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Horwell, a multi-award-winning theatre, opera and film designer, acknowledged the creative team she worked with in Australia and in London.
“It makes your job incredibly easy when every single character is played by Sarah Snook,” she said. “It’s been a joy making the show with you.
Both Snook and Horwell singled out director Williams, who last week resigned from the Sydney Theatre Company (STC) after eight years at the helm, for his “very big brain”, “specificity” and “precision”.
Williams said that he was leaving the company as Dorian Gray would be touring to Broadway next year, and he felt he wouldn’t be able to juggle the production with programming the 2026 season.
“I thank my lucky stars I get to play inside that mad world you’ve created every night,” Snook said.
Jamie Lloyd’s reimagining of Sunset Boulevard starring Nicole Scherzinger was the standout show, with seven wins on an evening when many productions with celebrity talent were often overlooked.
Sarah Snook, winner of the best actress award for “The Picture Of Dorian Gray”, poses for photographers in the winner’s room during the Olivier Awards.Credit: AP
Happy Valley’s James Norton (A Little Life), Fleabag’s Andrew Scott (Vanya), Sex in The City’s Sarah Jessica Parker (Plaza Suite) and former Doctor Who star David Tennant (Macbeth) were all nominated, as were Sheridan Smith (Shirley Valentine) and Joseph Fiennes (Dear England).
Mark Gatiss won best actor for his performance as Sir John Gielgud in Jack Thorne’s The Motive And The Cue, a theatrical take on the fraught history behind a notorious 1964 Broadway production of Hamlet, starring Gielgud and Richard Burton.