Melbourne Fringe Festival Awards
2020 Nominees
Check out the full list of nominees for the 2020 Best in Category awards, chose by our esteemed judging panels after a marathon Festival of intense Fringe consumption, fuelled by a love of art, coffee and maybe something a little stronger of the alcoholic variety (we’re speculating).
Check out the winners here
Best Visual Arts & Film Nominees
DC Style Fylez: House of Fashion
DC Style Fylez
Existing on Two Planes
Blak Dot Gallery & Blakademy
Healing through Buliana (Pregnancy)
Madison Connors
Best Experimental Nominees
A Red Square
PONY CAM
Conservatory
Melinda Hetzel & Co. / Niow
Mountain Goat Mountain
Zoë Barry, Tahli Corin, Liz Francis, Nikita Hederics and Sarah Lockwood
Take Over! 2020: The Crying Room
Marcus Ian McKenzie
Best Dance Nominees
Let Fall
Jareen Wee
Shift
Claire Marshall
Sincerely Survivor
Grace Dance Company
Take Over! 2020: Drishti
Govind Pillai & Raina Peterson (Karma Dance)
we, the lost company
Clockfire Theatre Company
Best Words & Ideas Nominees
Take Over! 2020 : Namummaa fi Wantoota Namummaa Qancarsan – Humanness and What Took It
Soretti Kadir
WORDSMITH – the poetry podcast
Miriam Hechtman
Best Theatre Nominees
A Disorganised Zoom Reading of the Script from Contagion
A Suffocating Choking Feeling (Digital Experiment)
Simone French
Charlie
Victoria Chen
EMBER
Emma Gough
Fat Kids Are Harder To Kidnap on Zoom
Ross Nasir, Pavan J Singh, Nicholas Bloodworth, Victoria Chen and Vester Ng
落叶归根 (Luò yè guī gēn) Getting Home
Cheryl Ho and Rachel Lee
(I’m Going to Die In This Bracket)
Cathy Hunt & Shannon Loughnane
MATRIARCH
Sandy Greenwood
Paradise Lost
The Bloomshed
Shadow Piece
Antoinette Tracey and September Barker
THE DIRTY MOTHER
Michelle Hall
Best Comedy Nominees
Bev Killick: Don’t Tell Tony
Bev Killick
Case Numbers
Dylan Cole
CATS: The Movie, The Musical, The Production, The Artist
Jean Tong, Lou Wall, James Lew, Rachel Lee
Dazza and Keif Go Viral in Space with Ya Mum
Danni Ray & Keely Windred
GB24: The Improvised Variety News Channel
Game Boys Comedy
Patrick Collins – The New Nine
Patrick Collins
The Biscuit Readings
Barking Spider Visual Theatre
Best Cabaret Nominees
Disenchanted: A Cabaret of Twisted Fairy Tales
Eliane Morel
Jude Perl’s Greatest Hits: So Fresh Spring 2020
Jude Perl
Lousical the Musical
Lou Wall
The People of Cabaret
The People of Cabaret
Reuben Kaye Online
Reuben Kaye
Trash Talk
Tash York
What Would John Hughes Do
Telia Neville
Best Music Nominees
On the Wings of a Godwit
Simone Slattery
RECKONING “Te Waiata Paihere Wairua -The Sounds of Woven Souls”
Samuel Gaskin & Michala Banas
Selina Jenkins Sings
Selina Jenkins
The Dollar Bin Darlings present “Mind The Dancer”
Aunty Jonny of The Dollar Bin Darlings
Trigger Happy Visualised
Alon Ilsar
