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FRINGE REPORT AWARDS 2006

Rewarding the Best of the Best of the London Fringe

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Key to page:
(top) List of Awards with Citations
(middle) Welcoming Speech
(bottom) List of Guests

The following awards are announced midday Friday 27 January 06 for presentation at London's Canal Café Theatre Wednesday 8 February 06 by Tally Parr and FR editor John Park:


- OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS: -


(alpha order)

Mark Borkowski
Theatre of Publicity
Citation: 'Mark Borkowski has created a new branch of theatre – theatre of publicity – embracing propaganda, stunt, smokescreen, camouflage, performance, bare-faced cheek, lies (but only nice ones), suspension of disbelief, all brought together by his over-arching imagination and élan – in the creation of spectacular publicity for companies, brands, theatre, circuses, music, and just about everything else. The award also reflects Mark Borkowski's one-man show Son of Barnum, and his long and gifted contribution to raising the profile of the fringe and mainstream stage.'

Royston Vasey
Comedy
Roy 'Chubby' Brown
(Citation will follow after presentation of the award)


- ACTING AWARDS: -


(alpha order)

Elizabeth Bower
Best Actor - TV Drama & Comedy
Citation: 'The award reflects Elizabeth Bower's outstanding performances in the core cast of Spoons for Channel 4, as Miss Widget in The New Worst Witch for Granada, as Detective Chief Inspector Helen Radley in Silent Witness, and in The Flat for the BBC. It also reflects her gifted theatre acting including NewsRevue in London and Edinburgh and the relationship drama Playing.'

MyAnna Buring
Best Actor - Political Drama
Citation: 'The award reflects MyAnna Buring's mesmeric performance as the character representing American war criminal Private England in the play Guardians. As one commentator remarked - 'Played with heartbreaking, cow-poke inarticulacy. Absolutely the most stunning performance at Edinburgh. Unbelievable. She's amazing. No-one could take their eyes off her.'

Justin Edwards
Best Actor - Comedy
Jeremy Lion: What's The Time, Mr Lion?
(Citation will follow after presentation of the award)

Steve Furst
Best Actor - Drama Comedy
Behind The Net Curtains
(Citation will follow after presentation of the award)

- DIRECTOR AWARDS: -


(alpha order)

Paul Provenza
Best Director - Film
The Aristocrats (2005)

Presented Monday 6 August 2007 at The Performer's Bar, Assembly Rooms George Street, Edinburgh, by Kieran Butler and John Park

Citation: 'The award reflects Paul Provenza's remarkable direction of The Aristocrats (2005), his astonishing film (co-created with Penn Jillette) about the insides of comedy. This in turn reflects his outstanding talent as a live comedy producer and director (Nigerian Spam Scam Scam), hardline political stand-up, and charming, very funny host (Talk Of The Fest)'

Sarah Tipple
Best Director - Theatre
Citation: 'The award recognises Sarah Tipple's fabulous work as theatre director in her stunning delivery of The Wrong Man, a taut study of the civil war in Northern Ireland. It reflects her skill in keeping the constant confrontations varied and dramatically exciting; her ability to build tension to the play’s climax; and her artistic excellence in bringing out from the script every nuance of fear, evil, and dismay.'

- PROFESSION AWARDS: -


(alpha order)

Guy Adams
Best Journalist
Citation: 'The award reflects the brilliance of Guy Adams in creating stunning gossip writing - making his Pandora column in The Independent the best in print. His stories take in politics, news, celebrity and performance, and include a strong focus on the arts. The award recognises his astonishing ability to find great stories, which often break through to the front page, and write them in pared-down words that sparkle.'

Isabelle Georges
Best Singer
Citation: 'Isabelle Georges enchanted the Ideas Foundry Launch in London with her gifted singing and elegant dance, and thrilled Edinburgh Fringe and Harrogate Theatre audience with her cabaret performance of Judy Garland’s songs in Judy & Me. The award reflects these shows and her jazz vocal CD Something To Live For. It reflects her magnificent singing - and her charisma, wit, charm and grace.'

