2012 Green Room Award winners announced

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

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