Helen Atkinson

2 Aug 2023

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Helen’s credits as a Sound designer includes: The Red Lion (New Wolsey Theatre); SAFEHOUSE (Abbey Theatre); Black Sheep (Curious Directive, Norwich); Face to Face (Marian Consort at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh Festival 2024); Beauty & The Beast, Dick Whittington and his Cat & Hansel and Gretel (CBeebies Pantomime); Horseplay (The Whitings on the Wall, Norwich); Medicine, Arlington and Ballyturk (Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival); MAM (Teac Damsa Ireland); The Nico Project (Manchester International Festival); Wirewalk (Norfolk and Norwich Festival Launch 2019); Grief is the Thing with Feathers (Complicité : Wayward); The Second Violinist and The Last Hotel (Landmark Productions and Irish National Opera); Salomé (RSC Swan);  The Suicide (Lyttelton, National Theatre); The Village (Theatre Royal Stratford East); All My Sons & Much Ado about Nothing (Queens Theatre, Hornchurch); You for Me for You (Royal Court Upstairs); The Matchbox (Galway International Arts Festival); The Summerbook, ‘Twas the Night before Christmas and 1001 Nights (Unicorn Theatre); Deep Blue Sea, All My Sons and Of Mice and Men (Watermill Theatre); NHS@70, Cuckooed and Bravo Figaro! (Mark Thomas at the Traverse); Macbeth (Cheek by Jowl); A Great Night Out, Wolfschild & Once Upon a Castle (Wildworks)

Podcasts and Projects include: Through the Cracks, F**ked  Up Bedtime Stories, That Podcast (ETT); Living Newspaper Edition 7 (Royal Court); Keywords Podcast & Lockdown Check Up Podcast (Mark Thomas); Re/Collect250 (Norfolk Norwich Festival), Unlocking our Sound Heritage (Norfolk Records Office): Enda Walsh’s – Rooms Installation Series (Galway International Arts Festival).

Helen was awarded Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards – Best Soundscape 2022 for Medicine and Best Sound Design 2014 for Ballyturk.