We closed out the 2026 Winnipeg Fringe with our 33rd Jenny Awards at the Royal Albert Arms. A huge thanks to Dave McKeigan and staff at the Royal Albert for hosting our Awards show. Pictures are coming soon! And now the categories and results (winners in bold):

1. Dance Dance Revolution: An Award for Shows that Get Their Steps In

1. 50% Nonverbal [C. Neil Parsons]
2. Could Kill But Creates [The Delicates Dealer]
3. Rumours: In Motion [hiljames movement]
4. QUALIA [(in)sight]
5. Dead Chef [JHG Creative]
6. Tango After Midnight [PointeTango]

2. God of War: An Award for the Horrors of War, or a Terrible God

1. Babel [Geräuschbiest]
2. East of Berlin [Glitter & Sawdust]
3. Eleanor’s Story: Life After War [Ingrid Garner]
4. PANIC – A Live Radio Musical [Panic Players]
5. Letters [Parachuting Camel Productions]
6. Thor’s A Dick – Viking Legends Not For Kids [Stories Alive]

3. Complete Walkthrough: An Award for History and Classics

1. Bullheaded [Chronically Ch(ill) Productions]
2. Lies of a Promiscuous Woman [Darker Bright Theatre]
3. The 7 Lives of Louis Riel [I, Metis Productions]
4. The Taming of the Shrew [Indifferently Reformed]
5. Black Fish [Sima Sheibani]
6. The (Un)Official (Un)Researched History of Manitoba [VoLto]

4. Ctrl + Alt + Delete: An Award for Stories that Restart Fresh Every Time

1. Couch Surfing [Chief Mingus]
2. Solovela, An Improvised Solo Telenovela [Diane Jorge]
3. Four Hearts [The Improv Company]
4. Winnipeg is a Lie [Portage and Mayhem Presents]
5. Your Boring Story [Tectonic Improv]
6. The Truth is Out There: An Improvised X-Files [Tolzbad]

5. Up, Up, Down, Down Left, Left: A Left Leaning and Social Commentary Award

1. False Profits [Active Salad Productions]
2. Afeni [A Friendly Co Pro’]
3. 69, Emil Amok: Less News, More Life. The Headlines Got Loud, So He Got Personal. [Emil Amok Productions]
4. Human$ [jurasco]
5. The Naked Mennonite: Genesis [Real Live Entertainment]
6. How Bono Saved my Life (Three Times) [Sonya Ballantyne Entertainment]
7. Our Father [Stark Raving]

6. Choose Your Settings: An Award for Playing the Game Your Own Way

1. Brilliantly Awkward [Adam Schwartz]
2. Happy Valley [Cripplethreat]
3. Where We Fly from Hospital Beds [Cy-Fi Studios]
4. Oversharer [Einarson Productions]
5. Who’s Gonna Push Your Wheelchair? [Karin Fekko]
6. #BLACK EYE : a dark standup comedy special by Stéphanie Morin-Robert [Silver Lining Comedy]
7. Captain Ted: Disabled Astronaut [Strokes of Genius]

7. Massively Multi-Player: The More the Merrier, a Large Cast Award

1. The Green Grab [All About Theatre Adults]
2. Black Butterfly [Blackwestward Productions]
3. Love is Blank [Club Soda Improv]
4. Strange Things: A Stranger Things Parody [Meraki Theatre]
5. The Glass Between Us [Shoestring Players]
6. Quintland, The Musical [Winnipeg Broadway Theatre]

8. Rhythm Heaven: An Award for Shows You Don’t Want to Leave on Mute

1. La Vie Parisienne [Barclay Productions]
2. Sounds from the Meat Machine [Licensed Fool Productions]
3. Céline & Cher: Divine Divas [Marysia Trembecka]
4. Promise & Promiscuity: A New Musical by Jane Austen & Penny Ashton [Matthew Harvey]
5. Mr Loopy Pants: The Art of F*cking Up [Mr Loopy Pants]
6. The Ballad of Isobel Gunn [Possum Hollow Productions]
7. The Late Great Mormon Drag Queen [Steven Morton]

9. Animal Crossing: The Not Afraid to Work With an Animal Award

1. Unzipping the Cat [3L Theatrics]
2. Alexander Mantia’s Zucchini Club [Alexander Mantia Puppetry]
3. Goose! Night of the Cobra Chicken [Faux Ghost]
4. A Sexy Pigeon Show [The Lighter Touch Art Collective]
5. The Beanstalk Market Crash [Mind of a Snail Puppet Co.]
6. Viento [Neat Story]

Editor’s Note: There was a tie between Goose! Night of the Cobra Chicken and A Sexy Pigeon Show, but Goose! prevailed in the trivia tie breaker.

10. WooHoo: A Stimulating Sims Award

1. No Worries If Not [Battlefield Heartbreaker Productions]
2. Chase Padgett: The Next Guy [Chase Padgett]
3. The Golden Boys [Enigma Performance Company]
4. A Woman’s Guide to Romance Novels [Holly M. Brinkman]
5. Looking for Love in all the Weird Places [M.P.M.M Productions]
6. The Funny Thing about Men [Olive Productions]
7. Site #57 [Thinking & Feeling Theatre Company]

11. 5 Nights at Fringe: An Award for Shows that You May Find Scary

1. The Rocky Horror Show [The Dramatic Theatre Company]
2. Things That Go Bump [Krol Entertainment]v
3. The FIRST VAMPIRE [Monster Theatre]
4. A Curated Exit [Shot in the Dark Productions]
5. The Ghost of a Flea [Wych Elm Productions]
6. 1-Man No-Show [ZeekTech Productions]

12. Just Trolling: The Bad Faith Devil/Cults/and Crime Award

1. CULTS [Blair Moro]
2. The El Diablo of the Cards 2.0 [Ewerton Martins]
3. Dan’s Inferno [H.A.N.D. Productions]
4. ONE MORE TIME [HonourablyUnstable]
5. The Cult of the Comfy Wizard [Inner Worlds Theatre]
6. Absolutely Not a Cult [Starr Street Productions]

Editor’s Note: There was a tie between ONE MORE TIME and Absolutely Not a Cult, but ONE MORE TIME came the closest in the trivia tie breaker.

13. High Score: An Award for Performers That Did Well On Our Instagram
(people who got the most views in their photos with Jenny and were
not nominated in another category)

1. House of Gold [Brighter Dark Theatre]
2. Surprise! [Chicka-Hehes]
3. A Kid Napping [Desert Rose Collective]
4. You are happy [Hypothetical Projects]
5. Sweat [Manitoba Underground Opera]
6. Finding Rem Lazar [Rem Lezar Theatre]
7. Somewhere Up There in the Sky [Singularity productions]