The winners of the Offies have been announced tonight at a star-studded ceremony, marking the awards’ 15th anniversary. Drag-artist superstar Divina De Campo hosted the night at Central Hall Westminster.
Special awards were given to Lynette Linton and Daniel Bailey, in recognition for their work with The Bush Theatre, from which they are both stepping down after six years. Lynette is a BAFTA-nominated writer and joined The Bush Theatre as Artistic Director in 2019. Her programming focused on debuts from UK and Irish writers, including three consecutive Olivier
Award wins for Richard Gadd’s Baby Reindeer. Daniel Bailey stepped down Associate Artistic Director in January 2025, after six years of work alongside Lynette. Daniel’s directing work at the theatre included Beru Tessema’s Wolves on the Road (2024) and Lenny Henry’s August in England (2023), which he co-directed with Lynette. The Bush Theatre aims to champion new work and have produced more than 500 premieres since the company was founded in 1972.
Another special award was given to internationally acclaimed Mischief Theatre, who are celebrating ten years of work in the West End. The company are renowned for giving artists a platform to embrace humour and break free from the restraints of reality. Mischief aim to bring joy to audiences of all ages and backgrounds, showcased in their Broadway and West End hit The Play That Goes Wrong.
The evening was a true celebration of everything the Off-West End offers, with performances from the legendary London Gay Men’s Chorus, the award-winning Mischief Theatre, Tony Award-winning Frances Ruffelle and Divina De Campo themself. Previous Offies finalist, Ben Goddard (Million Dollar Quartet, West End; Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Warner Bros) delivered an exceptional evening of musical direction. Tobias Turley, the winner of ITV’s Mamma Mia! I Have A Dream also delivered an incredible rendition of The Sheep Chose a Wolf from hit musical White Rose, which he is currently starring in.
Denholm Spurr, Executive Producer of the Offies, comments,
The Offies are unique. Nowhere else is there an awards system of this scale, scope, and rigour – assessing thousands of shows across hundreds of venues through an unparalleled cohort of assessors. These assessors – practitioners and enthusiasts alike – make the Offies the most deeply embedded theatre network in existence.
PRODUCTION
•Blood Show / Battersea Arts Centre, Chapter Arts Centre, Colchester Arts Centre
(Battersea Arts Centre)
•Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse–Five (or the children’s crusade) / So It Goes Theatre
(Brockley Jack Theatre)
•La Bohème / The Opera Makers (Arcola Theatre)
•Run, Rebel / Pilot Theatre (Theatre Peckham)
•Sleeping Beauty / Broadway Theatre (Broadway Theatre, Catford)
•Sophie’s Surprise 29
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/ Three Legged Race Productions (Underbelly)
STAGING
•Hannah Grennell/ Giselle: Remix (The Pleasance)
•Christopher Haydon/ Never Let Me Go (Rose Theatre)
•Tom Littler/ Twelfth Night (Orange Tree Theatre)
PERFORMANCE
•Natasha Roland, Xhloe Rice/ A Letter to Lyndon B. Johnson or God: Whoever Reads This
First (Kings Head Theatre)
•Victoria Hamilton-Barritt/ Bronco Billy the Musical (Charing Cross Theatre)
Mark Weinman/ Captain Amazing (Southwark Playhouse)
•The Cast/ Dick Whittington and His Cat (Greenwich Theatre)
•The Cast and Orchestra / Eugene Onegin (Jacksons Lane)
•Faye Castelow/ Here in America (Orange Tree Theatre)
•Rosalind Ford/ In Clay (Gatehouse Theatre)
•The Cast/ Journey of a Refugee (Stanley Arts Centre)
•Mariah Gale, Elizabeth Dulau, Alexandra Jensen/ The Bleeding Tree (Southwark
Playhouse)
•Milo Twomey/ The Harmony Test (Hampstead Theatre)
•Jo Fong, George Orange/ The Rest of Our Lives (Battersea Arts Centre)
•Heather Agyepong, Tosin Cole/ Shifters (Bush Theatre)
•The Cast/ Sleeping with Beauty (The Union Theatre)
•Victoria Yeates / Wormholes (Omnibus Theatre)
DESIGN
•Amanda Ramasawmy / by their fruits (Theatre503)
•Mona Camille / Kim’s Convenience (Park Theatre)
•Douglas Baker/ Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five (or the children’s crusade) (Jack
Studio Theatre)
•Jack Weir/ Remembrance Monday (Tristan Bates Theatre)
•Ryan Day/ Now I See (Theatre Royal Stratford East)
•Richard Evans, Rochelle Parry Clifford / The Pantomime Adventures of Peter Pan
(Harrow Arts Centre)
•Helen Skiera / Toto Kerblammo! (Unicorn Theatre)
•Casey Jay Andrews, Simon Wilkinson, Gareth Fry/ Viola’s Room (One Cartridge Place)
SOUND & MUSIC
•Xana/ King Troll (The Fawn), Shifters, Guards at the Taj (New Diorama/Bush
Theatre/Orange Tree)
•Beats And Elements/ Romeo & Juliet (Polka Theatre)
•Liam Holmes / Songs for a New World (Gatehouse Theatre)
CREATION
•Rebecca Simmonds, Jack Miles/ In Clay (Gatehouse Theatre)
•Khalil Abdalla/ Nowhere / Fuel (Battersea Arts Centre)
•Benedict Lombe/ Shifters (Bush Theatre)
•Roy Williams/ The Lonely Londoners (Jermyn Street Theatre)
•Ollie Maddigan/ The Olive Boy (New Wimbledon Theatre)
INNOVATION
•Contra, Le Carré Magique, Cambridge Junction/ Spectacle of Herself (Battersea Arts
Centre)
INDUSTRY & INCLUSION
•Birds Of Paradise Theatre Company / Don’t. Make. Tea. (Soho Theatre)
•Julia Thurston / Paved with Gold and Ashes (Barons Court Theatre)
•Alex Hill/ Why I Stuck a Flare Up My Arse for England (Southwark Playhouse)
OffFEST
•A Series of Introductory Lectures On Psychoanalysis (Producer: Zoe Hartland, in
association with Musketeer Productions; Kings Head Theatre)
•I Wish You Well (StoryWorks & Paul Taylor-Mills; Underbelly)
•NeuroChatter (Sara Jane Harvey; The Fitzgerald
•NiMi Madre (VagaMundo Productions, Laura Zlatos in association with Paul Morrissey
Ltd; The Pleasance)
•SpitIn My Face (Something Queer Productions; Camden People’s Theatre)
•μεταδραματικό / Postdramatic (EXPERIMENTA ART COMPANY AND THEKLA GAITI;
Cockpit Theatre)
•PRETTY, WITTY NELL (Rogue Shakespeare; Rotunda Theatre)
2025 SPECIAL AWARD
•Mischief Theatre 2025 SPECIAL AWARD Lynette Linton & Daniel Bailey
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