The Offies – the awards for independent and fringe theatre in London – have announced nominations and dates for their 2023 awards.
The 13th annual Offies 2023 Awards ceremony will take place at Alexandra Palace Theatre from 3pm on Sunday 12 February 2023, the first in-person event since 2020.
Run by OffWestEnd, the Offies recognise excellence, innovation and ingenuity in independent, alternative and fringe theatres. Eligibility for this year’s full-run, flagship Offies awards are shows that run for 10 performances or more over 2 or more weeks during 2022.
Through the year shows are nominated for the awards, forming a long-list; and then the Offies’ “super assessors” bring this down to a shortlist of finalists.
Further finalists will be announced tomorrow, Thursday 12 January 2023.
Venues leading the field so far include Soho Theatre with 12 finalist nominations, and Southwark Playhouse with 9.
Offies 2023 Finalists
PRODUCTION
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
LEAD PERFORMANCE
Rebecca Humphries, Blackout Songs at Hampstead Theatre
Ragevan Vasan, The Animal Kingdom at Hampstead Theatre
Esh Alladi, The P Word at Bush Theatre
Eve Ponsonby, A Dead Body in Taos at Wilton’s Music Hall
Corey Montague Sholay & William Robinson, Bacon at Finborough Theatre
SOLO PERFORMANCE
Deborah Newbold, Lost in Blue at the Lion & Unicorn
Dame Maureen Lipman, Rose – Park Theatre
Joseph Potter, The Poltergeist at Arcola Theatre
Edie Campbell, Apples in Winter at Playground Theatre
Edwin Flay, The Quality of Mercy at Courtyard Theatre Hoxton
PERFORMANCE PIECE
Haley McGee, Age is a Feeling at Soho Theatre
Liz Kingsman, One Woman Show at Soho Theatre
Anoushka Lucas, Elephant at Bush Theatre
Rosie Day Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon at Southwark Playhouse
SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Oli Hembrough, All My Sons at Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch
Caitlin Fielding, Monster at Park Theatre
David Angland, Doctor Faustus at Southwark Playhouse
Mary Malone, The Prince at Southwark Playhouse
Rina Fatania, Favour at Bush Theatre
Richard James, A Sherlock Carol at Marylebone Theatre
DIRECTOR
Matthew Iliffe, Bacon at the Finborough Theatre
Maggie Norris, Mission at The Big House
Philip Wilson, Starcrossed at Wilton’s Music Hall
Paul Tomlinson, SUS at the Park Theatre
Nicky Diss, The Comedy of Errors at Fullers Pub Gardens
NEW PLAY
Joe White, Blackout Songs at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs
Neda Nezhdana, Pussycat in Memory of Darkness (Voices from Ukraine) at the Finborough
Tyrell Williams, Red Pitch at Bush Theatre
MOST PROMISING NEW PLAYWRIGHT
Yasmin Wilde, Glitterball at Watford Palace/Riverside Studios
Pravin Wilkins, Moreno at Theatre503
Waleed Akhtar, Kabul Goes Pop/The P Word at Brixton House/Bush Theatre
SPECIAL
PANTO
Beauty & The Beast at Watford Palace
Jack & The Beanstalk at Harrow Arts Centre
Robin Hood at Greenwich Theatre
Sleeping Beauty at Queens Theatre Hornchurch
CABARET
Pleasure Seekers, Bourgeois & Maurice at the Soho Theatre
Not F–kin’ Sorry, Not Your Circus Dog at Soho Theatre
The Butch Is Back, Reuben Kaye at Soho Theatre
PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLE
Ensemble, Alice in Wonderland at Brixton House Theatre
Ensemble, Foxes at Seven Dials Playhouse
Ensemble, A Gig for Ghosts at Soho Theatre
Ensemble, The Canterville Ghost at Southwark Playhouse
NEWCOMER
Nkhanise Phiri, Alice in Wonderland at Brixton House
Daniel Rock, Richard the Second at the Omnibus
Denise Laniyan, The Dwarfs at the White Bear
CHOREO/MOVEMENT
Marion Mutin, Fashion Freak Show at the Roundhouse
Cressida Carre, From Here to Eternity at Charing Cross Theatre
Dannielle “Rhimes” Leconte, Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World at Theatre Royal Stratford East
IDEA PRODUCTION
It Don’t Worry Me at the New Diorama
Psychodrama at Battersea Arts Centre
The Making of Pinocchio at Battersea Arts Centre
IDEA PERFORMANCE
