Irene may have stopped the final two days of the Fringe, but that doesn't stop the announcement of commending this years talent! Congrats to all, especially the folks over at The More Loving One and The Bardy Bunch! Well deserved!
Winners of the 2011 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Awards, as selected by an independent panel of nearly 50 theater professionals, are as follows:
Overall Production/Play:
PigPen Presents The Mountain Song
The More Loving One
Overall Production/Musical:
Yeast Nation
Pearl's Gone Blue
Performance:
Jennifer Barnhart (The Legend of Julie Taymor,or The Musical That Killed Everybody!)
Ryan Barry (In the Summer Pavilion)
Miles Cooper (Elysian Fields)
Patrick Byas (Sammy Gets Mugged)
Casey McClellan (My Name Is Billy)
Brian Charles Rooney (Winner Takes All)
Lauren Hennessy (Ampersand: A R&J Love Story)
Playwriting:
Nicholas Billon (Greenland)
A.D. Penedo (The Three Times She Knocked)
Bella and the Pool Boy (Dennis Flanagan)
Music Composition:
Chris Rael (Araby)
Dusty Brown (The Ballad of Rusty and Roy)
Ensemble:
Jersey Shoresical
The Bardy Bunch: The War of the Families Partridge and Brady
Stimulated!
Crawling with Monsters
Costume Design:
Stephanie Alexander (Le Gourmand, or Gluttony!)
Mark Richard Caswell (Parker and Dizzy’s Fabulous Journey to the End of the Rainbow)
Tara DeVincenzo (Technodulia Dot Com)
Directing:
Greg Foro (Hamlet)
Joshua Kahan Brody (Fourteen Flights)
Alaska Reece Vance (The Disorientation of Butterflies)
Solo Performance:
Donna/Madonna
The Day the Sky Turned Black
Be Careful! The Sharks Will Eat You!
Paper Cut
Heroes and Other Strangers
Dance:
WallstoriesWhen the Sky Breaks 3D
Video Design:
Cinty Ionescu (Nils' Fucked Up Day)
TheaterMania Audience Favorite Award:
COBU - Dance like Drumming, Drum like Dancing.