Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play

Helpmann Award for
Best Male Actor in a Play
Helpmann Award for ; Best Male Actor in a Play
Awarded for	Best Male Actor in a Play
Location	Australia
Presented by	Live Performance Australia
Currently held by	Prakash Belawadi for Counting and Cracking (2019)
Website	HelpmannAwards.com.au

Awarded forBest Male Actor in a Play

LocationAustralia

Presented byLive Performance Australia

Currently held byPrakash Belawadi for Counting and Cracking (2019)

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.

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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

v t e Helpmann Awards
Theatre	Best Play Best Direction of a Play Best Male Actor in a Play Best Female Actor in a Play Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role – Play Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role – Play
Musical	Best Musical Best Direction of a Musical Best Choreography in a Musical Best Male Actor in a Musical Best Female Actor in a Musical Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role – Musical Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role – Musical
Opera and Classical Music	Best Opera Best Symphony Orchestra Concert Best Chamber and Instrumental Ensemble Concert Best Direction of an Opera Best Male Performer in an Opera Best Female Performer in an Opera Best Male Performer in a Supporting Role – Opera Best Female Performer in a Supporting Role – Opera Best Individual Classical Music Performance
Dance and Physical Theatre	Best Ballet or Dance Work Best Visual or Physical Theatre Production Best Choreography in a Dance or Physical Theatre Production Best Male Dancer in a Dance or Physical Theatre Production Best Female Dancer in a Dance or Physical Theatre Production
Contemporary Music	Best International Contemporary Concert Best Australian Contemporary Concert Best Contemporary Music Festival
Industry	Best New Australian Work Best Original Score Best Music Direction Best Costume Design Best Scenic Design Best Lighting Design Best Sound Design
Other	Best Regional Touring Production Best Comedy Performer Best Cabaret Performer Best Presentation for Children
Special awards	JC Williamson Award Sue Nattrass Award Best Special Event
Retired	Best Contemporary Concert Presentation Best Performance in an Australian Contemporary Concert Brian Stacey Memorial Award
Ceremonies	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
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