Steve Mouzakis, who played Lophakhin in Melbourne Theatre Company’s (MTC) widely acclaimed production of The Cherry Orchard, won best Male Actor at the 2014 Green Room Awards.
Alkinos Tsilimidos’ direction of The Mountaintop – Katori Hall’s telling of the last night on earth for assassinated civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr – was nominated for three 2014 Green Room Awards.
In total, MTC received 30 nominations in the 2014 Green Room Awards: 14 for its mainstage productions, a further seven for its MTC/Belvoir/Kim Carpenter’s Theatre of Image co-presentation, and nine for the companies involved in its NEON Festival of Independent Theatre. The Green Room Awards Association’s objective is to award excellence in the professional performing arts in Melbourne.
The Green Room is not always painted green but is the gathering place backstage for all performers before and after they have made their entrances. The first Green Room was in London’s Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and remains a place in all theatres where some very honest judgements are given – the judgements of one’s peers.