# Helpmann Award for Best Cabaret Performer

The Helpmann Award for Best Cabaret Performer is an award, presented at the annual Helpmann Awards since 2010. It recognises excellence in cabaret performance in Australia by a performer and/or group in a work created or co-created by the performer/group.

## Winners and nominees

* Source:
| Year | Performer(s) | Production |
| 2010 (10th) |
| 2010 (10th) | iOTA | Smoke and Mirrors |
| 2010 (10th) | Moira Finucane | The Burlesque Hour |
| 2010 (10th) | Meow Meow | Meow to the World: Crisis is Born (Again) |
| 2010 (10th) | Paul Capsis, Martin Martini, Le Gateau Chocolat, Lady Carol, Christine Johnston and Simone Page Jones | A Company of Strangers |
| 2011 (11th) |
| 2011 (11th) | Eddie Perfect | Misanthropology |
| 2011 (11th) | Moira Finucane (with Maude Davey, Caroline Lee, Paul Cordeiro, Toni Lamond, Shirley Cattunar, Brian Lucas, Sosina Wogayehu, Derek Ives, Azaria Universe, Harriet Ritchie, Holly Durant, Lily Paskas, Carolyn Connors, Lois Olney, Yumi Umiumare, David Pidd, Margaret Dobson and Yvette Coppersmith) | Finucane and Smith's Carnival of Mysteries |
| 2011 (11th) | Ursula Yovich | Magpie Blues |
| 2011 (11th) | Paul Capsis | Paul Capsis - Make Me a King |
| 2012 (12th) |
| 2012 (12th) | Meow Meow | Little Match Girl |
| 2012 (12th) | Trevor Ashley | Diamonds are for Trevor |
| 2012 (12th) | Moira Finucane, with Rhonda Burchmore, Deborah Conway, Die Roten Punkte, Pamela Rabe, Phillip Adams' BalletLab, Meow Meow, Vika and Linda Bull, Kamahi Djordon King as Constantina Bush & The Bushettes, Sosina Wogayehu and Burlesque Hour artistes Maude Davey, Holly Durant and Harriet Ritchie | Finucane & Smith's Burlesque Hour LOVES Melbourne |
| 2012 (12th) | Caroline Nin | Hymne A Piaf |
| 2013 (13th) |
| 2013 (13th) | Robyn Archer | Robyn Archer in Concert: QUE RESTE-T-IL? |
| 2013 (13th) | Tommy Bradson | The Men My Mother Loved |
| 2013 (13th) | Christopher Green | TINA C: Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word |
| 2013 (13th) | Mark Nadler | I'm A Stranger Here Myself |
| 2014 (14th) |
| 2014 (14th) | Sarah Ward | Yana Alana Between the Cracks |
| 2014 (14th) | Jerick Hoffer (as Jinkx Monsoon) | The Vaudevillians starring Jinkx Monsoon |
| 2014 (14th) | Lady Rizo | Lady Rizo |
| 2014 (14th) | Tommy Bradson | REG |
| 2015 (15th) |
| 2015 (15th) | Camille O'Sullivan | Camille O'Sullivan - Changeling |
| 2015 (15th) | David Campbell & John Bucchino | David Campbell Sings John Bucchino |
| 2015 (15th) | Beccy Cole and Libby O'Donovan | The Cowgirl and The Showgirl |
| 2015 (15th) | Kim Smith | Nova Noir |
| 2016 (16th) |
| 2016 (16th) | Michael Griffiths | Cole |
| 2016 (16th) | Michaela Burger and Greg Wain | Exposing Edith |
| 2016 (16th) | Alan Cumming | Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs |
| 2016 (16th) | Phil Scott | Reviewing the Situation |
| 2017 (17th) |
| 2017 (17th) | Hope Haami, Juanita Duncan, Ofa Fotu, Crystal Stacey, Alexis West, Ghenoa Gela, Lisa Fa'alafi and Kim 'Busty Beatz' Bowers | Hot Brown Honey |
| 2017 (17th) | Jimmy Barnes | Working Class Boy: An Evening of Stories & Songs |
| 2017 (17th) | Betty Grumble | Grumble: Sex Clown Saves the World |
| 2017 (17th) | Sven Ratzke | Starman |
| 2018 (18th) |
| 2018 (18th) | Taylor Mac | A 24-Decade History of Popular Music |
| 2018 (18th) | Reuben Kaye | Journey to the Centre of Attention |
| 2018 (18th) | Queenie van de Zandt | BLUE: The Songs Of Joni Mitchell |
| 2018 (18th) | Briefs Ensemble | Briefs: Close Encounters |
| 2019 (19th) |
| 2019 (19th) | Ali McGregor | Yma Sumac — The Peruvian Songbird |
| 2019 (19th) | Michaela Burger | A Migrant's Son |
| 2019 (19th) | Libby O'Donovan | Kate Leigh — The Worst Woman in Sydney |
| 2019 (19th) | Dickie Beau | Re-Member Me |