Helpmann Award for Best Cabaret Performer

The Helpmann Award for Best Cabaret Performer is an award, presented at the annual Helpmann Awards since 2010.^[1] It recognises excellence in cabaret performance in Australia by a performer and/or group in a work created or co-created by the performer/group.^[2]

Winners and nominees

   Winners are listed first and marked in a separate colour, in boldface. Nominees are listed with no highlight.

• Source:^[3]

Year	Performer(s)	Production
2010 (10th)
	iOTA	Smoke and Mirrors
	Moira Finucane	The Burlesque Hour
	Meow Meow	Meow to the World: Crisis is Born (Again)
	Paul Capsis, Martin Martini, Le Gateau Chocolat, Lady Carol, Christine Johnston and Simone Page Jones	A Company of Strangers
2011 (11th)
	Eddie Perfect	Misanthropology
	Moira Finucane (with Maude Davey, Caroline Lee, Paul Cordeiro, Toni Lamond, Shirley Cattunar, Brian Lucas, Sosina Wogayehu, Derek Ives, Azaria Universe, Harriet Ritchie, Holly Durant, Lily Paskas, Carolyn Connors, Lois Olney, Yumi Umiumare, David Pidd, Margaret Dobson and Yvette Coppersmith)	Finucane and Smith's Carnival of Mysteries
	Ursula Yovich	Magpie Blues
	Paul Capsis	Paul Capsis - Make Me a King
2012 (12th)
	Meow Meow	Little Match Girl
	Trevor Ashley	Diamonds are for Trevor
	Moira Finucane, with Rhonda Burchmore, Deborah Conway, Die Roten Punkte, Pamela Rabe, Phillip Adams' BalletLab, Meow Meow, Vika and Linda Bull, Kamahi Djordon King as Constantina Bush & The Bushettes, Sosina Wogayehu and Burlesque Hour artistes Maude Davey, Holly Durant and Harriet Ritchie	Finucane & Smith's Burlesque Hour LOVES Melbourne
	Caroline Nin	Hymne A Piaf
2013 (13th)
	Robyn Archer	Robyn Archer in Concert: QUE RESTE-T-IL?
	Tommy Bradson	The Men My Mother Loved
	Christopher Green	TINA C: Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word
	Mark Nadler	I'm A Stranger Here Myself
2014 (14th)
	Sarah Ward	Yana Alana Between the Cracks
	Jerick Hoffer (as Jinkx Monsoon)	The Vaudevillians starring Jinkx Monsoon
	Lady Rizo	Lady Rizo
	Tommy Bradson	REG
2015 (15th)
	Camille O'Sullivan	Camille O'Sullivan - Changeling
	David Campbell & John Bucchino	David Campbell Sings John Bucchino
	Beccy Cole and Libby O'Donovan	The Cowgirl and The Showgirl
	Kim Smith	Nova Noir
2016 (16th)
	Michael Griffiths	Cole
	Michaela Burger and Greg Wain	Exposing Edith
	Alan Cumming	Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs
	Phil Scott	Reviewing the Situation
2017 (17th)
	Hope Haami, Juanita Duncan, Ofa Fotu, Crystal Stacey, Alexis West, Ghenoa Gela, Lisa Fa'alafi and Kim 'Busty Beatz' Bowers	Hot Brown Honey
	Jimmy Barnes	Working Class Boy: An Evening of Stories & Songs
	Betty Grumble	Grumble: Sex Clown Saves the World
	Sven Ratzke	Starman
2018 (18th)[4]
	Taylor Mac	A 24-Decade History of Popular Music
	Reuben Kaye	Journey to the Centre of Attention
	Queenie van de Zandt	BLUE: The Songs Of Joni Mitchell
	Briefs Ensemble	Briefs: Close Encounters
2019 (19th)[5]
	Ali McGregor	Yma Sumac — The Peruvian Songbird
	Michaela Burger	A Migrant's Son
	Libby O'Donovan	Kate Leigh — The Worst Woman in Sydney
	Dickie Beau	Re-Member Me

See also

• Helpmann Awards

References

1. "About". Helpmann Awards. Live Performance Australia. Archived from the original on 12 January 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
2. "Helpmann Award Rules as at 31 March 2017" (PDF). helpmannawards.com,au. Live Performance Australia. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
3. "Nominees". Helpmann Awards. Live Performance Australia. Archived from the original on 6 December 2008. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
4. "2018 Nominees and Winners | Helpmann Awards". www.helpmannawards.com.au. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
5. "2019 Nominees and Winners | Helpmann Awards". www.helpmannawards.com.au. Retrieved 16 July 2019.

External links

• The official Helpmann Awards website