Helen Atkinson – Sound Designer

Helen’s sound designs include Salomé (RSC); Arlington, for which she was nominated Best Sound Designer at the 2016 Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards (Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival);  Suicide (Lyttleton, National Theatre); Much Ado about Nothing (Queens Theatre, Hornchurch); You for Me for You (Royal Court); The Last Hotel (Landmark Productions and Wide Open Opera); The Matchbox (Galway International Arts Festival); Ballyturk, for which she was awarded Best Sound Designer at the 2014 Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards (Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival); The Edge, 1001 Nights, As You Like It and Elegy  (Transport); 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); Mr Whatnot and A Christmas Carol (Northampton Theatre Royal); Cuckooed and Bravo Figaro by Mark Thomas (Traverse); Macbeth (Cheek by Jowl); Mountaineering and You’ll See Me Sailing in Antarctica  (Non Zero One); Malfi and Edward II (Eyestrings Theatre); Wolfschild and Once Upon a Castle (Wildworks); Peppa Pig’s Surprise and Octonauts and the Deep Sea Volcano Adventure (Firey Light) and One Arm (Southwark Playhouse).

As Associate Desiger, her work includes Chimerica in a West End transfer; Tristan and Yseult (Kneehigh); DruidMurphy (Druid); Misterman by Enda Walsh (Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival), and The Convict’s Opera (Out of Joint).