Helpmann Award for Best New Australian Work
| Helpmann Award Best New Australian Work | |
|---|---|
| Country | Australia |
| Presented by | Live Performance Australia |
| First awarded | 2001 |
| Currently held by | Leah Purcell for The Drover's Wife (2017) |
| Website | Official website |
The Helpmann Award for Best New Australian Work is an award presented by Live Performance Australia (LPA), an employers' organisation which serves as the peak body in the live entertainment and performing arts industries in Australia. The accolade is handed out at the annual Helpmann Awards, which celebrates achievements in musical theatre, contemporary music, comedy, opera, classical music, theatre, dance and physical theatre in Australia.[1]
The award is presented to the author, composer, book writer or lyricist of the production.[2]
Winners and nominees[]
Winners are listed first and marked in a separate colour, in boldface.
| Year | Title | Nominee(s) | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 (1st)[3] | |||
| Skin | Stephen Page | Ballet or Dance | |
| The Boy From Oz | Nick Enright | Musicals | |
| Life After George | Hannie Rayson | Theatre | |
| 2002 (2nd) | |||
| Batavia | Richard Mills and Peter Goldsworthy | Opera | |
| Corroboree | Stephen Page | Ballet or Dance | |
| , Katherine Thomson and Kavisha Mazzella | Theatre | ||
| Nick Enright | Theatre | ||
| 2003 (3rd) | |||
| Walkabout | Stephen Page and Frances Rings | Ballet or Dance | |
| Bille Brown | Theatre | ||
| Love in the Age of Therapy | Paul Grabowsky and Joanna Murray-Smith | Opera | |
| Oboe Concerto for Diana Doherty | Ross Edwards | Classical Music | |
| 2004 (4th) | |||
| Inheritance | Hannie Rayson | Theatre | |
| Douglas Horton and | |||
| Stephen Sewell | Theatre | ||
| Held | Garry Stewart, ADT Dancers and Lois Greenfield | Ballet or Dance | |
| 2005 (5th) | |||
| The Sapphires | Tony Briggs | Theatre | |
| Madeline Lee | with Michael Campbell | Opera | |
| David Brown | Theatre | ||
| Theatre | |||
| 2006 (6th) | |||
| Devolution | Garry Stewart | Ballet or Dance | |
| On the Case | and Mark Murphy | Physical or Visual Theatre | |
| Small Metal Objects | , Simon Laherty, Sonia Teuben, Genevieve Morris and | Theatre | |
| Sydney Symphony Contemporary Music Festival: Mysterium Cosmographicum | Classical Music | ||
| 2007 (7th) | |||
| Barrie Kosky and Tom Wright | Theatre | ||
| The Adventures of Snugglepot & Cuddlepie and Little Ragged Blossom | Alan John and John Clarke with Doug MacLeod | Musicals / Presentation for Children | |
| Lucy Guerin | Ballet or Dance | ||
| Visual or Physical Theatre | |||
| The Love of the Nightingale | Richard Mills and Timberlake Wertenbaker | Opera | |
| Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott | Musicals | |
| 2008 (8th)[4] | |||
| Toy Symphony | Michael Gow | Theatre | |
| Parramatta Girls | Alana Valentine | Theatre | |
| Glow | Gideon Obarzanek | Ballet or Dance | |
| When the Rain Stops Falling | Andrew Bovell | Theatre | |
| 2009 (9th) | |||
| Shane Warne: The Musical | Eddie Perfect | Musicals | |
| Just Macbeth! | Andy Griffiths | Theatre / Presentation for Children | |
| FOOD COURT | Back to Back Theatre with The Necks | Theatre | |
| Metro Street | Matthew Robinson | Musicals | |
| 2010 (10th) | |||
| Sydney Festival, , and iOTA | Cabaret | ||
| Miracle | and | Ballet or Dance | |
| Bliss | Brett Dean and Amanda Holden | Opera | |
| The Black Arm Band with Steven Richardson and Alexis Wright | |||
| 2011 (11th) | |||
| Tim Minchin Vs Sydney Symphony | Tim Minchin and Sydney Symphony | Comedy | |
| Finucane and | Cabaret | ||
| Silent Disco | Lachlan Philpott | Theatre | |
| Theatre | |||
| and Queensland Performing Arts Centre | Ballet or Dance | ||
| Eddie Perfect | |||
| 2012 (12th) | |||
| Angela's Kitchen | Paul Capsis, and Hilary Bell | Theatre | |
| David Chisholm | Classical Music | ||
| Ganesh Versus the Third Reich | Mark Deans, Marcia Ferguson, Bruce Gladwin, Nicki Holland, Simon Laherty, Sarah Mainwaring, Scott Price, Kate Sulan, Brian Tilley and David Woods | Theatre | |
| Elena Kats-Chernin | Classical Music | ||
| Songs for Nobodies | Joanna Murray-Smith | Theatre | |
| 2013 (13th) | |||
| The Secret River | Kate Grenville. Adapted for the stage by Andrew Bovell | Theatre | |
| Midnight Son | Gordon Kerry and Louis Nowra | Opera | |
| Anh Do | |||
| King Kong | Craig Lucas (book), Marius de Vries (original music), Michael Mitnick and Richard Thomas (additional lyrics), featuring Songs and Original Compositions by 3D, Guy Garvey, Sarah McLachlan, Justice and The Avalanches | Musicals | |
