List of 2020 Solo Fest Performers


2020
MarshStream International Solo Fest
Awards
Costumes
Winner
Sha Sha Higby Clouds of Fish
Best Zoom Adaptation
Winner
Marga Gomez Not Getting Any Younger
Nominees
Kieran Carroll’s The Youthful Adventures of Damon Dukirk starring Zach Wegner
Ron Jones Birds
Gloria Rosen Listen…Can You Here Me Now?
Fan Fest Favorites
Winners
Samuel Simon The Actual Dance
Kiki I Am Not My Hair
Helene Lara Adventures Beyond My Living Room
Tipping Point
Winner
Skyler Cooper A One Man Show
Most Watched Program Live Views (Short Program)
Winners
Anne Bach My New Mom
Kiki I Am Not My Hair
Amy Segal Clothing Optional
Koorosh Ostowari Grandma’s Million Dollar Scheme
Most Watched Full Length Performance Live Views
Winner
Steve Budd What They Said About Sex
Best Shorts Program
Winners
Igor Meerson Your Favorite Russian
G.K. Jayaram Love Needs Internal Vigilance
Pearl Ong She’s No Lady
Best Short Performance
Winner
Ananda Bena-Weber Fancifool
Nominees
Pearl Louise The Call
Toby Malone Not Really “Little Star”
Judith Pratt Vannie’s Windows
Best Commentary of the Times
Winners
Maureen Langan Don’t Make Me Hate You
Don Reed 8 Years, 4 Months, 11 Days: A Black Life Mattering
Solo Performance Musical
Winners
Kathryn Keats Hummingbird
Evan Kent Shards
Nominees
Colin McCleod A Close Shave and the Argos Cycle Tour of South Africa
Amy Oestreicher Gutless and Grateful
Best Full length
Winners
Lynne Kaufman’s Who Killed Sylvia Plath starring Lorri Holt
Marga Gomez Not Getting Any Younger
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Laura Jane Bailey The Paris Effect
Jessica Litwak 50,000 Mice, the Selena Solomons Story
Antonia Kasper 45 Coffee Dates
David Kleinberg’s He Wants to Run
Rhonda Musak Rhonda Badonda: The Adventures of a Girl with a Pain In Her Brain
Joanna Rush Sex & Power
Nelsie Spencer Day of the Dead Daddy
Helen Stoltzfus Dispatches from the Great Burning: What my Mennonite Ancestors and the Gobi Bear Taught Me About Surviving the Climate Emergency
Thank you to our sponsor Elizabeth Zitrin of the Zitrin Foundation and our partnership with Zoom
2020 MarshStream International Solo Fest Staff
Stephanie Weisman – Artistic Director / Founder
Maggie Wilson – Festival Program Director
Brian Williamson – General Manager
David Hirata – Director of Artist and Staff Relations
Kristin Scheel – Development Associate
Lauren Burgat – Stage Manager / Tech Assistant
Jenny Kennedy – Stage Manager / Tech Assistant
Briaunna Caver – Tech Assistant
Bob Geleta – Finance Manager