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]


Year	Recipient Writer(s)	Recipient Work	Nominees	Ref(s)
2003	Hilary Bell	The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Ruysch	-
2004	Jonathan Biggins with Ignatius Jones & Philip Scott	Orpheus in the Underworld	Dean Bryant for Jumpin' the Q
2005	Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe & Phil Scott	The Republic of Myopia	-
2006	Melvyn Morrow	Shakespearean Idol	Melvyn Morrow with John Michael Howson and David Mitchell for Dusty
2007	Janis Balodis	Electric Lenin	Melissa Reeves for Tough Girls	^[2]
2008	Sean Peter	Everything’s Fucked	-
2009	Not awarded
2010	Sue Smith	Rembrandt’s Wife	Tracy Harvey and Doug Macleod for Call Girl the Musical
2011	Cathryn Strickland	The Musical Child	Sarah Carradine for The Cockatoos
2012	Not awarded
2013	Not awarded
2014	Not awarded
2015	Nicki Bloom	Little Bird	-	^[3]
2016	Lally Katz	The Rabbits	-	^[4]
2017	Danny Ginges with Philip Foxman	Atomic	-	^[5]
2018	PJ Hogan with Kate Miller-Heidke & Keir Nuttall (lyrics) and Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus & Stig Anderson (lyrics)	Muriel's Wedding the Musical	Alana Valentine with Ursula Yovich for Barbara and the Camp Dogs Stephen Vizard for Vigil
2019	Not awarded
2020	Yve Blake	Fangirls	Alana Valentine for Flight Memory Justin Fleming for Whiteley
2021	Alana Valentine	Notre-Dame	-
2022	Not awarded
2024	Alana Valentine and Christos Tsiolkas	Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan	Daniel Cullen with James Cullen for Dubbo Championship Wrestling	^[6]

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.
^ Maddox, Garry (2017-08-26). "Hacksaw Ridge and Lion win but Leah Purcell's The Drover's Wife dominates Awgies". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2017-08-26.
^ Slatter, Sean (2024-02-15). "'The Royal Hotel', 'Late Night with the Devil' win AWGIEs, Shane Brennan honoured". IF Magazine. Retrieved 2024-02-17.

[1] "2017 AWGIE Award - Categories and Conditions of Entry" (PDF). Australian Writers Guild. Retrieved 29 June 2017.

[2] "Clubland takes out Outstanding Script of the Year at 40th Annuel AWGIE Awards". if.com.au. Retrieved 2017-06-29.

[3] Bailey, John (2015-09-14). "Playwrights honoured at Australian Writers' Guild awards". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2017-06-29.

[4] "The Code tops the AWGIE Awards". if.com.au. Retrieved 2017-06-29.

[5] Maddox, Garry (2017-08-26). "Hacksaw Ridge and Lion win but Leah Purcell's The Drover's Wife dominates Awgies". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2017-08-26.

[6] Slatter, Sean (2024-02-15). "'The Royal Hotel', 'Late Night with the Devil' win AWGIEs, Shane Brennan honoured". IF Magazine. Retrieved 2024-02-17.

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