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By Robert Simonson
29 Aug 2005

From Left: H. Ryan Clark and Cory Grant in Co-Outstanding Play Winner The Lightning Field
photo by Chris Fanjul

The 2005 New York International Fringe Festival has announced the recipients of the Overall Excellence Awards.

Among the winners are such audience favorites as Bridezilla Strikes Back!, Silence! The Musical, Fleet Week: The Musical, The Miss Education of Jenna Bush and Go-Go Kitty, Go!. The winners are as follows:

Outstanding Play:
The Lightning Field
God's Waiting Room
Go-Go Kitty, GO!

Outstanding Musical:
Silence! The Musical
Fleet Week: The Musical

Outstanding Playwrighting:
Katherine Knowles - Magician
Robin Maguire - Aquarium
Martin Casella - The Irish Curse
Robert Moulthrop - Half Life

Outstanding Multimedia:
Movie Geek

Outstanding Music & Lyrics:
Paul Foglino - Hercules in High Suburbia
Dante Russo (Lyrics)/David F.M. Vaughn (Music) - Extraordinary

Outstanding Solo Show:
The Miss Education of Jenna Bush
Bridezilla Strikes Back
Jesus in Montana
Surviving David

Outstanding Direction:
Scott Ebersold - The Silent Concerto

Outstanding Costume Design:
Kerith Wolf - Marlowe

Outstanding Sound Design:
Mark Huang - Go-Go Kitty, GO!

Outstanding Set Design:
Nicholas Vaughan - The Silent Concerto

Outstanding Actor:
Jennifer Gibbs - Edna St. Vincent Millay Speaks to the Committee on Immorality
James Murray Jackson, Jr. - Unspeakable: Richard Pryor Live & Uncensored
Rick Bland - Thick
Doug Kreeger - Swimming Upstream

Outstanding Ensemble:
Amerika
Fluffy Bunnies in a Field of Daisies
Weddings of Mass Destruction
Hit

Outstanding Fight Direction:
Michael G. Chin - The Lizards

Outstanding Choreography:
Regina Nejman - The Velocity of Things
Nina Hein - Icarus

Awards are selected by an independent panel of 60 industry professionals. There are no set categories or number of awards selected each year. Awards were presented by Festival Producing Artistic Director Elena K. Holy at the FringeNYC closing ceremony held Aug. 28 at FringeCentral.

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