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JUL 2024
HFF24 AWARD WINNERS AND NOMINEES
by carly barnhill
HFF24 Community Award Winners
voted on by Fringe patrons and community
Fringe Award for Cabaret and Variety:
WINNER: Batter Up: Double Play
Astro Cabaret
Fringe! Tonite! Alive!
Magic for Animals
Sexame Strip: The Naughty Puppet Cabaret Show
Fringe Award for Comedy:
WINNER: The Best Man Show
BABY
Furiozo: Man Looking for Trouble
Medicine Woman
Queen Bee
Three Can Keep a Secret
What the Chuck?!
Woody Fu: One-Man John Wick
Fringe Award for Dance and Physical Theatre:
WINNER: THE ANTI “YOGI”
1972
Dissent: A Dramatherapy Performance
Meeting #7
The Death of the Swan
Fringe Award for Drama:
WINNER: Mikvah Girls
Dinosaurs
In For A Penny
Mermaid
Our American Tragedy
Vanlyfe
Fringe Award for Immersive and Games:
WINNER: Gameshow! Gameshow! Gameshow!
Kill The Umpire
Reforged: An SCP Immersive Experience
Shakespeare, Inc.
The Complaints Dept.
Fringe Award for Musicals and Operas:
WINNER: Bigfoot! The Musical
Final Girl: The Musical
Hunnysweet: an Adult Adventure Through the Hundred Acre Wood
SUPERNOVA : Spiritual Death of a Hot Mess
Zoog Dabbity
Fringe Award for Solo Performance:
WINNER: Handala
Grief Box
ICE CATS: A Dead Mother Traumedy
Not My Grandmother’s Daughter
SAM
The Day I Accidentally Went to War
The Iditarod
TYT 5
Fringe Award for Two Person Show:
WINNER: Habla y te Salvas: True Stories of a No Sabo Kid & his Guayaco Dad
The Sphere of Fixed Stars in the Heavens by J. Holtham
This Show Is Surrounded By True Events
We Need Better Friends
Fringe International Award:
WINNER: Medicine Woman
Furiozo: Man Looking for Trouble
Nora and Jim
Rock Bottom
The Godmother
Fringe Award for World Premiere:
WINNER: BABY
Batter Up: Double Play
Habla y te Salvas: True Stories of a No Sabo Kid & his Guayaco Dad
Handala
Mikvah Girls
SAM
THE ANTI “YOGI”
This Show Is Surrounded By True Events
Vanlyfe
We Need Better Friends
Top of the Fringe Award:
WINNER: BABY
Habla y te Salvas: True Stories of a No Sabo Kid & his Guayaco Dad"
Handala
ICE CATS: A Dead Mother Traumedy
Medicine Woman
Mikvah Girls
THE ANTI “YOGI”
The Best Man Show
Three Can Keep a Secret
Vanlyfe
HFF24 Discover Fringe Award Nominees
presented by organizations outside of the festival
Best of The Actors Company, presented by The Actors Company:
Amen
Am I Really Jewish?
An Honest Work
Brainwashed
Baby Rock
Extraterrestial Kink
Modern Butchood
Morgan The Musical: A Sex Toy Western
The Border – A Russian Anti-War Self-Confession
The Dolphin I Loved
This is Very Important
Adelaide Fringe Exchange Award, presented by Adelaide Fringe Festival:
WINNER: Medicine Woman
QUEEN OUT (VERB)
Woody Fu: One-Man John Wick
Missions
BABY
My Little Phobia
Habla y te Salvas: True Stories of a No Sabo Kid & his Guayaco Dad
Best of Asylum Award, presented by Theatre Asylum/Combined Artform:
WINNER: Black Bastard
DND Betches!
Give Me The MacArthur Genius Grant
Jenny Lind Presents P.T. Barnum
Kosher Salt
Majorettes
Our American Tragedy
Painted Ponies
Pure Cinema
SAM
Sunita: Back to Me
The Build
The Connie Converse Universe Starring Hope Levy
The Easter Bunny
The Funny Thing About Men
The Motherfucker With The Hat
Woody Fu: One-Man John Wick
Best of the Broadwater Award, presented by The Broadwater:
WINNERS:
Not My Grandmother’s Daughter
TYT 5
Kenny Goes To Sleep
A Bella Incarcerated
The Day I Accidently Went To War
This Show Is Surrounded By True Events
Delusions and Grandeur
What the Chuck?
