FringeNYC 2007 Presents Overall Excellence Awards

In a brief ceremony at the closing night party for the New York International Fringe Festival at The Village Theater, winners of the 2007 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Awards were announced. The Awards are selected by an independent panel of over 60 theater professionals. The winners are:

Outstanding Play
Lights Rise on Grace
I Dig Doug
Catch The Fish

Outstanding Musical
Bash'd: A Gay Rap Opera
Bukowsical!
Piaf: Love Conquers All

Outstanding Playwrighting
Mac Rogers - Hail Satan
Corey Patrick - Bombs in Your Mouth
Sara Jeanne Asselin - The Rise and Fall of Miles and Milo

Outstanding Music & Lyrics
Kurt Gellersted & Brooke Fox - Williamsburg! The Musical
Kevin So - Victor Woo: The Average Asian American

Outstanding Solo Show
Semi-Permanent
Bent to the Flame: A Night with Tennessee Williams
Paper Son

Outstanding Direction
Jessica Beck - All Alone
Emily Fishbaine- Dressing Miss Julie
Jon Lawrence Rivera - Hillary Agonistes

Outstanding Costume Design
Anne Aberjonois - Show Choir The Musical
Meganne George - John Goldfarb, Please Come Home

Outstanding Lighting Design
Seth Reiser - The End

Outstanding Actor
Siobhan Donnellan - Married to the Sea
Gardi Hutter - Joan of ARPpO
Mary Theresa Arnold - Jazz Hand: Tales of a One-Armed Woman
Christopher Domig - Dirt

Outstanding Ensemble
Naked in a Fishbowl
Farmtrucks: A Corporate Coffee Adventure
Roxy Font
Show Choir The Musical
End's Eve: The Feast of 2012

Outstanding Choreography
Isabelle Barbat - Requiem pour une ame seule
Jimmy Tate  - Thunder
JD Aubrey Smith & Akim Funk Buddha - Victor Woo: The Average Asian American

The Village Voice Audience Favorite
Riding The Bull

"In 1997, New York City became the seventh US city to host a fringe festival, joining Seattle, Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Houston, Orlando and San Francisco.  In its first eleven years FringeNYC presented over 2000 performing groups from the U.K., Canada, Poland, Ireland, Japan, Singapore, Germany, the Czech Republic and across the US," declare press notes.

The 12th Annual New York International Fringe Festival will run August 15 -31, 2008 and will once again feature nearly 200 of the world's best emerging theater and dance artists. Applications for the 2008 festival will be available online in November; completed applications are due February 14, 2008. For more information visit www.FringeNYC.org