The Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play is an award presented by

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(LPA) (the

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for the Australian Entertainment Industry Association (AEIA)), an

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which serves as the peak body in the live entertainment and performing arts industries in

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. The accolade is handed out at the annual

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, which celebrates achievements in

musical theatre Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movemen ...

contemporary music Contemporary classical music is classical music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern, and included serial ...

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and

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. This is a list of winners and nominations for the Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play.

Winners and nominees

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Notes

:A: The character in '' The Christian Brothers'' is known as the "unnamed elderly Christian Brothers’ teacher" :B: In '' The Blue Room''

Marcus Graham Marcus Graham (born 11 October 1963) is an Australian film, television (including both serials and mini-series) and stage actor and director, with roles including ''Mulholland Drive'' and '' Josh Jarman''. He was known as a teenage heartthrob i ...

portrayed the male characters: Fred, Anton, Charles, Robert, Malcolm. :C: '' Gulpilil'' is an autobiographical stage production, where

David Gulpilil David Dhalatnghu Gulpilil (1 July 1953 – 29 November 2021), known professionally as David Gulpilil and posthumously (at his family's request, to avoid naming the dead) as David Dalaithngu for three days, was an Indigenous Australian actor ...

played himself. :D: ''

Macbeth ''Macbeth'' (, full title ''The Tragedie of Macbeth'') is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those w ...

'' was performed by Stephen Dillane as a one man show, who portrayed over thirty of the characters in the play. :E:

Jefferson Mays Lewis Jefferson Mays (born June 8, 1965) is an American actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a Tony Award, a Helen Hayes Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, two Drama Desk Awards, two Outer Critics Circle Awards and three Ob ...

portrayed an additional forty characters in ''

I Am My Own Wife ''I Am My Own Wife'' is a play by Doug Wright based on his conversations with the German antiquarian Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. The one-man play premiered Off-Broadway in 2003 at Playwrights Horizons. It opened on Broadway later that year. The p ...

''. :F: The character in ''

The Tell-Tale Heart "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843. It is related by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of the narrator's sanity while simultaneously describing a murder the n ...

'' does not have a name. :G:

Robert Menzies The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of ''Hrōþ, Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory ...

' character in ''

The End The End may refer to: Films * ''The End'' (1953 film), a film by Christopher Maclaine * ''The End'' (1978 film), a comedy by Burt Reynolds * ''The End'' (1997 film), a Canadian film of 1997 * ''The End'' (1998 film), a skateboarding document ...

'' doesn't have a name and is known simply as Dying Man. :H: Lucas Stibbard plays the lead roles of Thomas and Alethea, and various other characters in '' Boy Girl Wall''.

References

External links

The official Helpmann Awards website
{{Helpmann Awards P Awards for male actors

Winners and nominees

See also

Notes

References

External links