The AWGIE Award for Stage is awarded by the Australian Writers' Guild at the annual AWGIE Awards for Australian performance writing. The award is for the playscript. To be eligible, the play must have had its first professional production (as distinct from reading) in the previous year.
David Williamson has received the award five times, over the period 1972 to 1988. Andrew Bovell has also won five times (once jointly), over the period 1997 to 2014. Hannie Rayson, Nick Enright, Patricia Cornelius and Tom Holloway have all won three times. __NOTOC__ Winners Award recipients include: 1971: Michael Boddy & Bob Ellis for The Legend of King O'Malley 1972: David Williamson for The Removalists 1973: David Williamson for Don's Party 1974: Dorothy Hewett for Bonbons and Roses for Dolly and Ron Blair for President Wilson in Paris 1975: Jim McNeil for How Does Your Garden Grow? 1976: Not awarded 1977: Steve J. Spears for The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin 1978: David Williamson for The Club 1979: Ron Blair for Marx 1980: David Williamson for Travelling North and David Allen for Upside Down at the Bottom of the World 1981: Gordon Graham for Demolition Job 1982: Ron Elisha for Einstein 1983: Stephen Sewell for Welcome the Bright World 1984: Ron Elisha for Two 1985: John Upton for Machiavelli Machiavelli 1986: Jack Davis for No Sugar and Hannie Rayson for Room to Move 1987: Michael Gow for Away 1988: David Williamson for Emerald City 1989: Paul M. Davies for On Shifting Sandshoes 1990: Nick Enright for Daylight Saving 1991: Hannie Rayson for Hotel Sorrento 1992: Gordon Graham for The Boys 1993: Alma DeGroen for The Girl Who Saw Everything 1994: Nicholas Parsons for Dead Heart 1995: Scott Taylor for Clipped Wings 1996: Nick Enright for Blackrock 1997: Andrew Bovell for Speaking in Tongues 1998: Andrea Lemon for Rodeo Noir 1999: Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Melissa Reeves, Christos Tsiolkas for Who's Afraid of the Working Class and Justin Monjo & Nick Enright for Cloudstreet 2000: Timothy Daly for The Private Visions of Gottfried Kellner 2001: Hannie Rayson for Life After George 2002: Andrew Bovell for Holy Day 2003: Katherine Thomson with Angela Chaplin & Kavisha Mazzella for Mavis Goes To Timor 2004: Stephen Sewell for Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America 2005: Melissa Reeves for The Spook 2006: Patricia Cornelius for Love 2007: Tommy Murphy for Holding The Man 2008: Tom Holloway for Beyond the Neck 2009: Andrew Bovell for When the Rain Stops Falling 2010: Tom Holloway for And No More Shall We Part 2011: Patricia Cornelius for Do Not Go Gentle 2012: Lachlan Philpott for Silent Disco 2013: Kate Mulvany & Anne-Louise Sarks for Medea 2014: Andrew Bovell for The Secret River 2015: Donna Abela for Jump for Jordan 2016: Angus Cerini for The Bleeding Tree 2017: Leah Purcell for The Drover's Wife 2018: Michelle Lee for Rice 2019: Kate Mulvany for The Harp in the South 2020: Suzie Miller for Prima Facie 2021: Kodie Bedford for Cursed! 2022/23: Maxine Mellor for Horizon [original]; Elaine Acworth for My Father's Wars [adapted] 2024: Dylan Van Den Berg for Whitefella Yella Tree [original]; Tom Holloway for Museum of Modern Love [adapted] 2025: Hilary Bell for Summer of Harold [original]; Verity Laughton for The Dictionary of Lost Words [adapted]
Footnotes Also awarded the Major AWGIE Award across all categories
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