Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award
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The Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award is a prize given annually at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The Award has presented by the Carol Tambor Theatrical Foundation since 2004. In a formal agreement with the Fringe Society, it will be given in perpetuity.
All productions which receive a four or five star review in The Scotsman and have not previously been presented in New York are eligible for the prize.
The winner is announced at The Scotsman’s final Fringe First Award ceremony, which is held on the final Friday morning of the Festival.
The winner receives a two to four week run at an Off-Off-Broadway Theater in New York, all expenses paid, including: visa expenses; transportation for cast, crew and props; hotel for cast and crew; per diems; guaranteed stipend; and net box office receipts.
The run in New York coincides with the APAP convention of producers each January for additional exposure and opportunity for transfers to other theaters.
The Foundation takes no commercial interest in the future of the production, as reported in The New York Times.
The Award has presented by the Carol Tambor Theatrical Foundation since 2004. In a formal agreement with the Fringe Society, it will be given in perpetuity.
All productions which receive a four or five star review in The Scotsman and have not previously been presented in New York are eligible for the prize.
The winner is announced at The Scotsman’s final Fringe First Award ceremony, which is held on the final Friday morning of the Festival.
The winner receives a two to four week run at an Off-Off-Broadway Theater in New York, all expenses paid, including: visa expenses; transportation for cast, crew and props; hotel for cast and crew; per diems; guaranteed stipend; and net box office receipts.
The run in New York coincides with the APAP convention of producers each January for additional exposure and opportunity for transfers to other theaters.
The Foundation takes no commercial interest in the future of the production, as reported in The New York Times.
Prior prizewinners include:
- 2004: Sisters, Such Devoted Sisters by Russell Barr; and Rosebud by Mark Jenkins
- 2005: Absence and Presence by Andrew Dawson
- 2006: Goodness by Michael Redhill
- 2007: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by 1927
- 2008: Eight by Ella HicksonElla HicksonElla Hickson is a playwright and theatrical director who was brought up in Surrey near Guildford and educated at Guildford High School from 1996-2003....
- 2009: Little Gem by Elaine Murphy
- 2010: Ovid's Metamorphoses, by Pants on Fire
- 2011: Leo, by Circle of Eleven