2015 SYDNEY THEATRE AWARD NOMINATIONS MAINSTAGE BEST MAINSTAGE PRODUCTION Endgame (Sydney Theatre Company) Ivanov (Belvoir) The Present (Sydney Theatre Company) Suddenly Last Summer (Sydney Theatre Company) The Wizard of Oz (Belvoir) BEST DIRECTION Eamon Flack (Ivanov) Andrew Upton (Endgame) Kip Williams (Love and Information) Kip Williams (Suddenly Last Summer) BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE Paula Arundell (The Bleeding Tree) Cate Blanchett (The Present) Jacqueline McKenzie (Orlando) Eryn Jean Norvill (Suddenly Last Summer) BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Colin Friels (Mortido) Ewen Leslie (Ivanov) Josh McConville (Hamlet) Hugo Weaving (Endgame) BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Blazey Best (Ivanov) Jacqueline McKenzie (The Present) Susan Prior (The Present) Helen Thomson (Ivanov) BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Matthew Backer (The Tempest) John Bell (Ivanov) John Howard (Ivanov) Barry Otto (Seventeen) BEST STAGE DESIGN Alice Babidge (Suddenly Last Summer) Marg Horwell (La Traviata) Renée Mulder (The Bleeding Tree) Nick Schlieper (Endgame) BEST COSTUME DESIGN Alice Babidge (Mother Courage and her Children) Alice Babidge (Suddenly Last Summer) Alicia Clements (After Dinner) Marg Horwell (La Traviata) BEST LIGHTING DESIGN Paul Jackson (Love and Information) Nick Schlieper (Endgame) Nick Schlieper (King Lear) Emma Valente (The Wizard of Oz) BEST SCORE OR SOUND DESIGN Stefan Gregory (Suddenly Last Summer) Max Lyandvert (Endgame) Max Lyandvert (The Wizard of Oz) The Sweats (Love and Information) INDEPENDENT BEST INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION Cock (Red Line Productions in association with Mardi Gras Festival) The Dapto Chaser (Apocalypse Theatre Company in association with Griffin Theatre Company) Grounded (Seymour Centre, Red Stitch and the US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney) Misterman (Siren Theatre Company in association with Red Line Productions) Of Mice and Men (Sport for Jove and Seymour Centre) BEST DIRECTION Shane Bosher (Cock) Kate Gaul (Misterman) Glynn Nicholas (The Dapto Chaser) Iain Sinclair (Of Mice and Men) BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE Kate Box (Dolores) Kate Cole (Grounded) Belinda Giblin (Blonde Poison) Matilda Ridgway (Cock) BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Thomas Campbell (Misterman) Ben Gerrard (I Am My Own Wife) Anthony Gooley (Of Mice and Men) Andrew Henry (Of Mice and Men) BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Taylor Ferguson (Good Works) Lucy Goleby (Good Works) Deborah Galanos (The House of Ramon Iglesia) Natasha Herbert (The Unspoken Word is ‘Joe’) BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE James Bell (The Aliens) Andre de Vanny (Of Mice and Men) Christopher Stollery (Of Mice and Men) Jeremy Waters (The Aliens) BEST STAGE DESIGN Simon Greer (Violet) Michael Hankin (Deathtrap) Michael Hankin (Of Mice and Men) Hugh O’Connor (The Aliens) BEST COSTUME DESIGN Brendan Hay (Man of La Mancha) Michael Hankin (Of Mice and Men) Melanie Liertz (Love’s Labour’s Lost) Angela White (Heathers) BEST LIGHTING DESIGN Michele Bauer (Cock) Ross Graham (Violet) Sian James-Holland (Of Mice and Men) Hartley TA Kemp (Misterman) BEST SCORE OR SOUND DESIGN Nate Edmondson (Misterman) Nate Edmondson (Of Mice and Men) Jeremy Silver (Violet) Daryl Wallis (The Dapto Chaser) OTHER NOMINATIONS BEST NEW AUSTRALIAN WORK The Bleeding Tree (Angus Cerini) Boys Will Be Boys (Melissa Bubnic) Kill the Messenger (Nakkiah Lui) Mortido (Angela Betzien) BEST NEWCOMER Kerrie Anne Greenland (Les Miserables) Charlotte Hazzard (War Crimes) Lauren McKenna (Heathers) Stephen Madsen (Heathers) Lasarus Ratuere (Kill the Messenger) BEST ENSEMBLE After Dinner (Sydney Theatre Company) Love and Information (Sydney Theatre Company) Seventeen (Belvoir) War Crimes (atyp) BEST PRODUCTION OF A MAINSTREAM MUSICAL Anything Goes (Opera Australia and John Frost) Les Miserables (Cameron Mackintosh) Matilda (The Royal Shakespeare Company, Louise Withers, Michael Coppel and Michael Watt) The Sound of Music (John Frost, Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Ian and the Really Useful Group) BEST PRODUCTION OF AN INDEPENDENT MUSICAL Dogfight (Neil Gooding Productions in association with Hayes Theatre Co) Heathers (Showqueen Productions and Working Management in association with Hayes Theatre Co) Man of La Mancha (Squabbalogic) Violet (Blue Saint Productions in association with Hayes Theatre Co) BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL Trevor Ashley (Heathers) Mitchell Butel (Violet) Neil Gooding (Dogfight) Jay James-Moody (Man of La Mancha) JUDITH JOHNSON AWARD FOR BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL Hilary Cole (Dogfight) Samantha Dodemaide (Violet) Jaz Flowers (Heathers) Amy Lehpamer (The Sound of Music) JUDITH JOHNSON AWARD FOR BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MUSICAL Simon Gleeson (Les Miserables) Stephen Madsen (Rent) Tony Sheldon (Man of La Mancha) Hayden Tee (Les Miserables) FOR BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MUSICAL Marika Aubrey (Matilda) Jacqueline Dark (The Sound of Music) Elise McCann (Matilda) Lauren McKenna (Heathers) FOR BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MUSICAL Damien Bermingham (Violet) Daniel Frederiksen (Matilda) Stephen Madsen (Heathers) James Millar (Matilda) MUSICAL DIRECTION Lucy Bermingham (Violet) Paul Geddes (Man of La Mancha) Isaac Hayward (Dogfight) Bev Kennedy (Heathers) BEST CABARET PRODUCTION Josie Lane (Asian Provocateur) Elise McCann (Everybody Loves Lucy) Rob Mills (Rob Mills is Surprisingly Good) Phil Scott (Reviewing the Situation) BEST PRODUCTION FOR CHILDREN The 52-Storey Treehouse (CDP) Erth’s Prehistoric Aquarium (Erth) The Listies Ruin Xmas (Sydney Opera House) Snugglepot and Cuddlepie (CDP) BEST PRODUCTION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Shellshock (Riverside Productions) A Town Named War Boy (ATYP) The Unknown Soldier (Monkey Baa Theatre Company) War Crimes (ATYP) SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Molly Barwick, Sasha Rose, Georgia Taplin, Bella Thomas (Matilda) LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD To be announced at the Awards ceremony .