We were unable to attend the Awards show, but wanted to recap them for you anyway. Here are winners of the community awards, along with our picks, if different:
- Top of the Fringe: The Last Croissant (Our pick – Death of Sam Mobean)
- International: Hide Your Fires: Butoh Lady Macbeth (Our pick – Drought)
- Fringe First (World Premiere): POCKETS (Our pick – Blackboxing)
- Cabaret & Variety: blackboxing (Our pick – Batter Up: My Brain on Baseball)
- Comedy: Olivia Wilde Does Not Survive the Apocalypse
- Dance & Physical Theatre: Tattered Capes
- Ensemble Theatre: The Last Croissant (Our pick – Saving Cain)
- Musicals and Operas: POCKETS
- Solo Performance: Mr. Yunioshi (Our pick – (IM) PERFEKT)
- Immersive Theatre: Vote for MURDER! (Our pick – Matt: The Gathering)
Here are the winners of the sponsored awards:
Larry Cornwall Award for Musical Excellence
Solo – Blackboxing
Ensemble – An yet Another Evening with the Sistahs
2019 Unleashed Awards – The Mayor’s Debate Of Tranquillity Nebraska
2cents Theatre Distinctive Voices Award – The Institute For The Opposite Of Longing
Aunt Lyla’s Fave Fringe Flyer – Matt: The Gathering
Fight the Power Award – Start Swimming
No Room In The Green Room Award – Borracho: Spanish For Drunken Bum
O Face Award For Orgasmic Achievement In Theatre: “Most Orgasmic Performance” – Macy Idzakovich – Flower Society
Showorks Don’t Wait. Create! Award – The Duchess & The Stripper
Soaring Solo Artist Award – Dear Jeff by Callie Ott
Standout Song Award – “Smellay Lahk A Turkay (She Was)” from Blackboxing
Steve Kent Award – Earth Stories: Our Climate And Our Future
The Diverse Diva Award – Squeeze My Cans by Cathy Schenkelberg
The Golden Key – The Pod
The Inkwell Theater Playwright’s Promise Award – “Butcher Holler Here We Come” by Casey Wimpee
The Outdoor Voices Festival “conversation Creation” Award –
Dear Jeff: A Musical Comedy About Suicide & Domestic Abuse
The Paul Koslo Memorial/Met theatre Award – A Time Traveler’s Guide To The Present
TPP’s Trope Buster! – Blackboxing
The LAFPI Most Wanted Awards:
Actors Company
Assistance League Theatre
Hudson Theatres
Lounge Theatres
Asylum @ McCadden Theatre
Asylum @ Studio C
The Hobgoblin Playhouse at The Arena Stage, Theatre of Arts
The New American Theatre
The New Collective
Fringe Runway Winners:
1st Place- ANGELBIRD
2nd Place- THE HUMAN[OID] EXPERIENCE
3rd Place- Start Swimming
Honorable Mention – Mil Grus
Audience Winners:
1st Place – Squeeze My Cabaret
2nd Place – HAMILKONG
Best of Broadwater Award
SCARLETT FEVER
LEAR / LOMAN – THE BEST OF INK @FRINGE
COME BACK!
THE LAST CROISSANT
GRAIL PROJECT
POCKETS
JOURNEY
LINCOLN 2020
SUPPORTIVE WHITE PARENTS
EARTH STORIES: OUR CLIMATE AND OUR FUTURE
RIDE OR DIE: THE HIP-HOP MUSICAL
JORDAN MAVERICK HISTORY TEACHER
TEMPLE TANTRUM
NORMALER THAN EVERYONE
45 MILLIGRAMS
EARTH TO KAREN
THE FLOWER SOCIETY
SON OF A BITCH
ORANGUTAN
FOUR CLOWNS PRESENTS: SHAKEDOWN AT THE DUSTY SPUR!
