Helpmann Award for
Best Male Actor in a Play
Awarded forBest Male Actor in a Play
LocationAustralia
Presented byLive Performance Australia
Currently held byPrakash Belawadi for Counting and Cracking (2019)
WebsiteHelpmannAwards.com.au

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.[1] This is a list of winners and nominations for the Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play.

Winners and nominees

   Winners are listed first and marked in a separate colour.
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[A]
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[B]
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[C]
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[D]
Marcus Graham Oedipus the King Oedipus
2007
(7th)
Jefferson Mays I Am My Own Wife Charlotte von Mahlsdorf[E]
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[F]
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[G]
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[H]
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 André
Daniel Monks The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man Joseph Merrick
2019
(19th)[4][5]
Prakash Belawadi Counting and Cracking Apah
Wayne Blair The Long Forgotten Dream Jeremiah Tucker
Kelton Pell Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Roo
Amer Hlehel TAHA Taha Muhammad Ali

See also

Notes

A^ : The character in The Christian Brothers is known as the "unnamed elderly Christian Brothers’ teacher"[6]
B^ : In The Blue Room Marcus Graham portrayed the male characters: Fred, Anton, Charles, Robert, Malcolm.[7]
C^ : Gulpilil is an autobiographical stage production, where David Gulpilil played himself.[8]
D^ : Macbeth was performed by Stephen Dillane as a one man show, who portrayed over thirty of the characters in the play.[9]
E^ : Jefferson Mays portrayed an additional forty characters in I Am My Own Wife.[10]
F^ : The character in The Tell-Tale Heart does not have a name.[11]
G^ : Robert Menzies' character in The End doesn't have a name and is known simply as Dying Man.[12]
H^ : Lucas Stibbard plays the lead roles of Thomas and Alethea, and various other characters in Boy Girl Wall.[13]

References

  1. ^ "Helpmann Awards - About". Helpmann Awards. Live Performance Australia (LPA). Archived from the original on 12 January 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
  2. ^ "Nominees". Helpmann Awards. Live Performance Australia. Archived from the original on 6 December 2008. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
  3. ^ "Australian Web Archive 2001 Helpmann Awards Nominees". Australian Entertainment Industry Association (AEIA). Australian Web Archive. Archived from the original on 17 July 2003. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
  4. ^ "2019 Nominees and Winners | Helpmann Awards". www.helpmannawards.com.au. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  5. ^ "2019 Helpmann Awards Act II presented". Limelight. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  6. ^ Erika Zimmer (26 October 2001). "Remembered horrors of a religious education". World Socialist Web Site. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
  7. ^ "Sigrid Thornton - The Blue Room". SigridThornton.com. Archived from the original on 27 November 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
  8. ^ "David Gulpilil - Biography". DavidGulpilil.com. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
  9. ^ Rebecca Baillie (16 February 2002). "One-man Macbeth divides audience". ABC Online. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
  10. ^ "I Am My Own Wife - Who's Who". IAmMyOwnWife.com. Archived from the original on 9 August 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
  11. ^ Bron Batten (21 November 2010). "The Tell-Tale Heart – Malthouse Theatre". Australian Stage Online. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
  12. ^ Jason Blake (20 April 2010). "The End". Smh.com.au. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
  13. ^ Bree Hadley (16 September 2011). "Boy Girl Wall 4 Lucas Stibbard". The Australian. News Limited. Retrieved 6 October 2011.

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