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I’m sitting at home watching the #afringe stream of who has won the 2011 ABSOLUT Fringe awards – trophies above as tweeted by Róise earlier. Here’s who’s won each award. Congratulations to you all – you gave us some amazing shows over the last two weeks.

With thanks to Laurence Mackin at the Irish Times for his piece today and to Abie Philbin Bowman (@abiePB), THEATREclub (@theatreclub) and Fishamble (@Fishamble) for tweeting the award winners -

Fishamble New Writing Award

Winner: The Flamboyant Bird by Damian Kearney

Nominees:

• You Can’t Just Leave – There’s Always Something by Dan Colley, James Hickson, Louise Melinn & Mairin O’Grady
• Luca & the Sunshine by Nick Lee
• The Flamboyant Bird by Damian Kearney
• The Year of Magical Wanking by Neil Watkins
• In My Bed by Veronica Dyas

Bewley’s Café Theatre ‘Little Gem’ Award

Winner: Pocket Music (Donncha O’Dea & Camille Ross/Show in a Bag)

Nominees:

• The Wheelchair On My Face: A look back at a myopic childhood (Sonya Kelly/Show in a Bag)
• Luca & the Sunshine (donjuandemonaghan)
• The Yellow Wallpaper (Then This Theatre)
• Three Men Talking About Things They Kinda Know About (Kalle Ryan, Stephen James Smith & Colm Keegan)
• Pocket Music (Donncha O’Dea & Camille Ross/Show in a Bag)

Spirit of the Fringe Commissioning Award

Winner: Follow (WillFredd Theatre)

Nominees:

• Eternal Rising of the Sun (HotForTheatre)
• Follow (WillFredd Theatre)
• You Can’t Just Leave – There’s Always Something (Spilt Gin)
• Criminal Queers (Maurice Joseph Kelliher)
• Seekers (50% Male Experimental Theatre)

Best Female Performer

Winner: Amy Conroy (in HotForTheatre’s Eternal Rising of the Sun)

Nominees:

• Amy Conroy (in HotForTheatre’s Eternal Rising of the Sun)
• Liv O’Donoghue (in junk ensemble’s Bird with boy)
• Lauren Larkin (in THEATREclub’s Twenty Ten)
• Stefanie Preissner (in With An ‘F’ Productions’ Our Father)

Best Male Performer

Winner: Tim Watts (in Perth Theatre Company and Weeping Spoon Productions’ The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer)

Nominees:

• Paul Reid (in The Corn Exchange’s Man of Valour)
• Shane O’Reilly (in WillFredd Theatre’s Follow)
• Tim Watts (in Perth Theatre Company and Weeping Spoon Productions’ The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer)
• Neil Watkins (in THISISPOPBABY’s The Year of Magical Wanking)

Best Design

Winner: Man of Valour (The Corn Exchange) – for set and lighting design by Aedín Cosgrove, music and sound design by Denis Clohessy and video design by Jack Phelan.


Nominees:

• Man of Valour (The Corn Exchange) – for set and lighting design by Aedín Cosgrove, music and sound design by Denis Clohessy and video design by Jack Phelan.
• Autobiographer (Melanie Wilson) – for sound design by Melanie Wilson, lighting design by Ben Pacey and set design by Peter Arnold.
• Jumping Off The Earth (Rough Magic SEEDS) – for set design by Aedín Cosgrove.
• Bird with boy (junk ensemble) – for visual design by David Fagan and Valerie Reid, music and sound design by Tom Lane and Bryan O’Connell, and costume design by Emma Downey.
• Follow (WillFredd Theatre) – for lighting by Sarah Jane Shiels and music and sound design by Jack Cawley.

ABSOLUT Award for Best Off-Site Production

Winner: No Man’s Land (Fergal McCarthy)

Nominees:

• In My Bed (Veronica Dyas)
• Body Electric (The Collective Theatre Company/Revolting Bodies Theatre Company)
• No Man’s Land (Fergal McCarthy)
• You Can’t Just Leave – There’s Always Something (Spilt Gin)

Best Production

Winner:  Bird with boy (junk ensemble)

Nominees:

• Bird with boy (junk ensemble)
• Follow (WillFredd Theatre)
• The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer (Tim Watts, presented by Perth Theatre Company and Weeping Spoon Productions)
• Man of Valour (The Corn Exchange)
• Body Electric (The Collective Theatre Company/Revolting Bodies Theatre Company)