2005 FringeNYC Award Winners Announced

Every year The New York International Fringe Festival FringeNYC celebrates its closing with the announcements of the FringeNYC Overall Excellence Awards, which are decided by a panel of over 60 theater professionals. This year the awards are a little different-for instance, instead of the traditional Overall Production honor, awards were given out for both Outstanding Play and Outstanding Musical. The awards were announced live at FringeCentral on August 28.

And the winners are:

Overall Play:
The Lightning Field
God's Waiting Room
Go-Go Kitty, Go!

Overall Musical:
Silence! The Musical
Fleet Week: The Musical

Outstanding Playwrighting:
Katherine Knowles, Magician
Robin Maguire, Aquarium
Martin Casella, The Irish Curse
Robert Moulthrop, Half Life

Outstanding Actor:
Jennifer Gibbs, Edna St. Vincent Millay Speaks to the Committee on Immorality
James Murray Jackson, Jr., Unspeakable: Richard Pryor Live & Uncensored
Rick Bland, Thick
Doug Kreeger, Swimming Upstream

Outstanding Ensemble:
Amerika
Fluffy Bunnies in a Field of Daisies
Weddings of Mass Destruction
Hit

Outstanding Solo Show:
The Miss Education of Jenna Bush
Bridezilla Strikes Back
Jesus in Montana
Surviving David

Outstanding Multimedia:
Movie Geek

Outstanding Music & Lyrics:
Paul Foglino, Hercules in High Suburbia
Dante Russo Lyrics/David F.M. Vaughn Music, Extraordinary

Outstanding Direction:
Scott Ebersold, The Silent Concerto

Outstanding Costume Design:
Kerith Wolf, Marlowe

Outstanding Sound Design:
Mark Huang, Go-Go Kitty, GO!

Outstanding Set Design:
Nicholas Vaughan, The Silent Concerto

Outstanding Fight Direction:
Michael G. Chin, The Lizards

Outstanding Choreography:
Regina Nejman, The Velocity of Things Nina Hein, Icarus