42nd Annual Green Room Award winners announced

The winners for the 42nd Annual Green Room awards are here, featuring some familiar Festival faces! The awards honour excellence across cabaret, theatre, musical theatre, dance and opera from 2024.

In the Cabaret category, winners from the 2024 Melbourne International Comedy Festival included Geraldine Quinn and The Passion of Saint Nicholas in the categories of Outstanding Original Songs, Outstanding Writing, Outstanding Production, and Outstanding Artiste, Reuben Kaye and Apocalipstik in Outstanding Production Design, and Outstanding Musical Direction, and Alex Hines, Alex Orlando-Smith and Riley McCullagh for Putting On A Show in Outstanding Production Design.

Winners also included Otto & Astrid – The Stages Tour in the Outstanding Ensemble Category, and Hayley Edwards for Shitbag in the Outstanding Performer category, both of which featured return seasons during the 2025 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

In the Musical Theatre Category, Groundhog Day, presented as a part of the 2024 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, took home two awards in Outstanding Design - one to Rob Howell for Set & Costume, and one to Paul Kieve for Visual-Illusions - as well as the award for Outstanding Direction – Stage, to Matthew Warchus.

Heaps of other shows from the 2024 Melbourne International Comedy Festival also found themselves nominated, including Boklesque by Lauren Bok, Motion Sickness by Rachel Tunaley, The Von Donk Family Old-Timey Vaudeville Revue by Andrew McClelland and Louisa Fitzhardinge, The Platonic Human Centipede by Mel & Sam, The Sun and The Hermit by Belinda Anderson-Hunt, and CON 2077 by Con Coutis.

For more info about the Green Room Awards head to their website.