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Fringe Festival Announces Overall Excellence Award Winners
By Adam Hetrick
August 25, 2008
Blanche Survives Hurricane Katrina…, Love is Dead, Perez Hilton Saves the Universe... and Krapp, 39 are among the 2008 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award winners.
The winning selections were announced Aug. 24 at the Deluxe at Spiegelworld during the closing-night party of the 12th annual New York International Fringe Festival.
The 2008 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award winners follow:
Outstanding Play:
The Umbrella Plays
111
Sailor Man
Too Much Memory
Outstanding Musical:
China - The Whole Enchilada
Perez Hilton Saves the Universe...
Usher
Outstanding Playwrighting:
Montserrat Mendez, Thoroughly Stupid Things...
Paul Cohen, Mourn the Living Hector
Suzie Miller, Reasonable Doubt
Halley Bondy, The Redheaded Man
Outstanding Music & Lyrics:
Julie Nichols, Lames Asmus and Andrew Hobgood, Love is Dead
Outstanding Solo Show:
Krapp, 39
Zombie
Blanche Survives Hurricane Katrina...
johnpaulgeorgeringo
Outstanding Direction:
Bill Oliver, The Alice Complex
Heather Cohen, Other Bodies
Nell Balaban, The Boy in the Basement
Jon Levin, There Will Come Soft Rains
Outstanding Costume Design:
Angela Harner, Gem! A Truly Outrageous Parody!
Jennifer Kirschman, The Fabulous Kane Sisters...
Charlie LaGreca, The Gargoyle Garden
Outstanding Lighting Design:
Teresa Hull, The Permanent Night
Outstanding Actor:
Molly Bell, Becoming Britney
Hogan Gorman, Hot Cripple
Movin Melvin Brown, A Man, A Magic, A Music
Deborah Weston, See How Beautiful I Am
Will Manning, Choke City & Revolution on the Roof
Outstanding Ensemble:
Keep Your Eyes Open
Gem! A Truly Outrageous Parody!
Paper Dolls
Outstanding Set Design:
Tania Bijlani, The Alice Complex
Outstanding Choreography:
Lizzie Leopold, Green Eyes
In addition, Blanche Survives Hurricane Katrina... and I Love You, Petty & Favre were named the 2008 Village Voice Audience Favorite Award Winners.
Previous Fringe Festival award-winning participants have gone on to enjoy commercial life Off-Broadway, including Bash'd: A Gay Rap Opera, Walmartopia, Dog Sees God, Debbie Does Dallas, Never Swim Alone, 21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com, Matt & Ben, The Joys of Sex and Urinetown; the latter made a Tony Award-winning Broadway transfer.
The 13th Annual New York International Fringe Festival will run Aug. 7-24, 2009. For more information visit www.FringeNYC.org
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