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FringeNYC Announces Overall Excellence Award Winners

Manu Narayan, Emily Tarpey, and Erik Altemus
in Yeast Nation
(© Jay Sullivan)
Manu Narayan, Emily Tarpey, and Erik Altemus
in Yeast Nation
(© Jay Sullivan)

The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) has announced the winners of the 2011 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Awards:

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, or The Musical That Killed Everybody!)
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)
Dennis Flanagan (Bella and the Pool Boy)


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
Wallstories
When the Sky Breaks 3D

Video Design
Cinty Ionescu (Nils’ Fucked Up Day)

TheaterMania Audience Favorite Award
COBU – Dance like Drumming, Drum like Dancing