Congratulations to all of our Award Winners for 2022!
A big thank you to all of our performers, producers, contributors, venues, partners, staff and amazing audiences that came out to support.

2022 SYDNEY FRINGE FESTIVAL AWARD WINNERS

BEST IN CATEGORIES 

Best in Theatre Scattergun After the Death of Rūaumoko

Best in Comedy 300 Paintings in Lockdown

Best in Immersive & Interactive Six Women Standing in Front of a White Wall

Best in Physical Theatre & Circus Garry Starr Performs Everything

Best in Musical Theatre & Cabaret Not Today

Best in Spoken Word Scattergun After the Death of Rūaumoko

Best in Dance I Am King, I Am Queen 2.0

Best in Music The Unravelling 

Best in Fringe Kids The Vegetable Plot

 

NIDA AWARDS

Emerging Actor Sarah Carroll – Cherry 

Emerging Director Lucy Yabsley – A Thousand Words

Emerging Designer Maggie Thomas – A Thousand Words

Emerging Producer Jacinda Patty – Tinder Cindy

Emerging Writer  Caitlin A. Kearney – Theoretica

 

TOURING/REMOUNT AWARDS

Meraki Art Bar Remount Award Murder Village: An Improvised Whodunnit

Anywhere Festival (Brisbane) Tour Ready Award Cherry

Brighton Fringe Tour Ready Award I Am King, I Am Queen 2.0

Hollywood Fringe Tour Ready Award The Audition Room – Elouise Eftos & The Harry Morrissey Official

Melbourne Fringe Tour Ready Award Scattergun After the Death of Rūaumoko

NZ Fringe (SYNZ) Tour Ready Award I Am King, I Am Queen 2.0

San Diego Tour Ready Award Basketballman Can Fly

San Diego Tour Ready Award I Am King, I Am Queen 2.0

 

Festival Director’s Award Sam Kissajukian – 300 Paintings in Lockdown

Spirit of the Fringe Award Anita Lovell – 110% Average

 

Volunteer of the Year Award – Iulia Zaitseva

I Am King, I Am Queen 2.0 (photographer - Clare Hawley)
300 Paintings in Lockdown (photographer - Clare Hawley)
Cherry (photographer - Clare Hawley)
Garry Starr Performs Everything (photographer - Clare Hawley)
Six Women Standing in Front of a White Wall (photographer - Clare Hawley)

Nominees

Best in Awards

 

Best in Theatre

Scattergun After the Death of Rūaumoko (Winner)

Egg

Horse Play

Love Song

Rough Trade

Split Lip

 

Best in Comedy

300 Paintings in Lockdown (Winner)

Anna Piper Scott: Such An Inspiration

Demi Lardner & David Correos

Garry Starr Performs Everything

Jenny Tian – Chinese Australian

Jeromaia Detto: Mush

Scout Boxall – See What Sticks

The Audition Room (Elouise Eftos & The Harry Morrissey Official)

 

Best in Immersive & Interactive 

Six Women Standing in Front of a White Wall (Winner)

Game Show

Doors of Deception

Titanic, The Movie, The Play

Tattletales

Life Drawing With A Comedian

I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Cooking For ____

 

Best in Physical Theatre & Circus 

Garry Starr Performs Everything (Winner)

Basketballman Can Fly

Scattergun After the Death of Rūaumoko

Six Women Standing in Front of a White Wall

 

Best in Musical Theatre & Cabaret

Not Today (Winner)

Who’s the Man

40 Year Old Popstar

Singular: An Improvised Cabaret

C*nty Cabaret

Jodie Stubbs is Midlife

 

Best in Spoken Word

Scattergun After the Death of Rūaumoko (Winner)

Deep and Meaningful

My Cousins Bedroom

Rough Trade

300 Paintings in Lockdown

 

Best in Dance 

I Am King, I Am Queen 2.0 (Winner)

Crossover

Evocación

Sui Generis

Sweet Fleshed, Loose Skinned & Highly Perfumed

 

Best in Music

The Unravelling (Winner)

Before Breakfast

Not Today

Paul Ah Chee A Life Travelled Through 6 Decades

Rainbow Religion

 

Best in Fringe Kids 

The Vegetable Plot (Winner)

Basketballman Can Fly

Emily Who: A Day for Adventure

Monski Mouse’s Baby Disco Dance Hall

The Beanies

 

NIDA AWARDS

 

Emerging Actor

Sarah Carroll – Cherry (Winner)

Raven Joy Bower – Rainbow Religion

Teale Howie – Who’s the Man?

 

Emerging Director 

Lucy Yabsley – A Thousand Words (Winner)

Caitlin A. Kearney – Theoretica

Monty Hancock – My Cousins Bedroom

 

Emerging Designer

Maggie Thomas – A Thousand Words (Winner)

Dale Morgan-Mawby – Game Show

Josh Freedman – Sweet Fleshed, Loose Skinned & Highly Perfumed

 

Emerging Producer 

Jacinda Patty – Tinder Cindy (Winner)

Anita Lovell – 110% Average

Jeromaia Detto – Jeromaia Detto: Mush

 

Emerging Writer

Caitlin A. Kearney – Theoretica (Winner)

Naomi Mourra – Work Hacks from the Holy Book

Robyn Reynolds – Robyn Reynolds: Cake

 

TOURING/REMOUNT AWARDS

 

Meraki Art Bar Remount Award 

Murder Village: An Improvised Whodunnit (Winner)

Museum of this Morning

Scattergun After the Death of Rūaumoko

The Long Haul

300 Paintings in Lockdown

 

Anywhere Festival (Brisbane) Tour Ready Award 

Cherry (Winner)

Rainbow Religion

Who’s the Man

 

Brighton Fringe Tour Ready Award

I Am King, I Am Queen 2.0 (Winner)

Brunchercize

Rough Trade

Split Lip

 

Hollywood Fringe Tour Ready Award 

The Audition Room – Elouise Eftos & The Harry Morrissey Official (Winner)

The Long Haul

300 Paintings in Lockdown

 

Melbourne Fringe Tour Ready Award 

Scattergun After the Death of Rūaumoko (Winner)

Alone

How to Make a Perfect ___

Not Today

Theoretica

300 Paintings in Lockdown

 

NZ Fringe (SYNZ) Tour Ready Award

I Am King, I Am Queen 2.0 (Winner)

Not Today (Winner)

300 Paintings in Lockdown

 

San Diego Tour Ready Award

Basketballman Can Fly (Winner)

I Am King, I Am Queen 2.0 (Winner)

Emily Who: A Day for Adventure