Twenty-three OnSTAGE nominations for 2026 HSC Drama students

Fourteen of our HSC Drama students have earned twenty-three OnSTAGE nominations, recognising the very best work from the 2026 HSC cohort across New South Wales. Nine of those students have been nominated in both Group and Individual Performance.

Group Performance

Oh, To Be Beautiful: Juliette, Zahlee, Max, Ashok
Fine Young Men: Raistlin, Dev, Amitiel, Alex
The River: Hamish, Zara, Annie Rose, Molly

Individual Performance

Arabelle, Minefields and Miniskirts
Juliette, The Care and Feeding of Baby Birds
Raistlin, Two
Sophia, Recall
Hamish, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
Zahlee, St Joan
Alex, Who’s Afraid of the Working Class
Max, Once in Royal David’s City
Ashok, Narcissist
Annie Rose, Boot
Molly, Chef

Nine students nominated in both categories is worth pausing on. It means sustaining an individual performance and an ensemble one, in different works, across the same year.

Our thanks to Greg Friend and Romy Bartz, who have shaped every one of these performances across months of rehearsal.

Congratulations to all fourteen students. We are enormously proud of you.