Mick Potter has been presented with the 2005 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Sound Design for his work on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s newest musical The Woman In White, beating competition from Festen and Suddenly Last Summer.
The adaptation of Wilkie Collins’ Victorian thriller follows a young man employed as an art tutor to two devoted sisters. In one of them he sees the resemblance of a strange woman he once encountered while stranded at a remote railway cutting. Directed by Trevor Nunn and starring Michael Ball and Maria Friedman, the production opened after much anticipation on September 15.
Mick Potter began working as a sound operator on West End shows including Cats, Song And Dance and Starlight Express. He has gone on to work as a freelance sound designer across the world, where his work includes The Fairy Queen at Lisbon Coliseum and Broadway in Dusseldorf. He made his West End debut as a sound designer in 1999 on the world premiere of Saturday Night Fever and also provided sound design for the world premiere of Bombay Dreams.
Potter was presented with the award by Jamie Theakston who, in addition to appearing in both Art and Home And Beauty in the West End, is the new voice of Heart 106.2’s breakfast show. Also presenting was Brad Oscar, who is currently playing Max Bialystock in The Producers.
