Green Room Awards Nominations for 2007

The Green Room Awards Nominations for the 2007 Theatre year have been announced. For those of you who haven't seen them, here are the details: MUSIC THEATRE DIRECTION AND STAGING * Laurence Connor (Direction) - Miss Saigon^ * Neil Armfield (Direction) - Keating!^ * Simon Phillips (Direction) - Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical^ * Mike Nichols (Direction) – Spamalot^ * Michael Kantor and Cast (Direction) - Sleeping Beauty^ COSTUME AND/OR SET DESIGN * Andreane Neotou (Costume) - Miss Saigon^ * Adrian Vaux (Set) - Miss Saigon^ * Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner (Costumes) - Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical * Brian Thomson (Set) - Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical^ * Tim Hatley (Set and Costume) – Spamalot^ LIGHTING, SOUND, A/V DESIGN * David Hersey (Lighting) - Miss Saigon^ * Peter Grubb (Sound) - Miss Saigon^ * Damien Cooper (Lighting) - Keating!^ * Hugh Vanstone (Lighting) – Spamalot^ * Nick Schlieper (Lighting) - Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical^ CHOREOGRAPHY IN A MUSICAL * Geoffrey Garratt and Bob Avian - Miss Saigon^ * Ross Coleman - Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical^ * Casey Nicholaw – Spamalot^ MUSICAL DIRECTION AND/OR ORCHESTRATIONS * Guy Simpson (Musical Direction) - Miss Saigon^ * William David Brohn (Orchestrations) - Miss Saigon^ * Stephen “Spud” Murphy (Musical Direction and Orchestrations) - Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical^ * Peter Casey (Musical Direction) – Spamalot^ * Sophie Thomas (Musical Direction) - Mary Bryant MALE ARTIST IN A FEATURED ROLE * Eddie Perfect (John Hewson/Alexander Downer) - Keating!^ * Terry Serio (Bob Hawke/John Howard) - Keating!^ * Derek Metzger (Patsy) – Spamalot^ * Thern Reynolds (Billy Lawlor) - 42nd Street^ * Mark Conaghan (Historian/Prince Herbert) – Spamalot^ FEMALE ARTIST IN A LEADING ROLE * Laurie Cadevida (Kim) - Miss Saigon^ * Ana Marina (Christine) - The Phantom of the Opera^ * Sharon Millerchip (Charity) - Sweet Charity^ * Donna Lee (The Dubbo Housewife) - Menopause the Musical * Lucinda Shaw (Lady of the Lake) – Spamalot^ MALE ARTIST IN A LEADING ROLE * Mitchell Butel (Noble Egglestone and All the Men in Bell’s Life) - Little Me^ * Leo Tavarro Valdez (The Engineer) - Miss Saigon^ * Tony Sheldon (Bernadette) - Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical^ * Mike McLeish (Paul Keating) - Keating!^ * Bille Brown (King Arthur) – Spamalot^ ENSEMBLE / FEATURED ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE * The Divas - Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical^ * Ensemble - Keating!^ BEST PRODUCTION * Keating!^ * Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical^ * Miss Saigon^ * Spamalot^ CABARET BEST SHOW * Barry Humphries & Friends - Back With A Vengeance!^ * Yana Alana And Tha Paranas - Bite Me * Meow Meow – Meow Meow Beyond Beyond Glamour: The Remix * Michael Dalley & Paul McCarthy - Intimate Apparel * The Beautiful Losers – Fresh Filth^ BEST ARTISTE * Meow Meow - Meow Meow Beyond Beyond Glamour: The Remix * Barry Humphries - Barry Humphries & Friends - Back With A Vengeance!