The following is a list of all 2024 finalists which were announced via X/twitter on 9 January 2024. These are all in respect of productions from 2023.
The winners were announced at the Offies 2024 Awards ceremony held on 25 February 2024, and are indicated in blue below.
If you are reading the finalists list below and you believe there are any errors or missing information, please email geoffrey@theatresoff.com as soon as possible with correct or additional information.
The list below is in order of: Design / Musicals (including Cabaret, Panto, Opera) / Theatre for Young Audiences / Cross-Genre / IDEA / Plays
The winners are in blue.
DESIGN
COSTUME DESIGN
Sense & Sensibility / Open Bar / Fullers Pub Gardens / Grace Kelly Miller
She Stoops to Conquer / Orange Tree Theatre / Anett Black and Neil Irish
The Flea / Yard Theatre / Lambdog1066
Unfortunate: the Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch / Southwark Playhouse / Abby Clarke
SET DESIGN
Family Tree / Brixton House / Simon Kenny
The Flea / Yard Theatre / Naomi Kuyck-Cohen
The White Factory / Marylebone Theatre / Galya Solodovnikova
Unfortunate: the Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch / Southwark Playhouse / Abby Clarke
LIGHTING DESIGN
Bacon / HFH Prodns / Riverside Studios / Ryan Joseph Stafford
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button / Southwark Playhouse / Zoe Spurr
The White Factory / Marylebone Theatre / Alex Musgrave
VIDEO DESIGN
Animal / Park Theatre / Matt Powell
Stars / Tamasha Theatre / ICA / Candice Purwin
The White Factory / Marylebone Theatre / Oleg Mikhailov
SOUND DESIGN
Bootycandy / Gate Theatre / Duramaney Kamara
Colossal / Soho Theatre / Sam Rothera
The Girl in the Green Room / Bridge House Theatre / Luke Adamson & Joseph Lindoe
MUSICALS / OPERA / CABARET / PANTO
CHOREOGRAPHY / MOVEMENT
Police Cops: The Musical / Southwark Playhouse / Matt Cole
Rapunzel / Theatre Peckham / Jazz Deer-Olafa
Wonderland in Alice / Theatre Peckham / Christopher Tendai
CABARET
Eve, All About Her / Soho Theatre / Keith Ramsay
La Clique / Leicester Square Spiegeltent
Tits & Teeth: A Retrospective Of An Outstanding Career / Shoreditch Town Hall / Thick&Tight
PANTO DESIGN
Jack & the Beanstalk / Broadway Theatre Catford / Lotte Collett, Mark Walters, Simisola Majekodunmi, Lee Waddington
Sleeping Beauty Takes a Prick / Charing Cross Theatre / David Shields, Sandy Lloyd & Robert Draper, Jamie Platt
Snow White / Greenwich Theatre / Emily Bestow, Henry Slater, Liam McDermott, Pavlov’s Puppets
PANTO PERFORMANCE
Dick Whittington / Queens Theatre Hornchurch
Red Riding Hood & the Big Bad Pig / JW3
Tossed / Royal Vauxhall Tavern
Tinderella / Union Theatre
PANTO PRODUCTION
Odyssey / Charles Court Opera / Jermyn St Theatre
Peter Pan / Kenneth More Theatre
Snow White / Greenwich Theatre
OPERA PERFORMANCE
Hansel and Gretel / HGO / Jacksons Lane Theatre / Rozanna Madylus
La Voix Humaine / Green Opera / Arcola: Grimeborn / Katherine McIndoe
Turandot / The Opera Makers & Ellandar Prodns / Arcola: Grimeborn / Heming Li
OPERA PRODUCTION
The Mikado / Charles Court Opera / Arcola: Grimeborn
Trouble in Tahiti / Arcola: Grimeborn
Turandot / The Opera Makers & Ellandar Prodns / Arcola: Grimeborn
NEW MUSICAL
Bloody Elle / Soho Theatre / Lauryn Redding
Julie The Musical / The Other Palace Studio / Abey Bradbury
Police Cops: The Musical / Southwark Playhouse / Zachary Hunt, Nathan Parkinson, Tom Roe, Ben Adams
MUSICAL DIRECTOR
Annie Get Your Gun / Lavender Theatre / Debbi Clarke
