Renée Mulder, First Casualty, Queensland Theatre

John Felmingham, Sarah Winter,  Aimée Pouzet, and the Counterpilot Team, Adrift, Counterpilot & Metro Arts

Josh McIntosh, Fourteen, Shake & Stir Theatre Co & QPAC & Brisbane Festival

Josh McIntosh and Echo Wu, Slow Boat, Playlab Theatre, Brisbane Festival & Brisbane Powerhouse

Simone Romaniuk, The Almighty Sometimes, Queensland Theatre

Leah Shelton, Batshit, Polytoxic, Brisbane Festival & Metro Arts

Simona Cosentini and Simone Tesorieri, Othello, Queensland Theatre

Maria McRae, A Bee Story 2, ARC  Circus & HOTA

Renée Mulder, First Casualty, Queensland Theatre

Simone Romaniuk, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Queensland Theatre

Jason Glenwright, The Twits, Shake & Stir Theatre Co & QPAC

Christine Felmingham, Adrift, Counterpilot & Metro Arts

Christine Felmingham, Bunker, Lisa Wilson Projects & Metro Arts

Jason Glenwright, Batshit, Polytoxic, Brisbane Festival & Metro Arts

Ben Hughes, The Almighty Sometimes, Queensland Theatre

Guy Webster, Bunker, Lisa Wilson Projects Metro Arts

Tony Brumpton, Holding Achilles, Dead Puppet Society, Legs On The Wall, Brisbane Festival, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Sydney Festival, Glass Half Full Productions

Kenneth Lyons , Batshit, Polytoxic, Brisbane Festival & Metro Arts

Mike Willmett, Adrift, Counterpilot & Metro Arts

Mike Willmett, The Almighty Sometimes, Queensland Theatre

Grace Uther & Freddy Komp, Batshit, Polytoxic, Brisbane Festival & Metro Arts

Jeremy Gordon & Nathan Sibthorpe, Bunker, Lisa Wilson Projects & Metro Arts

Blake Howson & Sarah Stafford, Again, You Have Trusted Me, Backbone Youth Arts

Ken Weston, Queen’s City, Blak Social, Brisbane Festival, Screen Qld & QPAC

Craig Wilkinson, First Casualty, Queensland Theatre

Daniel Evans, The Almighty Sometimes, Queensland Theatre 

Ross Balbuziente, The Twits, Shake & Stir Theatre Co & QPAC

Mikayla Hosking, Rabbit Hole, Ad Astra Theatre Company

Jason Klarwein, Othello, Queensland Theatre

Lisa Wilson and Nathan Sibthorpe, Bunker, Lisa Wilson Projects & Metro Arts

Jimi Bani, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, State Theatre Company of South Australia & Queensland Theatre

Andrew Buchanan, Othello, Queensland Theatre

Nelle Lee, The Twits, Shake & Stir Theatre Co & QPAC

Lorinda Merrypor, Face to Face, A Playlab Theatre Production presented in partnership with Metro Arts

Angie Milliken, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Queensland Theatre

Leah Shelton, Batshit, Polytoxic, Brisbane Festival & Metro Arts

Zac Boulton, Fuel, Shock Therapy Productions

Paula Delaney-Nazarski, Queen’s City, Blak Social, Brisbane Festival, Screen Qld & QPAC

Sarah McLeod, Fuel, Shock Therapy Productions

Vanessa Moltzen, Brilliant Traces, Ad Astra Theatre Company

Amy Ingram, Fourteen, Shake & Stir Theatre Co, QPAC & Brisbane Festival

Benjin Maza, Othello, Queensland Theatre

Sarah Ogden, Othello, Queensland Theatre

Trent Owers, The Sunshine Club, Queensland Theatre & QPAC

Silvan Rus, Slow Boat , Playlab Theatre, Brisbane Festival & Brisbane Powerhouse

Janelle Bailey, The Normal Heart, Ad Astra Theatre Company

Madeleine Little, The Normal Heart, Ad Astra Theatre Company

James Blee, BU21, The Drama Merchant

Bernadette Pryde, Toy Symphony, Ad Astra Theatre Company

Sam Valentine, The Boys, PIP Theatre 

Tibian Wyles, Queen’s City, Blak Social, Brisbane Festival, Screen Qld & QPAC

Dirty Fame Flash Candles Club, Western Standard Productions

Boy, Lost, Belloo Creative 

First Casualty, Queensland Theatre 

Jane Eyre, Shake & Stir Theatre Co & QPAC

Tiddas, La Boite Theatre, QPAC & Brisbane Festival

Dirty Fame Flash Candles Club, Western Standard Productions

A Very Naughty Christmas, Woodward Productions

All Fired Up, Box Jelly Creative and Roz Pappalardo Projects & Brisbane Powerhouse

Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves, The Little Red Company 

The Last Five Years, La Boite Theatre

Knee Deep, Casus Creations & CIRCFest

A Bee Story 2, ARC Circus & HOTA

Bunker, Lisa Wilson Projects & Metro Arts

Holding Achilles, Dead Puppet Society, Legs On The Wall, Brisbane Festival, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Sydney Festival, Glass Half Full Productions

JINGLE, JACs Entertainment

The Almighty Sometimes, Queensland Theatre 

Fourteen, Shake & Stir Theatre Co, QPAC & Brisbane Festival

Othello, Queensland Theatre

Slow Boat, Playlab Theatre, Brisbane Festival & Brisbane Powerhouse

The Twits, Shake & Stir Theatre Co & QPAC

Batshit, Polytoxic, Brisbane Festival & Metro Arts

All Fired Up, Box Jelly Theatre Co and Roz Pappalardo Projects & Brisbane Powerhouse

Bear With Me, David Megarity, Tyrone & Lesley & Metro Arts

Boy, Lost, Belloo Creative 

Bunker, Lisa Wilson Projects &Metro Arts

Oliver Hetherington-Page, The No Bang Theory, indelabilityarts

Perry Mooney, Queen’s City, Blak Social, Brisbane Festival, Screen Qld & QPAC

Morgan Francis, Boy, Lost, Belloo Creative

Reagan Mannix, First Casualty, Queensland Theatre

Thomas Stewart, Assume People Like You, Cluster Arts & Melon the Human

Boy, Lost Adapted for the stage by Katherine Lyall-Watson from the book by Kristina Olsson, Produced by Belloo Creative

An Ideal Husband By Lewis Treston after Oscar Wilde, Produced by La Boite Theatre

Batshit By Leah Shelton, Produced by Brisbane Festival & Metro Arts.

Face to Face By Emily Wells, A Playlab Theatre Production presented in partnership with Metro Arts

Fourteen By Nelle Lee, Nick Skubij with Shannon Molloy, Produced by Shake & Stir Theatre Co, QPAC & Brisbane Festival

Daniel Maddison

Daniel Maddison is a highly experienced technical and production manager with over 20 years of experience across more than 150 productions. Daniel is known for his patience, supportive attitude, strong work ethic, his commitment, and attention to detail. He consistently takes initiative to support creative artists to bring their ideas to fruition, going above and beyond to deliver a high standard in all the productions he is associated with. Daniel’s professionalism, friendly demeanour and positivity instil confidence in all of those who have been lucky enough to work with him.

Tom Oliver & Wynnum Fringe

When Covid struck in 2020 and Tom Oliver’s work evaporated, he turned his talents to launching the inaugural Wynnum Fringe Festival. Across two days in November 2020, Wynnum Fringe activated laneways, carparks, loading docks, parks, a beach and streets. In all 6600 tickets were sold to 50 performances including 22 sold-out ticketed events. Employment was created for 150 artists and 43 creative staff and 10,000 people came to Wynnum CBD. The 2021 Festival nearly doubled, engaging over 300 artists and 40 crew across 14 locations. By 2022 the Fringe attracted almost 30,000 people and the event had established itself as a nationally and internationally recogised Fringe Festival.

Adrift, Counterpilot & Metro Arts

2022 sees the introduction of a new award given at the discretion of the judges. It emerged from a desire to recognise outstanding work that may not fit within existing categories. In this way, the Matilda Awards judging panel encourages Queensland creatives to push artistic and/or other boundaries. Counterpilot’s Adrift challenged the judges’ notions of what live theatre can be. With a cup of immersive, a tablespoon of bedtime story, and a drizzle of team-building exercise, Adrift made a delicious theatrical meal. It awakened the senses, created meaning, encouraged individual creativity, and demanded audience collaboration in real time and space.