The Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Play is a theatre award, presented by Live Performance Australia (LPA) at the annual Helpmann Awards since 2001. In the following list winners are listed first and marked in gold, in boldface, and the nominees are listed below with no highlight. Neil Armfield has won the most awards, with four, and is tied the most nominated director with Simon Phillips, both gandering nine nominations.
Winners and nominees
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Year Director Production 2001(1st) Benedict Andrews La Dispute Kate Cherry Life After George Neil Armfield The Small Poppies Simon Phillips Measure For Measure 2002(2nd) Neil Armfield Cloudstreet Rodney Fisher Master Class Simon Phillips The Tempest Benedict Andrews Three Sisters 2003(3rd) Michael Blakemore Copenhagen Simon Phillips The Blue Room Simon Phillips Great Expectations Neil Armfield Waiting for Godot 2004(4th) Simon Phillips Inheritance John Bell The Servant of Two Masters Julian Meyrick Frozen Neil Armfield The Lieutenant of Inishmore 2005(5th) Jim Sharman Three Furies Robyn Nevin Hedda Gabler Michael Blakemore Democracy Wesley Enoch Riverland 2006(6th) Marion Potts The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? Simon Phillips King Lear Ariane Mnouchkine Le Dernier Caravansérail Declan Donnellan Twelfth Night 2007(7th) Barrie Kosky The Lost Echo Benedict Andrews The Season At Sarsaparilla Michael Hill Waiting for Godot Wesley Enoch Parramatta Girls 2008(8th) Neil Armfield Toy Symphony Benedict Andrews Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Barrie Kosky The Tell-Tale Heart John Tiffany Black Watch 2009(9th) Benedict Andrews War of the Roses Barrie Kosky Women of Troy Peter Evans Blackbird Neil Armfield Scorched 2010(10th) Simon Phillips Richard III Thomas Ostermeier Hamlet Michael Kantor Happy Days Neil Armfield The Book of Everything 2011(11th) Neil Armfield The Diary of a Madman Simon Stone The Wild Duck Wesley Enoch Waltzing The Wilarra Benedict Andrews Measure for Measure 2012(12th) Benedict Andrews Gross und Klein (Big and Small) Rachael Maza Jack Charles v The Crown Simon Phillips Songs for Nobodies Sam Strong The Boys2013(13th) Neil Armfield The Secret River Lee Lewis The School for Wives Anne-Louise Sarks Medea Rosemary Myers School Dance2014(14th) Michael Kantor The Shadow King Andrew Upton Waiting For Godot Ivo van Hove Roman Tragedies Sam Strong The Floating World2015(15th) Kip Williams Suddenly Last Summer Andrew Upton Endgame Sarah Goodes Switzerland Clare Watson What Rhymes With Cars And Girls2016(16th) Lee Lewis The Bleeding Tree Kip Williams Love and Information Eamon Flack Ivanov Simon Phillips North by Northwest2017(17th) Leticia Caceres The Drover's Wife Kip Williams Chimerica Judy Davis Faith Healer Susie Dee SH*T2018(18th) Sarah Goodes The Children Matthew Lutton The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man Kip Williams Cloud Nine Kip Williams The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui2019(19th)Eamon Flack and S. Shakthidharan Counting and Cracking Declan Greene Blackie Blackie Brown: The Traditional Owner of Death Imara Savage Saint JoanKip Williams The Harp in the South: Part One and Part Two
See also Helpmann Awards
References
External links The official Helpmann Awards website