Announcing this year’s recipients of the Feldman Awards,

Honoring 2006 Orlando Fringe Excellence:

Overall Production

• A Canadian Bartender at Butlin’s, Producer: TJ Dawe / Big Sandwich Productions

• Electra at the Wiener Stand, Producer: Christine Morales

• (f)IVES - 5 Actors Take on Ives, Producer: Jester Theater Company

• Improv Cabaret, Producer: Mark Baratelli

• Lilly and Lila’s Lovely Lesbian Hour, Producer: Margaret Nolan / Kangagirl Productions

• The Lion Queen and the Naked Go-Go Cub, Producer: Wanzie Presents

• Mary’s Wedding, Producer: Fine Line Productions

• Real Time, Producer: Matt Alden

• Sport, Producer: Ghostlight Theatre Ensemble

Playwriting

• Matt Alden, Real Time

• TJ Dawe, A Canadian Bartender at Butlin’s

• Tod Kimbro, Electra at the Wiener Stand

• Eric Pinder, Waiting for Napoleon

• Michael Wanzie, The Lion Queen and the Naked Go-Go Cub

Performance

• Mark Baratelli, Improv Cabaret

• Doug Bowser, The Lion Queen and the Naked Go-Go Cub

• Blake Braswell, Streakin’! - A Musical Flashback to the 1970’s

• Hillary Brook, Streakin’! - A Musical Flashback to the 1970’s

• Natalie Cordone, (f)IVES - 5 Actors Take on Ives

• TJ Dawe, A Canadian Bartender at Butlin’s

• Becky Fisher, Hedwig and the Angry Inch & The Lion Queen and the Naked Go-Go Cub

• Laura Hodos, Streakin’! - A Musical Flashback to the 1970’s

• Jason Horne, (f)IVES - 5 Actors Take on Ives

• David Karl Lee, Hedwig and the Angry Inch

• Wilson Loria, Oens

• Andrew Snyder, Tape

• Amy Steinberg, Ever Expanding

• Tommy Wooten, The Lion Queen and the Naked Go-Go Cub

Ensemble

• Electra at the Wiener Stand (Tammy Kopko, Aaron Kirkpatrick,
Christine Morales, Jarred Sharar, Nick Sprysenski)

• Lilly and Lila’s Lovely Lesbian Hour (Leneil Bottoms & Christine Robison)

• Mary’s Wedding (Heather Leonardi & Michael Marinaccio)

• McGrawsky Files: The Case of the 3-Man Cop Show (Chris Dinger
Charles Frierman, Francisco Laboy, Darren Vierday)

• Real Time (Mark Jenkins & Vanessa Sabourin)

• Sport (Patrick Braillard, Mike Gill, Brandon Roberts)

Direction

• Director: Ghostlight Theatre Ensemble, Stage Manager: Melissa A. Nathan, Sport

• Director: Denise Gillman, Co-Director: Amy Jo Martin, Stage Manager: Gretchen M. Boyer, Mary’s Wedding

• Director: Jay Hopkins, Stage Manager: Diana Hopkins, (f)IVES - 5 Actors Take on Ives

• Director: Kenny Howard, The Lion Queen and the Naked Go-Go Cub

• Director: Tod Kimbro, Stage Manager: David Summers, Electra at the Wiener Stand

• Director: Murray Utas, Real Time

• Director: David Veitch, Stage Manager: Jeremy Chase, Streakin’! - A Musical Flashback to the 1970’s

Choreography

• Blue and her Lesbo-A-Go-Go Girls, Lilly and Lila’s Lovely Lesbian Hour

• Teresa R. Collard, Streakin’! - A Musical Flashback to the 1970’s

• Christina Hollerbach & Ashley Pinnock, Serious Theatre

Original Music

• Mark Baratelli & Jim Rhinehart, Improv Cabaret

• Miles Polaski, Sport

• Christine Robison & Leneil Bottoms, Lilly and Lila’s Lovely Lesbian Hour (Theme Song)

