2025 Patron’s Choice Awards

PATRON’S CHOICE AWARDS are based on overall audience attendance.

2025 Critics Choice Awards

The awards in all of the categories in this section were nominated/recommended by members of the 2026 PortFringe Review Team – independent community journalists assigned to provide press and constructive feedback for this year’s festival Artists.

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A Different Gage (Strange News Theater)
An Hour of Improv with Tandem Tricycle (Tandem Tricycle)
An Ode to He Who Walks Behind the Rows (The Husky Boiz)
Gregorian Chant Comedy Hour (Jimmy Grzelak)
Karaokeography (The Karaokeographerz)
Medea (Lizzy Fogg)
*screaming* (The Lord Chamberlain’s (Other) Men)

Achievement in Performance

A Different Gage (Strange News Theater)
An American (NOT) In Paris (Liv Rocklin)
An Ode to He Who Walks Behind the Rows (The Husky Boiz)
CHRONIC PAin au chocolat (Janoah the Jester)
Gregorian Chant Comedy Hour (Jimmy Grzelak)
Horse Girls Gone Wild (Genevieve Breitbach)
How to Make Friends in Your 20s (Clarissa Shirley)
Sheila Phillips: All By Myself (Mark Magee)
The Adventures of Beastie (Del Gonzales & Square Product Theatre)

Achievement in Writing

A Different Gage (Strange News Theater)
An American (NOT) In Paris (Liv Rocklin)
An Ode to He Who Walks Behind the Rows (The Husky Boiz)
Gregorian Chant Comedy Hour (Jimmy Grzelak)
More Than Me: A One-Act Play About Growing Up With A Disability (Janine Leffler)
Sheila Phillips: All By Myself (Mark Magee)
The Adventures of Beastie (Del Gonzales & Square Product Theatre)
Thirty-Three Percent Joe (Fool’s Errand)

Achievement in Tech

A Different Gage (Strange News Theater)
An Ode to He Who Walks Behind the Rows (The Husky Boiz)