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FringeNYC Encores and 2006 Festival Award Winners Announced

Jeff Berg and Amy Flanagan in I Was Tom Cruise
(© Shirley Herz Associates)
Jeff Berg and Amy Flanagan in I Was Tom Cruise
(© Shirley Herz Associates)

FringeNYC Encores, a new series of popular shows from the just-completed 2006 New York International Fringe Festival, will play September 5-24 at downtown venues to be announced. The roster for this new series will include such plays as Billy the Mime, Danny Boy, Diving Normal, I Was Tom Cruise, In Transit, Mike’s Incredible Indian Adventure, Never Swim Alone, Open House, The Penguin Tango, Perfect Harmony, Rainy Days & Mondays, and Walmartopia. Tickets will go on sale on September 1; visit www.fringenyc-encores.com for more information.

In additon, the FringeNYC 2006 Overall Excellence Award Winners were announced last night. A complete list of winners follows:


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OUTSTANDING PLAY
I Was Tom Cruise
Modern Missionary
Lulu


OUTSTANDING MUSICAL
The Fartiste
58! A Comedy About Bike Messengering
Fallen Angel


OUTSTANDING PLAYWRITING
Matt Hoverman – In Transit
Moby Pomerance – Broken Hands
Geoffrey Decas – The Deepest Play Ever: The Catharsis of Pathos


OUTSTANDING MUSIC & LYRICS
Danny Ashkenasi – The Tell-Tale Heart


OUTSTANDING SOLO SHOW
Flying on the Wing
Mike’s Incredible Indian Adventure
Democrats Abroad


OUTSTANDING DIRECTION
Mark Steven Robinson – Don’t Ask
Jonathan Silverstein – Red Herring
Joel Froomkin – The Infliction of Cruelty


OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
Robin L. McGee – Rainy Days & Mondays
Renee Mariotti and Bernard Grenier – Trouble in Shameland


OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN
Shane LeClair – A Small Hole
Robin Vest – Hermanas


OUTSTANDING ACTOR
Anna Jayne Marquardt – Walmartopia
Helen Stratford – Suicide – The Musical
Steve Hayes – The Penguin Tango
Cory Grant – Broken Hands
Margaret Daly – T.L.C.


OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE
Open House
Vice Girl Confidential
The Onion Lovers
Diving Normal


OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY
Paula Kroening – Band Geeks


THEATERMANIA AUDIENCE FAVORITE AWARD
Danny Boy