canberra Times. Vol. 70, no. 22, 023. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 4 August 1995. p. 10. Retrieved 11 July 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Clubland takes out Outstanding Script of the Year at 40th Annuel AWGIE Awards". if.com.au. Retrieved 2017-06-29.
^ Bailey, John (2015-09-14). "Playwrights honoured at Australian Writers' Guild awards". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2017-06-29.
^ "The Code tops the AWGIE Awards". if.com.au. Retrieved 2017-06-29.
^ Maddox, Garry (2017-08-26). "Hacksaw Ridge and Lion win but Leah Purcell's The Drover's Wife dominates Awgies". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2017-08-26.

[1] "2017 AWGIE Award - Categories and Conditions of Entry" (PDF). Australian Writers Guild. Retrieved 29 June 2017.

[2] "AWGIE Award Winners 1968 - 2016" (PDF). Australian Writers' Guild. Retrieved 11 July 2017.

[3] "The 'unknown' Awgies go upmarket". The Canberra Times. Vol. 70, no. 22, 023. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 4 August 1995. p. 10. Retrieved 11 July 2017 – via National Library of Australia.

[4] "Clubland takes out Outstanding Script of the Year at 40th Annuel AWGIE Awards". if.com.au. Retrieved 2017-06-29.

[5] Bailey, John (2015-09-14). "Playwrights honoured at Australian Writers' Guild awards". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2017-06-29.

[6] "The Code tops the AWGIE Awards". if.com.au. Retrieved 2017-06-29.

[7] Maddox, Garry (2017-08-26). "Hacksaw Ridge and Lion win but Leah Purcell's The Drover's Wife dominates Awgies". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2017-08-26.

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