Awards

AWARDS

TNA is proud to offer and support a range of sector awards. Current awards offered include the Smash Indie Bursary (National), Green Room Awards Sponsorships and Melbourne Fringe Awards (Victorian).



2023 

Melbourne Fringe Awards

  • Innovation in Circus
    Le Freak by Elle Diablo and Themme Fatale
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  • Innovation in Dance
    ~~~~~ “…derelict in uncharted space…” by Fayen d’Evie and Benjamin Hancock
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  • Innovation in Theatre
  • A Dodgeball Named Desire by Bloomshed

2022 

Melbourne Fringe Awards

  • Best Emerging Circus or Physical Theatre Performer
    Salarywoman by Chiharu Valentino
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  • Best Performance Ensemble
    The Beep Test by Neylon & Peele

Green Room Awards

  • Dance Best Production
    I am Maggie by Jonathan Homsey as part of Arts Centre Melbourne Take Over for Melbourne Fringe 2020
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  • Independent Theatre Award for Best Direction
    Benjamin Nichol and Izabella Yena Kerosene Jack Dixon-Gunn in association with Theatre Works

  • Contemporary and Experimental Performance Award for Curatorial and Artistic Direction
    Let’s Take Over 2021 Darebin Arts Speakeasy Darebin Arts Speakeasy

2021

Smash Bursary

The People of Cabaret 

Melbourne Fringe Awards

  • Best Performance Ensemble
    YUMMY: How to Make a Western
    – YUMMY Productions
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  • Best Adaptation from Stage to Screen
    psyche404error – Margot Tanjutco
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2020

Smash Bursary

Natano Fa'anana

Melbourne Fringe Awards

  • Best Emerging Performance Ensemble
    Sincerely Survivor by Grace Dance Company
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  • Best Adaptation from Stage to Screen
    The Crying Room by Marcus McKenzie

Green Room Awards

  • Dance Award for Production
    Plenty Serious—TALK TALK
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  • Contemporary & Experimental Performance Award for Circus
  • Party Ghost—Poached Eggs & Asparagus
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  • Independent Theatre Award for Direction
  • Nadja Kostich—Balit Liwurruk: Strong Girl

2019

Smash Bursary

Alex Desebrock

Melbourne Fringe Awards

  • Best Emerging Circus Performer (supported by TNA's CaPT Initiative)
    Georgia Deguara, YUCK Circus
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  • Best Emerging Performance Ensemble
    Oh No! Satan Stole My Pineal Gland

Green Room Awards

  • The Dance Award for Production
    Overture (Arts House and Jo Lloyd)
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  • Contemporary & Experimental Performance Award for Circus
    End Grain (Skye Gellman)
    Hell is Other People (Jess Love, Love is the Drug, Melba Spiegeltent and Circus Oz)

    The  Independent Theatre Award for Direction
    Zak Pidd and Charles Purcell for their direction of Apokalypsis (The SUBSTATION in association with Next Wave)

2018

Smash Bursary

Katie Sfetkidis

CaPT Travel Bursary

Marina Gellman and Lisa Goldsworthy of Point and Flex Circus

Melbourne Fringe Awards

  • Best Emerging Circus Performer (supported by TNA's CaPT Initiative)
    Harley Mann in Social Staples
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  • Best Emerging Performance Ensemble
    DOG SHOW

Green Room Awards

  • Contemporary & Experimental Performance
    Body of Work (Congress, Coming Back Out Ball, Fun Run) All the Queens Men
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  • The Independent Theatre Award for Direction
    Stephen Nicolazzo for The Happy Prince (Little Ones Theatre in association with La Mama)

2017

Deakin University Catalyst Festival

  • Industry Standard Practice by an Ensemble
    Like Dust by Rough Conduct Theatre, with Kyle Wright, Jarrad Evison-Rose, Chelsea Crosby, Sarah Hartnell and Darcy McGaw

Melbourne Fringe Awards

  • Best Emerging Circus Performer (supported by TNA's CaPT Initiative)
    Annalise Moore & Andre Augustus, No Frills Cabaret
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  • Best Emerging Performance Ensemble
    The Very Good Looking Initiative, Let’s Get Practical! Live

Green Room Awards

  • Innovation in Experimental Performance for Contemporary and Experimental Performance
    Imagined Touch, Jodee Mundy Collaborations (Arts House)