Soho Playhouse Announces Winners Of The 2022 International Fringe Encore Series

SoHo Playhouse has announced the winners of the 2022 International Fringe Encore Series. Winners include "Afghanistan Is Not Funny" by Henry Naylor (Theatre Award) and "Troy Hawke: Sigmund Troy'd'' by Milo McCabe (Comedy Award). Runners-up include "The Stakeout," by Martin Dockery (Theatre), and "Six Chick Flicks or a Legally Blonde Pretty Woman Dirty Danced on the Beaches while writing a Notebook on the Titanic" (Comedy). The annual series features some of the best productions from fringe theater festivals across the globe. The 2022 series included 14 productions from 9 different fringe festivals.

The winners of the International Fringe Encore Series were both offered a four to six-week run in 2023 at SoHo Playhouse. "Troy Hawke: Sigmund Troy'd" is set to run October 18 - November 4, 2023. "Afghanistan is Not Funny" is slated to run fall 2023.

The International Fringe Encore Series will be changing its format in 2023. The series will now be divided into two categories; Theatre and Comedy. The Comedy winners will be presented November 2 - 19, 2023 and the Theatre selections to be presented from January 4 - February 11, 2024. The new format will include longer runs of fewer productions.

The International Fringe Encore Series curators are scheduled to attend the Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Orlando, Hollywood, Brighton, Edinburgh, Edmonton, Catania, Vancouver, and Dublin Fringe Festivals this year. Others may be added at a later date.

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"The best memoirs have a critical eye for the context, helping us to understand the way institutions and events shape our lives, documenting the unequal way the world works. Such a memoir is Henry Naylor's "Afghanistan is Not Funny." It has the dramatic pull of an adventure story, the eye for a telling image (one of which left the woman sitting beside me in tears at the end of the performance) and the believable moments of absurdity that a seasoned stand-up comedian of Henry's experience knows how to deliver." - British Theatre Guide

"Milo McCabe in the guise of 1930s styled, home-schooled, infectiously enthusiastic character Troy Hawke takes the audience on an hilarious Scrabble-assisted, social media-fused, flight of fancy into a world of coincidence, conspiracy and so much more." - Fringe Review UK

The International Fringe Encore Series is curated by SoHo Playhouse Artistic Director, Darren Lee Cole, Britt LaField (SoHo Playhouse), Scott Morfee (Barrow Street Theatre), Kristina Olson (Barrow Street Theatre), and Matthew Quinn (Theatre Asylum).