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Awards season heats up in Sydney, Brisbane and Tasmania

Sydney Theatre Awards announced as Queensland’s Matilda Awards and Tasmanian Theatre Awards reveal nominations.

22 Jan 2019

Richard Watts

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STC’s The Harp in the South. Photo credit: Daniel Boud.

The 2018 Sydney Theatre Awards, recognising the city’s best professional theatre productions as voted on by a collective of critics, were presented at the Seymour Centre on Monday night, in a ceremony attended by hundreds of the Sydney theatre community.

Nominations for the Matilda Awards – Brisbane’s premier awards for the performing arts – were revealed on Tuesday, while nominees for the 2019 Tasmanian Theatre Awards were also recently announced.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts