San Diego – Giorgia Mazzucato, on tour in the United States as winner of the Roma Fringe Festival – Special OFF Award, in a pool of over 200 artists from all over the world, won the San Diego International Fringe Festival as Best Artist and best international show of the year, with her Lifegate, adaptation of the Italian Viviamoci, produced by herself and by the Italian digital artist Maria Beatrice Alonzi, for the Stable Production of the SITI (International School of Improv Theater). To vote, deciding for Giorgia Mazzucato as winner of the San Diego International Fringe Festival 2017, was the entire organization of the Fringe Festival in San Diego and Tijuana, with over 150 of California’s entertainment and culture professionals. Already noted by Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo, Viviamoci / Lifegate is a monologue that brings in different voices, a world of thoughts and life, able to move from individual to universal, as also demonstrated by the American and Mexican public who has welcomed and voted for the performance declaring it the most appreciated international production of 2017. (9colonne)