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The Helpmann Award for Best New Australian Work is an award presented by Live Performance Australia (LPA), 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 in Australia.
The award is presented to the author, composer, book writer or lyricist of the production.
, the 2019 event was the last one held, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia.
Winners and nominees
Year Title Nominee(s) Genre 2001 Skin Stephen Page Ballet or Dance The Boy From Oz Nick Enright Musicals Life After George Hannie Rayson Theatre The Theft of Sita Nigel Jamieson 2002 Batavia Richard Mills and Peter Goldsworthy Opera Corroboree Stephen Page Ballet or Dance Mavis Goes to Timor Angela Chaplin, Katherine Thomson and Kavisha Mazzella Theatre A Man with Five Children Nick Enright Theatre 2003 Walkabout Stephen Page and Frances Rings Ballet or Dance Bill and Mary Bille Brown Theatre Love in the Age of Therapy Paul Grabowsky and Joanna Murray-Smith Opera Oboe Concerto for Diana Doherty Ross Edwards Classical Music 2004 Inheritance Hannie Rayson Theatre Phobia Douglas Horton and Gerry Brophy Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America - A Drama in 30 Scenes Stephen Sewell Theatre Held Garry Stewart, ADT Dancers and Lois Greenfield Ballet or Dance 2005 The Sapphires Tony Briggs Theatre Madeline Lee John Haddock with Michael Campbell Opera Eating Ice Cream With Your Eyes Closed David Brown Theatre Through the Wire Ros Horin Theatre 2006 Devolution Garry Stewart Ballet or Dance On the Case Debra Batton and Mark Murphy Physical or Visual Theatre Small Metal Objects Bruce Gladwin, Simon Laherty, Sonia Teuben, Genevieve Morris and Jim Russel Theatre Sydney Symphony Contemporary Music Festival: Mysterium Cosmographicum Michael Smetanin Classical Music 2007 The Lost Echo Barrie Kosky and Tom Wright Theatre The Adventures of Snugglepot & Cuddlepie and Little Ragged Blossom Alan John and John Clarke with Doug MacLeod Musicals / Presentation for Children Structure and Sadness Lucy Guerin Ballet or Dance Honour Bound Nigel Jamieson Visual or Physical Theatre The Love of the Nightingale Richard Mills and Timberlake Wertenbaker Opera Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott Musicals 2008 Toy Symphony Michael Gow Theatre Parramatta Girls Alana Valentine Theatre Glow Gideon Obarzanek Ballet or Dance When the Rain Stops Falling Andrew Bovell Theatre 2009 Shane Warne: The Musical Eddie Perfect Musicals Just Macbeth! Andy Griffiths Theatre / Presentation for Children FOOD COURT Back to Back Theatre with The Necks Theatre Metro Street Matthew Robinson Musicals 2010 Smoke and Mirrors Sydney Festival, Spiegeltent International, Craig Ilott and iOTA Cabaret Miracle BalletLab and Phillip Adams Ballet or Dance Bliss Brett Dean and Amanda Holden Opera Dirtsong The Black Arm Band with Steven Richardson and Alexis Wright 2011 Tim Minchin Vs Sydney Symphony Tim Minchin and Sydney Symphony Comedy Finucane and Smith's Carnival of Mysteries Finucane and Smith Cabaret Silent Disco Lachlan Philpott Theatre Moth Declan Greene Theatre Where the Heart Is Expressions Dance Company and Queensland Performing Arts Centre Ballet or Dance Songs from the Middle Eddie Perfect 2012 Angela's Kitchen Paul Capsis, Julian Meyrick and Hilary Bell Theatre Kursk: An Oratorio Requiem David Chisholm Classical Music Ganesh Versus the Third Reich