• Amy Steinberg, Ever Expanding

Scenic Design

• James Brendlinger, Tape

• Brandon Roberts, Sport

• The Lion Queen and the Naked Go-Go Cub

Costume Design

• Fred Gunzel, Streakin’! - A Musical Flashback to the 1970’s

• Richard Kuntz & Blue, Lilly and Lila’s Lovely Lesbian Hour

• Marcy Singhaus, Hedwig and the Angry Inch

• Julianne Snyder, Sport

• The Lion Queen and the Naked Go-Go Cub

Lighting Design

• The Lion Queen and the Naked Go-Go Cub

Sound Design

• Britt Sandusky, Sport

• Layne Stein, 4:2:Five - Just Listen

• The Lion Queen and the Naked Go-Go Cub

Special Citations

• Mark Baratelli for his innovative Improv Cabaret marketing campaign across all new media

• Beth Marshall for guiding the Fringe to its most successful outing in its 15 year history

• Elizabeth Maupin for her seemingly round-the-clock Fringe coverage via the blog
“Attention must be paid”

• Ryan Price for creating BloggingFringe.com to provide yet another source of Fringe news & views

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Total Awards by Production:

The Lion Queen and the Naked Go-Go Cub - 10

Sport - 7

Streakin’! - A Musical Flashback to the 1970’s - 6

Lilly and Lila’s Lovely Lesbian Hour - 5

Electra at the Wiener Stand - 4

(f)IVES - 5 Actors Take on Ives - 4

Real Time - 4

A Canadian Bartender at Butlin’s - 3

Hedwig and the Angry Inch - 3

Improv Cabaret - 3

Mary’s Wedding - 3

Ever Expanding - 2

Tape - 2

4:2:Five - Just Listen - 1

McGrawsky Files: The Case of the 3-Man Cop Show - 1

Oens - 1

Serious Theatre - 1

Waiting for Napoleon - 1

18 productions, 65 awards

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About The Feldman Awards Administration Committee

Brian Feldman is an Orlando-based filmmaker and performance artist who has performed locally with the Center Players, Lake Howell Theater Company, Orlando Theatre Project, Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival, SCC Fine Arts Theatre, Theatre Downtown and most infamously, Universal Studios Florida®. Brian’s screenplay based on his performance art piece, The Feldman Dynamic, is currently under consideration for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab; the show can next be seen in Little Havana this December. He’s the producer and host of Flicks on Fairbanks at Austins Coffee in Winter Park, director-at-large of FilmTree (formerly Group 101 Films Orlando), for which he has overseen the creation of 40 short films and, believe it or not, once auditioned for Juilliard. Brian’s been involved as an Orlando Fringe artist on three occasions: as an actor in I Never Saw Another Butterfly (1996), as conceptualizer-producer-director-himself in I Shouldn’t Be Here Right Now (a show about direction, or lack thereof) and The Feldman Dynamic (2004) and this past year as a Visual Fringe Artist. He currently has four works of photobooth art on view at Stardust Video and Coffee. Visit his website at brianfeldman.com, if you’d like.

Adrienne Feldman is about to become very busy, she’s a stage management apprentice with the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival for the 2006-2007 season. Coincidentally, Adrienne got her start in theater with OSF, appearing in Macbeth at age seven. She holds an A.A. Degree in Theatre from Seminole Community College and is currently a BFA Stage Management candidate at UCF. As a resident company member of Orlando Theatre Project, she has worked on such productions as Wit, Proof and The Underpants. Other local companies she has worked with include the Center Players, Theatre Downtown and Lake Howell Theater Company. Adrienne is also 1/4 of The Feldman Dynamic, the performance art family which has appeared at the New York and Orlando International Fringe Festivals. She’s been an Orlando Fringe volunteer for the past three years and a student of dance for eleven. For up-to-date information, visit her website at adriennefeldman.com.

Please note that these awards are only 47% reflective. That is, only 27 of the 57 shows at this year's Orlando Fringe were actually seen and therefore eligible for Feldman Awards consideration. Next year, the intent is that all productions presented as part of the Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival will be seen and given full consideration. To have seen all 57 shows at the 2006 Orlando Fringe, without discounts, would have cost $544 - for one person. Thank you very much for understanding.

The Feldman Awards are not sanctioned, endorsed or sponsored by the Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival.

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