JC Williamson Award

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JC Williamson Award
Awarded forIn recognition of "individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the Australian live entertainment and performing arts industry and shaped the future of our industry for the better."
CountryAustralia
Presented byLive Performance Australia (LPA)
First awarded1998;25 years ago (1998)
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The JC Williamson Award (formally known as the James Cassius Williamson Award), is an lifetime achievement award presented annually as a sector of the Helpmann Awards, governed by Live Performance Australia.

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The awards are named after the American actor, who became Australia's foremost pioneering leading theatre entrepreneur James Cassius Williamson

The board of directors of the JC William Awards committee elects recipients who are members of the performing arts, art administrators, entrepreneurs, members of the media, playwrights, theatre producers, directors and politicians [1]

In 2020 and 2021, the awards where cancelled due to COVID-19, but it was announced in May 2021, that recipients will be awarded for the 2020 season. [2]

Recognition incitement

The awards are a lifetime achievement award in recognition with the incitement of "individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the Australian live entertainment and performing arts industry and shaped the future of our industry for the better", the award is the highest honour the LPA can bestow. [3] [4]


Operatic soprano, Dame Joan Sutherland, received the award in 2005. Dame Joan Sutherland, by Allan Warren.jpg
Operatic soprano, Dame Joan Sutherland, received the award in 2005.
Comedian, Barry Humphries, was the 2008 recipient. Barry Humphries July 2001.jpg
Comedian, Barry Humphries, was the 2008 recipient.

Recipients

YearRecipient(s)OccupationRef(s)
1998 Edna Edgley
Kenn Brodziak
Edna Edgley - Theatre entrepreneur
Kenn Brodzik - Concert promotor, producer, artist manager
[5]
1999 Googie Withers
John McCallum
Googie Withers - Stage and screen actress, dancer
John McCallum- theatre, film and TV actor and television producer
[5]
2000Award not given
2001 Ruth Cracknell Actress, comedienne and author [5]
Clifford Hocking Impresario and festival director [5]
2002 Kevin Jacobsen Concert promotor, former musician [5]
Graeme Murphy Dancer/Choreographer [5]
2003 Wendy Blacklock
John Robertson
Wendy Blacklock Actress, theatre entrepreneur
John Robertson - Producer
[5]
2004 John Farnham Singer [5]
John Sumner Founder and director of the Melbourne Theatre Company [5]
2005 Dame Joan Sutherland
David Williamson
(Dame) Joan Sutherland Coloratura Soprano
David Williamson - Playwright, dramatist
[6]
2006 John Clark Director [7]
Graeme Bell Musician
2007 Dame Margaret Scott Dancer/Choreographer, teacher, administrator [8]
Barry Tuckwell Musician
2008 Sue Nattrass Performer [9]
Barry Humphries Actor and comedian
2009 John Bell Actor, theatrical impresario [10]
Michael Gudinski Entertainment promotor, founder of Mushroom Records
2010 Tony Gould Queensland performing artsdirector [11]
Brian Nebenzahl
2011 Jill Perryman
Toni Lamond
Nancye Hayes
  • Jill Perryman - Actress and singer
  • Toni Lamond - Vaudevillian, cabaret performer, comedienne, actress, singer, dancer, writer, presenter
  • Nancye Hayes - Actress, singer, dancer/choreographer, director, narrator
[12]
2012 Jimmy Little
Katharine Brisbane
Jimmy Little - Country singer/musician
Katharine Brisbane - Journalist
[13]

[14]

2013 Kylie Minogue
David Bleckinsop
Kylie Minogue - Singer and actress
David Bleckinsop
[15] [16]
2014 John Frost Producer [17]
2015 Paul Kelly Musician, singer-songwriter [18]
2016 Stephen Page Artistic director[ citation needed ]
2017 Richard Tognetti Musician[ citation needed ]
2018 Robyn Archer
Reg Livermore
Robyn Nevin
Archie Roach
Jim Sharman
  • Robyn Archer -
    • Singer
    • writer
    • stage director
    • artistic director
    • arts patron
    Reg Livermore-
    • Actor
    • singer
    • theatrical performer
    • former television presenter
    Robyn Nevin
    • Actress
    • director
    • stage producer
    • theatre founder
    Archie Roach
    • Singer
    • songwriter
    • musician
    • Indigenous Australian rights activist
    Jim Sharman
    • Screen writer
    • director
    • producer
    • playwright
[ citation needed ]
2019 Kev Carmody Singer-songwriter, Musician [19]
2020 Deborah Cheetham, David McAllister Cheetham (Indigenous Australian soprano, actress, composer and playwright)
McAllister (German Australian Politician)
[2]

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