Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Play

The Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Play is a theatre award, presented by Live Performance Australia (LPA) at the annual Helpmann Awards since 2001.^[1] In the following list winners are listed first and marked in gold, in boldface, and the nominees are listed below with no highlight. Neil Armfield has won the most awards, with four, and is tied the most nominated director with Simon Phillips, both gandering nine nominations.

Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Play
Awarded for	Best Direction of a Play
Location	Australia
Presented by	Live Performance Australia
Currently held by	Leticia Cáceres for The Drover's Wife (2017)
Website	HelpmannAwards.com.au

Winners and nominees

   Winners are listed first and marked in a separate colour.

• Source:^[2][3]

Year	Director	Production
2001 (1st)
	Benedict Andrews	La Dispute
	Kate Cherry	Life After George
	Neil Armfield	The Small Poppies
	Simon Phillips	Measure For Measure
2002 (2nd)
	Neil Armfield	Cloudstreet
	Rodney Fisher	Master Class
	Simon Phillips	The Tempest
	Benedict Andrews	Three Sisters
2003 (3rd)
	Michael Blakemore	Copenhagen
	Simon Phillips	The Blue Room
	Simon Phillips	Great Expectations
	Neil Armfield	Waiting for Godot
2004 (4th)
	Simon Phillips	Inheritance
	John Bell	The Servant of Two Masters
	Julian Meyrick	Frozen
	Neil Armfield	The Lieutenant of Inishmore
2005 (5th)
	Jim Sharman	Three Furies
	Robyn Nevin	Hedda Gabler
	Michael Blakemore	Democracy
	Wesley Enoch	Riverland
2006 (6th)
	Marion Potts	The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
	Simon Phillips	King Lear
	Ariane Mnouchkine	Le Dernier Caravansérail
	Declan Donnellan	Twelfth Night
2007 (7th)
	Barrie Kosky	The Lost Echo
	Benedict Andrews	The Season At Sarsaparilla
	Michael Hill	Waiting for Godot
	Wesley Enoch	Parramatta Girls
2008 (8th)
	Neil Armfield	Toy Symphony
	Benedict Andrews	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
	Barrie Kosky	The Tell-Tale Heart
	John Tiffany	Black Watch
2009 (9th)
	Benedict Andrews	War of the Roses
	Barrie Kosky	Women of Troy
	Peter Evans	Blackbird
	Neil Armfield	Scorched
2010 (10th)
	Simon Phillips	Richard III
	Thomas Ostermeier	Hamlet
	Michael Kantor	Happy Days
	Neil Armfield	The Book of Everything
2011 (11th)
	Neil Armfield	The Diary of a Madman
	Simon Stone	The Wild Duck
	Wesley Enoch	Waltzing The Wilarra
	Benedict Andrews	Measure for Measure
2012 (12th)
	Benedict Andrews	Gross und Klein (Big and Small)
	Rachael Maza	Jack Charles v The Crown
	Simon Phillips	Songs for Nobodies
	Sam Strong	The Boys
2013 (13th)
	Neil Armfield	The Secret River
	Lee Lewis	The School for Wives
	Anne-Louise Sarks	Medea
	Rosemary Myers	School Dance
2014 (14th)
	Michael Kantor	The Shadow King
	Andrew Upton	Waiting For Godot
	Ivo van Hove	Roman Tragedies
	Sam Strong	The Floating World
2015 (15th)
	Kip Williams	Suddenly Last Summer
	Andrew Upton	Endgame
	Sarah Goodes	Switzerland
	Clare Watson	What Rhymes With Cars And Girls
2016 (16th)
	Lee Lewis	The Bleeding Tree
	Kip Williams	Love and Information
	Eamon Flack	Ivanov
	Simon Phillips	North by Northwest
2017 (17th)
	Leticia Caceres	The Drover's Wife
	Kip Williams	Chimerica
	Judy Davis	Faith Healer
	Susie Dee	SH*T
2018 (18th)
	Sarah Goodes	The Children
	Matthew Lutton	The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man
	Kip Williams	Cloud Nine
	Kip Williams	The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
2019 (19th)[4][5]
	Eamon Flack and S. Shakthidharan	Counting and Cracking
	Declan Greene	Blackie Blackie Brown: The Traditional Owner of Death
	Imara Savage	Saint Joan
	Kip Williams	The Harp in the South: Part One and Part Two

See also

• Helpmann Awards