JC Williamson Award

The JC Williamson Award (formally known as the James Cassius Williamson Award), is an lifetime achievement award presented annually as a sector of the Helpmann Awards, governed by Live Performance Australia.

JC Williamson Award
Awarded for	In recognition of "individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the Australian live entertainment and performing arts industry and shaped the future of our industry for the better."
Country	Australia
Presented by	Live Performance Australia (LPA)
First award	1998; 27 years ago (1998)
Website	Website

The awards are named after the American actor, who became Australia's foremost pioneering leading theatre entrepreneur James Cassius Williamson

The board of directors of the JC William Awards committee elects recipients who are members of the performing arts, art administrators, entrepreneurs, members of the media, playwrights, theatre producers, directors and politicians^[1]

In 2020 and 2021, the awards where cancelled due to COVID-19, but it was announced in May 2021, that recipients will be awarded for the 2020 season.^[2]

Recognition incitement

The awards are a lifetime achievement award in recognition with the incitement of "individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the Australian live entertainment and performing arts industry and shaped the future of our industry for the better", the award is the highest honour the LPA can bestow.^[3][4]

Operatic soprano, Dame Joan Sutherland, received the award in 2005.

Comedian, Barry Humphries, was the 2008 recipient.

Recipients

Year	Recipient(s)	Occupation	Ref(s)
1998	Edna Edgley Kenn Brodziak	Edna Edgley - Theatre entrepreneur Kenn Brodzik - Concert promotor, producer, artist manager	[5]
1999	Googie Withers John McCallum	Googie Withers - Stage and screen actress, dancer John McCallum- theatre, film and TV actor and television producer	[5]
2000	Award not given
2001	Ruth Cracknell	Actress, comedienne and author	[5]
	Clifford Hocking	Impresario and festival director	[5]
2002	Kevin Jacobsen	Concert promotor, former musician	[5]
	Graeme Murphy	Dancer/Choreographer	[5]
2003	Wendy Blacklock John Robertson	Wendy Blacklock Actress, theatre entrepreneur John Robertson - Producer	[5]
2004	John Farnham	Singer	[5]
	John Sumner	Founder and director of the Melbourne Theatre Company	[5]
2005	Dame Joan Sutherland David Williamson	(Dame) Joan Sutherland Coloratura Soprano David Williamson - Playwright, dramatist	[6]
2006	John Clark	Director		[7]
	Graeme Bell	Musician
2007	Dame Margaret Scott	Dancer/Choreographer, teacher, administrator	[8]
	Barry Tuckwell	Musician
2008	Sue Nattrass	Performer	[9]
	Barry Humphries	Actor and comedian
2009	John Bell	Actor, theatrical impresario	[10]
	Michael Gudinski	Entertainment promotor, founder of Mushroom Records
2010	Tony Gould	Queensland performing artsdirector	[11]
	Brian Nebenzahl
2011	Jill Perryman Toni Lamond Nancye Hayes	Jill Perryman - Actress and singer Toni Lamond - Vaudevillian, cabaret performer, comedienne, actress, singer, dancer, writer, presenter Nancye Hayes - Actress, singer, dancer/choreographer, director, narrator	[12]
2012	Jimmy Little Katharine Brisbane	Jimmy Little - Country singer/musician Katharine Brisbane - Journalist		[13] [14]
2013	Kylie Minogue David Bleckinsop	Kylie Minogue - Singer and actress David Bleckinsop		[15]	[16]
2014	John Frost	Producer	[17]
2015	Paul Kelly	Musician, singer-songwriter	[18]
2016	Stephen Page	Artistic director	[citation needed]
2017	Richard Tognetti	Musician	[citation needed]
2018	Robyn Archer Reg Livermore Robyn Nevin Archie Roach Jim Sharman	Robyn Archer - Singer writer stage director artistic director arts patron Reg Livermore- Actor singer theatrical performer former television presenter Robyn Nevin Actress director stage producer theatre founder Archie Roach Singer songwriter musician Indigenous Australian rights activist Jim Sharman Screen writer director producer playwright	[citation needed]
2019	Kev Carmody	Singer-songwriter, Musician	[19]
2020	Deborah Cheetham, David McAllister	Cheetham (Indigenous Australian soprano, actress, composer and playwright) McAllister (German Australian Politician)	[2]