| Year | Title | Production compan(y/ies) |
|---|
2001
(1st) |
| Life After George | Melbourne Theatre Company |
| 'Art' | Melbourne Theatre Company |
| Jimmy and Pat Meet the Queen | Deckchair Theatre |
| The Small Poppies | Company B Belvoir |
2002
(2nd) |
| Cloudstreet | Company B Belvoir and Black Swan Theatre |
| Master Class | International Concert Attractions |
| The Tempest | Melbourne Theatre Company |
| Three Sisters | Sydney Theatre Company |
2003
(3rd) |
| Copenhagen | Sydney Theatre Company |
| Soft | Back to Back and Melbourne Festival |
| The Comedy of Errors | The Bell Shakespeare Company |
| Waiting for Godot | Company B Belvoir and Sydney Festival |
2004
(4th) |
| Inheritance | Melbourne Theatre Company |
| Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America - A Drama in 30 Scenes | Playbox Theatre |
| The Servant of Two Masters | The Bell Shakespeare Company |
| Frozen | Melbourne Theatre Company |
2005
(5th) |
| The Sapphires | Melbourne Theatre Company |
| Twelve Angry Men | Arts Projects Australia and Adrian Bohm |
| Hedda Gabler | Sydney Theatre Company |
| Three Furies | Sydney Festival |
2006
(6th) |
| Stuff Happens | Company B Belvoir and Newtheatricals |
| Away | Queensland Theatre Company and Griffin Theatre Company |
| The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? | State Theatre Company of South Australia |
| Le Dernier Caravansérail | Melbourne International Arts Festival and Théâtre du Soleil |
2007
(7th) |
| The Lost Echo | Sydney Theatre Company |
| Holding the Man | Griffin Theatre Company |
| Parramatta Girls | Company B Belvoir |
| The Season At Sarsaparilla | Sydney Theatre Company |
2008
(8th) |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Company B Belvoir |
| Black Watch | National Theatre of Scotland, Sydney Festival and Perth International Arts Festival |
| When The Rain Stops Falling | Brink Productions |
| Toy Symphony | Company B Belvoir |
2009
(9th) |
| War of the Roses | Sydney Theatre Company |
| Women of Troy | Sydney Theatre Company |
| Ivanov | Katona Jozsef Theatre and Sydney Festival |
| Gatz | Sydney Opera House and Brisbane Powerhouse |
| Year | Title | Production compan(y/ies) |
|---|
2010
(10th) |
| Richard III | Melbourne Theatre Company |
| Osage County | Melbourne Theatre Company |
| Happy Days | Malthouse Theatre |
| The Book of Everything | Company B Belvoir and Kim Carpenter's Theatre of Image |
2011
(11th) |
| The Wild Duck | Belvoir |
| The Diary of a Madman | Belvoir |
| Uncle Vanya | Sydney Theatre Company and Bell Shakespeare |
| Do not go gentle | fortyfivedownstairs |
2012
(12th) |
| Ganesh Versus the Third Reich | Back to Back Theatre, Malthouse Theatre and Melbourne Festival |
| Neighbourhood Watch | Belvoir |
| The Boys | Griffin Theatre Company and Sydney Festival |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Melbourne Theatre Company |
2013
(13th) |
| The Secret River | Sydney Theatre Company, The Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals, Sydney Festival, The Centenary of Canberra, Perth International Arts Festival |
| Medea | Belvoir and Australian Theatre for Young People |
| Death of a Salesman | Belvoir |
| Hedda Gabler | State Theatre Company of South Australia |
2014
(14th) |
| Angels in America | Belvoir |
| Roman Tragedies | Toneelgroep Amsterdam presented by Adelaide Festival in association with Adelaide Festival Centre |
| The Shadow King | Malthouse Theatre in association with the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals (Adelaide Festival, Brisbane Festival, Melbourne Festival, Perth International Arts Festival and Sydney Festival) |
| Waiting for Godot | Sydney Theatre Company |
2015
(15th) |
| The Glass Menagerie | Belvoir |
| Calpurnia Descending | Malthouse Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company |
| Suddenly Last Summer | Sydney Theatre Company |
| Endgame | Sydney Theatre Company |
2016
(16th) |
| The Bleeding Tree | Griffin Theatre Company |
| North by Northwest | Melbourne Theatre Company and Kay + McLean Productions by special arrangement with Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures |
| Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster | Performing Lines and Nicola Gunn |
| Prize Fighter | La Boite Theatre Company and Brisbane Festival |
2017
(17th) |
| The Drover's Wife | Belvoir |
| Jasper Jones | Melbourne Theatre Company |
| Once in Royal David's City | Queensland Theatre and Black Swan State Theatre Company |
| Things I Know To Be True | State Theatre Company of South Australia and Frantic Assembly |
2018
(18th) |
| The Children | Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company |
| The Irresistible | Side Pony Productions and The Last Great Hunt |
| The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man | Malthouse Theatre |
| Black is the New White | Sydney Theatre Company |
| The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui | Sydney Theatre Company |
| Laser Beak Man | Brisbane Festival, La Boite Theatre Company and Dead Puppet Society in association with PowerArts |
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