Local video designer Finn Ross has won a Best Scenic Design of a Play Tony Award for his video projection work for the National Theatre’s hugely-successful production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
The play, which has already won an amazing seven Olivier Awards and is simultaneously running in the West End and Broadway, as well as on a major UK tour which will take it to His Majesty’s Theatre in Aberdeen this September, won five Tony Awards in New York at the weekend at the Radio City Music Hall in New York.
Finn, who is from Aboyne and received the award alongside fellow Scott Bunny Christie, said: “For the show to be taken onboard like this is an incredible honour and I am deeply touched.”
Bunny Christie added “The success of this show could never have happened without the teams at The National Theatre and I am really proud of this big wonderful company.”
Finn also recently won an American Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Projection Design. The video and projection designer is a former pupil of Aboyne Academy and a graduate of the Central School for Speech and Drama in London. He specialises in integrating live and pre-recorded images, animations, and such like into a live performance environment.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is by Simon Stephens, adapted from Mark Haddon’s best-selling novel and directed by Marianne Elliott.