Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Musical

The Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Musical is a musical award, presented by Live Performance Australia (LPA) at the annual Helpmann Awards since 2001.^[1] This is a list of winners and nominations for the Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Musical.

Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Musical
Awarded for	Best Direction of a Musical
Location	Australia
Presented by	Live Performance Australia
Currently held by	Trey Parker and Casey Nicholaw for The Book of Mormon (2017)
Website	HelpmannAwards.com.au

Winners and nominees

   Winners are listed first and marked in a separate colour

• Source:^[2][3]

2000s

Year	Director(s)	Production
2001 (1st)
	Gale Edwards	The Boy from Oz
	Nigel Jamieson	The Theft of Sita
	Richard Wherrett	Shout! The Legend of the Wild One
	Simon Phillips	Company
2002 (2nd)
	Gale Edwards	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
	David Atkins	Singin' in the Rain
	Phyllida Lloyd	Mamma Mia!
	Graeme Murphy	Tivoli
2003 (3rd)[4]
	B.T. McNicholl, Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall	Cabaret
	Graham Gill and Sam Mendes	Oliver!
	James Powell	The Witches of Eastwick
	Nadia Tass	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2004 (4th)
	Julie Taymor	The Lion King
	Dean Bryant	The Last Five Years
	Ben Elton	We Will Rock You
	Jack O'Brien (Originating Director). Recreated by Matt August	The Full Monty
2005 (5th)
	Susan Stroman	The Producers
	Stuart Maunder	H.M.S. Pinafore and Trial by Jury
	Simon Phillips	Urinetown
	Robert Wilson	The Black Rider
2006 (6th)
	Simon Phillips	The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
	Stuart Maunder	Dusty – The Original Pop Diva
	Robyn Nevin	Summer Rain
	Gary Young	Menopause The Musical
2007 (7th)
	Neil Armfield	Keating!
	Laurence Connor	Miss Saigon
	Craig llott	Hedwig and the Angry Inch
	Simon Phillips	Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
2008 (8th)
	Stephen Daldry in association with Julian Webber	Billy Elliot the Musical
	Gale Edwards	Company
	Michael Grandage and Jamie Lloyd	Guys and Dolls
	Roger Hodgman	Little Me
2009 (9th)
	Lisa Leguillou	Wicked
	Geordie Brookman	Metro Street
	Neil Gooding	Gutenberg! The Musical!
	Stuart Maunder	My Fair Lady

2010s

Year	Director(s)	Production
2010 (10th)
	Jonathan Biggins	Avenue Q
	Des McAnuff	Jersey Boys
	Rosemary Myers	The Wizard of Oz
	Simon Phillips	The Drowsy Chaperone
2011 (11th)
	Richard Eyre and Matthew Bourne	Mary Poppins
	David Atkins	Hairspray
	Des McAnuff	Dr Zhivago
	Simon Phillips	Love Never Dies
2012 (12th)
	Roger Hodgman	Grey Gardens
	Michael Bennett	A Chorus Line
	Kristin Hanggi	Rock of Ages
	Simon Phillips	An Officer and a Gentleman
2013 (13th)
	Jerry Mitchell	Legally Blonde
	Simon Phillips	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
	Jerry Zaks	The Addams Family
	Bartlett Sher	South Pacific
2014 (14th)
	Dean Bryant	Sweet Charity
	Baz Luhrmann	Strictly Ballroom The Musical
	Christopher Renshaw	The King and I
	Rosemary Myers	Pinocchio
2015 (15th)
	John Tiffany	Once
	Dean Bryant	Anything Goes
	Laurence Connor and James Powell	Les Misérables
	Stuart Maunder AM	Into the Woods
2016 (16th)
	Matthew Warchus	Matilda the Musical
	Roger Hodgman	Fiddler on the Roof
	Simon Phillips	Ladies in Black
	Dean Bryant	Little Shop of Horrors
2017 (17th)
	Trey Parker and Casey Nicholaw	The Book of Mormon
	Julie Andrews	My Fair Lady
	Jerry Mitchell	Kinky Boots
	Casey Nicholaw	Aladdin
2018 (18th)
	Marc Bruni	Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
	Simon Phillips	Dream Lover: The Bobby Darin Musical
	Dean Bryant	Assassins
	Simon Phillips	Muriel's Wedding
2019 (19th)[5]
	Francesca Zambello	Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour: West Side Story
	Luke Joslin	In the Heights
	Jack O'Brien	Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
	Hal Prince	Evita

See also

• Helpmann Awards