Hils Jago
Best Producer - Comedy
Citation: 'The award reflects the genius of Hils Jago in her creation and direction of AmusedMoose. It recognises the flair, energy and dedication she gives to encouraging new talent through AmusedMoose’s Comedy Awards, Star Search and Laugh Off; AmusedMoose’s training of new performers and comedy writers; her production of great comedy gigs; and the warmth and friendliness she brings to the comedy circuit.'

Melissa Leigh
Best Producer - Drama
Citation: 'The award recognises the flair and dedication of Melissa Leigh in creating and producing Stand Up Drama - introducing excellent new theatrical acting and writing talent to audiences and media via high-quality and compelling shows.'

Chris Lincé
Best Creative
Citation: 'The award recognises Chris Lincé's brilliant, wide-ranging and related creative talents embracing scriptwriting including Nudge and StickMen; props for productions including Nudge, StickMen, Sally Swallows, Steve Oram's Denim, and Jeamland Productions' film Macbeth; and graphic design including flyers for BBC Stand Up Show Live, The Bricks, and Electric Cabaret.'

Andrew Neilson
Best Venue PR
Bedlam Theatre
(Presented Sunday 9 April 06, Worlds End)
Citation: 'The award reflects the gifted imagination of Andrew Neilson in creating a unique and saleable identity for Bedlam Theatre – and selling it to the media. It reflects his imaginative stunts - backed up by hard-working routine slog; his friendly and welcoming way with journalists and performers; and his gifted ability to write the media dream - short, clear press-releases that say everything in few words, and then stop.'

Cyrila Pereira
Best Party Organiser
(Presented at The Stage office on Friday 10 February 06)
Citation: 'The award reflects Cyrila Pereira's imaginative production of The Stage's vast annual party, in particular its 125th Anniversary Party in 2005. It recognises her organisational brilliance in the formidable administration and planning involved, her flair and style for creating exciting and memorable events, and her welcoming friendliness at the parties she creates.'

Chris Timms, Simon Dale, Hannah Timms
Best Website
Citation: 'Casting Call Pro (www.castingcallpro.com) is the creation of (alpha order) Chris Timms, Hannah Timms, Simon Dale. The award recognises their immense contribution to the career development of actors, directors, and many other stage professionals by providing them with a high quality free-of-charge internet presence for CVs and photographs; with additional optional paid-for services. It reflects the technical excellence of the site, designed with a clear understanding of actors, and tailored to making it easy for them and other theatre professionals to promote themselves without payment, seek work, and tell media about their shows.'

eliza wyatt
Best Playwright
Citation: 'The award reflects the force of eliza wyatt's powerful writing about the occupation of Palestine and its daily brutality. Her drama Flowers of Red uses a subtly-drawn contrast of the characters and their situations, with exceptionally gifted and inwardly-revealing rhetoric-free dialogue, to make a superb play that is also a shocking political statement.'

- VENUE AWARDS: -


(alpha order of venue and names)

Katie Edmiston, K Hare, Alana Pryce, Damian Rayne (Director), Anne Windsor
Best Creative Venue
Citation: 'The award reflects the excellence of The Muse in promoting and giving space to artists, particularly those who have recently left college, and encouraging the development of their talent; staging installations, exhibitions, sound art, performance, cabaret, arts parties; and combining food, art, performance space and club into a single imaginative and exciting venue.'

Beth Greenacre & Ed Greenacre
Best Gallery
Citation: 'The award recognises the creative brilliance of gallery principals (alpha order) Beth Greenacre and Edward Greenacre in founding Rokeby, and through their imaginative artistic direction creating the best independent commercial gallery in London for emerging and established artists.'

- SHOW AWARDS: -


(alpha order of show)

The Bubonic Play
Best Farce
All Involved - Cast & Crew
Citation: 'The Bubonic Play has audiences rolling in the aisles at the brilliance of its comedy in performance, direction, script, costume, design, multimedia integration, music, and sheer filth. It is probably the dirtiest (and certainly the funniest) play of the year, with no breast or knob gag knowingly omitted, inspired dialogue and dramatic structure, plenty of simulated sex, lots of flashing and a gorgeous script. The award reflects all this, and the joy of the fabulous performances from the delightful cast (alpha order) Clare Thomson, Jamie Glassman, Mat Baynton; and Cal McCrystal's inspired and remarkable direction.'

