Awards for '07
FringeNYC Overall Excellence Awards ‘99
Overall Excellence - Drama/Comedy
Mongrel
Never Swim Alone
Time/Bomb
Overall Excellence - Solo Show
Big Top Machine
Dave Mowers: Hot August Night
Overall Excellence - Musical
Urinetown
Excellence in Choreography:
Bettina Owczarek - Hommage A Chopin
Excellence in Direction:
Alexandra Ornitz - Crazyface
Ron Jenkins - Black Rider
Excellence in Performance:
Eric Coleman - Secrets of The Yellow Room
Matt O'Neill - The Vinyl Shop
Morgon Ewen - Que Sera
Fred Backus - Horse Country
Lisa Wenger - Last Tango in Transylvania
Excellence in Solo Performance:
Scott Hess - BJ: The Trail of A Transgendered
Country- Rock Singing Star
Bill Talen - Reverend Billy: The Church of Stop Shopping
Antonia Sacre - My Penis: In And Out of Trouble
Excellence in Playwrighting:
Tony Vellela - Admissions
Excellence in Lyric Writing:
Jeff Dobbins - All Male Lives of Y2- Gay
Excellence in Performance - Ensemble Cast
Jinkies
Admissions
Excellence in Costume Design:
Kimberly Gill - CLEARCUT! Catastrophe
Audience Favorite:
The Phoenix
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FringeNYC Overall Excellence Awards ‘00
Drama:
C.V.R. (Charlie Victor Romeo)
Girl Under Grain
Comedy:
Synchronized swimming - the dry version
The Complete Lost Works of Samuel Beckett
As Found in an Envelope (partially burned)
In Dustbin in Paris Labeled: “Never to be
Performed. Never. Ever. EVER! Or I’ll Sue!
I’LL SUE FROM THE GRAVE!!!”
Solo Show:
Todd Robbins’ Carnival Knowledge
Teaching Shakespeare: A Parody
Innovation/Originality:
Cruces
Tiny Ninja Theater Presents MACBETH
Direction:
Emma Griffin - Stage Door
Erica Schmidt - As You Like It
Music Direction:
Andy Cohen - The City Wears A Slouch Hat
Choreography:
As If About to Fall
Girobira
Performance:
Sophia Martin - See Bob Run
Thomas Franke - Shakespeare’s Storework
Pam Sabaugh - Woman In Animal Kingdom
Playwrighting:
Stephen Belber - Finally
Christina Gorman - DNA
Ensemble Performance:
Pictures Of Oscar
Why Mudflaps?
Sound Design:
Jamie Mereness & Kevin Reilly -
C.V.R. (Charlie Victor Romeo)
Set Design:
Margaret K. McCarty -
To Sirloin With Love: A Meat Opera
Alex Dawson - W C
Costume Design:
Erin Marcel - Super Eros
Audience Favorite:
All’s Well That Ends Well
Menstruation, Manipulation, Mutilation; History
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FringeNYC Overall Excellence Awards ‘01
Overall Production
The Adding Machine
Fuck You, or Dead Pee Holes
Yi Sang Counts to 13
Solo Show:
An Evening With Harburg Harrisbrandt
21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com
Unique Theatrical Experience:
Break the Floor
Rites ov Spring
Studio
Direction:
Willa Bepler - Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights
Paul Stancato - Einstein’s Dreams
Performance:
Nick Boraine - Sic.
Tom Ford - Biography’s Top 10 People of the Millennium.....
