Helen Atkinson
Sound Designer
Awards
2022 - Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards for Best Soundscape (with Teho Teardo and Seán Carpio) for Medicine at Galway International Arts Festival
2014 - Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards Winner of Best Sound Design, for Ballyturk by Enda Walsh
Nominations
2019 - Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards Best Production for Grief is The Thing with Feathers.
Helen is a sound designer working across theatre, opera and live performance.
“Grief Is the Thing With Feathers - St. Ann’s Warehouse
Helen Atkinson’s sound design is a bone-crunching, nerve-tingling wonder. It makes the whole space breathe, and it gives Murphy the brilliant assist that he needs to create Crow.”
“Grief Is the Thing With Feathers - Black Box Theatre
The sounds of everyday life are draped like musical adornment in this production... the sounds of conflict and disorder that seep into this space echo the internal chaos of the family’s grief, situating this home as a liminal brink between two worlds.”
Gallery
2024
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Sleeping Beauty | New Wolsey, Dir. Douglas Rintoul |
| Safehouse | Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Dir. Edna Walsh |
| Black Sheep | Curious Directive, Norwich, Dir. Jack Lowe |
2023
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| CBeebies Pantomime: Robin Hood | CBeebies filmed at Llandudno, Dir. Chris Jarvis |
| Red Lion | The New Wolsey Theatre, Dir. Douglas Rintoul |
| The Children | Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, Dir. Owen Lyons |
| Through the Cracks | English Touring Theatre, Dir. Richard Twyman |
2022
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| All My Sons | Queen's Theatre Hornchurch, Dir. Douglas Rintoul |
| CBeebies Pantomime: Dick Whittington and his Cat | CBeebies filmed at Eastbourne, Dir. Chris Jarvis |
2021
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Living Newspaper: Edition 7 | The Royal Court, Sound Des. Helen Atkinson and Tony Gayle |
2020
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Medicine | Galway International Arts, Written & Dir. Enda Walsh |
2019
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Grief Is the Thing With Feathers | Barbican (London) & St Ann's Warehouse (US), Dir. Enda Walsh, Set Des. Jamie Vartan, Costume Des. Christina Cunningham |
| The Marbleous Route Home | The Young Vic, Dir. Natasha Nixon | The Nico Project by Maxine Peake and Sarah Frankcom | Manchester International Festival, Dir. Sarah Frankcom | The Journey | Norfolk and Norwich Festival Launch, Circus Artist Chris Bullzini |
2018
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| The Village | Theatre Royal Stratford East, Dir. Nadia Fall |
| Mark Thomas- Check Up: Our NHS at 70 | Edinburgh and UK Tour, Video & Set Des. Jon Driscoll |
| Bluebeard's Castle | Irish National Opera, Dir. Enda Walsh, Des. Jamie Vartan |
| Grief Is the Thing With Feathers | Black Box Theatre & O'Reilly Theatre, Dir. Enda Walsh, Set Des. Jamie Vartan, Costume Des. Christina Cunningham |
| The Second Violinist | The Barbican (London), Dir. Enda Walsh, Set Des. Jamie Vartan |
2017
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| 2nd Violinist | Landmark & Wide Open Opera, Dir. Enda Walsh, Des. Jamie Vartan |
| Salome | Royal Shakespeare Company, Dir. Owen Horsley |
| Arlington | Galway International Arts Festival, St Ann's Warehouse & Abbey Theatre , Dir. Enda Walsh, Des. Jamie Vartan |
| Ballyturk | Landmark & Galway International Arts Festival, Abbey Theatre, Dir. Enda Walsh Des. Jamie Vartan |
2016
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| The Last Hotel | St. Anne's Warehouse, Dir. Enda Walsh |
| Arlington | Galway International Arts Festival, Dir. Enda Walsh |
| The Kitchen (audio installation) | Galway International Arts Festival, Dir. Enda Walsh |
| Those Who Trespass | Arts Educational School, Dir. Stephen Atkinson |
| A Great Night Out | The Point (Sunderland), Dir. Bill Mitchell |
| The Suicide | National Theatre, Dir. Nadir Fall |
| Much Ado About Nothing | Queen's Theatre Hornchurch, Dir. Douglas Rintoul |
| Earthquakes in London | Chichester University, Dir. Gary Sefton |