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]
| Year | Recipient Writer(s) | Recipient Work | Nominees | Ref(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 | |
| 2005 | Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe & Phil Scott | The Republic of Myopia | - | |
| 2006 | Melvyn Morrow | Shakespearean Idol | Melvyn Morrow with John Michael Howson and David Mitchell for Dusty | |
| 2007 | Janis Balodis | Electric Lenin | Melissa Reeves for Tough Girls | [2] |
| 2008 | Sean Peter | Everything’s Fucked | - | |
| 2009 | Not awarded | |||
| 2010 | Sue Smith | Rembrandt’s Wife | Tracy Harvey and Doug Macleod for Call Girl the Musical | |
| 2011 | Cathryn Strickland | The Musical Child | Sarah Carradine for The Cockatoos | |
| 2012 | Not awarded | |||
| 2013 | Not awarded | |||
| 2014 | Not awarded | |||
| 2015 | Nicki Bloom | Little Bird | - | [3] |
| 2016 | Lally Katz | The Rabbits | - | [4] |
| 2017 | Danny Ginges with Philip Foxman | Atomic | - | [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 | |
| 2019 | Not awarded | |||
| 2020 | Yve Blake | Fangirls | Alana Valentine for Flight Memory Justin Fleming for Whiteley | |
| 2021 | Alana Valentine | Notre-Dame | - | |
| 2022 | Not awarded | |||
| 2024 | Alana Valentine and Christos Tsiolkas | Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan | Daniel Cullen with James Cullen for Dubbo Championship Wrestling | [6] |
| 2025 | Blake 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] |