Elaine Judson - Mary Stuart
Paul Kerry - Woyzeck
Bob Maitner - Poor Superman
Susan O’Connor - Take
Matt Wagner - Preview of Murder
Choreography:
Foureographers - Movement Zoo
Michael Stock - Hustle
Ensemble Performance:
Leaf In The Mailbox
Surface
Music Composition:
John LaSala - The Snow Queen
Set Design:
Christian Douglas - Snap Happy
Matthew Ronay - Debbie Does Dallas
Costume Design:
Daphne Javitch - Debbie Does Dallas & The Adding Machine
Jo Lewis & Catherine Raven - Mary Stuart
Theatermania Audience Favorite:
Dead End
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FringeNYC Overall Excellence Awards ‘02
Overall Production
Billy Nijinsky
Matt & Ben
Five Frozen Embryos & The Sleepers
6 Story Building
Solo Show
The Bizarro Baloney Show
I Kissed Dash Riprock
Starfuckers
Direction
Kelly Groves -- Beat
Jeremy Dobrish -- The Joys of Sex
Arian Blanco -- Dismiss All the Poets
Performance
Tonya Canada – It’s All About Me
Liz Larsen -- Him & Her
Shiek Mahmud-Bey -- The Way Out
Matthew Swan -- On The Clock
Choreography
Clare Byrne -- Wet Blue & Friends
Mario Heinemann -- Blind Dated
Playwrighting
Stephen Belber -- The Death of Frank
Kirkwood Bromley -- The American Revolution
Herman Daniel Farrell III -- Portrait of A President
Kelly McAllister -- Last Call
Ensemble Performance
Beat
Resa Fantastiskt Mystisk
Sajjil (Record)
Scenic Design
Andromache Chalfant -- Two
Costume Design
Karen Krolak & Ameila Dowd -- Aspic
PRODUCERS AWARDS - Best Blurbs and Images:
For BEST BLURB - a tie:
"See Babs dance! See Babs die! Alibis and con artists. Low-lifes, thieves and sailors. Oh, and murder. Buy a bus ticket, baby. Jazz, rockabilly and a two-step straight to Quentin. Adios, world, it's been quite a ride." - Fevvers Productions for DIE LIKE A LADY OR WHAT BARBARA GOT
"6 years in the slammer,
5 naughty school girls,
4 endangered species,
3 cans of beer,
2 supervillains,
1 Lord and Saviour,
85 minutes of pure pleasure." -
OW company’s STAGEDIVE
For BEST IMAGE - a tie:
ALMOST OBSCENE and DA KINK IN HER HAIR
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FringeNYC Overall Excellence Awards ‘03
Overall Production
Tuesdays & Sundays
Expat/Inferno
Pinafore!
Cats Talk Back
Solo Show
Freedom of Speech
Brain Freeze
A Life In Her Day
Tom Crean - Antarctic Explorer
Direction
Jon Schumacher - How To Act Around Cops
Performance
Alexander Gemiganai - TheTrapped Family Singers
Kathryn Foster - Final Countdown
Boo Killebrew - This Is A Newspaper
Rick Batalla - Blake... da Musical
Choreography
John Ficarra - Scalpel
Ksenia Vidyaykina - Trapped
Playwrighting
Timothy Nolan - Acts of Contrition
Logan Brown - How To Act Around Cops
Brendan Bates - The Savior of Fenway
Michael Jackson - A Taste of Heaven
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa - Say You Love Satan
Ensemble Performance
Sides... The Fear Is Real
Poseidon
Slavery
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Scenic Design
House of Merry
Costume Design
Herrick Goldman - Escape From Pterodactyl Island
Wade Laboissonniere - Suspect
Music & Lyrics
Lost- The Musical
Puppeteering
Bob Brown Puppets Carnival of the Animals
Nosferatu
Unique Theatrical Experience
Charles Phoenix’s God Bless Americana...
Wax & Wayne
Theatermania Audience Favorite
Meaninngless Sex
Runner -up: Poop - A True Story
PRODUCERS AWARDS - Light in a blackout:
From VINCENT, Jesse
From STAGGERING TOWARD AMERICA, Rik
From HOW TO ACT AROUND COPS, John
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FringeNYC Overall Excellence Awards ‘04
Overall Production:
Dog Sees God
The Bicycle Men
Armless
Playwrighting:
Ellen Margolis - How To Draw Mystical Creatures
Stewart Lemoine - Pith!