| Kate Mulvany and Anne-Louise Sarks | Theatre | ||
| Matthew Whittet | Theatre | ||
| 2014 (14th) | |||
| Pinocchio | Rosemary Myers with Julianne O'Brien | Musicals / Presentation for Children | |
| Wulamanayuwi & the Seven Pamanui | Jason De Santis & Eamon Flack | Theatre / Presentation for Children | |
| The Shadow King | Tom E. Lewis and Michael Kantor | Theatre | |
| Black Diggers | Tom Wright | Theatre | |
| 2015 (15th)[5] | |||
| The Rabbits | Kate Miller-Heidke (composer), Lally Katz (librettist) and Iain Grandage (musical arrangements and additional music) | Opera / Presentation for Children | |
| Little Bird | Nicki Bloom (writer and co-lyricist), Quentin Grant (composer and co-lyricist) and Cameron Goodall (composer and co-lyricist) | ||
| What Rhymes with Cars and Girls | Aidan Fennessy (writer) and Tim Rogers (music and lyrics) | Theatre | |
| Marlin | Damien Millar | Theatre / Presentation for Children | |
| Switzerland | Joanna Murray-Smith | Theatre | |
| Endings | Tamara Saulwick & Peter Knight | ||
| 2016 (16th) | |||
| Ladies in Black | Carolyn Burns and Tim Finn with Simon Phillips | Musicals | |
| Prize Fighter | Future D. Fidel | Theatre | |
| Bambert's Book of Lost Stories | Dan Giovannoni and Luke Kerridge | Theatre / Presentation for Children | |
| The Gallipoli Symphony | Christopher Latham, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Gareth Farr, Richard Nunns, Graeme Koehne AO, Peter Sculthorpe AO OBE, Elena Kats-Chernin, Kamran Ince, Ross Harris, Andrew Schultz, Ross Edwards and Demir Demirkan | Classical Music | |
| lore | Frances Rings, Deborah Brown and Waangenga Blanco | Dance | |
| Picnic at Hanging Rock | Tom Wright | Theatre | |
| 2017 (17th) | |||
| The Drover's Wife | Leah Purcell | Theatre | |
| Hot Brown Honey | Busty Beatz and Lisa Fa’alafi | Cabaret | |
| The Wider Earth | David Morton | Theatre | |
| Jasper Jones | Kate Mulvany | Theatre | |
| Backbone | Darcy Grant, Elliot Zoerner, Shenton Gregory, Geoff Cobham, Jacob Randell, Jascha Boyce, Simon McClure, Lachlan Binns, Mieke Lizotte, Lewie West, Martin Schreiber, Joanne Curry, Lachlan Harper, Jackson Manson, Triton Tunis-Mitchell and Lewis Rankin | Visual or Physical Theatre | |
| Girl Asleep | Matthew Whittet | Theatre | |
| 2018 (18th)[6] | |||
| Bennelong | Stephen Page | Ballet or Dance | |
| Hamlet | Brett Dean and Matthew Jocelyn | Opera | |
| Muriel's Wedding The Musical | PJ Hogan, Kate Miller-Heidke and Keir Nuttall | Musicals | |
| Black is the New White | Nakkiah Lui | Theatre | |
| Laser Beak Man | Nicholas Paine, David Morton, Tim Sharp and Sam Cromack | Theatre | |
| Lano & Woodley — Fly | Colin Lane and Frank Woodley | Comedy | |
| 2019 (19th)[7][8] | |||
| Counting and Cracking | S. Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack | Theatre | |
| Spinifex Gum | Felix Riebl | Contemporary Music | |
| Barbara and the Camp Dogs | Ursula Yovich and Alana Valentine | Musicals | |
| Blackie Blackie Brown: The Traditional Owner of Death | Nakkiah Lui | Theatre | |
| The Harp in the South: Part One and Part Two | Kate Mulvany | Theatre | |
| Lé Nør (The Rain) | The Last Great Hunt and Artistic Collaborators | Theatre |
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Helpmann Awards - About". Helpmann Awards. Live Performance Australia (LPA). Archived from the original on 12 January 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
- ^ "Rules of the Helpmann Awards - Chapter 3 - Rule 6.10" (PDF). Helpmann Awards. Live Performance Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
- ^ "Australian Web Archive 2001 Helpmann Awards Nominees". Australian Entertainment Industry Association (AEIA). Australian Web Archive. Archived from the original on 17 July 2003. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
- ^ "Nominees". Helpmann Awards. Live Performance Australia. Archived from the original on 6 December 2008. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
- ^ "2015 Nominees and Winners". Helpmann Awards. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
- ^ "2018 Nominees and Winners | Helpmann Awards". www.helpmannawards.com.au. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
- ^ "2019 Nominees and Winners | Helpmann Awards". www.helpmannawards.com.au. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
- ^ "2019 Helpmann Awards Act II presented". Limelight. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
External links[]
Categories:
- Helpmann Awards
- Awards established in 2001
- 2001 establishments in Australia