FringeNYC Award Winners and Encores Show are Announced

The FringeNYC 2006 Overall Excellence Award Winners have been announced.  Also, the Fringe shows that will run in repertory as part of the new series FringeNYC Encores have also been selected.

The 10th Annual New York International Fringe Festival, featuring over 200 shows from around the country and around the globe, ran from August 11th through August 27th.  The list of winners follows:

OUTSTANDING PLAY
I Was Tom Cruise
Modern Missionary
Lulu

OUTSTANDING MUSICAL
The Fartiste
58! A Comedy About Bike Messengering
Fallen Angel

OUTSTANDING PLAYWRITING
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 and 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 Penguin 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 AWARD
Danny Boy

Audiences will get a chance to see many of these award winners (and several audience favorites) as part of the inaugural FringeNYC Encores series. The new annual series will present over a dozen works in rotating repertory at two downtown venues. The roster for FringeNYC Encores will include: Billy the Mime, Danny Boy, Diving Normal, I Was Tom Cruise, In Transit, Mike's Incredible Indian Adventure, Never Swim Alone, Open House, The Penguin Tango, Perfect Harmony, Rainy Days & Mondays, and Walmartopia. Venue information and performance times will be announced on Wednesday, August 30.

FringeNYC Encores is is produced by an independent team of producers. It is not a production of The Present Company, producers of FringeNYC.

FringeNYC Encores runs September 5 - 24.Tickets are $18 and go on sale Friday September 1, 2006 at www.theatermania.com or 212-352-3101. For more information visit www.fringenyc-encores.com.