The finalists for the annual awards (for productions in 2022) have been announced as follows:
PLAYS
Most promising new playwright
Yasmin Wilde: Glitterball at Watford Palace Theatre
Waleed Akhtar: Kabul Goes Pop at Brixton House (also The P Word at Bush Theatre)
Pravin Wilkins: Moreno at Theatre503
New play
Joe White: Blackout Songs at Hampstead Theatre
Neda Nezhdana: Pussycat in Memory of Darkness (Voices from Ukraine) Finborough
Tyrell Williams: Red Pitch at Bush Theatre
Director (plays)
Matthew Iliffe: Bacon at Finborough
Maggie Norris: Mission at The Big House
Philip Wilson: Starcrossed at Wilton’s Music Hall
Paul Tomlinson: SUS at Park Theatre
Nicky Diss: The Comedy of Errors at Fullers Pub Gardens
Supporting perf in a play
Richard James: A Sherlock Carol at Marylebone Theatre
Oliver Hembrough: All My Sons at Queens Theatre Hornchurch
David Angland: Doctor Faustus at Southwark Playhouse
Rina Fatania: Favour at Bush Theatre
Caitlin Fielding: Monster at Park Theatre
Mary Malone: The Prince at Southwark Playhouse
Performance piece
Haley McGee: Age is a Feeling at Soho Theatre
Anoushka Lucas: Elephant at Bush Theatre
Rosie Day: Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon at Southwark Playhouse
Liz Kingsman: One Woman Show at Soho Theatre
Solo performance in a play
Edie Campbell: Apples in Winter at Playground Theatre
Deborah Newbold: Lost in Blue at Lion & Unicorn Theatre
Dame Maureen Lipman: Rose at Park Theatre
Joseph Potter: The Poltergeist at Arcola
Edwin Flay: The Quality of Mercy at Courtyard, Hoxton
Lead performance in a play
Eve Ponsonby: A Dead Body in Taos at Wilton’s Music Hall
Corey Montague-Sholay: Bacon at Finborough
William Robinson: Bacon at Finborough
Rebecca Humphries: Blackout Songs at Hampstead Theatre
Ragevan Vasan: The Animal Kingdom Hampstead Theatre
Esh Alladi: The P Word at Bush Theatre
Production (plays)
Shedding a Skin at Soho Theatre
The Solid Life of Sugar Water at Orange Tree Theatre
The Wonderful World of Dissocia at Theatre Royal Stratford East
We Were Promised Honey! at Soho Theatre
MUSICALS & OPERA
Opera performance
Company & Orchestra: L’Incoronazione di Poppea at Arcola
Michael Lafferty, Raphaela Papadakis Black, el payaso at Cervantes Theatre
Company & Orchestra: The Cunning Little Vixen at Jacksons Lane
Opera production
HMS Pinafore at Wilton’s Music Hall
Patience at Wilton’s Music Hall
The Paradis Files at QEH
New musical
Nadim Naaman & Dana Al Fardan: Broken Wings at Charing Cross Theatre
Chris Bush, Miranda Cooper, Jennifer Decliveo: Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World at Theatre Royal Stratford East
Olivia Thompson: La Maupin Lion & Unicorn
Musical director
Nick Barstow: From Here To Eternity at Charing Cross Theatre
Sam Young: Ride at Charing Cross Theatre
Jamie Noar: Say Yes to Tess at Camden People’s Theatre
Director (Musicals)
Tania Azevedo: But I’m a Cheerleader at Turbine Theatre
Sarah Meadows: Ride at Charing Cross Theatre
Matthew Parker: Thrill Me at Jermyn St Theatre
Supporting perf in a musical
Ash Weir: But I’m a Cheerleader at Turbine Theatre
Michael Mather: But I’m a Cheerleader at Turbine Theatre
Kathryn Bond: Cinderella at Theatre Royal Stratford East
Yuki Sutton: Ride at Charing Cross Theatre
Holly Sumpton: Stranger Sings at The Vaults
Lead perf in a musical
Barry James: A Letter to Harvey Milk – The Musical at Waterloo East Theatre
Luke Bayer: Diva: Live from Hell at Turbine Theatre
Liv Andrusier: Ride at Charing Cross Theatre
Max Alexander-Taylor: The Lion at Southwark Playhouse
Collette Cooper: Tomorrow May Be My Last at Old Red Lion
Production (musicals)
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World at Theatre Royal Stratford East
La Maupin at Lion & Unicorn
Operation Mincemeat at Southwark Playhouse
Ride at Charing Cross Theatre
DESIGN
Costume design
Charlotte Espiner: Cinderella at Theatre Royal Stratford East
Valentine Gigandet: Diary of a Somebody at Seven Dials Playhouse
Reuben Speed: Doctor Faustus at Southwark Playhouse
Carla Joy Evans: The Straw Chair at Finborough
Set design
Libby Watson: Glitterball at Watford Palace Theatre
Rosanna Vize: Shedding a Skin at Soho Theatre
Grace Smart: The Wonderful World of Dissocia at Theatre Royal Stratford East
Sound design
Roshan Gunga & John Hoggarth: Brown Boys Swim at Soho Theatre
Calum Perrin: Ten Days in a Madhouse at Jack Studio Theatre
Jamie Lu: The Blue House at Blue Elephant Theatre
Lighting design
Christopher Nairne: Blackout Songs at Hampstead Theatre
Stuart Glover: Doctor Faustus at Southwark Playhouse
Prema Mehta: Super High Resolution at Soho Theatre
Aaron J Dootson: The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me at New Wimbledon Studio
Video design
Will Monks: Foxes at Seven Dials Playhouse
Dan Light: Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon at Southwark Playhouse
Douglas Baker: Ten Days in a Madhouse Jack Studio Theatre
Further finalists in other categories are available on the Offies website
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