Sam Younis - Browntown
Malachy Walsh - The Chair
Performance:
Lanaa Joffrey - Valiant
Dixie Longate - Dixie’s Tupperware Party
Micah Bucey - The Only Thing Straight is My Jacket
Jen Ryan - The Imaginary All True Leni Riefenstahl Show
Dashiell Katz- The Gathering Room
Ensemble:
Ellen Craft
Save the Goondocks
Graceland
Odysseus Died From AIDS
Choreography:
Mark Dendy - Andru’s Head
Jennifer Weber - Decadance vs. The Firebird
Design:
Georgi Alexi-Meskhishvili - Host & Guest
Charles Dillman, Evita Smith & Chris Brown - Geek Love
Robert Monaco - Kiss & Cry
Sandra Goldmark, Anne Kenney, Scott Bolman & Daniel Baker - The Jammer
Director:
Greg Felden - The Jammer
Chris Kohn - The Black Swan of Tresspass
Alex Lippard - Moonchild
Solo Show:
Confessions of A Mormon Boy
Decoding The Tablecloth
Gork! The Retard Always Wins
Unaccessorized
All The Help You Need
I Hate This
Song Writing:
Gaby Alter
-Young Zombies in Love
Sue Carey & Karena Mendoza - Africa & Plumbridge
Theatermania Audience Favorite:
The Spickner Spin
PRODUCERS AWARDS - Spirit of FringeNYC:
The first group, operating out of a suitcase, was a great addition to the spirit of the festival. Even when for some reason the police decided that they couldn’t perform on MacDougal Street. The second group, one of the most courageous groups of kids we’ve known, did their show in the parks and on the streets even when today, there was a bomb scare at Foley Square Park. They just rolled with it. Amazing. So I’d like to salute FringeAL FRESCO's SUITCASE PLAYERS and AMERICAN OLIGOPOLY.
For making my adjudication process a little bit brighter (you know – at some point you’re like, play, play, play...OH MY GOSH FUNNY GUY IN BLACK SPANDEX!) Andy Ross from COMEDEUS
And for work that I absolutely fell in love with, and the people who turned out to be as beautiful as the work. A producers award to BLACK SWANS OF TRESPASS
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FringeNYC Overall Excellence Awards ‘05
Outstanding Play:
The Lightning Field
God’s Waiting Room
Go-Go Kitty, GO!
Outstanding Musical:
Silence! The Musical
Fleet Week: The Musical
Outstanding Playwrighting:
Katherine Knowles - Magician
Robin Maguire - Aquarium
Martin Casella - The Irish Curse
Robert Moulthrop - Half Life
Outstanding MultiMedia:
Movie Geek
Outstanding Music & Lyrics:
Paul Foglino - Hercules in High Suburbia
Dante Russo (Lyrics)/David F.M. Vaughn (Music) - Extraordinary
Outstanding Solo Show:
The Miss Education of Jenna Bush
Bridezilla Strikes Back
Jesus in Montana
Surviving David
Outstanding Direction:
Scott Ebersold - The Silent Concerto
Outstanding Costme Design:
Kerith Wolf - Marlowe
Outstanding Sound Design:
Mark Huang - Go-Go Kitty, GO!
Outstanding Set Design:
Nicholas Vaughan - The Silent Concerto
Outstanding Actor:
Jennifer Gibbs - Edna St. Vincent Millay Speaks to the Committee on Immorality
James Murray Jackson, Jr. - Unspeakable: Richard Pryor Live & Uncensored
Rick Bland - Thick
Doug Kreeger - Swimming Upstream
Outstanding Ensemble:
Amerika
Fluffy Bunnies in a Field of Daisies
Weddings of Mass Destruction
Hit
Outstanding Fight Direction:
Michael G. Chin - The Lizards
Outstanding Choreography:
Regina Nejman - The Velocity of Things
Nina Hein - Icarus
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FringeNYC Overall Excellence Awards ‘06
Outstanding Play:
I Was Tom Cruise
Modern Missionary
Lulu
Outstanding Musical:
The Fartiste
58! A Comedy About Bike Messengering
Fallen Angel
Outstanding Playwrighting:
Matt Hoverman - In Transit
Moby Pomerance - Broken Hands
Geoffrey Decas - The Deepest Play Ever: The Catharsis of Pathos
Outstanding Music & Lyrics:
Danny Ashkenasi - The Tell-Tale Heart
Outstanding Solo Show:
Flying on the Wing
Mike’s Incredible Indian Adventure
Democrats Abroad
Outstanding Direction:
Mark Steven Robinson - Don’t Ask
Jonathan Silverstein - Red Herring
Joel Froomkin - The Infliction of Cruelty
Outstanding Costume Design:
Robin L. McGee - Rainy Days & Mondays
Renee Mariotti & Bernard Grenier - Trouble in Shameland
Outstanding Set Design:
Shane LeClair - A Small Hole
Robin Vest - Hermanas
Outstanding Actor:
Anna Jayne Marquardt - Walmartopia
Helen Stratford - Suicide - The Musical
Steve Hayes - The Pengiun Tango
Cory Grant - Broken Hands
Margaret Daly - T.L.C.
