Super pleased to have been a finalist in three categories!!! With over 100 amazing shows in Whangarei Fringe, it really is an honor ❤️
🤝TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAMWORK
For a show that excelled in collaboration, multidisciplinary art forms or ensemble work.
🍒CHERRY POPPER
For a promising new work that had its world premiere at the festival.
🎀BEST IN FRINGE
For the best performance at the Whangārei Fringe Festival. A stand-out show that lingered on in hearts and minds.
Full Awards:
🏆WHANGĀREI FRINGE FESTIVAL 2020 AWARDS🏆
Congratulations to all of the award winners & finalists❗
👀NOOKS & CRANNIES
This award is for creating work that made the most of Whangārei’s underused, overlooked spaces.
Finalists
Outer Nooks & Crannies
Free Art Friday
The Archive
🥇Winner
Free Art Friday
🌈PERFORMERS WITHOUT BORDERS
For developing a performance that enabled Fringe to be accessible to all.
Finalists
Circus Extravaganza
She + They
🥇Winner
Circus Extravaganza
🤩SIDE SPLITTER
For consistently delivering moments of hilarity, surprise and delight.
Finalists
Magnus Steele
Bob and Bev’s Bingo Bonanza
Bullrush Improv
Slut Songs
🥇Winner
Bullrush Improv
💲NO-FRILLS FRINGE
For creating a quality performance on a shoestring budget.
Finalists
The Willing Horse
Magnus Steele
The Archive
🥇Winner
The Willing Horse🧠A GENRE BY ANY OTHER NAME
For a work that pushed the boundaries of a traditional genre and stepped into the unexpected.
Finalists
Klingalong
Lockdown Laundry
A Fantastical Journey by Boat
🥇Winner
A Fantastical Journey by Boat
🤝TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAMWORK
For a show that excelled in collaboration, multidisciplinary art forms or ensemble work.
Finalists
Maggie Cocco’s Science for Sociopaths
Funkyray Cabaret
Intangential
🥇Winner
Funkyray Cabaret
💜AUDIENCE CHOICE
For being the favourite performance as determined by public vote.
🥇Winner
Funkyray Cabaret
🍒CHERRY POPPER
For a promising new work that had its world premiere at the festival.
Finalists
Slut Songs
The Archive
The Covid Snapshot Show
Maggie Cocco’s Science for Sociopaths
🥇Winner
The Covid Snapshot Show
🎀BEST IN FRINGE
For the best performance at the Whangārei Fringe Festival. A stand-out show that lingered on in hearts and minds.
Finalists
The Archive
Maggie Cocco’s Science for Sociopaths
Waiting
A Fantastical Journey by Boat
The Willing Horse
🥇Winner
Waiting
💡BRIGHT LIGHT
For a memorable performance that deserved extra recognition.
Finalists
Anthonie Tonnon
A Quarrantea Party in Lockdownland
The Archive
She + They
Tauha (Toast) Vallely-Te Kani
🥇Winner
The Archive
What’s next?
Well, I’m getting married next week to a wonderful human who supports me and my art 💯. Every stride I’ve made of late is due in part to his support, and we’re both super stoked to see where life takes us individually and together!
Everyone, please meet my partner, Micky. He’s an English teacher 📝 and Irish trad musician from Belfast 🍀 We’re living in New Zealand 🇳🇿 at present, and we love it here! But we also can’t wait till the world opens up again 🌎🌏🌍
I have so much to show him and so many people to introduce him to in the states 🇺🇸 and he’s got all of his people in Australia 🇦🇺 and Ireland 🇨🇮 to introduce me to. The world is our oyster and we couldn’t be happier ❤️ …bliss is quite a space to be in when juxtaposed with the rest of 2020, but I’m learning that sometimes life is interesting like that 🤷🏻♀️☺️🤔
In the show department, Micky and I are blending our musical traditions and creating folk-inspired arrangements of new and old Science for Sociopaths material to be premiered at the Whangarei Folk Club on November 21st! Patrons! Let us know what you would most like access to in the lead up to this show: full rehearsal sessions? Select sneak peaks? Live-streams? Arrangement process? Let me know so I can factor in the creation of content that you enjoy!
Finally, the Fringe multi-discipline experiment was so well received – Finalist for Best of Fringe!!! – that we’re already in discussion with Auckland Fringe about bringing it down there in February. I would love to tour this show around New Zealand in 2021, featuring new collaborators and audience participation in every city to which we tour. More about that soon!
Musically yours,
Maggie