Here’s a list of this year’s Award Winners— announced just moments ago at the 2013 Award Ceremony! Thank you all for coming and congratulations to the winners!

Fringe Freaks (Community-Voted Awards):

• Top of the Fringe: Absolutely Filthy
• Fringe First (World Premiere): Me Rich You Learn
• The International Award: Take Me To The Poorhouse
• Best in Cabaret & Variety: The Devil and Billy Markham
• Best in Comedy: Absolutely Filthy
• Best in Dance & Physical Theatre: Me Rich You Learn
• Best in Ensemble Theatre: White Hot
• Best in Musicals & Operas: Exorcistic: The Rock Musical Parody Experiment
• Best in Solo Performance: (no static at all)

Sponsored Awards:

• The Vagrancy Duende Award: Michael Kass from Ceremony
• DOMA Theatre Company Award for Best Musical: The Pokemusical
• Orgasmico Theatre Company Awards: Best Production: Butt Kapinski, Best Performer: Michal Sinnott from White Hot, Best Writer/Composer: Blake Abramovitz from Double Bind
• LAFPI Venue Award (for venues who hosted 50% or more productions by female playwrights): Actor’s Company, Art of Acting Studio, Celebration Theatre
• A Working Theatre Design Awards: Best Lighting: Ric Zimmerman from White Hot, Best Costumes: Lea McGowan from Now Leasing, Best Props/Set: Meghan McCarthy from Me Rich You Learn, Sound: Fugitive Kind Theatre of The Fire Room
• Four Clowns, Lost Moon Radio & Big Guns Tobacco Virgin Award: Fancy! A Southern Gothic Camp Parable
• Theatre Unleashed Award: It’s Important to Leave as Well (Feed Your Fringe)
• Bitter Lemons Outrageous Award for Theatre (BLOAT): The Devil and Billy Markham
• Trailer Park Award (for Best Video Trailer): White Hot
• Ezra Buzzington’s Spirit of Fringe Awards: Best Performance (Male): Brendan Hunt from Absolutely Filthy, Best Performance (Female): Leslie Murphy from Ryan is Lost, Best Writing: Nathan Wellman from Ryan is Lost, Best Show: The Devil & Billy Markham
• Combined Artform’s Best of Fringe Extensions: [Title of Show], 25 Plays Per Hour, Baby, Bobbywood, Butt Kapinski, Ceremony, Daddy Didn’t Die Did he?, David and Leeman: How to Convincingly Fake Honesty, Define Dif-fer-ent, Delilah Dix: American Showgirl, Dick & Jayne Get a Life, Double Bind, Fancy! A Southern Gothic Camp Parable, Fathers at a Game, Frank & Ava, Gracie & Rose, Hersheme, Kill A Better Mousetrap, King Phycus, Listen Can you hear me now?, Marshall’s Law, Meant to Be, More Bigger Masses, No Static At All, Philosophy in the Boudoir, Pokemusical, Rodeo Town, Ryan is Lost, Sewer Rats at Sea, Sunny Afternoon, Take Me to the Poorhouse, The Baby, The Devil and Billy Markham, The Interview, The Real Housekeepers of Studio City, The Spolin Players, The Third Date, True Hustle, Unmoderated, Wet the Hippo, White Hot

The Sillies:

• The Intern Award: Emilie Pass, Rebekah York, Ariana Howell, Amber Avant, Sammy Evans & Victoria Steger
• The Wrench (most valuable tech player): Matt Richter and Rebecca Schoenberg
• The Sweet Sweet Neil Award (the sweetest fringer in the fringiverse): Benny Lumpkins
• The Ivo (most talented youngster at the Fringe): Meghan McCauley
• The Evil Kenevil (for the best stunt): Wet the Hippo (Runner Up: Theatre Unleashed)
• The Bar Rat (most omnipresent at the bar): Jacquetta Szathmari
• The Sasafrass (sassiest staff member): Liz Steele & Abbie Wagoner
• The FOMO (fringer who never misses out on the action): Kan Mattoo
• The Tweet Master/Mistress (most active on the twitters): Theatre Unleashed & Real Housekeepers of Studio City

Here’s a list of the Award Winners from Sunday’s Closing Night Event. Thank you all for coming and congratulations to the winners!