COME ON DOWN
MR. YUNIOSHI
THE SAME ROOM
GHOST TOWN
RED, WHITE, BLACK & BLUE
DEAR JEFF: A MUSICAL COMEDY ABOUT SUICIDE & DOMESTIC ABUSE
THE DEATH OF SAM MOBEAN
MEET ME IN MIZZERY
ALIVE-ISH
IF TRUTH BE TOLD
Encore Extensions:
The Actors Company
#CANCELLED
BIRTHDAY
HAPPY HOUR
HUMAN FOUNTAINS
MANDY PICKS A HUSBAND
ORACLES AND MIRACLES
PUBLIC DOMAIN: THE MUSICAL
REWIND – A NEW 80’S POP MUSICAL
THE LONDON ROSE
[TITLE OF SHOW]
New American Theater
THE SCORPION AND THE FROG: A TIME-KILLER
LOOSE UNDERWEAR
Hudson Theater
COMEDY HOE
THE RIDE
GOLDFISH
EVA PERON BY COPI EN ESPAÑOL
AN YET ANOTHER EVENING WITH THE SISTAHS- UNSUNG SHEROES
LOVE, MADNESS, AND SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN
IT TAKES TWO: MUSICAL IMPROV WITH PEARCY & BYRNES
SWIPED
The New Collective
YOU TOO
YOU, AGAIN
The Complex Hollywood
2 FOR 1
ACID WASH LOVE
BLACKBOXING
CAVE GIRL THE MUSICAL
THE COLOR COLLECTIVE
CRACK WHORE, BULIMIC, GIRL-NEXT-DOOR
DEATH AND THE FOOL
FIVE
IF IT GOES THERE
KLINGON TAMBURLAINE
MY TRANS WIFE
THE NARCISSIST NEXT DOOR
OLIVIA WILDE DOES NOT SURVIVE THE APOCALYPSE
PIT OF GOBLINS
POCKETMON! A PARODY MUSICAL
PRINCESS MAGIC’S TRASH TIME REVUE
PRODIGY
SEXUALMISADVENTURESOFASTRAIGHTWHITEMALE: APRIVILEGESTORY
SHIVA FOR ANNE FRANK
TALES FROM THE POWDER ROOM
THE MAYOR’S DEBATE OF TRANQUILITY, NEBRASKA
THIS WAY YONDER
VERY GOOD ACTOR: AN ACTING SEMINAR
WHAT I NEVER TOLD YOU
WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?
YES. NO. MAYBE.
Lounge Theatre
AN EXCUSE TO BEHAVE BADLY
CHRISSY METH – A DANCE WITH THE DEVIL AND THE JOURNEY BACK
CORINA, FROM LAP DANCE TO SUNDANCE
HIDE YOUR FIRES: BUTOH LADY MACBETH
HOLLYWOODN’T
(IM)PERFEKT
TO RICHARD!
A BIT MUCH
CLEMENTINE
FERTILE.
IF WE RUN
LEAVING PRINCE CHARMING
Studio/Stage
BAT KNIGHT!
BATTER UP! MY BRAIN ON BASEBALL
CRABBE AND GOYLE ARE DEAD
DISROBED
LIFE PLAN, OR LIVING YOUR BEST LIFE IN A COLLAPSING WORLD
THE JOURNEY OF THE LITTLE PRINCE
PHO GIRL
TATTERED CAPES
SILENT JOY, A NEW PLAY
SUGARFREE: FOSTER CARE COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
The Hobgoblin Playhouse at the Arena Stage
EARTH & FIRE WALKING (TIERRA Y FUEGO QUE CAMINA)
SHE KILLS MONSTERS
RADICALS
TABLETOP (THE MUSICAL)
THE BULLY PROBLEM
McCadden Theater
GUNFIGHT AT THE NOT-SO-OK SALOON
LET’S WRITE A MUSICAL
MIL GRUS
MONKEY MIND
NO MORE TOYS
SIREN CALL
STRAIGHT WHITE MEN TRYING TO WOKE
Thymele Arts
NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND.
Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre
BUNNY THE ELF LIVE!
GEORGE.
GREENWOOD 1964
OUT OF THE BLUE
RAISED BY WOLVES
SORRY ABOUT MY FRIEND
SWIPE RIGHT: THE MUSICAL
THANK YOU FOR LOVING ME
THE HUMAN[OID] EXPERIENCE
TOBINCON
Studio C
AMERICAN STRANGER
ASK A BLACK WOMAN
DANDY DARKLY’S ALL ABOARD!
DEAR JEFF: A MUSICAL COMEDY ABOUT SUICIDE & DOMESTIC ABUSE
DOUBLE FEATURE: THE ORIGINAL ENGLISH & MURDERFUCK
I AM NOT A MAN
JAMBA JUICE: THE MUSICAL
MORAL FIXATION (ORIGINALLY TITLED BOYS
WILL BE BOYS)
MR. YUNIOSHI
ONE HUMP HEART
PAPER TRAILS
SPEAK I WILL: A FRACTURED SHAKESPEARE
SUPPORTIVE WHITE PARENTS
TEMPLE TANTRUM
THE LAST POWERPOINT
THE MASHER
THE ONE-MAN IMPROVISED MUSICAL
SEVEN
ALL OUR PRETTY SONGS
Congratulations to all the winners and especially to their audiences, who are the real winners here.