AWGIE Award for Stage

The AWGIE Award for Stage is awarded by the Australian Writers' Guild at the annual AWGIE Awards for Australian performance writing. The award is for the playscript. To be eligible, the play must have had its first professional production (as distinct from reading) in the previous year.[1]

David Williamson has received the award five times, over the period 1972 to 1988. Andrew Bovell has also won five times (once jointly), over the period 1997 to 2014. Hannie Rayson, Nick Enright and Patricia Cornelius have all won three times.

Award recipients are:[2]

Note: [*] indicates where the play was also awarded the Major AWGIE Award across all categories

References

  1. "2017 AWGIE Award - Categories and Conditions of Entry" (PDF). Australian Writers Guild. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  2. "AWGIE Award Winners 1968 - 2016" (PDF). Australian Writers' Guild. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  3. "The 'unknown' Awgies go upmarket". The Canberra Times. 70 (22, 023). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 4 August 1995. p. 10. Retrieved 11 July 2017 via National Library of Australia.
  4. "Clubland takes out Outstanding Script of the Year at 40th Annuel AWGIE Awards". if.com.au. Retrieved 2017-06-29.
  5. Bailey, John (2015-09-14). "Playwrights honoured at Australian Writers' Guild awards". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2017-06-29.
  6. "The Code tops the AWGIE Awards". if.com.au. Retrieved 2017-06-29.
  7. 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.
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