Fringe Freaks (Community-Voted Awards):

• Top of the Fringe: Lost Moon Radio
• Fringe First (Best World Premiere): RISE
• Best International Show: Richard Parker
• Best One-Person Show: Texas Loves Lyla!
• Best in Theatre: Red Bastard
• Best in Comedy: Lost Moon Radio
• Best in Cabaret & Variety: Carpe Noctem
• Best in Musicals & Opera: Doomsday Cabaret
• Best in Dance & Physical Theatre: Four Clowns: That Beautiful Laugh

Sponsored Awards:

• Footlights: Fool & The Red Queen, Red Bastard
• Theatre Unleashed: Reconstruction
• The LAFPI: Art of Acting Studio, Complex Theatres, Arena Stage at Theatre of Arts, ComedySportz, Celebration Theatre, Renberg Theatre, Underground Theatre, Hudson Theatre, Fringe Blackbox at Theatre of NOTE.
• Bitter Lemons: Button Wagon, Red Bastard.

2010 Hollywood Fringe Award Winners!

Congratulations to all the winners of the Fringe-sponsored awards!

We will be posting the winners of the other awards presented yesterday later in the afternoon.

THE FREAKS

• Top of the Fringe Award: T-O-T-A-L-L-Y!
• Fringe First Award (world premiere): The Birthday Boys
• Fringe International Award: BURTON
• Fringe Award for Theatre: T-O-T-A-L-L-Y!
• Fringe Award for Comedy: The British Invasion
• Fringe Award for Musicals & Operas: Rehab! The Musical
• Fringe Award for Music: The Poxy Boggards
• Fringe Award for Cabaret/Circus: FreakShow Deluxe
• Fringe Award for Dance & Physical Theatre: 4 Clowns
• Fringe Award for Visual Art: Gavin Worth Art Exhibit

2011 Hollywood Fringe Award Winners!

The Fringe hosted its annual Award Ceremony & Closing Night Party on Sunday, June 26th where it announced winners of the following community & sponsored awards:

Sponsored Awards:

• The Bitter Lemons Outrageous Award for Theatre (BLOAT): Porter’s Macbeth: A Parody

• The Theatre Unleashed Award: Spring Awakening

• The Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative (LAFPI) Award: Open Fist Theatre, Paul G. Gleason Theatre, Fringe Central, Hudson Theatre, Arena Stage, and Ultra Star Venues (for venues presenting 50% or more productions written by female playwrights)

Fringe Community Awards: “The Freaks”

• Top of the Fringe Award: 4 Clowns: Romeo & Juliet

• Fringe Award for Best International Show: How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse

• Fringe First Award (Best World Premiere): 4 Clowns: Romeo & Juliet

• Fringe Award for Comedy: Lost Moon Radio

• Fringe Award for Theatre: Girl Band in the Men’s Room

• Fringe Award for Musicals & Operas: The Trouble with Words

• Fringe Award for Dance & Physical Theatre: 4 Clowns: Romeo & Juliet

• Fringe Award for Cabaret & Variety: I Do Card Tricks and I’m Funny

Best of Fringe

Matt Quinn, the Venue Manager for Theatre Asylum (6320 Santa Monica Blvd) also announced the productions that will be included in the “Best of Fringe”, the top Fringe shows to be presented at Theatre Asylum (the venue that started “Best of Fringe” after the 2010 festival), Actor’s Circle and Artworks Theatre & Studios.

The following productions were announced as being part of this Fringe extension:

• A Mess of Things

• Be Careful! The Sharks Will Eat You!

• Bean

• The Booby Prize

• Box, Window, Door

• Cowboy Mouth

• Endgame

• 4 Clowns: Romeo & Juliet

• Girl Band in the Men’s Room

• Glint

• Gospel of a Teenage Jesus

• I Heart Hamas

• Life in the Middle Ages

• Lost Moon Radio

• The Normal Child

• Over There: Comedy is His Best Weapon

• Porter’s Macbeth: A Parody

• Pulp Shakespeare

• Spring Awakening

• The Barking Pig

• Another Effing Family Drama

• The Milford Project

• The Trouble With Words

• Voices from Chornobyl, Jr.

• Who Loves You Baby!