The Performing Arts WA Awards, or PAWA Awards, are annual awards for the live performing arts in Perth, Western Australia. The Awards are held by Artist Relief Fund WA, and were formerly known as the Equity Guild Awards. The awards include mainstage theatre and independent theatre and, from 2018, dance. A musicals & opera section was introduced in 2021.

Selected awards

Theatre: Best Mainstage Production

* 2025: ''Logue Lake'', Geordie Crawley & Elise Wilson in association with

Perth Festival Perth Festival, named Perth International Arts Festival (PIAF) between 2000 and 2017, and sometimes referred to as the Festival of Perth, is Australia's longest-running cultural festival, held annually in Western Australia. The program features ...

* 2024: '' Things I Know To Be True'',

Black Swan State Theatre Company Black Swan State Theatre Company, formerly known as the Black Swan Theatre Company, is Western Australia's state theatre company. It runs an annual subscription season in Perth at the State Theatre Centre of Western Australia, tours its produc ...

* 2023: ''The Smallest Stage'', Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre for

* 2022: ''Beanstalk'',

Spare Parts Puppet Theatre The Spare Parts Puppet Theatre is located at 1–9 Short Street, Fremantle, Western Australia, in Pioneer Park, Fremantle, Pioneer Park, opposite the Fremantle railway station. History The building was constructed as a commercial building in 1 ...

* 2021: ''Hecate'', Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company in association with

Bell Shakespeare Bell Shakespeare is an Australian theatre company specialising in the works of William Shakespeare, his contemporaries and other classics. Founded by actor John Bell and based in Sydney, it is Australia's only national theatre company. Apart f ...

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*2020: ''On Our Beach'', Spare Parts Puppet Theatre * 2019: ''You Know We Belong Together'', a Black Swan,

and DADAA co-production * 2018: ''The Eisteddfod'', Black Swan State Theatre Company * 2017: '' Clinton: The Musical'', Black Swan State Theatre Company * 2016: '' The Rabbits'', Barking Gecko Theatre &

Opera Australia Opera Australia is the principal opera company in Australia. Based in Sydney, New South Wales, its performance season at the Sydney Opera House accompanied by the Opera Australia Orchestra runs for approximately eight months of the year, with t ...

* 2015: ''King Hit'',

Yirra Yaakin The Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company, also known as Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre, is an Aboriginal Australian theatre company, based in Perth, Western Australia in the heart of the Noongar Nation, a cultural group from the South West of Western Aus ...

* 2014: '' Boy Gets Girl'', Black Swan State Theatre Company * 2013: ''

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'', Onward Production * 2011: ''The Modern International Dead'', Deckchair Theatre Company * 2010: ''The Shape of Things'', Black Swan Theatre Company's HotBed Ensemble * 2009: ''Taking Liberty'',

Perth Theatre Company Perth Theatre Company was a live theatre company in Perth, Western Australia. History Perth Theatre Company was founded as SWY Theatre Company by graduates from the specialist Theatre Arts course at John Curtin Senior High School in 1983. Bet ...

* 2008: '' The Turning'', Perth Theatre Company * 2007: ''

The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? 'The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?' is a full-length play written in 2000 by Edward Albee which opened on Broadway in 2002. It won the 2002 Tony Award for Best Play, the 2002 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, and was a finalist for the 2003 Puli ...

'', Perth Theatre Company * 2006: '' The Arrival'', Spare Parts Puppet Theatre * 2005: '' The Visit'', BeActive BSX Theatre * 2004: ''Hidden Dragons'', Barking Gecko Theatre * 2003: ''Skin Tight'', Perth Theatre Company * 2002: ''Below'', Effie Crump Theatre & Perth International Arts Festival * 2001: '' Aliwa'', Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company * 2000: ''Plain Song'', Black Swan State Theatre Company

Dance: Best Mainstage Production

*2025: ''Romeo & Juliet'',

West Australian Ballet West Australian Ballet (WAB) is the state ballet company of Western Australia and is based at the Western Australian Ballet Centre in Maylands, an inner suburb of Perth. Founded in 1952 by Kira Bousloff (formerly of the Ballets Russes), it i ...

*2024: ''Jurrungu Ngan-ga traight Talk', Marrugeku for Black Swan State Theatre Company *2023: ''GLORIA'', Co3 Contemporary Dance *2022: ''Archives of Humanity'', Co3 Contemporary Dance * 2021: ''Hofesh in the Yard'', STRUT Dance in association with Hofesh Shechter Company *2020: ''Alice (in wonderland)'', West Australian Ballet * 2019: ''Dust on the Shortbread'', Anything Is Valid Dance Theatre

Musical & Opera: Best Production

*2025: ''Same Time Next Week'', The Blue Room Theatre & Nick Pages-Oliver & Scott McArdle *2024: ''

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'', Freeze Frame Opera *2023: '' La Traviata'',

West Australian Opera West Australian Opera (WAO) is the principal opera company of Western Australia, and is a resident company at His Majesty's Theatre, Perth. The company formed in 1967 and works in close association with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. ...

Opera Queensland Opera Queensland is an opera company based in Brisbane, Queensland. The company was founded with funding from the Queensland State Government in 1981 under the name ''Lyric Opera of Queensland'' after the Queensland Opera Company was closed in ...

State Opera South Australia State Opera South Australia (SOSA) is a professional opera company in Adelaide, South Australia, established in 1976. History State Opera South Australia was established in 1976 as a statutory corporation under the ''State Opera of South Aus ...

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The Addams Family The Addams Family is a fictional family created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. They originally appeared in a series of 150 standalone single-panel comics, about half of which were originally published in ''The New Yorker'' between 193 ...

'', Zealous Productions *2022: ''Angels & Devils'', Freeze Frame Opera * 2021: ''

Così fan tutte (''Women are like that, or The School for Lovers''), Köchel catalogue, K. 588, is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was first performed on 26 January 1790 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria. The libretto was written ...

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References

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