At the Helpmann Awards he has won five accolades: Best Live Music Presentation for Capsis vs Capsis (2002), Best Performance in an Australian Contemporary Concert for Boulevard Delirium (2006), Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play for Diana in The Lost Echo (2007), Best Male Actor in a Play and Best New Australian Work for Angela's Kitchen (2012).
[1][2][3] During childhood his parents were divorced and Capsis was partly raised in Surry Hills by his maternal grandmother Angela in a "conservative, religious environment".
[4] In his solo show, Burning Sequins, at Budinski's, Carlton in 1995 he variously impersonated Shirley Bassey, Bette Midler, Madonna, Tina Turner, Diana Ross, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand and Janis Joplin.
[5] Capsis appeared in an Australian production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle, written by Bertolt Brecht, which was performed at the Belvoir in September 1998.
[10] Rebecca Harkins-Cross of The Sydney Morning Herald reviewed the Beckett Theatre performance, "Like memory itself, there is no overarching narrative here but short vignettes that move across time and continents.