^ * Sarah Ward – Yana Alana And Tha Paranas - Bite Me * Queenie van de Zandt – I Get The Music In You^ MUSICAL DIRECTION * Paul Grabowsky - Meow Meow Beyond Beyond Glamour: The Remix * Sarah Ward, Bec Matthews, Frances Evans & Ania Reynolds - Yana Alana And Tha * Paranas - Bite Me * The Beautiful Losers – Fresh Filth^ * Tripod – How to Train an Attack Dog from Scratch BEST ORIGINAL SONGS * Tripod – How to Train an Attack Dog from Scratch * Sally Bourne - The Sally Bourne Identity * Sarah Ward, Bec Matthews, Frances Evans & Ania Reynolds - Yana Alana And Tha * Paranas - Bite Me BEST ENSEMBLE * Tripod – How to Train an Attack Dog from Scratch * The Beautiful Losers – Fresh Filth^ * Yana Alana And Tha Paranas - Bite Me * Intimate Apparel DIRECTION * Paul McCarthy - The Needle and the Damage Done^ * Anni Davey - Yana Alana And Tha Paranas - Bite Me INNOVATIVE USE OF FORM * The Needle and the Damage Done^ * How to Train an Attack Dog from Scratch DANCE BETTY POUNDER AWARD FOR ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHY * Stephen Baynes - Constant Variants (from New Romantics triple bill - Australian Ballet) * Antony Hamilton - The Counting (from Pieces for Small Spaces - Lucy Gerin Inc.) CONCEPT AND REALISATION * Bec Reid and Luke George – Home (Stompin Youth) * Bec Reid - 180 Seconds in Heaven and Hell (North Melbourne Arts House) * Angus Cerini - Chapters from the Pandemic (Atmosphere Dance) * Lucy Guerin - Pieces for Small Spaces (Lucy Guerin Inc) DANCE ENSEMBLE * The Cast - This Show is About People (Shaun Parker/ Maguerite Pepper/Melbourne International Arts Festival) * The Cast - 42nd Street^ (The Production Company) * BalletLab - Brindabella * Lucy Guerin Inc - Aether * The Australian Ballet - Les Presages MUSIC COMPOSITION AND PERFORMANCE FOR DANCE * Mara Kiek and Llew Kiek – This Show is About People (Shaun Parker/ Maguerite * Pepper/Melbourne International Arts Festival) * David Chisholm – Brindabella (BalletLab) * Kelly Ryall - Chapters from the Pandemic DESIGN FOR DANCE * Genevieve Dugard - Emeret Lu (Bangara Dance Theatre) * Robert Cousins - This Show is about People (Shaun Parker/ Maguerite Pepper/Melbourne International Arts Festival) * Tatyana Van Walsum - Symphonie Fantasique (from Destinies double bill - Australian Ballet) LIGHTING FOR DANCE * Niklas Pajanti - This Show Is About People (Shaun Parker/ Maguerite Pepper/Melbourne International Arts Festival) * Bluebottle 3 – Brindabella (BalletLab) MALE DANCER * Connor Dowling - Ever After Ever (Sydney Dance Company) * Nobuo Fujino - Le Corsaire (Australian Ballet) * Joseph Janusaitis (The Don) - Don Quixote (Australian Ballet) * Robert Curran - Year’s work with the Australian Ballet FEMALE DANCER * Yolande Brown - True Stories (Bangarra Dance Theatre) * Stephanie Lake - Year's Work (Aether, Pieces for Small Spaces) * Jane Casson - Year’s Work with the Australian Ballet * Madeleine Eastoe (Clara) - The Nutcracker (Australian Ballet) * Brooke Stamp – Brindabella (BalletLab) OPERA PRODUCTION * Rusalka - Opera Australia^ * Crossing Live - Chamber Made * The Tales of Hoffmann - Opera Australia^ * Alcina - Opera Australia^ * The Love of the Nightingale - Victorian Opera^ DIRECTION * Justin Way – Alcina (Opera Australia)^ * Olivia Fuchs – Rusalka (Opera Australia)^ * Ariette Taylor - Crossing Live (Chamber Made) * Lindy Hume - The Love of the Nightingale (Victorian Opera)^ DESIGN * Niki Turner – Rusalka (Opera Australia)^ * Roger Kirk - The Tales of Hoffmann (Opera Australia) * Shaun Gurton - Crossing Live (Chamber Made) * Andrew Hays and Kimm Kovak – Alcina (Opera Australia)^ LIGHTING * Matt Scott - Orphee and Eurydice (Victorian Opera) * Bruno Poet – Rusalka (Opera Australia)^ * Nick Schlieper - Il Trovatore (Opera Australia) * Damien Cooper – Alcina (Opera Australia)^ MALE ARTIST IN A SUPPORTING ROLE * Kanen Breen (Nathanael/Cochenille) - The Tales of Hoffmann (Opera Australia) * James Egglestone (Captain/Hippolytus/Narrator) - The Love of the Nightingale (Victorian Opera) * Barry Ryan (Gamekeeper) – Rusalka (Opera Australia)^ * Jud Arthur (Ferrando) - Il Trovatore (Opera Australia) FEMALE ARTIST IN A SUPPORTING ROLE * Milijana Nikolic (The Voice of Antonia’s Mother) - The Tales of Hoffmann (Opera Australia) * Sian Pendry (The Kitchen Boy) – Rusalka (Opera Australia)^ * Dominica Matthews (Nicklause) - The Tales of Hoffmann (Opera Australia) * Sue Braatvedt (The Princess) – Suor Angelica (Melbourne Opera) * Sarah Crane (Hero) - The Love of the Nightingale (Victorian Opera)^ MALE ARTIST IN A LEADING ROLE * Teddy Tahu Rhodes (Don Giovanni) - Don Giovanni (Opera Australia) * Doug McNicol (Tereus) - The Love of the Nightingale (Victorian Opera) * John Pringle (Leporello) - Don Giovanni (Opera Australia) * Luke Gabbedy (Figaro) - The Barber of Seville (Opera Australia) * Roy Best (Turiddu) - Cavalleria Rusticana (Melbourne Opera) FEMALE ARTIST IN A LEADING ROLE * Sally Matthews (Rusalka) – Rusalka (Opera Australia)^ * Dimity Shepherd (Paula Day) - Crossing Live (Chamber Made) * Catherine Carby (Ruggiero) – Alcina (Opera Australia)^ * Joanna Cole (Angelica) - Suor Angelica (Melbourne Opera) * Emma Matthews (Stella/Olympia/Giulietta/Antonia) - The Tales of Hoffmann (Opera Australia) CONDUCTOR * Antony Walker – Alcina (Opera Australia)^ * Giovanni Reggioli - Il Trovatore (Opera Australia) * Richard Gill - The Love of the Nightingale (Victorian Opera)^ * Greg Hocking – Carmen (Melbourne Opera) BEST NEW AUSTRALIAN WORK * Richard Mills and Timberlake * Wertenbaker - The Love of the Nightingale (Victorian Opera)^ * Bryony Marks and Matt Saville - Crossing Live (Chamber Made) OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO THE OPERATIC ART FORM To be announced at the ceremony on 20 April 2008 THEATRE (INDEPENDENT) SET AND/OR COSTUME DESIGN * Amanda Johnson (Set) – Asylum (Here Theatre/La Mama) * Jolyon James, Mark Winter, Simon Stone (Set) and Mel Page (Costumes) - * Spring Awakening (The Hayloft Project) * Dayna Morrissey (Set) - White With Wire Wheels (Union House Theatre) * Bryony Jackson, Willoh S Weiland (Set) – Antidote (LUPA/art) * Anna Tregloan (Set) – Holiday (Ranter’s Theatre)^ LIGHTING DESIGN * Niklas Pajanti – Holiday (Ranters Theatre)^ * Bronwyn Pringle - Letters from Animals (Here Theatre/The Store Room Theatre Workshop) * Philip Peck – Antidote (LUPA/art) SOUND DESIGN * David Franzke – Holiday (Ranters Theatre)^ * Jess Ipkendanz - The Kreutzer Sonata and Raising the Dead (Night Train Productions at La Mama) * Darrin Verhagen - Antidote (LUPA/art) SOLO PERFORMER – ONE PERSON SHOW * James Pratt (Sebastian Flange) - They Shoot Poets, Don’t They! (Iron Dog Productions/La Mama) * David Tredinnick - (The Pilot Version of) Something to Die For (The Store Room Theatre Workshop) * Humphrey Bower - Raising the Dead and The Kreutzer Sonata (Night Train Production at La Mama) * Josephine Lange - Her Secret Face (La Mama) * Kate Kendall - The Lover (The Stork Hotel)^ MALE PERFORMER * Kevin Hopkins (Mark) - Osama the Hero (La Mama/The Rabble) * Peter King (Gayev) - The Cherry Orchard (Actors Anonymous) * Paul Lum (Performer) - Holiday (Ranters Theatre)^ * Patrick Moffat (Performer) – Holiday (Ranters Theatre)^ * Luke Mullins (Elliot) - Mercury Fur (Little Death Productions/Theatre Works company initiative programme) FEMALE PERFORMER * Wahibe Moussa (Mahala/Afghan Woman) - Homebody/Kabul (Theatre@Risk) * Gillian Murray (Ranayevska) - The Cherry Orchard (Actors Anonymous) * Zoe Ellerton-Ashley (Sally Banner) - The Chapel Perilous (La Mama) * Georgina Capper (Shelley/Vulture) - Letters from Animals (Store Room Theatre Workshop) * Mikaela Martin – Antidote (LUPA/art) DIRECTION * Vanessa Chapple - Her Secret Face (La Mama) * Paulo Castro - B-File (La Mama) * Adriano Cortese – Holiday (Ranters Theatre)^ * Susie Dee - White With Wire Wheels (Union House Theatre) * Rochelle Whyte – Antidote (LUPA/art) PRODUCTION * Raising the Dead - Humphrey Bower and Jess Ipkendanz (Night Train Productions at La Mama) * B-File - Paulo Castro (at La Mama) * Holiday - Ranters Theatre * The Kreutzer Sonata - Night Train Productions at La Mama * Antidote - Rochelle Whyte (LUPA/art) THEATRE (NEW FORM) OUTSTANDING VISUAL DESIGN AND SPATIAL CONCEPTUALISATION * Emilie Barrie (Costumes) - Hunger * Talya Chalef (Spatial Conceptualisation) - In Other Words * Marg Horwell (Set and Spatial Conceptualisation) - Chapters from the Pandemic^ * Sarah Kriegler and Jacob Williams (Set and Puppetry) - Apples and Ladders * Gaelle Mellis (Set) - Cake OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN * Rachel Burke - Chapters from the Pandemic^ * Paul Jackson - Black * Paul Lim - Detest (This Thousand Years I Shall Not Weep) * Andrew Livingstone - Cake OUTSTANDING VIDEO – SCENOGRAPHY * Michael Carmody - Chapters from the Pandemic^ * Suzon Fuks - Quivering: A Matter of Life and Death * Alex Gibson - Senseless OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN / MUSIC * Kelly Ryall - Chapters from the Pandemic^ * Jethro Woodward - Hunger * Aaron Cuthbert - Operation * Rob Stewart - Senseless * Julie Robson, Catherine Mundy & Brett Collery - The Quivering OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE * Angus Cerini - Detest (This Thousand Years I Shall Not Weep) * Luke Elliot - Crossing Live * Ensemble of Actors - The Controlled Falling Project * Sam Routledge - Operation * Jo Stone - The B File OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION * Small Metal Objects - Back to Back Theatre * Detest (This Thousand Years I Shall Not Weep) - Doubletap Productions and La Mama * Black - Malthouse