Waiting for Waiting for Godot, a comedy about life on stage, was one of the three winners of the New York International Fringe Overall Play Excellence Awards, and Gertrude Stein Saints!, which turned two inaccessible avant-garde operas into a glorious Glee, was one of the two for Overall Musical. The full list:

Overall Play:
Kemble’s Riot
Ndebele Funeral
Waiting For Waiting For Godot

Overall Musical:
Gertrude Stein Saints!
Save The Date: A Wedding Road-Trip Musical

Playwrighting:
Carol and Cotton – James Vculek
Down the Mountain and Across the Stream – Jake Shore
Kumrads Wont – Christina Michelle Watkins
The Rufus Equation – Ted Cubbin
Strange Rain – Lynda Crawford

Solo Performance:
En Avant: An Evening with Tennessee Williams
Human Fruit Bowl
Naked in Alaska
Talk to Me About Shame
What’s an Anjan?

Ensemble:
Count Down My Life
Peninsula
What Every Girl Should Know
The Young Olympians & The Most Amazingly Awesome Adventure Ever

Book, Music & Lyrics:
Cowboys Don’t Sing: A Western Musical – Dennis Flynn, Johnny Kelley &
T.J. Alcalá

Costume Design:
Joey Haws – The Nightmare “Dream”

Directing:
Padraic Lillis – Bully
Lisa Oretenzi – Double Heart (The Courtship of Beatrice and Benedick)
Michelle Sutherland – Gertrude Stein Saints!

Choreography:
Allison Plamondon – Someone To Belong To

Puppetry:
Lula del Ray

Performance:
Remy Germinario – Bradley Cole: A Musical
Jonas Nerbe – William
Melissa Rosenberger – Carroll Gardens Aborning
Howie Michael Smith – America’s Breath of Fresh Air

Audience Favorite:
Perfectly Normel People

— Winners of the 2012 FringeNYC Overall Excellence were selected by an independent panel of over 40 theater professionals,