FringeNYC cancelled the final two days of performances of the 15th annual festival due to Hurricane Irene and the shut down of New York City mass transit on Aug. 27-28. The Overall Excellence Awards are typically announced at the closing-night party, which was also cancelled. The recipients were instead revealed online.
The Fringe also announced its "Encore Series," which invites hit shows and audience favorites back for an encore run Sept. 9-26 at the Players Theatre and the SoHo Playhouse.
Initial shows set for the "Encore Series" include PigPen Presents the Mountain Song, The Legend of Julie Taymor, Fourteen Flights, The More Loving One, Facebook Me, Araby, Paper Cut, You Only Shoot the Ones You Love, Parker & Dizzy's Fabulous Journey to the End Of the Rainbow, Pearl's Gone Blue, Felony Friday and COBU.
The 2011 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Awards follow:
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...)
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.
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