Mikvah Girls
Sam
The Best Man Show
Role Play (Or The Hottest Day In Belgian History)
Denver Fringe Festival Exchange Award, presented by Denver Fringe Festival:
WINNER: Habla y te Salvas: True Stories of a No Sabo Kid & his Guayaco Dad
THE ANTI “YOGI”
UNTITLED PSYCHIC BUSTER PROJECT
An Honest Work
RONALD
The Fat Girl’s Guide to Life, Sex, and Everything in Between
The Best Man Show
Latini-Duh!™ The Upside Down Latinoverse
tHis Is Very IMPORTANT
Ella Turenne Award, presented by the Hollywood Fringe Access Advisory Board:
WINNER: Mermaid
Black Bastard
TYT 5
Give Me The MacArthur Genius Grant
The Day I Accidentally Went to War
The Epistle of Her
Fringe Italia Off Exchange Award, presented by Fringe Italia Off:
WINNERS: Woody Fu: One-Man John Wick & Medicine Woman
Theatre Show (a play about a woman)
Gameshow! Gameshow! Gameshow!
Baby Rock
Handala
International Fringe Encore Series, presented by SoHo Playhouse:
GUARANTEED SELECTION: Gil Scott-Heron Bluesology
FINALISTS
What The Chuck?!
The Day I Accidentally Went To War
BABY
Mikvah Girls
Jaxx Cultural Arts Envoy Award, presented by Jaxx Theatricals:
WINNER: FOXY LADIES LOVE BOOGIE 70’S EXPLOSION!
Bigfoot! The Musical
Final Girl: The Musical
PODCAST: The Show
POPERA: Sex, Death and Politics
The Rabbit Queen
Theatre Show (a play about a woman)
Vanlyfe
Loud Karma Emerging Female and Nonbinary Playwright Award, presented by Loud Karma Productions, LLC:
WINNERS:
1: Obsessed-Starr Shapiro
2: Vanlyfe-Elliot Evans and Soph Fuchs
3: Heart Held at Knife Point-Eliran Sternin
Omnia Motus-Allison Shea Reed
ICE CATS: A Dead Mother Traumedy-Alli Miller-Fisher
The Rabbit Queen-Ilana Gordon
Femmina Super-Bethany Hill
Mikvah Girls-Emmy Weissman
Handala-Myriam Ali-Ahmad
No Room in the Green Room Award, presented by MB Stage Productions:
WINNER: Sunken
Shakespeare, Inc.
A Third Space: The Trans Conversation Project
Remember 92 : Sierra Leone Will Rise Again
Soaring Solo Social Impact Award, presented by Soaring Solo LLC:
WINNER: Black Bastard by Jon Gentry
Mermaid by Italome Ohikhuare
The Day I Accidentally Went To War by Bill Posley
Magic For Animals by Liz Toonkel
The Godmother by Melina Farahani
Handala by Myriam Ali-Ahmad
StageCrafts Select Award, presented by The StageCrafts:
WINNERS: Roost; Dinner for Eight; Lessons from Children’s Books
The Hobgoblin Playhouse:
Did I Just Join a Cult?
The Iditarod
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
Kosher Salt
The Madnani Theater:
Norman Judd: A Life in Concert
space exploration because SPACE EXPLORATION because sPaCe eXpLoRaTiOn!!!
Faking It
The Fairy Who Cried Gems
Javista:
Role Model Juliet
All the Boys I Blocked
Sydney Fringe Festival Exchange Award, presented by Sydney Fringe Festival:
WINNER: QUEEN OUT (VERB)
The Screamiest Award, presented by Midsummer Scream:
WINNER: Final Girl: The Musical
Bride of Blood
Did I Just Join A Cult?
Dracula: Live from Transylvania
In For A Penny
The Splash Award, presented by Namba Performing Arts Space:
WINNER: The Day I Accidentally Went to War
Mermaid
The Godmother
Vanlyfe
Mictlan
Queen Out
Magic for Animals
Schizophrenia is Funny
Theatre Theater Playwright Award, presented by Theatre Theater Podcast:
WINNER: Edward G Excalibur, 638: an Uncommonly Comical Review of an Accidental Assassination Attempt of Fidel Castro
Kate Dragone, Lines
Maddie Natoli, The Death of the Swan
Drew Petriello, Vote for Tom Ryan
Elliot Evans and Soph Fuchs, Vanlyfe
Vincent X Kirsch, Whim
Three Clubs Production Award, presented by Three Clubs Theatre:
WINNERS: FOXY LADIES LOVE BOOGIE 70’S EXPLOSION! AND Hunnysweet: An Adult Adventure Through The Hundred Acre Wood
This Song Reminds Me Of…
Supernova: Spiritual Death of a Hot Mess
Chess, The Musical
Bigfoot! The Musical
What The Chuck?!
Astro Cabaret
Sexame Strip: The Naughty Puppet Cabaret Show
Zephyr’s Zest Award, presented by Zephyr Theatre:
WINNER: THE ANTI “YOGI”
Daddy Issues
Revolution with Ramón
The Super Trio
There is Something Seriously Wrong with Cyrus: How I Went From A Hot Mess To A Hot Bitch
Where Within