AWGIE Award for Music Theatre

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The AWGIE Award for Music Theatre is awarded by the Australian Writers Guild at the annual AWGIE Awards for Australian performance writing.

The award is for the script/text, lyrics or book of works written for the theatre in which music plays an integral part, such as opera libretti, musicals, revue, musical theatre, theatre restaurant and original cabaret. To be eligible, works must have had their first formal production in the previous year. [1]

YearRecipient Writer(s)Recipient WorkNomineesRef(s)
2003 Hilary Bell The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Ruysch-
2004 Jonathan Biggins with Ignatius Jones & Philip Scott Orpheus in the Underworld Dean Bryant for Jumpin' the Q
2005Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe & Phil Scott The Republic of Myopia -
2006 Melvyn Morrow Shakespearean IdolMelvyn Morrow with John Michael Howson and David Mitchell for Dusty
2007Janis BalodisElectric LeninMelissa Reeves for Tough Girls [2]
2008Sean PeterEverything’s Fucked-
2009Not awarded
2010 Sue Smith Rembrandt’s Wife Tracy Harvey and Doug Macleod for Call Girl the Musical
2011Cathryn StricklandThe Musical ChildSarah Carradine for The Cockatoos
2012Not awarded
2013Not awarded
2014Not awarded
2015Nicki BloomLittle Bird- [3]
2016 Lally Katz The Rabbits - [4]
2017Danny Ginges with Philip FoxmanAtomic- [5]
2018 PJ Hogan with Kate Miller-Heidke & Keir Nuttall (lyrics)
and Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus & Stig Anderson (lyrics)
Muriel's Wedding the Musical Alana Valentine with Ursula Yovich for Barbara and the Camp Dogs
Stephen Vizard for Vigil
2019Not awarded
2020 Yve Blake Fangirls Alana Valentine for Flight Memory
Justin Fleming for Whiteley
2021 Alana Valentine Notre-Dame-
2022Not awarded
2024Alana Valentine and Christos Tsiolkas Watershed: The Death of Dr DuncanDaniel Cullen with James Cullen for Dubbo Championship Wrestling [6]
2025Blake Erickson and Jay James-Moody (book), Laura Murphy (lyrics and music) The Dismissal: An Extremely Serious Musical Comedy Jules Orcullo for Forgetting Tim Minchin
Christine Evans for Three Marys
[7] [8]

References

  1. "2017 AWGIE Award - Categories and Conditions of Entry" (PDF). Australian Writers Guild. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  2. "Clubland takes out Outstanding Script of the Year at 40th Annuel AWGIE Awards". if.com.au. Retrieved 2017-06-29.
  3. Bailey, John (2015-09-14). "Playwrights honoured at Australian Writers' Guild awards". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2017-06-29.
  4. "The Code tops the AWGIE Awards". if.com.au. Retrieved 2017-06-29.
  5. 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.
  6. Slatter, Sean (2024-02-15). "'The Royal Hotel', 'Late Night with the Devil' win AWGIEs, Shane Brennan honoured". IF Magazine. Retrieved 2024-02-17.
  7. "Full List of Nominees for The 57th Annual AWGIE Awards" (PDF). Australian Writers Guild.
  8. Slatter, Sean (2025-02-13). "'Inside', 'Addition' on top at AWGIEs". IF Magazine. Retrieved 2025-02-17.