Louise Mothersole/Rebecca Biscuit, Evita Too at Soho Theatre
Ensemble, The Man Who Thought He Knew Too Much at The Omnibus/The Vaults
Ensemble, Trainspotting LIVE at Riverside Studios
IDEA DESIGN
Cages at Riverside Studios
Sun & Sea at The Albany
The Witches of Oz at The Vaults
THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES
TYA PRODUCTION
I Want My Hat Back at Little Angel Theatre
Kinder at Little Angel Theatre
Ready Steady Go at Polka Theatre
TYA PERFORMANCE
Amy Loughton/Andy Umerah/Erika Poole/Phil Yarrow/Sera Mustafa, Crackers at Polka Theatre
Omi Mantri/Ryan Rajan Mal, Daytime Deewane at Half Moon Theatre
Ellie Carroll/Hector Dogliani/Will Lawrence/Lauren Cambridge/Jonny Morton, Jack at Chickenshed
TYA WRITING
Ian Nicholson/Sam Wilde, I Want My Hat Back at Little Angel Theatre
Azan Ahmed, Daytime Deewane at Half Moon Theatre
Molly Freeman/George Bellamy, Kinder at Little Angel Theatre
TYA MUSIC/SOUND
Jon Ouin/George Bellamy, Kinder at Little Angel Theatre
Somin Griffin-Dave, Daytime Deewane at the Half Moon Theatre
Ben & Max Ringham/Owen Crouch, Gulliver’s Travels at Unicorn Theatre
TYA DESIGN
Sam Wilde/Sherry Coenen, I Want My Hat Back at Little Angel Theatre
Joe Hornsby/Verity Quinn, Ready Steady Go at Polka Theatre
Rosanna Vize/Jack Phelan/Jess Bernberg/Joshua Gadsby, Gulliver’s Travels at Unicorn Theatre
MUSICALS / OPERA
MUSICAL PRODUCTION
Operation Mincemeat at the Southwark Playhouse
Ride at Charing Cross Theatre
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World at Stratford East Theatre
La Maupin at Lion & Unicorn Theatre
LEAD PERFORMANCE
Barry James, A Letter to Harvey Milk at Waterloo East Theatre
Luke Bayer, Diva: Live from Hell at Turbine Theatre
Max Alexander-Taylor, The Lion at Southwark Playhouse
Collette Cooper, Tomorrow May Be My Last at Old Red Lion Theatre
Liv Andrusier, Ride at Charing Cross Theatre
SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Ash Weir & Michael Mather, But I’m a Cheerleader at Turbine Theatre
Kathryn Bond, Cinderella at Stratford East Theatre
Yuki Sutton, Ride at Charing Cross Theatre
Holly Sumpton, Stranger Sings at The Vaults
DIRECTOR
Tania Azevedo, But I’m a Cheerleader at Turbine Theatre
Matthew Parker, Thrill Me at Jermyn St Theatre
Sarah Meadows, Ride at Charing Cross Theatre
MUSICAL DIRECTION
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/Leeds Playhouse
OPERA PERFORMANCE
Company & Orchestra, L’Incoronazione di Poppea at Arcola Theatre
Michael Lafferty, Raphaela Papadakis, Black, El Payaso
Company & Orchestra, The Cunning Little Vixen at Jacksons Lane
NEW MUSICAL
Nadim Naaman, Broken Wings at Charing Cross Theatre
Olivia Thompson, La Maupin at the Lion & Unicorn
Chris Bush/Miranda Cooper/Jennifer Decliveo, Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World at Stratford East Theatre
OPERA PRODUCTION
Patience, Charles Court Opera at Wilton’s Music Hall
H.M.S. Pinafore, Sasha Regan at Wilton’s Music Hall
The Paradis Files, Graeae at Queen Elizabeth Hall
DESIGN
VIDEO DESIGN
Will Monks, Foxes at Seven Dials Playhouse
Douglas Baker, Ten Days in a Madhouse at Jack Studio Theatre
Dan Light, Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon at Southwark Playhouse
SOUND DESIGN
Calum Perrin, Ten Days in a Madhouse at Jack Studio Th
Jamie Lu, The Blue House at Blue Elephant Theatre
Roshan Gunga & John Hoggarth, Brown Boys Swim at Soho Theatre
LIGHTING DESIGN
Christopher Nairne, Blackout Songs at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs
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 Theatre
SET DESIGN
Grace Smart, The Wonderful World of Dissocia at Theatre Royal Stratford East Theatre
Libby Watson, Glitterball at Watford Palace Th / Riverside Studios
Rosanna Vize, Shedding a Skin at Soho Theatre
COSTUME DESIGN
Charlotte Espiner, Cinderella at Theatre Royal Stratford East Theatre
Valentine Gigandet, Diary of a Somebody, Seven Dials Playhouse
Reuben Speed, Doctor Faustus at Southwark Playhouse
Carla Joy Evans, The Straw Chair at Finborough Theatre