Coast String Fiddlers
Best Band
Coast String Fiddlers (Live)
Look To The Mountains (CD)
All Involved
(Citation will follow after presentation of the award)

CyraNOSE
Best Play - School Drama
All Involved - Cast & Crew
(Citation will follow after presentation of the award)

Nick Mohammed
Best Comedy Show
Citation: Back In Town Again: - "Waltzing out of town; showcases the remarkable comedy talent of Nick Mohammed as performer, writer and multi-media creative. The award reflects this and his ability to look inside his characters and create comedy entirely from the human depth he finds there, blended with his sharp insight into the exact nuances, habits and pre-occupations of 21st Century society; his astonishing talent at micro-second synchronisation of performance to directional sound-tracks; his flair and sense of fun as a performer; all combined to produce a performance packed with warmth and sublime comedy.

The Sunshine Play
Best Play - Relationship Drama
All Involved - Cast & Crew
Citation: 'The award reflects the excellence of The Sunshine Play from Monday Theatre of the Green Hours. A commentator described their performance as 'The best thing I saw on the Dublin Fringe - straight theatre with good story, character and plot - no gimmicks, no clichés'. An inspired cast and crew created theatrical magic in this delightful love-triangle variation, set on a sloping roof in Romania where people meet to smoke.'

Tone Clusters
Best Play - Psychological Drama
All Involved - Cast & Crew
Citation: 'The award reflects the astonishing presentation of Jess Carol Oates’s superb play Tone Clusters at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe by its outstanding cast and crew. Mesmerising performers (alpha order) Mike James, Hayley Stoker, Eric Wdowiak created a horribly compelling epic of drama. Directing, management, production, musical, sound, video and graphic excellence from a supremely gifted backstage team produced a highly original and effective staging. Together the company showed how a complete play can be done magnificently in just 45 minutes.'

- (END OF AWARDS) -


Each Fringe Report Award comes with a citation and - thanks to majority sponsor Greens Restaurant and Oyster Bar and Greens Select - rather a nice bottle of champagne.


- THANK-YOU PRESENTATIONS: -

(alpha order):

Louis Brownhill
Hosting the Event
'On behalf of everyone he has welcomed, received and box-officed tonight and in the past for the Fringe Report Awards, thanks to magnificent host Louis Brownhill.'

Ross Mc Givern
Tech-ing The Event
'On behalf of Fringe Report and all award-holders in past years and tonight, thanks to fabulous technical supremo Ross Mc Givern.'


- WELCOMING SPEECH - FRINGE REPORT AWARDS 06 -


Welcome by John Park, Editor, Fringe Report. Awards Ceremony Canal Café Theatre Wednesday 8 February 2006 at 9.30 pm (edited):

Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Fringe Report Awards 2006.

I’d like to welcome Tally Parr, a member of the Fringe Report Board, who will be co-presenting the awards tonight. Tally Parr produced The Lift at Edinburgh, and accepted a Fringe Report Award for Best Producer – FRA 2004. She's now producing radio ads as Chief Executive Officer of Fresh Air Radio Advertising and many other things besides. Her great event of 2005 was taking over the London Eye in her spectacular promotion of Cafe Direct with a different act performing in every pod. Trevor Beattie, the fabulous advertising creative and founder of BMB Agency, described Tally in The Independent's 'Media Stars of 2006’ on 2nd of January like this 'She is a fix-it ... She is just full of ideas, but she makes them happen, that's the important thing. For me it really is cutting edge stuff. She’s a major star, a rising star.’

We'd like to thank our distinguished guest Dr Sorin Baciu, the Romanian Embassy's Press Counsellor, for kindly coming tonight. Thank you to Dr Baciu, to the Romanian Cultural Institute in Bucharest, and the Romanian Embassy in London for their generosity in flying Ana Margineanu and Stefan Peca from The Sunshine Play over from Bucharest for tonight's awards. A very warm welcome to Ana, Stefan and Dr Baciu.