Recognition / Talawa / Fairfield Halls / Rio Kai
Snow White / Greenwich Theatre / Steve Markwick
SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE IN A MUSICAL
Flowers for Mrs Harris / Riverside Studios / Annie Wensak
Tarantino Live / Riverside Studios / Karen Mav
Trompe L’Oeil / The Other Palace Studio / Dominic Booth
Unfortunate: the Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch / Southwark Playhouse / Allie Dart
Unfortunate: the Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch / Southwark Playhouse / Thomas Lowe
LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A MUSICAL
Annie Get Your Gun / Lavender Theatre / SuRie
Bloody Elle / Soho Theatre / Lauryn Redding
Flowers for Mrs Harris / Riverside Studios / Jenna Russell
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button / Southwark Playhouse / Jamie Parker
Unfortunate: the Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch / Southwark Playhouse Elephant / Shawna Hamic
DIRECTOR (MUSICALS)
Bloody Elle / Soho Theatre / Bryony Shanahan
Eugenius / Turbine Theatre / Hannah Chissick
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button / Southwark Playhouse / Jethro Compton
MUSICAL PRODUCTION
Flowers for Mrs Harris / Riverside Studios
Police Cops: The Musical / Southwark Playhouse
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button / Southwark Playhouse
THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES
TYA DESIGN
The Toymaker’s Child / Chickenshed / Set & Lighting: Andrew Caddies; Costumes: Emma Gale
Wolves in the Walls / Little Angel Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, York Theatre Royal / Little Angel Theatre / Toby Olié, Daisy Beattie
Zoe’s Peculiar Journey Through Time / Theatre-Rites & Burg Theater / Polka Theatre / Joanna Parker, Alys Whitehead, Naomi Oppenheim, Charlie Tymms, Rebekah Wild, Stitches & Glue
TYA WRITING / ADAPTATION
He Said She Said / Kiln Theatre / Magero Otieno Magero
Hot Orange / Half Moon / Amal Khalidi & Tatenda Naomi Matsvai
The Trial of Josie K / Unicorn Theatre / Katie Hims
TYA PERFORMANCE
The Invisible Man / Theater Artemis / Unicorn Theatre / Marijn Brussaard, René Groothof, Kim Karssen
Wolves in the Walls / Little Angel Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, York Theatre Royal / Little Angel Theatre / Katie Haygarth, Elisa de Grey, Sean Garratt John Trindle
Zoe’s Peculiar Journey Through Time / Theatre-Rites / Polka Theatre / Eden Harbud, Shanez Pattni, Teele Uustani, Benedetta Zanetti
TYA MUSIC / SOUND
Breathe / Little Angel Theatre / Musicians: Emily Essery & Darcey O’Rourke; Drum & Bass: Suitman Jungle; Songwriter: Avi Simmons
Pied Piper / Battersea Arts Centre, Beatbox Academy & rODIUM Co-Production / Battersea Arts Centre / Conrad Murray
Under the Little Red Moon / English Touring Opera / Polka Theatre / Librettist: Tim Yealland MBE; Composer: Russell Hepplewhite
TYA PRODUCTION
Belongings / Tangled Feet / Polka & Brixton House
He Said She Said / Kiln Theatre
The Toymaker’s Child / Chickenshed
CROSS-GENRE
ACCESS
High Times and Dirty Monsters / Bernie Grant Arts Centre
It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure / FlawBored / Vault Festival
The Bar at the Edge of Time / Frozen Light / Tramshed (Woolwich)
COMMUNITY OUTREACH YOUTH
As We Face the Sun / Bush Theatre
Gone Too Far! / Theatre Royal Stratford East
The Realness / The Big House
ONLINE PRODUCTION
Destiny / Pentabus
Father Unknown / Threedumb Theatre and North East Dads & Lads
The “S” Is Silent / Mad, Who?
