The Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play is an award presented by Live Performance Australia (LPA) (the trade name for the Australian Entertainment Industry Association (AEIA)), an employers' organisation which serves as the peak body in the live entertainment and performing arts industries in Australia. The accolade is handed out at the annual Helpmann Awards, which celebrates achievements in musical theatre, contemporary music, comedy, opera, classical music, theatre, dance and physical theatre. This is a list of winners and nominations for the Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play.
Winners and nominees
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Year Actor Production Character(s) 2001(1st) John Gaden The Unexpected Man The Man Bille Brown Troilus and Cressida Paris Kim Gyngell 'Art' Yvan Geoffrey Rush The Small Poppies Clint 2002(2nd) John Bell Richard III Richard III Peter Carroll The Christian Brothers Unnamed teacher Willem Dafoe The Hairy Ape Yank John Stanton The Tempest Prospero 2003(3rd) Colin Friels Copenhagen Werner Heisenberg Marcus Graham The Blue Room Various characters Benjamin Winspear Great Expectations Pip Max Cullen Waiting for Godot Estragon (Gogo) 2004(4th) Darren Gilshenan The Servant of Two Masters Truffaldino David Gulpilil Gulpilil Himself Frank Gallacher Frozen Ralph Paul Blackwell Night Letters Robert 2005(5th) Robert Menzies Journal of the Plague Year Daniel Defoe Richard Piper The Daylight Atheist Dan Morphett Aaron Pedersen Eating Ice Cream With Eyes Closed Macca William Zappa Death of a Salesman Willy Loman 2006(6th) Greg Stone Stuff Happens George W. Bush Robert Menzies Julius Caesar Marcus Brutus Stephen Dillane Macbeth Various characters Marcus Graham Oedipus the King Oedipus 2007(7th) Jefferson Mays I Am My Own Wife Charlotte von Mahlsdorf Cameron Goodall Hamlet Hamlet John Gaden The Lost Echo Tiresias Peter Carroll The Season At Sarsaparilla Girlie Pogson 2008(8th) Richard Roxburgh Toy Symphony Roland Henning Geoffrey Rush Exit the King King Berenger Marton Csokas Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? George Martin Niedermair The Tell-Tale Heart Unnamed 2009(9th) Ben Winspear Baghdad Wedding Salim Colin Moody Antigone Creon Greg Stone Blackbird Ray Robert Menzies War of the Roses Henry IV 2010(10th) Ewen Leslie Richard III King Richard III Paul Blackwell The Hypochondriac Argan Toby Schmitz Ruben Guthrie Ruben Guthrie Robert Menzies The End Dying Man 2011(11th) Geoffrey Rush The Diary of a Madman Poprishchin Richard Roxburgh Uncle Vanya Vanya Toby Schmitz Much Ado About Nothing Benedick Lucas Stibbard Boy Girl Wall Thomas, various 2012(12th) Paul Capsis Angela's Kitchen Various Bille Brown The Histrionic Bruscon Jack Charles Jack Charles v The Crown Himself Colin Friels Red Mark Rothko 2013(13th) Colin Friels Death of a Salesman Bruscon John Bell Henry 4 Falstaff Colin Moody Forget Me Not Gerry Nathaniel Dean The Secret River William Thornhill 2014(14th) Richard Roxburgh Waiting for Godot Estragon Paul Blackwell Vere (Faith) Vere Luke Carroll The Cake Man Sweet William Denis O'Hare An Iliad The Poet 2015(15th) Hugo Weaving Endgame Hamm Peter Carroll Oedipus Rex Oedipus Hunter Page-Lochard Brothers Wreck Ruben Steve Rodgers Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography 2016(16th) Mark Leonard Winter Birdland Paul Pacharo Mzembe Prize Fighter Isa Richard Roxburgh The Present Mikhail Platonov Dan Spielman The Blind Giant is Dancing Allen Fitzgerald 2017(17th) Mark Coles Smith The Drover's Wife Yadaka Jason Chong Chimerica Zhang Lin Colin Friels Faith Healer Francis Hardy Jason Klarwein Once in Royal David's City Will Drummond 2018(18th) Hugo Weaving The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Arturo Ui Toby Schmitz Thyestes Atreus John Bell AO The Father AndréDaniel Monks The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man Joseph Merrick 2019(19th) Prakash Belawadi Counting and Cracking ApahWayne Blair The Long Forgotten Dream Jeremiah TuckerKelton Pell Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Roo Amer Hlehel TAHA Taha Muhammad Ali
See also Helpmann Awards
Notes
A: The character in The Christian Brothers is known as the "unnamed elderly Christian Brothers’ teacher" B: In The Blue Room Marcus Graham portrayed the male characters: Fred, Anton, Charles, Robert, Malcolm. C: Gulpilil is an autobiographical stage production, where David Gulpilil played himself. D: Macbeth was performed by Stephen Dillane as a one man show, who portrayed over thirty of the characters in the play. E: Jefferson Mays portrayed an additional forty characters in I Am My Own Wife. F: The character in The Tell-Tale Heart does not have a name. G: Robert Menzies' character in The End doesn't have a name and is known simply as Dying Man. H: Lucas Stibbard plays the lead roles of Thomas and Alethea, and various other characters in Boy Girl Wall.
References
External links The official Helpmann Awards website