We’d like to thank the people who make tonight happen. Emma Taylor and Louis Brownhill, who run the Canal Café Theatre, generously give us the venue for the night, and Louis Brownhillhas been our host over the last 3 years. The secret of a great theatre is a great technical director, and as well as tech-ing in this theatre most nights, Ross Mc Givern has tech-ed our awards in the past and tonight. Thanks to David Vickerstaff and his colleague Hector Ross at Greens for organising the champagne. Thanks to Richard Dragun, the fabulous head of graphic design at BDP. Richard kindly designs our award certificates each year.

Fringe Report has an excellent Board, made up of people each year who receive awards. We’d like one person from each of this year’s awards to join – if you would like to. The Advisory Board runs from 1 April each year, and there’ll be a welcome party on Sunday 9 April (the Sunday before Easter). After the year ends the following March, we ask you if you’d like to join our long-term Consultancy Board. I think the only duty last year was one fairly liquid party. The boards are the eyes and ears of Fringe Report, and keep us all in touch with everything right across the arts that is going on, with members all over the country, and all over the globe.

Big thanks are due to all the people who run venues in London. You’re wonderful. And to all the people who make the fringe work in Edinburgh, Dublin, Brighton, New York and all the other fringe festivals round Europe and the world. Thanks to lovely Tracy Allum who runs The Bridge House pub below the venue. Thanks to Chris Gutteridge at APT Partnership for much kindness, and for so generously letting Fringe Report use space and facilities in their offices.

Thanks to all of our terrific writers - some of them are here including Pam Lee, Zena Barrie, Tracy Keeling, Taly Koren. Thank you also to all members of the two Fringe Report boards.

And to everyone who is here tonight - thank you for coming to the Awards.


- LIST OF GUESTS - FRINGE REPORT AWARDS 05 -


(guest of person or show in brackets after name):

Guy Adams (Best Journalist), Dr Sorin Baciu (Embassy of Romania), Erica Baker (Tone Clusters), Martin Ball (Nick Mohammed), Zena Barrie (FR Board), Mat Baynton (The Bubonic Play), Marc Blakewill (FR Board), Kate Borkowski (Mark Borkowski), Mark Borkowski (Outstanding Achievement – Theatre of Publicity), Elizabeth Bower (Best Actor - TV Drama & Comedy), Louis Brownhill (FR Board / Canal Café / Host), MyAnna Buring (Best Actor - Political Drama), Michele D'Acosta (eliza wyatt), Simon Dale (Casting Call Pro), Laura Davis (C Venues), Richard Dragun (FR Board), Katie Edmiston (The Muse), Michelle Flower (FR Board), Michael Hickson (FR Guest), Adrian Garratt (Sarah Tipple), Isabelle Georges (Best Singer), Jamie Glassman (The Bubonic Play), Beth Greenacre (Rokeby), Edward Greenacre (Rokeby), K Hare (The Muse), James Harris (FR Board), Hils Jago (Best Producer - Comedy), Tracy Keeling (FR Writer), Rupert Keenlyside (FR Board), Taly Koren (FR Writer), Pam Lee (FR Writer), Melissa Leigh (Best Producer - Drama), Chris Lincé (Best Creative), Michael Longhurst (MyAnna Buring), Ross Mc Givern (Canal Café / Technical Director), Jessica Malik (MyAnna Buring), Ana Margineanu (The Sunshine Play), Nick Mohammed (Best Comedy Show), Jeni Morrison (Tone Clusters), Simon Osborne (Melissa Leigh), John Park (FR Editor), Lynne Parker (FR Board), Tally Parr (FR Board / Presenter), Stefan Peca (The Sunshine Play), Alana Pryce (The Muse), Damian Rayne (The Muse), Gail Scott-Spicer (Hils Jago), Clare Thomson (The Bubonic Play), Chris Timms (Casting Call Pro), Sarah Tipple (Best Director - Theatre), Ed Waters (Elizabeth Bower), Anne Windsor (The Muse), eliza wyatt (Best Playwright).

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