Fringe at the Green Room Awards 2025

Winners

CABARET:

OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE

Winner: Otto & Astrid – The Stages Tour presented by Salvador Dinosaur and Parrot Ox as

part of Melbourne Fringe

Clare Bartholomew and Daniel Tobias

CONTEMPORARY AND EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE:

OUTSTANDING WORK

Winner: The Crying Room: Exhumed presented by The Substation and Club Greg

International (Original development commissioned by Melbourne Fringe)

OUTSTANDING PERFORMER

Winner: Marcus Ian McKenzie for The Crying Room: Exhumed

OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE (Two Awards)

Winner: Body of Knowledge presented by Melbourne Fringe

Winner: In Place presented by Na Djinang Circus with Circa Cairns as part of Melbourne

Fringe Festival

OUTSTANDING SOUND WORK (Two Awards)

Winner: The Crying Room: Exhumed presented by The Substation and Club Greg

International

OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT

Winner: The team of Conduit Bodies presented by Arts House and Melbourne Fringe in

association with Arts Centre Melbourne – Alter State

OUTSTANDING WORK BY OR FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES

Winner: Body of Knowledge presented by Melbourne Fringe in association with Creative

Brimbank

DANCE:

OUTSTANDING DESIGN – SOUND

Winner: Anna Whitaker for Fertile Ground, presented by Dancehouse

OUTSTANDING PERFORMER(S) (TWO AWARDS)

Winner: Trevor Dunn for The Solos, presented by Weave Movement Theatre and Dancehouse

Winner: Arabella Frahn-Starkie for Pictures & Ghosts

BREAKING GROUND AWARD

Winner: Harrison Ritchie-Jones for 2024 body of work

INDEPENDENT THEATRE:

OUTSTANDING PERFORMER (Two Awards)

Winner: Hayley Edwards for Shitbag, via Tiny Table Reads as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival

OUTSTANDING WRITING

Winner: Liv Satchell for Ballkids (or, scenes from a friendship), presented by VIMH with La

Mama Theatre as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival

OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN

Winner: Yanto Shortis for Twenty Million Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Pummel

Squad, presented as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION DESIGN (Two Awards)

Winner: Pummel Squad (Cooper Donald McDonald and Harry McGee) (AV / Production

Design) for Twenty Million Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, presented by Pummel Squad