The musical In Clay won two prizes at the Off West End Awards 2025, including one for performer Rosalind Ford. Pictures: Piers Allardyce
The winners of the Offies have been announced at a star-studded ceremony, marking the awards’ 15th anniversary. Drag-artist superstar Divina De Campo hosted the night at London’s Central Hall Westminster.
Musical theatre winners included performers Victoria Hamilton-Barritt for Bronco Billy the Musical at the Charing Cross Theatre and Rosalind Ford for In Clay at the Gatehouse Theatre. In Clay (Rebecca Simmonds, Jack Miles) also won a Creation award.
A Series of Introductory Lectures On Psychoanalysis at the King’s Head Theatre (in association with Musketeer Productions) won in the OffFEST category.
I Wish You Well (StoryWorks and Paul Taylor-Mills; Underbelly) also picked up an OffFEST award.
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.
Another special award was given to internationally acclaimed Mischief Theatre, celebrating ten years of work in the West End. The company is renowned for giving artists a platform to embrace humour and break free from the restraints of reality. Mischief aims to bring joy to audiences of all ages and backgrounds, showcased in the Broadway and West End hit The Play That Goes Wrong.
A Series of Introductory Lectures On Psychoanalysis won in the OffFEST category
The evening was a celebration of everything the Off-West End offers, with performances from the 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) was musical director. Tobias Turley, the winner of ITV’s Mamma Mia! I Have a Dream, also delivered a rendition of ‘The Sheep Chose a Wolf’ from the musical White Rose, which he is currently starring in.
Throughout the evening there was a live red-carpet show produced in association with The Theatre Channel and a socials area presented by Turley.
The Offies’ charity partner was the Royal Variety Charity – founded in 1908, the charity assists those who’ve worked professionally in the entertainment industry and are in need of help. The awards were produced by Julian Bird OBE through his production company Green Room Ents Ltd, alongside Denholm Spurr for Off-WestEnd.
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 29th / 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)
Tori Allen-Martin picked up the OffFEST award for I Wish You Well
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 (Seven Dials Playhouse)
• 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
• Ni Mi Madre (VagaMundo Productions, Laura Zlatos in association with Paul Morrissey Ltd; The Pleasance)
• Spit In 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 and Daniel Bailey
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