Winners of the 2014 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Awards were announced by festival Producing Artistic Director Elena K. Holy during a brief ceremony at Drom in New York. As selected by an independent panel of over 30 theater professionals, the winners are as follows:
Overall Play:
The Broken Record
Divine Intervention
Little One
Maybe Tomorrow
Night of the Living
Overall Musical:
The Crack in the Ceiling
Far From Canterbury
Popesical
Solo Performance:
butyou'reaman or: The Seven Men I Came Out to in India
An Inconvenient Poop
Tiananmen Annie
Ensemble:
The Curious Case of Phineas Gage
Running Interference
Stockholm Savings
Verano Place
Playwriting:
Martin Casella - The Report
Ashley J. Jacobson - The American Play
Lisa Lewis - Schooled
Jim Shankman - The Screenwriter Dies Of His Own Free Will
Directing:
Stephen Broteback - St. Francis
William Oldroyd - Fuente Ovejuna
Courtney Ulrich - Sousepaw: 'A Baseball Story'
Costumes:
Jennifer Brawn-Gittings - She-Rantulas From Outer Space in 3-D!
Video Design:
Lianne Arnold - The Mad Scientist's Guide to Romance, Robots and Soul-Crushing Loneliness
Acting:
Lauren LaRocca - Coping
Lori Hammel - Hell Is For Real
Jesse Carrey - To Dance - The Musical
Rebecca Vigil & Evan Kaufman - Your Love, Our Musical
Xander Johnson - The Boys Are Angry
David Logan Rankin - Night with Guests
FringeNYC is a production of The
Present Company, under the leadership of
Producing Artistic Director Elena K. Holy. In 1997, New York City became the seventh US city to host a fringe festival, joining Seattle, Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Houston, Orlando and San Francisco. FringeNYC has presented over 3000 performing groups representing every continent, prompting Switzerland's national daily, Neue Zuercher Zeitung, to declare FringeNYC as "the premiere meeting ground for alternative artists." FringeNYC has also been the launching pad for numerous Off-Broadway and Broadway transfers, long-running downtown hits, and regional theater productions including Urinetown, Matt & Ben, Never Swim Alone, Jammer, Debbie Does Dallas, Dog Sees God, Brandon Teena, Dixie's Tupperware Party, 21 Dog Years, Bash'd, The Irish Curse, Jurassic Parq, The Fartiste, Silence! The Musical and 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche; movies including WTC View and Armless; and even a TV show ('da Kink in My Hair). FringeNYC alumni include
Bradley Cooper,
Melissa Rauch (Big Bang Theory),
Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me, CNN's Inside Man),
Mindy Kaling, Tony Award winner
Diane Paulus (Pippin),
Alex Timbers (Rocky),
Leigh Silverman (Violet), W. Kamau Bell (Totally Biased),
Michael Urie (Ugly Betty), Naomi Grossman (American Horror Story),
Chris Lowell (Enlisted),
David Anders (iZombie) and
Kristen Schall (Last Man on Earth), among countless other success stories.
The 20th Annual New York International Fringe Festival will run in August 12 - 28, 2016 and will once again feature nearly 200 of the worlds best emerging theater and dance artists. Applications for the 2015 festival will be available online in November; completed applications are due February 14, 2016. For more information visit
www.FringeNYC.org
