The 2010 Ottawa Fringe Festival is over!

But before we closed the festival for another year, Executive Producer Natalie Joy Quensel announced the winners of the 2010 Peer Awards.  A committee of accomplished professionals and dedicated Fringe patrons from Ottawa’s arts community saw every show in the festival and chose the winners in the following categories.

OUTSTANDING DRAMA Elison Zasko inc (Toronto, ON): The Sputniks	OUTSTANDING COMEDY That Dinosaur is Blue Productions (Kingston, ON): Men Telling Stories
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL WORK Negative Theatre (Ottawa, ON): multinational gRape corporations	OUTSTANDING CONCEPT Zopyra Theatre (Ottawa, ON): Six: At Home
OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE Inertia Productions (Montreal, QC): Duck Wife	OUTSTANDING DUO PERFORMANCE Chris Wilson & Peter Carlone (Vancouver, BC): The Peter n’ Chris Show
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE David Gaines (Arlington, Virginia, USA): 7 (x1) Samurai	OUTSTANDING OVERALL PRODUCTION Queen Mab / Parry Riposte Productions (Ottawa, ON): Shadows
The peer committee also gave Honorable Mentions to:
Phone Whore	Purely Cabaret

Congratulations to the winning companies and artists.