Theatre * Hunger - Rawcus Theatre THEATRE (COMPANIES) STAGE DESIGN * Anna Tregloan – Criminology (Malthouse Theatre)^ * Michael Scott-Mitchell - Ying Tong (Sydney Theatre Company presented by Melbourne Theatre Company)^ * Dale Ferguson - Body of work * Stephen Curtis - The Government Inspector (Bell Shakespeare Company)^ * Anna Borghesi - The Spook (Malthouse Theatre)^ MUSIC AND/OR SOUND DESIGN * Jeremy Silver (Sound) - Ying Tong (Sydney Theatre Company presented by Melbourne Theatre Company)^ * Jethro Woodward (Sound) - Criminology (Malthouse Theatre)^ * Barrie Kosky (Music) - The Tell-Tale Heart (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne International Arts Festival)^ * John Rodgers (Music) & Russell Goldsmith (Sound) - Exit the King (Malthouse Theatre/Belvoir Street Theatre)^ * Christian Leavesley & Phil Rolfe (Sound) - OT Chronicles (Malthouse Theatre) LIGHTING DESIGN * Damien Cooper - Body of work * Paul Jackson - Body of work * Matt Scott – The Pillowman (Melbourne Theatre Company)^ * Kerry Saxby - Thom Pain (Melbourne Theatre Company) * Richard Dinnen - The Spook (Malthouse Theatre)^ MALE ACTOR * Jonathan Biggins (Peter Sellers) - Ying Tong (Sydney Theatre Company presented by Melbourne Theatre Company)^ * Martin Sharpe (Jason/Alex) - Rabbithole/ The Little Dog Laughed * Martin Neidermair (A Man) The Tell-Tale Heart (Malthouse Theatre/Melbourne International Arts Festival)^ * Geoffrey Rush (King Berenger) - Exit the King (Malthouse Theatre/Belvoir Street Theatre) * Bill Zappa (Mayor/Mayor’s Wife & 11 other characters) - The Government Inspector (Bell Shakespeare Company)^ FEMALE ACTOR * Alison Bell (Honey/Sleeping Beauty/Young Wife/Communist Librarian & Policewoman) -Body of work^ * Bojana Novakovic (Una) – Criminology (Malthouse Theatre)^ * Kat Stewart (Diane) - The Little Dog Laughed (Red Stitch) * Sarah Pierse (Lia) – Enlightenment (Melbourne Theatre Company) * Maria Theodorakis (Eli) - The Spook (Malthouse Theatre)^ DIRECTION * Richard Cottrell - Ying Tong (Sydney Theatre Company presented by Melbourne Theatre Company)^ * Neil Armfield - Exit the King (Malthouse Theatre/Belvoir Street Theatre)^ * John Bell - The Government Inspector (Bell Shakespeare Company)^ * Barrie Kosky - The Tell-Tale Heart (Malthouse Theatre/Melbourne International Arts Festival)^ * Peter Evans - The History Boys (Melbourne Theatre Company)^ PRODUCTION * Ying Tong - Sydney Theatre Company presented by Melbourne Theatre Company^ * The History Boys - Melbourne Theatre Company^ * The Government Inspector - Bell Shakespeare Company^ * The Tell-Tale Heart - Malthouse Theatre/Melbourne International Arts Festival^ * Exit the King - Belvoir St Theatre / Malthouse Theatre^ ASSOCIATION AWARDS BEST NEW AUSTRALIAN WRITING * Holiday - Raimondo Cortese^ * I Love You Bro - Adam Cass * The Ghost Writer – Ross Mueller * The Fag from Zagreb - Lally Katz * (The Pilot Version of) Something to Die For - Ross Mueller TO BE ANNOUNCED AT THE CEREMONY ON 20 APRIL 2008 Dame Joan Hammond Award for a Singer with Vocal Promise Technical Achievement Award John Truscott Award for Excellence in Design LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD TO BE ANNOUNCED ON 1 APRIL 2008