Off West End Awards 2020 (The Offies)

So I thought it would be good to open a thread about this year’s Offies Awards, to discuss the finalists and make predictions on who will win!

They’re announcing the winners next Sunday 8th March.

The finalists are:

PLAYS

Plays: Most Promising New Playwright
— Dylan Coburn Gray, CitySong, Soho Theatre
— Samuel Bailey, Shook, Southwark Playhouse
— Zia Ahmed, I Wanna Be Yours, Bush Theatre

Plays: New Play
— Matilda Ibini, Little Miss Burden, Bunker Theatre
— Rose Lewenstein, Cougar, Orange Tree
— Ross Willis, Wolfie, Theatre503

Plays: Female in a Supporting Role
— Marina Bye, The Lady from the Sea, Coronet Theatre / Print Room
— Patience Tomlinson, Go Bang Your Tambourine, Finborough
— Sheila Atim, Time Is Love, Finborough

Plays: Male in a Supporting Role
— Bart Lambert, The House of Yes, Hope Theatre
— Ben Woods, A Christmas Carol, Bridge House Theatre
— John Sackville, Go Bang Your Tambourine, Finborough

Plays: Female Performance
— Gemma Barnett, A Hundred Words for Snow, Trafalgar Studios 2
— Lucy Briggs-Owen, Out of Water, Orange Tree
— Pia Tjelta, The Lady from the Sea, Coronet Theatre / Print Room
— Redd Lily Roche, Box Clever, Bunker

Plays: Male Performance
— Cary Crankson, Country Music, Omnibus
— Danny Kirrane, We're Staying Right Here, Park Theatre
— Irfan Shamji , The Arrival, Bush Theatre
— Kalungi Ssebandeke, Blood Knot, Orange Tree

Plays: Director
— Debbie Hannan, Little Miss Burden, Bunker Theatre
— Ned Bennett, Equus, English Touring Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East
— Tom Littler, All's Well That Ends Well, Jermyn Street Theatre
— Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu, Little Baby Jesus, Orange Tree

Plays: Production
— Equus, English Touring Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East
— Shook, Southwark Playhouse
— Wolfie, Theatre503

MUSICALS and OPERA

Musicals: New Musical
— Amour, Charing Cross Theatre
— Shida, The Vaults
— The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Southwark Playhouse

Musicals: Female in a Supporting Role
— Ashlee Young, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Union Theatre
— Claire Machin, Amour, Charing Cross Theatre
— Georgie Lovatt, Bare: A Pop Opera, The Vaults

Musicals: Male in a Supporting Role
— Cedric Neal, The View UpStairs, Soho Theatre
— Jerome Pradon, Aspects of Love, Southwark Playhouse
— Oliver Savile, Falsettos, The Other Palace

Musicals: Female Performance
— Abigayle Honeywill, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Union Theatre
— Jeannette Bayardelle, Shida, Vaults
— Lauryn Redding, The Hired Man, Queens Theatre Hornchurch

Musicals: Male Performance
— Bart Lambert, Thrill Me, Hope Theatre
— Jack Reitman, Thrill Me, Hope Theatre
— Keith Ramsay, Preludes, Southwark Playhouse

Musicals: Musical Director
— Benjamin Cox, Ghost Quartet, Boulevard Theatre
— Darren Clarke, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Southwark Playhouse
— Jordan Li-Smith, Queen of the Mist, Jack Studio Theatre / Charing Cross Theatre

Musicals: Director
— Bill Buckhurst, Ghost Quartet, Boulevard Theatre
— Hannah Chissick, Amour, Charing Cross Theatre
— Jethro Compton, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Southwark Playhouse

Musicals: Production
— Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Union Theatre
— Ghost Quartet, Boulevard Theatre
— High Fidelity, Turbine Theatre

Opera Production
— HMS Pinafore, Charles Court Opera, King's Head
— Partenope, Hampstead Garden Opera, Jacksons Lane
— The Elixir of Love, King's Head

DESIGN

Design: Costume
— Adrian Gee, Amour, Charing Cross Theatre
— Emily Bestow, 42nd Street, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
— Hannah Wolfe, Great Expectations, National Youth Theatre, Southwark Playhouse

Design: Set
— Diego Pitarch, Night of the Living Dead – Live!, Pleasance
— Justin Williams, Whistle Down the Wind, Union Theatre
— Lee Newby, The View UpStairs, Soho Theatre
— Rachael Ryan, Thrill Me, Hope Theatre

Design: Sound
— Benjamin Grant, The War of the Worlds, New Diorama Theatre
— Lex Kosanke, Hunger, Arcola
— Matt Eaton, All's Well That Ends Well, Guildford Bard, Jermyn Street Theatre
— Xana, Blood Knot, Orange Tree

Design: Lighting
— Christopher Nairne, Preludes, Southwark Playhouse
— Clancy Flynn, An Act of God, The Vaults
— Jessica Hung Han Yun, Equus, English Touring Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East
— Nic Farman, Night of the Living Dead – Live!, Pleasance

Design: Video
— Andrzej Goulding, The Unreturning, Theatre Royal Stratford East
— Ben Bull, Baby Reindeer, Bush Theatre
— Douglas Baker, Moby Dick, Jack Studio Theatre

CHOREOGRAPHY AND PANTOS

Choreography / Movement
— Oti Mabuse, Ain't Misbehavin, Southwark Playhouse
— Simon Adkins, 42nd Street, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
— Zak Nemorin, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Union Theatre

Pantos
— Sleeping Beauty, Greenwich Theatre
— The Nativity Panto, King's Head

IDEA / PERFORMANCE PIECE / ENSEMBLES

IDEA Production (productions which are innovative/devised/experiential/atypical)
— Bullet Tongue Reloaded, Big House
— Crisis? What Crisis?, Colab Factory
— Dear Elizabeth, Gate Theatre
— Sex Sex Men Men, Pecs Drag Kings, Yard Theatre

Performance Piece
— Baby Reindeer, Bush Theatre
— Queens of Sheba, Battersea Arts Centre
— What Girls Are Made Of, Soho Theatre

Company Ensemble
— Neck or Nothing, Pleasance
— Operation Mincemeat, New Diorama
— Ubu, Shoreditch Town Hall

Performance Ensemble
— Dinomania, New Diorama - Hamish MacDougall, Harriet Webb, Janet Etuk, Sophie Steer
— Ghost Quartet, Boulevard Theatre - Carly Bawden, Maimuna Memon, Niccolò Curradi, Zubin Varla
— Little Baby Jesus, Orange Tree - Anyebe Godwin, Khai Shaw, Rachel Nwokoro
— The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Southwark Playhouse - James Marlowe, Joey Hickman, Matt Burns, Rosalind Ford, Philippa Hogg

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