And here they are
The TVolution 2018 Hollywood Fringe Awards…
BEST OF THE FRINGE AWARD
Burglars of Hamm’s Resa Fantastiskt Mystisk
BEST SOLO SHOW (FEMALE) AWARD
Katt Balsan – Balls’ON
BEST SOLO SHOW (MALE) AWARD
Joshua Thomas – Let There be Thistles
BEST MUSICAL AWARD
New Musicals Inc.’s: Manson’s Girls
BEST COMEDY AWARDS (TIE)
Mackers! & The Day I Became Black
BEST DRAMA AWARD
BEST ENSEMBLE AWARD
Robert Watkins, Nick Howard & Gabrielle Farrow
BEST ACTOR
John Braham (Red) Ain’t that America
BEST ACTRESS
Yokko (Medea) Butoh Medea
BEST DIRECTOR
Christopher Johnson – The School of Night’s Hercules Insane
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHOW
THE ESSENCE OF FRINGE AWARD (tie)
Jack Benny (A Ménage En Train) & Shilo Kloko
Awards aside, there are, still, far many more individuals whose talents deserve some note of distinction and we at TheTVolution wish the privilege of acknowledging them:
Honors to the following Productions:
Hush by Madcap Creative
Sex and the Musical by For the Love of Parody Productions
The Runaway Clone by Zaftig Inc., The Unknown Artists & Ruckus Rockwell
Echoes by Redbeard Theatre & Fringe Management LLC
Honors to the following Actors:
Jim Martyka (Hans Gruber) A Very Die Hard Christmas
Ben Hethcoat (Chris Burden) A Beast/A Burden
Matt Curtin (Allen Ginsberg) Beatniks: A New Musical
Jeff Sumner (Creep) Dracula’s Taste Test
Steven Syzdio (Abbie Hoffman)
Uncivil Correctness:
Osama Bin Laden, Joan Rivers, Abbie Hoffman
Tim Kopacz (Philip) Resa Fantastiskt Mystisk
Chris Chapman (Henry V) Henry V (And Cocktail Party)
David Garver (Trent) American Conspiracy
Honors to the following Actresses:
Joana Knezevic (Mrs. Alving) Ghosts
Megan Rose Ruble (Susan Atkins) Manson’s Girls
Corsica Wilson (Jessica Burden) A Beast/A Burden
Tracy Leigh (Words) Easy Targets: Artists & Heroes
Pam Eberhardt (Laura) The Runaway Clone
Rachel Berman (Diane di Prima) Beatniks: A New Musical
Cyanne McCaerin (Constance Wilde) The Importance of Being Oscar
Virginia Tran (Kerri) Skin Jobs
Koni McCurdy (Birdy) Blind Spots
Melanie Holmes (Lily) Negative Spaces
Honors to the following Performers:
Christopher Piehler – Sink or Swim
Burt Grinstead & Anna Stromberg – Dr Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Alli Miller – Craftlesque
Evan McNamara – Last Christmas
Cooper Bates – Black When I Was a Boy
Jordan Rountree – Epic Fail
Honors to the following Writers:
Mitchell Bisschop – I Can Hear You Now
Jim Vejvoda – Skin Jobs
Davia Schendel (Book, lyrics and music) – Beatniks: A New Musical
Benjamin Schwartz – American Conspiracy
Giovanni Zuniga – Pervert
John Braham – Ain’t That America
Michael Shaw Fisher (Book, lyrics and music) – Doctor Nympho vs the Sex Zombies
Pam Eberhardt (Book, lyrics) and Jonathan Brenner (music) – The Runaway Clone
Joe Hernandez-Kolski & Joshua Silverstein — The Joe & Joshua Show (2018 edition)
Honors to the following Directors:
Jonghee Woo – Ghosts
Gregory Crafts – A Very Die Hard Christmas
Branda Lock – Let There Be Thistles
Jin Blanchette – The Women of Lockerbie
Changting Lu – House of Tales
Albert Dayan – Resa Fantastiskt Mystisk
Matt Ritchey – American Conspiracy
Dan Schultz – Ain’t That America
TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE 2018 HOLLYWOOD FRINGE
A MODEST REMINDER:
SUCCESS IS NOT GAUGED BY AWARDS
OR
THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS
BUT
BY THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF ONE’S OWN EFFORTS.
CONGRATULATIONS TO FRINGERS ONE AND ALL.
LET’S DO IT AGAIN NEXT YEAR!
