AWGIE Award for Music Theatre

The AWGIE Award for Music Theatre is awarded by the Australian Writers Guild at the annual AWGIE Awards for Australian performance writing.

The award is for the script/text, lyrics or book of works written for the theatre in which music plays an integral part, such as opera libretti, musicals, revue, musical theatre, theatre restaurant and original cabaret. To be eligible, works must have had their first formal production in the previous year.^[1]

Award recipients are:

2003: Hilary Bell for The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Ruysch
2004: Jonathan Biggins with Ignatius Jones & Philip Scott for Orpheus in the Underworld
2005: Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe & Phil Scott for The Republic of Myopia
2006: Melvyn Morrow for Shakespearean Idol
2007: Janis Balodis for Electric Lenin^[2]
2008: Sean Peter for Everything’s Fucked
2009: Not awarded
2010: Sue Smith for Rembrandt’s Wife
2011: Cathryn Strickland for The Musical Child
2012: Not awarded
2013: Not awarded
2014: Not awarded
2015: Nicki Bloom for Little Bird^[3]
2016: Lally Katz for The Rabbits^[4]

References

↑ "2017 AWGIE Award - Categories and Conditions of Entry" (PDF). Australian Writers Guild. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
↑ "Clubland takes out Outstanding Script of the Year at 40th Annuel AWGIE Awards". if.com.au. Retrieved 2017-06-29.
↑ Bailey, John (2015-09-14). "Playwrights honoured at Australian Writers' Guild awards". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2017-06-29.
↑ "The Code tops the AWGIE Awards". if.com.au. Retrieved 2017-06-29.

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