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Awards
2026
Winner — SYDNEY THEATRE AWARDS Best Set Design for Mainstage Production — Simon Phillips and Nick Schlieper with Craig Wilkinson and Jon Weber — GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS
2025
Winner — AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTION DESIGN GUILD Design Awards Video Design for a Live Performance or Event — DRACULA
Nomination — AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTION DESIGN GUILD Design Awards Video Design for a Live Performance or Event — ROUND THE TWIST THE MUSICAL
Winner — MATILDA AWARD Best Video Design — DEAR SON
2024
Nomination — SYDNEY THEATRE AWARDS Best Set Design for Mainstage Production — Marg Horwell with Craig Wilkinson — DRACULA
Nomination — AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTION DESIGN GUILD Technical Direction Company Video Design for a Live Performance — FRANKENSTEIN
Nomination — MATILDA AWARD Best Video Design — Craig Wilkinson and Jon Weber — JAMES & THE GIANT PEACH
Nomination — MATILDA AWARD Best Video Design — ROUND THE TWIST THE MUSICAL
2023
Winner — AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTION DESIGN GUILD Technical Direction Company Video Design for a Live Performance Award — FIRST CASUALTY
Nomination — AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTION DESIGN GUILD Technical Direction Company Video Design for a Live Performance — THE MYSTERY OF THE VALKYRIE
Nomination — MATILDA AWARD Best Video Design — FRANKENSTEIN
Nomination — MATILDA AWARD Best Video Design — THE WIZARD OF OZ IN CONCERT
2022
Nomination — MATILDA AWARD Best Video Design — FIRST CASUALTY
2021
Winner — AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTION DESIGN GUILD Technical Direction Company Video Design for a Live Performance Award — BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE
Winner — MATILDA AWARD Best Video Design — BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE
Nomination — MATILDA AWARD Best Video Design — FOURTHCOMING
Nomination — MATILDA AWARD Best Video Design — AVOIDABLE PERILS
2020
Winner — AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTION DESIGN GUILD Technical Direction Company Video Design for a Live Performance Award — AVOIDABLE PERILS
2019
Nomination — AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTION DESIGN GUILD Video Design / Visual Effects for Live Performance or Screen — ROALD DAHL’S FANTASTIC MR FOX
Winner — MATILDA AWARD Best Video Design — Craig Wilkinson and Jon Weber, ROALD DAHL’S FANTASTIC MR FOX
2018
Winner — MATILDA AWARD Best Video Design — A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Nomination — MATILDA AWARD Best Video Design — I’VE BEEN MEANING TO ASK YOU
2017
Winner — DARWIN FRINGE FESTIVAL Golden Croc Award — TERROR AUSTRALIS
2016
Winner — ADELAIDE FRINGE John Chataway Innovation Award — TERROR AUSTRALIS
Nomination — MATILDA AWARD Best Video Design ─ TERROR AUSTRALIS
2014
Winner — MATILDA AWARD Gold Matilda Award ─ optikal bloc for projection and video design work on PALE BLUE DOT, THE MOUNTAINTOP, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, GASP! and 1984
Winner — MATILDA AWARD Best Technical Design ─ PALE BLUE DOT
Nomination — MATILDA AWARD Best Technical Design —THE MOUNTAINTOP
2012
Nomination ─ MATILDA AWARD Best Design — 1984