Who won at the 2020 Off-West End Awards?
Published on 9 March 2020
The winners of the 2020 Offies have been announced.
The biggest winner of the Off-West End Awards this year proved to be Equus, which took home a total of three Offies including the award for Best Director (Ned Bennett) and Best Production. Gemma Barnett also notably took home the award for Best Female Performance in a Play for her one-woman monologue show A Hundred Words for Snow at Trafalgar Studios. Meanwhile, Best New Play was awarded to the Theatre503 production of Ross Willis' Wolfie whilst Best Male Performance in a Play went to Cary Crankson for his performance in Country Music at the Omnibus Theatre.
As far as the musical categories are concerned, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at the Union Theatre and Amour at the Charing Cross Theatre each picked up two prizes with the latter taking home Best New Musical in particular.
Read the list of winners in full below.
2020 Off-West End Award winners in full
PLAYS
Dylan Coburn Gray, Citysong,
Soho TheatreSamuel Bailey, Shook, Southwark Playhouse
Zia Ahmed, I Wanna Be Yours, Bush Theatre
Plays: Best New Play
Matilda Ibini, Little Miss Burden, Bunker Theatre
Rose Lewenstein, Cougar, Orange Tree Theatre
Ross Willis, Wolfie, Theatre503
Marina Bye, The Lady from the Sea,
Coronet Theatre/ Print RoomPatience Tomlinson, Go Bang Your Tambourine, Finborough Theatre
Sheila Atim, Time Is Love, Finborough Theatre
Plays: Best Male in a Supporting Role
Bart Lambert, The House of Yes, The Hope Theatre
Ben Woods, A Christmas Carol, Bridge House Theatre
John Sackville, Go Bang Your Tambourine, Finborough Theatre
Gemma Barnett, A Hundred Words for Snow, Trafalgar Studios 2
Lucy Briggs-Owen, Out of Water, Orange Tree Theatre
Pia Tjelta, The Lady from the Sea, Coronet Theatre/ Print Room
Redd Lily Roche, Box Clever, Bunker Theatre
Plays: Best Male Performance
Cary Crankson, Country Music, Omnibus Theatre
Danny Kirrane, We're Staying Right Here, Park Theatre
Irfan Shamji, The Arrival, Bush Theatre
Kalungi Ssebandeke, Blood Knot, Orange Tree Theatre
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 Theatre
Plays: Best Production
Equus, English Touring Theatre/Theatre Royal Stratford East
Shook, Southwark Playhouse
Wolfie, Theatre503
MUSICALS and OPERA
Amour, Charing Cross Theatre
Shida, The Vaults
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Southwark Playhouse
Musicals: Best 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
Cedric Neal, The View UpStairs, Soho Theatre
Jerome Pradon, Aspects of Love, Southwark Playhouse
Oliver Savile, Falsettos,
The Other Palace Musicals: Best Female Performance
Abigayle Honeywill, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Union Theatre
Jeannette Bayardelle, Shida, The Vaults
Lauryn Redding, The Hired Man, Queens Theatre Hornchurch
**Bart Lambert, Thrill Me, The Hope Theatre
Jack Reitman, Thrill Me, The Hope Theatre**
Keith Ramsay, Preludes, Southwark Playhouse
Musicals: Best 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
Bill Buckhurst, Ghost Quartet, Boulevard Theatre
Hannah Chissick, Amour, Charing Cross Theatre
Jethro Compton, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Southwark Playhouse
Musicals: Best Production
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Union Theatre
Ghost Quartet, Boulevard Theatre
High Fidelity, Turbine Theatre
HMS Pinafore, Charles Court Opera, King's Head Theatre
Partenope, Hampstead Garden Opera, Jacksons Lane
The Elixir of Love, King's Head Theatre
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
Diego Pitarch, Night of the Living Dead – Live!, Pleasance Theatre
Justin Williams, Whistle Down the Wind, Union Theatre
Lee Newby, The View UpStairs, Soho Theatre
Rachael Ryan, Thrill Me, The Hope Theatre
Design: Sound
Benjamin Grant, The War of the Worlds, New Diorama Theatre
Lex Kosanke, Hunger, Arcola Theatre
Matt Eaton, All's Well That Ends Well, Guildford Bard/ Jermyn Street Theatre
Xana, Blood Knot, Orange Tree Theatre
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 Theatre
Design: Video
Andrzej Goulding, The Unreturning, Theatre Royal Stratford East
Ben Bull, Baby Reindeer, Bush Theatre
Douglas Baker, Moby Dick, Jack Studio Theatre
Mehmet Ergen and Leyla Nazli, Arcola Theatre
Special Award for Artistic Director
Chris Sonnex, Bunker Theatre
Tobi Kyeremateng
CHOREOGRAPHY AND PANTOMIMES
Choreography/ Movement
Oti Mabuse, Ain't Misbehavin' , Southwark Playhouse
Simon Adkins, 42nd Street, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Zak Nemorin, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Union Theatre
Sleeping Beauty, Greenwich Theatre
The Nativity Panto, King's Head Theatre
PRODUCTIONS AT THEATRE FESTIVALS
Voila Europe Fest 2019
Napoli 44, Compagnia Francesca Caprioli
I Will Tell You in a Minute, Nuna Livhaber
We Must Live, The Pushkinettes
All the Little Lights, Jane Upton/ Tristan Bates Theatre
Ophelia Rewound, Antigoni Spanou
Red Peter, Grid Theatre
Villain, Interrupted, Dolls in Amber Productions
PEOPLE'S VOTE
Foodie Experience: Park Theatre
Theatre Bar: Arcola Theatre
Facilities: Above the Stag
Most Comfortable: Bush Theatre
Most Welcoming: Chickenshed
Programming Policy: Bunker Theatre
Social Media: Bunker Theatre
Online Info and Booking: Jack Studio Theatre
Programmes: Jack Studio Theatre
PRODUCTIONS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
The Polar Bears Go, Go, Go!, Unicorn Theatre
The Bed, Little Angel Theatre
The Paper Dolls, Polka Theatre/ New Wimbledon Studio
Aged 8
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Iris Theatre
The Canterville Ghost, Unicorn Theatre
Snow White, Chickenshed
Crowded, Half Moon Theatre
Extremism, Theatre Peckham
Easy, Paradox Theatre/ Blue Elephant Theatre
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
Baby Reindeer, Bush Theatre
Queens of Sheba, Battersea Arts Centre
What Girls Are Made Of, Soho Theatre
Company Ensemble
Neck or Nothing, Pleasance Theatre
Operation Mincemeat, New Diorama Theatre
Ubu, Shoreditch Town Hall
Dinomania, New Diorama Theatre – Janet Etuk, Hamish MacDougall, Sophie Steer, Harriet Webb
Ghost Quartet, Boulevard Theatre – Carly Bawden, Niccolò Curradi, Maimuna Memon, Zubin Varla
Little Baby Jesus, Orange Tree Theatre – Anyebe Godwin, Rachel Nwokoro, Khai Shaw
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Southwark Playhouse – Matt Burns, Rosalind Ford, Joey Hickman, Philippa Hogg, James Marlowe
By Nicholas Ephram Ryan Daniels
Ephram is a jack of all trades and enjoys attending theatre, classical music concerts and the opera.