Outstanding Ensemble:
Open House
Vice Girl Confidential
The Onion Lovers
Diving Normal
Outstanding Choreography:
Paula Kroening - Band Geeks
TheaterMania Audience Favorite:
Danny Boy
PRODUCERS AWARDS – Amazing Participants:
Always the first to bring food to FringeCENTRAL, and say “what can I do to help”- it takes a special participant to stand in the sun at Union Square and help with FringeNYTeasers.
From A COLLAPSE, Mr. Vincent Marano
For being at FringeCENTRAL all day helping us strike – all before heading off to his venue for his own strike. He’s a new dad, and he spent time helping out in the parks, just like last year – I can’t believe he is from Los Angeles -
From CHESS, Mr. Drew Brody.
And as if she didn’t have enough to do coordinating getting a huge musical here from Wisconsin, this gal actually came to our office to volunteer on a couple of occasions, and her warm spirit and unassuming manner were such a bright light in our lives during this process. She’s a shining example of why we do this festival-
From WALMARTOPIA, Ms. Sarah Austin.
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FringeNYC Overall Excellence Awards ‘07
Outstanding Play:
Lights Rise on Grace
I Dig Doug
Catch The Fish
Outstanding Musical:
Bash'd
Bukowsical
Piaf: Love Conquers All
Outstanding Playwrighting:
Mac Rogers - Hail Satan
Corey Patrick - Bombs in Your Mouth
Sara Jeanne Asselin - The Rise And Fall of Miles and Milo
Outstanding Music & Lyrics:
Kurt Gellersted & Brooke Fox - Williamsburg! The Musical
Kevin So - Victor Woo: The Average Asian American
Outstanding Solo Show:
Semi-Permanent
Bent to the Flame: A Night With Tennessee Williams
Paper Son
Outstanding Direction:
Jessica Beck - All Alone
Emily Fishbaine - Dressing Miss Julie
Jon Lawrence Rivera - Hillary Agonistes
Outstanding Costume Design:
Anne Aberjonois - Show Choir, The Musical
Meganne George - John Goldfarb, Please Come Home
Outstanding Lighting Design:
Seth Reiser - The End
Outstanding Actor:
Siobhan Donnellan - Married to the Sea
Gardi Hutter - Joan of ARPpO
Mary Theresa Archbold - Jazz Hand: Tales of a One-Armed Woman
Christopher Domig - Dirt
Outstanding Ensemble:
Naked in a Fishbowl
PRODUCERS AWARDS - Kindness in Chaos:
This first group has already gone home, but not before they completely won the hearts of the entire staff. We all know what it takes to get here, and how hard it is to make theatre in this town. But this group went to extraordinary lengths – and then had the time of their lives while they were here and left saying “thanks for the opportunity”. Pretty amazing coming from 15 people who drove from Ellston, Iowa in ONE RV and then stayed at the Holland Tunnel Motor Lodge. Their dedication and enthusiasm is extraordinary, and I’m so proud to have gotten the chance to hang out with them and to help them load the tractor and hay bales back into the trailer as they left town. Our first producers award goes to FARMER SONG.
In the middle of their lunchtime teaser at FringeCENTRAL, this group's CD began to skip on them, and everyone in the crowd was having such a good time listening to them that we all began to whoop and holler. One of them spontaneously screamed “Let’s just do it, Man!” and they picked up exactly where they left off and rocked it out a capella. It was an amazing thing to witness – and I’m so glad I was hanging on the fence like so many others. In fact, they stopped traffic on all four corners at Varick and Carmine. Later I heard reports that they were singing in Washington Square Park as well, so the second producers award goes to ANGST: THE NEW TEEN MUSICAL.
The last group gets a special producers award for helping out one of my best friends. He’s an amazing guy that is mostly responsible for anything that has ever been said about us in the press – or at least the good stuff. And on a really bad day when a group came to drop off their press release or postcard to Ron Lasko, and he told them he needed help, this company said “Well, we can stay an help” and came back on several other occasions. So our final producer’s award goes to the company of DOES THE BODY GOOD.
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