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Toronto: The 35th Annual Toronto Fringe Festival announces the 2024 award winners
Friday, July 12, 2024
Toronto Fringe is proud to announce the award winners for the 36th Annual Toronto Fringe Festival, taking place July 3 - 14, 2024. In a ceremony on July 12 at the Fringe Patio at the Tranzac in Toronto, hosted by Toronto Fringe Co-Leads Rachel Kennedy and Laura Paduch, 15 awards were presented to a dynamic range of artists. Artificially Intelligent (Anesti Danelis), Colonial Circus (Shreya Parashar and Sachin Sharma), and Rat Academy (Katie Yoner and Dayna Lea Hoffmann, in collaboration with Joseph McManus) came out on top with two awards each.
Winners of the Patrons' Pick Awards receive an additional performance slot on Sunday, July 14. Tickets for Patrons’ Picks winners go on sale at 9pm on Friday, July 12 at fringetoronto.com.
The 2024 Toronto Fringe Festival Award Winners are:
Volunteer Choice Award
Cabaret of Murder by Blair Moro
The Second City Award for Best Comedy
Artificially Intelligent by A Greek Guy
Canadian Green Alliance's Greenest in Fringe Award
Colonial Circus by Culture Opus Inc
North(519) Best of Fringe presented by Theatre Orangeville
Stiff & Sons by Bare Theatre Collective
Bol, Brown Boy, Bol (Speak, Brown Boy, Speak) by CQC Arts
Spirit of the Fringe Award
It’s a Tie!
Rat Academy by Batrabbit Productions
Colonial Circus by Culture Opus Inc
PATRONS’ PICKS
Tarragon Theatre Mainspace
Crime After Crime (After Crime) by Sex T-Rex
Tarragon Theatre Extraspace
Artificially Intelligent by A Greek Guy
Tarragon Theatre Solo Room
MONKS by Good Fortune
Al Green Theatre
Scenes From An Italian Restaurant by Breakaway Entertainment
Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace
Rat Academy by Batrabbit Productions
Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace
POZ by Theatre Topikos
Alumnae Theatre
Dead Right by Dead Right Productions
Native Earth's Aki Studio
Gringas by First Born Theatre Company
KidsFest at St. Volodymyr Institute
Madame Winnifred’s Circus of Wonders by Theatre Borgo
Teen Fringe at St. Volodymyr Institute
Get a Clue! by Creative Music and Theatre with Claire
Toronto Fringe is a grassroots, charitable organization that runs the Toronto Fringe Festival each July and the Next Stage Theatre Festival each October. Toronto Fringe offers various year-round programs that benefit youth, artists, and the theatre community at large. Embedded in Fringe’s operations are the values of Access, Accountability, Creativity, Exploration, and Support. As such, 100% of the ticket revenue from the Fringe Festival is returned to our artists. To help support this work, Fringe is currently running their annual fundraising campaign – donate today to help us celebrate and amplify more artists year-after-year!