2021 Finalists & Nominations

The following is a list of all 2020 nominations and also indicates which have now been announced as finalists and winners

Please note that due to theatre closures in the light of the pandemic, some categories did not have finalists / winners this year due to insufficient nominations.

The winners were announced at the online Offies 2021 Awards ceremony which was held online on 21 February 2021.

DESIGN

Design: Costume

Lee Newby / The Last 5 Years / Southwark Playhouse

Design: Set

Alison Neighbour / Collapsible / Bush Theatre

FINALIST: Casey Jay Andrews / Lockdown Town

Gregor Donnelly / Rags / Park Theatre

Jessica Staton / Tryst / Chiswick Playhouse

Joanna Scotcher / Love, Love, Love / Lyric Hammersmith

Lee Newby / The Last 5 Years / Southwark Playhouse

FINALIST: Lucy Osborne / Afterplay / Coronet Theatre

WINNER: Patrick Connellan / The Incident Room / New Diorama with Greenwich Theatre

Timothy Bird with Isobel Power Smith / Love, Loss & Chianti / Riverside Studios

Design: Lighting

Anthony Doran / Scrounger / Finborough

Derek Anderson / Rags / Park Theatre

FINALIST: Jamie Platt / The Last 5 Years / Southwark Playhouse

Joshua Pharo / The Claim / Shoreditch Town Hall

FINALIST: Malcolm Rippeth / Afterplay / Coronet Theatre

WINNER: Tom White / Macbeth / Wiltons Music Hall

Design: Sound

Cyril Barbessol / C-o-n-t-a-c-t / Various locations

Julian Starr / Scrounger / Finborough

FINALIST: Max Pappenheim / Sunnymead Court / Tristan Bates Theatre

FINALIST: Neil Bettles / Petrichor / Theatre Royal Stratford East

William Close / Persona / Riverside Studios

WINNER:Yaiza Varona / The Incident Room / New Diorama with Greenwich Theatre

Design: Video

Charles Peattie / Love, Loss & Chianti / Riverside Studios

Zakk Hein / The Incident Room / New Diorama with Greenwich Theatre

OPERA

Opera: Performance

Fiona Finsbury / Tosca + La Bohème / Opera Undone / King’s Head

Philip Lee / Tosca + La Bohème / Opera Undone / King’s Head

MUSICALS

Musicals: Lead Performance

FINALIST: Carolyn Maitland / Rags / Park Theatre

WINNER: Frances Barber  / Musik / Leicester Square Theatre

Jessica Martin  / Blitz! / Union Theatre

Martin Kaye / Elton John: It’s A Little Bit Funny / Aria Entertainment at Upstairs at the Gatehouse

FINALIST: Molly Lynch  / The Last 5 Years / Southwark Playhouse

FINALIST: Oli Higginson / The Last 5 Years / Southwark Playhouse

Musicals: Supporting Performance

Amelia Atherton / Next Thing You Know / Garden Theatre at the Eagle

FINALIST: Beaux Harris  / Blitz! / Union Theatre

WINNER: Dave Willetts / Rags / Park Theatre

Oisin Nolan-Power / Rags / Park Theatre

FINALIST: Rachel Izen / Rags / Park Theatre

Musicals: New Musical

Happily Ever Poofter / Kings Head

Musicals: Musical Director

FINALIST: George Dyer / The Last 5 Years / Southwark Playhouse

WINNER: Joe Bunker / Rags / Park Theatre

FINALIST: Michael Bradley / Pippin / Garden Theatre at the Eagle

Musicals: Director

FINALIST: Bronagh Lagan / Rags / Park Theatre

WINNER: Jonathan O’Boyle / The Last 5 Years / Southwark Playhouse

Musicals: Production

FINALIST: Pippin / Garden Theatre at the Eagle / LAMBCO Productions

FINALIST: Rags / Park Theatre / Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment

WINNER: The Last 5 Years / Southwark Playhouse / Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment in association with Edward Prophet and People Entertainment Group

MUSICALS / PLAYS

Choreography

Nick Winston  / Pippin / Garden Theatre at the Eagle

Ensemble: Company

Howard Coggins & Stu McLoughlin / The Six Wives of Henry VIII / Living Spit / King’s Head

Romario Simpson, Kerim Hassan, Akshay Kumar / Syndrome / Tristan Bates

Ensemble: Performance

Colin Campbell, Rhys Dunlop, Conor Madden / Flights / Omnibus Theatre

Jenni Maitland / Andy Rush / Lydia Larson / Andrew Finnigan / You Stupid Darkness! / Southwark Playhouse

FINALIST: Stephanie Booth & Hannah Livingstone / We Were Having A Perfectly Nice Time / Omnibus Theatre

Tonderai Munyevu, Nick Blakeley, Indra Ove / The Claim / Shoreditch Town Hall

FINALIST: Ryan Anderson, Tsemaye Bob-Egbe, Tanisha-Mae Brown, Joanne Clifton, Harry Francis, Dan Krikler / Pippin / Garden Theatre at the Eagle

