PENINSULA, WAITING FOR WAITING FOR GODOT & More Win 2013 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Awards
By: Tyler Peterson Aug. 26, 2013
Winners of the 2013 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Awards were announced by festival Producing Artistic Director Elena K. Holy during a brief ceremony at The Cutting Room in New York. As selected by an independent panel of over 40 theater professionals, the winners are as follows:
Overall Play:Kemble's Riot
Ndebele Funeral
Waiting For Waiting For GodotOverall Musical:
Gertrude Stein Saints!
Save The Date: A Wedding Road-Trip MusicalPlaywrighting:
Carol and Cotton - James Vculek
Down the Mountain and Across the Stream - Jake Shore
Kumrads Wont - Christina Michelle Watkins
The Rufus Equation - Ted Cubbin
Strange Rain - Lynda CrawfordSolo Performance:
En Avant: An Evening with Tennessee Williams
Human Fruit Bowl
Naked in Alaska
Talk to Me About Shame
What's an Anjan?Ensemble:
Count Down My Life
Peninsula
What Every Girl Should Know
The Young Olympians & The Most Amazingly Awesome Adventure EverBook, Music & Lyrics:
Cowboys Don't Sing: A Western Musical - Dennis Flynn, Johnny Kelley & T.J. Alcalá
Joey Haws - The Nightmare "Dream"Directing:
Padraic Lillis - Bully
Lisa Oretenzi - Double Heart (The Courtship of Beatrice and Benedick)
Michelle Sutherland - Gertrude Stein Saints!Choreography:
Allison Plamondon - Someone To Belong ToPuppetry:
Lula del RayPerformance:
Remy Germinario - Bradley Cole: A Musical
Jonas Nerbe - William
Melissa Rosenberger - Carroll Gardens Aborning
Howie Michael Smith - America's Breath of Fresh AirTheaterMnai Audience Favorite:
Perfectly Normel PeopleFringeNYC is a production of The Present Company, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Elena K. Holy. In 1997, New York became the seventh U.S. city to host a fringe festival, joining Seattle, Chicago, Minneapolis, Houston, Orlando and San Francisco. FringeNYC has presented over 3000 performing groups representing every continent, prompting Switzerland's daily, New Zurich 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, 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, Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me, One Direction's This Is Us, CNN's Inside Man), Mindy Kaling (The Mindy Project), Brooke Elliott (Drop Dead Diva), Melissa Rauch (Big Bang Theory), Tony Award winner Diane Paulus (Pippin), W. Kamau Bell (Totally Biased), Dan O'Brien (NBC's Whitney), Michael Urie (Ugly Betty) and Naomi Grossman (American Horror Story), among countless other success stories.
Photo by: Devlin Shand
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