5 August 2022
Helpmann Academy are thrilled to announce Kate Lewis, University of Adelaide graduate, as the 2022 Helpmann Academy Award for Voice recipient. Kate will be undertaking a self-designed professional development program valued at $5,000.
Kate Lewis received the Helpmann Academy Award for Voice at the 2022 Helpmann Academy Jazz Awards event, where she performed a one-hour set with jazz vocalist Vince Jones.
The award will support her in recording, filming, and releasing a live album titled “Stone Cold Sober – Live at Wizard Tone Studios” based on her solo cabaret show of the same name. The show tells the story of a family road trip through New Zealand when Kate was ten years old and the mixtape of Australian rock classics her parents played on the journey.
Kate’s plan is to perform the show in front of an intimate audience at Wizard Tone Studios, then use the content to promote the Adelaide Fringe Festival in 2023. Kate is excited to realize this long-term project with the support of Helpmann Academy and plans to perform at the Adelaide Fringe Festival and go on a country-wide tour. She loves the spontaneity of cabaret and aspires to continue singing, performing, and learning in the future.
“My short-term goals for the future are to perform ‘Stone Cold Sober’ in the Adelaide Fringe Festival in 2023 at Gluttony and then use this content to promote the season and expand my audience. Beyond that, I would absolutely love to do a regional tour of the show, or any tour for that matter, to festivals and venues around Australia,”
Kate Lewis
This article is an extract. Click here to read the full article written by Mahalia Tanner, published in our 2022 Annual Magazine.
Kate’s Helpmann Academy Award for Voice was generously supported by Dr Rob Lyons.