Remmie Milner, Gemma Lawrence / Sunnymead Court / Tristan Bates Theatre  / Tristan Bates & Defibrillator & The Actors Centre

WINNER: Rachel Barnes, Laurie Jamieson, Nigel Taylor, Daniel Ward / The Canary and The Crow / Arcola

PLAYS

Plays: Lead Performance

Ailsa Joy / Not Quite Jerusalem / Finborough

Athena Stevens  / Scrounger / Finborough

Breffni Holahan  / Collapsible / Bush Theatre

FINALIST: James Demaine / Nuclear War / Buried / Graceland / Old Red Lion

WINNER: Jessica Rhodes / The Sugar Syndrome / Orange Tree Theatre

Josh Zaré  / The Mikvah Project / Orange Tree

Maggie Steed / The Cutting Edge / Arcola

Mariah Gale / Afterplay / Coronet Theatre

Michael Pennington / The Tempest / Jermyn Street Theatre

FINALIST: Sam Crane / The Rage of Narcissus / Pleasance

Plays: Supporting Performance

Alexandra Gilbreath / The Sugar Syndrome / Orange Tree Theatre

FINALIST: Ali Barouti / The Sugar Syndrome / Orange Tree Theatre

Elliot Liburd  / Time and Tide / Relish Theatre at Park Theatre

Isabella Laughland / Love, Love, Love / Lyric Hammersmith

FINALIST: John Hollingworth   / The Sugar Syndrome / Orange Tree Theatre

Laurie Jamieson / The Canary and The Crow / Arcola

WINNER: Leigh Quinn  / Scrounger / Finborough

Marc Mackinnon / Four Play / Above the Stag

Victoria Blunt  / A Midsummer Night’s Dream / Wilton’s Music Hall

Plays: Performance Piece

WINNER: Daniel Ward / The Canary and The Crow / Arcola

FINALIST: Lucy McCormick / Lucy McCormick, Post Popular / Soho Theatre, Johnson & Mackay & United Agents

FINALIST: Miguel Hernando Torres Umba / Stardust / Roundhouse

Plays: Most Promising New Playwright

Pedro Leandro / We Were Having A Perfectly Nice Time / Omnibus Theatre

Temi Wilkey / The High Table / Bush Theatre

Plays: New Play

Adam Lazarus / Daughter / Battersea Arts Centre

Gemma Lawrence / Sunnymead Court / Tristan Bates Theatre

James McDermott / Time and Tide / Relish Theatre at Park Theatre

Margaret Perry / Collapsible / Bush Theatre

FINALIST: Sam Steiner / You Stupid Darkness! / Southwark Playhouse

JOINT WINNER: Sergio Blanco / The Rage of Narcissus / Pleasance

Tina Jay / Syndrome / Tristan Bates

JOINT WINNER: Athena Stevens  / Scrounger / Finborough

Plays: Director

Evan Lordan  / We Were Having A Perfectly Nice Time / Omnibus Theatre

FINALIST: Jim Pope / Can I Help You? / Omnibus Theatre

John Patterson / Not I / Catastrophe / Rockaby / by Angel Theatre Co at Jack Studio Theatre

FINALIST: Lily McLeish / Scrounger / Finborough

WINNER: Phoebe Barran / Tryst / Chiswick Playhouse

Plays: Production

Nuclear War / Buried / Graceland / Old Red Lion / Boxless Theatre, Bag Of Beard, Grindstone & Take Two Theatricals

Sunnymead Court / Tristan Bates Theatre  / Tristan Bates & Defibrillator & The Actors Centre

IDEA (Innovative, Devised, Experiential, Atypical)

IDEA Design

The Brief Life and Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria, Part The First / Vault Festival / Out of the Forest Theatre

The Lost Hours / Vault Festival

IDEA Performance

Crooks 1926 / CoLab Theatre

WINNER: FK Alexander / (I Could Go on Singing) Over the Rainbow / Southbank Centre

FINALIST: Lucy McCormick / Post Popular / Soho Theatre

Nearly Human / Perhaps Contraption, Vault Festival

Splintered / Lagahoo Productions / Vault Festival

FINALIST: When It Breaks It Burns / Battersea Arts Centre

IDEA Production

846 Live / Theatre Royal Stratford East / Theatre Royal Stratford East & Royal Docks Team

Dadderrs / Yard Theatre / The Place

FINALIST: (I Could Go on Singing) Over the Rainbow / Southbank Centre

Lockdown Town / One Night Records at London Bridge

Mid Life / Barbican / Diverse City

WINNER: Sound Cistem / Vault Festival / Plaster Cast Theatre

The Ballad of Corona V / The Big House / The Big House

The Brief Life and Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria, Part The First / Vault Festival / Out of the Forest Theatre

FINALIST: The Lost Hours / Vault Festival / 8ROJO

Working on my Night Moves / Yard Theatre / Zanetti Productions

THEATRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Theatre for Young People: Production (13+)

Waiting for the Ship to Sail / Chickenshed