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2012 Green Room Awards Recipients


::Alternative & Hybrid Performance::

Outstanding Production
Shifting Ground - Zoe Scoglio (Arts House)

Outstanding Production - Creative Agency for Audiences
The Stream/The Boat/The Shore/The Bridge - Dan Koop (Next Wave Festival)

Innovation and Excellence in Circus
Carousel - One Trick Pony (Melbourne Fringe Festival) 


::Cabaret::

Production
Candice McQueen: Nasty! - Spanky

Artiste
Spanky - Candice McQueen: Nasty! 

Writing
Tommy Bradson - The Men My Mother Loved

 Musical Direction
James Baker - A Hip Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

Innovation
DasShoku Shake

Special Award for Lifetime Contribution to Cabaret
Bob Downe 


::Dance::

Betty Pounder Award for Choreography
Antony Hamilton - Black Project 1 and Keep Everything (Antony Hamilton & Chunky Move)

Female Dancer
Natalie Allen - 2 One Another (Sydney Dance Company)

Male Dancer
Alistair Macindoe - Year's Work (Lucy Guerin Inc & Chunky Move)

Ensemble
Sydney Dance Company - 2 One Another

Design
Damien Cooper - The Narrative of Nothing (Lighting), The Australian Ballet

Sound and Music
Helen Mountford and Ria Soemardjo - Tower Suites (Composition and Performance), Ros Warby

Concept and Realisation
Black Project 1 - Antony Hamilton


::Music Theatre::

Actress in a Leading Role
Silvie Paladino - Chess

Actor in a Leading Role
Wayne Scott-Kermond - The Producers

Actor in a Supporting Role
Hugh Sheridan - A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum

Actress in a Supporting Role
Alinta Chidzey - Chess

Choreography
Tony Bartuccio - Chess

Design - Lighting and/or Sound
Peter Grubb, Mark Benson & David Tonion for System Sound - Chess (sound)

Design - Set and/or Costume
Krystal Giddings - Chess (Costume)

Direction
Gale Edwards - Chess

Musical Direction
Andrew Greene - South Pacific

Outstanding Musical Production
Chess - The Production Company


::Opera::

Direction
Nicki Wendt - Midnight Son (Victorian Opera)

Production
Salome - Opera Australia

Design
Julie Lynch (Costumes), Brian Thomson (Set) and John Rayment (Lighting) - Salome (Opera Australia)

Conductor
Simon Hewett - Salome (Opera Australia)

Female Principal
Cheryl Barker (Salome) - Salome (Opera Australia)

Male Principal
Giorgio Caoduro (Enrico) - Lucia di Lammermoor (Opera Australia)

Female Support
Dimity Shepherd (Cherubino) - The Marriage of Figaro (Victorian Opera)

Male Support
Thomas Hall (Jokanaan) - Salome (Opera Australia)

New Australian Opera
Midnight Son - Gordon Kerry (Composer) and Louis Nowra (Librettist)

 
::Theatre - Companies::

Female Actor
Eryn Jean Norvill (Waitress/Angie) - Top Girls (MTC)

Male Actor
Colin Friels (Mark Rothko) - Red (MTC)

Lighting Design
Damien Cooper - Macbeth (Bell Shakespeare)

Set and/or Costume Design
Anna Cordingley (Set & Costume Design) - Macbeth (Bell Shakespeare)

Sound/Composition
David Franzke (Composition & Sound Design) - Pompeii L.A. (Malthouse)

Direction
Matthew Lutton - On The Misconception of Oedipus

Production
Top Girls by Caryl Churchill - MTC

Ensemble
Cast of On The Misconception of Oedipus - Malthouse & Perth Theatre Co.
 
Writing/Adaptation for the Australian Stage
Tom Wright (adaptation) On The Misconception of Oedipus - Malthouse & Perth Theatre Co.


::Theatre - Independent::

Male Performer
Richard Bligh (performer) - The McNeil Project (fortyfivedownstairs)

Female Performer
Karen Sibbing (Alma) - Persona (Fraught Outfit and Theatre Works)

Set and/or Costume Design
Dayna Morrissey (Set & Costume) - Persona (Fraught Outfit and Theatre Works)

Lighting Design
Danny Pettingill - Persona (Fraught Outfit and Theatre Works)

Sound/Music
Ellen Warkentine and Mat Sweeney (Music Composition) - The Temptation of St Antony (Four Larks)

Direction
Adena Jacobs - Persona (Fraught Outfit and Theatre Works)

Production
Persona - Fraught Outfit and Theatre Works

Writing
Tim Spencer - Show Me Yours, I'll Show You Mine

Special Award for Contribution to Independent Theatre in Melbourne
MKA - North Melbourne Season for found space, design, writing and performances 


::Association Award::

Lifetime Achievement Award
Colin Peasley OAM 


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