The Silence & The Noise / Pentabus & Rural Media
IDEA (Immersive / Devised / Experimental / Atypical) DESIGN
Binaural Dinner Date / ZU-UK / University of Greenwich / Sound Design by Persis-Jade Maravala and Ro
Hildegard Von Bingen / Alex Forey, Bound By Theatre / Vault Festival
On Railton Road / Museum of the Home / Puppets: Oliver Hymans
IDEA (Immersive / Devised / Experimental / Atypical) PERFORMANCE
Clown Sex / Vault Festival / Natasha Sutton Williams
Tentacular Spectacular / Battersea Arts Centre
The Talent / Action Hero & Deborah Pearson / Battersea Arts Centre / Gemma Paintin
IDEA (Immersive / Devised / Experimental / Atypical) PRODUCTION
First Trimester / Krishna Istha / Battersea Arts Centre
High Steaks / Eloina / Vault Festival
Lullaby for Scavengers / Kim Noble / Soho Theatre
NEWCOMER
Strangers In Between / Golden Goose Theatre / Alex Ansdell
That Face / Orange Tree Theatre / Kasper Hilton-Hille
That Face / Orange Tree Theatre / Ruby Stokes
Village Idiot / Theatre Royal Stratford East / Maximilian Fairley
PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLE
A Woman Walks into a Bank / Theatre503 / Keith Dunphy, Giulia Innocenti, Sam Newton
After the Act / New Diorama / Tika Mu’tamir, Ellice Stevens, EM Williams, Zachary Willis
Oh What A Lovely War / Southwark Playhouse / Euan Wilson, Chioma Uma, Alice E Mayer, Harry Curley, Tom Crabtree, Christopher Atkinson
The Brief Life and Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria / Arcola / Sasha Wilson, Joseph Cullen, Lawrence Boothman, Clare Fraenkel, David Leopold
PLAYS
MOST PROMISING NEW PLAYWRIGHT
A Woman Walks into a Bank / Theatre503 / Roxy Cook
SAP / Atticist, Ellie Keel Productions, MAST Mayflower Studios / Soho Theatre / Rafaella Marcus
The Boys Are Kissing / Theatre503 / Zak Zarafshan
NEW PLAY
Stars / Tamasha Theatre / ICA / Mojisola Adebayo
Tiger / Omnibus / Joe Eyre
Vermin / Arcola / Benny Ainsworth
SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE IN A PLAY
A Brief List of Everyone Who Died / Finborough / Siphiwo Mahlentle
Brassic FM / Gate Theatre / Zainab Hasan
Paper Cut / Ecclesia Productions / Park Theatre / Joe Bolland
Possession / Arcola Theatre / Dorothea Myer-Bennet
Possession / Arcola Theatre / Sarah Amankwah
Sense & Sensibility / Open Bar / Fullers Pub Gardens / Thomas Judd
PERFORMANCE PIECE
Blanket Ban / Southwark Playhouse Borough / Davinia Hamilton & Marta Vella
Brown Girls Do It Too / Mama Told Me Not to Come / Soho Theatre / Poppy Jay and Rubina Pabani
Manic Street Creature / Southwark Playhouse / Maimuna Memon
The Legends of Them / Hackney Showroom & Brixton House / Brixton House / Sutara Gayle
SOLO PERFORMANCE IN A PLAY
Candy / Park Theatre / Michael Waller
Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen / Bush Theatre / Samuel Barnett
Protest Song / Arcola / David Nellist
The Unicorn / Nina Productions / Arcola Theatre / Alice Lamb
LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A PLAY
Animal / Park Theatre / Christopher John-Slater
Leaves of Glass / Park Theatre / Ned Costello
She Stoops to Conquer / Orange Tree Theatre / David Horovitch
The Journey to Venice / Anarchy Division / Finborough / Annabel Leventon
The White Factory / Marylebone Theatre / Adrian Schiller
Vermin / Arcola / Sally Paffett
Wasted / MICA Theatre, Nouveau Riche / Broadway Theatre Catford / Seraphina Beh
DIRECTOR (PLAYS)
Animal / Park Theatre / Bronagh Lagan
Recognition / Talawa / Fairfield Halls / Rachael Nanyonjo
Tambo & Bones / Theatre Royal Stratford East / Matthew Xia
The Book of Will / Queens Theatre Hornchurch / Lotte Wakeham
The Flea / Yard Theatre / Jay Miller
The White Factory / Marylebone Theatre / Maxim Didenko
PRODUCTION (PLAYS)
My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar / Hale Arts / Brixton House
Tambo & Bones / Theatre Royal Stratford East
The White Factory / Marylebone Theatre