Mark Deans, Marcia Ferguson, Bruce Gladwin, Nicki Holland, Simon Laherty, Sarah Mainwaring, Scott Price, Kate Sulan, Brian Tilley and David Woods Theatre Symphonia Eluvium Elena Kats-Chernin Classical Music Songs for Nobodies Joanna Murray-Smith Theatre 2013 The Secret River Kate Grenville. Adapted for the stage by Andrew Bovell Theatre Midnight Son Gordon Kerry and Louis Nowra Opera The Happiest Refugee Anh Do King Kong Craig Lucas (book), Marius de Vries (original music), Michael Mitnick and Richard Thomas (additional lyrics), featuring Songs and Original Compositions by 3D, Guy Garvey, Sarah McLachlan, Justice and The Avalanches Musicals Medea Kate Mulvany and Anne-Louise Sarks Theatre School Dance Matthew Whittet Theatre 2014 Pinocchio Rosemary Myers with Julianne O'Brien Musicals / Presentation for Children Wulamanayuwi & the Seven Pamanui Jason De Santis & Eamon Flack Theatre / Presentation for Children The Shadow King Tom E. Lewis and Michael Kantor Theatre Black Diggers Tom Wright Theatre 2015 The Rabbits Kate Miller-Heidke (composer), Lally Katz (librettist) and Iain Grandage (musical arrangements and additional music) Opera / Presentation for Children Little Bird Nicki Bloom (writer and co-lyricist), Quentin Grant (composer and co-lyricist) and Cameron Goodall (composer and co-lyricist) What Rhymes with Cars and Girls Aidan Fennessy (writer) and Tim Rogers (music and lyrics) Theatre Marlin Damien Millar Theatre / Presentation for Children Switzerland Joanna Murray-Smith Theatre Endings Tamara Saulwick & Peter Knight 2016 Ladies in BlackCarolyn Burns and Tim Finn with Simon PhillipsMusicalsPrize FighterFuture D. FidelTheatreBambert's Book of Lost StoriesDan Giovannoni and Luke KerridgeTheatre / Presentation for ChildrenThe Gallipoli SymphonyChristopher Latham, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Gareth Farr, Richard Nunns, Graeme Koehne AO, Peter Sculthorpe AO OBE, Elena Kats-Chernin, Kamran Ince, Ross Harris, Andrew Schultz, Ross Edwards and Demir DemirkanClassical MusicloreFrances Rings, Deborah Brown and Waangenga BlancoDancePicnic at Hanging Rock Tom WrightTheatre 2017 The Drover's WifeLeah PurcellTheatreHot Brown HoneyBusty Beatz and Lisa Fa’alafiCabaretThe Wider EarthDavid MortonTheatreJasper JonesKate MulvanyTheatreBackboneDarcy Grant, Elliot Zoerner, Shenton Gregory, Geoff Cobham, Jacob Randell, Jascha Boyce, Simon McClure, Lachlan Binns, Mieke Lizotte, Lewie West, Martin Schreiber, Joanne Curry, Lachlan Harper, Jackson Manson, Triton Tunis-Mitchell and Lewis RankinVisual or Physical TheatreGirl AsleepMatthew WhittetTheatre 2018 BennelongStephen PageBallet or Dance Hamlet Brett Dean and Matthew Jocelyn Opera Muriel's Wedding The MusicalPJ Hogan, Kate Miller-Heidke and Keir Nuttall Musicals Black is the New WhiteNakkiah Lui Theatre Laser Beak Man Nicholas Paine, David Morton, Tim Sharp and Sam Cromack Theatre Lano & Woodley — FlyColin Lane and Frank Woodley Comedy 2019 Counting and CrackingS. Shakthidharan and Eamon FlackTheatre Spinifex GumFelix RieblContemporary Music Barbara and the Camp DogsUrsula Yovich and Alana ValentineMusicals Blackie Blackie Brown: The Traditional Owner of DeathNakkiah LuiTheatre The Harp in the South: Part One and Part TwoKate Mulvany Theatre Lé Nør (The Rain) The Last Great Hunt and Artistic CollaboratorsTheatre
See also Helpmann Awards
References
External links The official Helpmann Awards website