Double Design Win at Offies 2021

22 February 2021

Our latest in-house production The Incident Room took home two awards at the 2021 Off-West End Awards.

We're delighted that two of our wonderful design team have been recognised for their outstanding work on The Incident Room.

Yaiza Varona took home the award for Best Sound Design while Patrick Connellan scooped Best Set Design.

The Incident Room, written by Olivia Hirst and David Byrne, opened at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2019 playing to packed houses before transferring to NDT in February 2020 for a sold-out run. It was due to headline the Brits Off-Broadway Festival in New York in Spring 2020 but was sadly cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

"The ingenuity of this piece is that it gives you a pacey, clock-ticking sense of what things were like"
â˜…â˜…â˜…â˜… The Telegraph

“The ensemble cast are all excellent"
â˜…â˜…â˜…â˜… The Scotsman

“Completely compelling to watch… intelligent, imaginative and, most of all, damn interesting”
â˜…â˜…â˜…â˜… The Stage

The production was co-directed by Beth Flintoff and David Byrne. There was Digital Design from Zakk Hein, Lighting Design by Greg Cebula and Costume Design by Ronnie Dorsey.

The cast were: Katy Brittain, Colin R Campbell, Peter Clements, Ben Eagle, Natasha Magigi, Charlotte Melia and Jamie Samuel.

The Incident Room was New Diorama Theatre and Greenwich Theatre co-production supported by Arts Council England.

Yaiza Varona - Composer & Sound Design

Yaiza is a composer, sound designer, musicologist, and Logic X and 9 Master Pro based in London.

She divides her time between writing music for the media (TV, film, theatre, libraries, member of PRS) and some personal projects, among them experimental, immersive sound works.

In the past, she has been published by West One, MIBE, CouldB, Synctracks, Felt Music, Nova Nota or Bedtracks among others, having her TV work most recently being broadcast in TV shows such as HBO´s Emmy nominated Vice, America´s Next Top Model and several shows in Discovery Channel, ITV, BBC2, Sky Living, Channel 4, Channel 5 and more. She has also written for theatre, radio, film and advertising as well as demoed for several sample libraries. She is also a featured editor in SCOREcast Online among other audio professional platforms writing specialised articles on Musicology and Logic X.

www.yaizavarona.com

Patrick Connellan - Set Design

Theatre credits include: Educating Rita (National Tour 2019); Beauty and the Beast (Co-Designer) (Theatre by the Lake Keswick); We’ll Live and Die in These Towns (Coventry Belgrade); Read All About It – City Final and Retold (Co-Designer) (Belgrade Theatre site-specific production in Coventry Evening Telegraph building); Whisky Galore (Oldham Coliseum and national tour including Belgrade Theatre); A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (Hull Truck Theatre); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Perm, Russia); The Red Lion (Olivier Award nominated) (Live Theatre, Newcastle and Trafalgar Studios, London), Iris (Live Theatre, Newcastle); The Father (Oldham Coliseum and Harrogate Theatre); The Gaul (Hull Truck Theatre); The Baraem Play (Costume Design)(Al Jazeera Media, Qatar); The Hook (Theatre Royal, Northampton and Liverpool Everyman); The Ladykillers (New Vic/Hull/Stephen Joseph); Roll Over Beethoven, Three Minute Heroes, One Night in November, The Rink, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Dice House, This Lime Tree Bower (as Director and Designer, also Edinburgh Festival), Silas Marner, She Stoops To Conquer, Leader of the Pack, Neville’s Island, The Wedding (Coventry Belgrade); The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice and Into The Woods (nominated for TMA Best Musical Award) (Derby Theatre/Playhouse); 20th Century Boy (New Wolsey); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Price, Ghosts, All My Sons, The Seafarer, Meet the Mukherjees, Popcorn (also Director), Broken Glass, Twelfth Night, Little Malcolm, The Weir and The Hypochondriac (Octagon, Bolton); Edward III (RSC/West End); A Passionate Woman, Misery (West End); The Slight Witch (National Theatre/Birmingham Rep); Where Have I Been All My Life, Abigail’s Party (also Director) Copenhagen and Alphabetical Order (New Vic, Stoke) and for Hampstead Theatre: Amongst Friends, Life After Scandal (also Plymouth), Taking Care of Baby (also Birmingham Rep), The Maths Tutor, Osama the Hero/A Single Act, My Best Friend (also Birmingham Rep), Nathan the Wise andWhen the Night Begins. Credits for Birmingham Rep include: Cider with Rosie (also Holland Park Theatre) The Grapes of Wrath, The Pied Piper, Pygmalion, Julius Caesar and Saint Joan.

Patrick has previously won the Linbury Prize for Stage Design and a Prague Quadriennale Gold Medal. Patrick was the Course Leader for Theatre Design at Nottingham Trent University and is now a visiting lecturer in Theatre Design at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff.

www.theatredesignpatrickconnellan.com

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