Websites
Seattle Fringe Festival
Seattle Fringe Festival
c/o Theatre Puget Sound
305 Harrison St.
Seattle, WA 98109
seattlefringefestival@gmailcom
Since its relaunch in 2012, the Seattle Fringe Festival (a fiscal program of Theatre Puget Sound [TPS] ) has put 86 productiions on stage and welcomed countless audiences to over 20 independently produced shows every year. In 2017,will take place in mid to late Spring over two weekends in venues in Capitol Hill and at the Seattle Center Armory in Seattle.
All performance genre are welcomes ( Ex: Scipted Theatre, Burlesque, Clown, Drag, Dance, Improv, Sketch Comedy, Solo Performance and more!) Application Deadlines are posted on the website and are usually launched late summer.
Seattle Fringe Festival boasts an non-adjudicated random lottery for acceptance into the festival paired with a flat Production fee. Come #DoThe Fringe with us!
Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals
International Fringe Festival Assocation (World Fringe)
worldfringe.com/fringes-around-the-world/
World Fringe is set up to serve the global Fringe community, including festival staff, venues, performers & artists, agents, audiences, suppliers, media, sponsors & supporters, and wider industry professionals.
It has a directory of 200 fringe festivals around the world. The site has information on how to develop a fringe festival, calculate ticket prices, insurance, touring, and more.
World Fringe Alliance
worldfringealliance.com/#member-festivals
The WFA combines the resources of some of the world’s largest festivals to create a conduit for communication, visibility opportunities and cross-festival participation.
The members meet annually to reflect on the status of the modern festival and take actions to better the enjoyment of participants and patrons on a global scale.
US Fringe Festivals
Asheville Fringe Arts Festival
c/o Asheville Contemporary Dance Theater
20 Commerce St.
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 255-1900
Dates: Late January
Berkshire Fringe
C/O Bazaar Productions Inc.
The Berkshire Fringe Application Committee
PO Box 1033
Great Barrington, MA 01230
(413) 320-4175
Dates: July – August
Boulder InternationalFringeFestival
2590 Walnut St, #5
Boulder, CO 80302
(303) 803-5643
Dates: Early August – Late August
The Boulder International Fringe Festival is an annual 12-day non-juried arts event packed with live theatre, dance, circus art, media art, cinema, visual art, spoken word, puppetry, workshops, and storytelling.
Capital Fringe Festival
PO Box 50659
Washington, D.C. 20091
(202) 737-7230
Dates: Early July – Late July
Cincy Fringe Festival
C/O Know Theatre of Cincinnati
1120 Jackson Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202
(513) 300-5669
Dates: Late May – Early June
The Frigid New York Festival
C/O The Horse Trade Theatre Group
85 E 4th St
New York, NY 10003
(212) 777-6088
Dates: Late Febuary – Early March
Greensboro Fringe Festival
200 N Davie St
Greensboro, NC 27401
(336) 549-7431
facebook.com/GSOFringeFestival
Dates: Late January – Early February
The Greensboro Fringe Festival is a live arts festival in Greensboro NC. Featuring new works for the stage.
Hollywood Fringe
PO Box 93325
Hollywood, CA 90093
The Hollywood Fringe Festival is an annual, open-access, community-derived event celebrating freedom of expression and collaboration in the performing arts community.
The festival gives 100% of box office revenue back to participating artists and venues—that’s over 1.3 million dollars since the inaugural festival in 2010.
Indianapolis Theatre Fringe Festival
P. O. Box 44121
Indianapolis, IN 46244
(317) 721-9858
Dates: Late August
KC Fringe Festival
P.O. Box 415001
Kansas City, MO 64141
(816) 446-0948
(816) 516-4750
Dates: Late July – Early August
Minnesota Fringe Festival
79 13th Ave NE, Suite 112
Minneapolis, MN 55413
(612) 872-1212
Dates: Late July – Early August
Fringe is an annual performing arts festival in the Twin Cities. Minnesota Fringe supports 170 different productions chosen by lottery from 500 applications. For 11 days, over a thousand artists present works in every discipline and genre.
New Orleans Fringe Festival
C/O New Orleans Fringe Inc.
732 France Street
New Orleans, LA 70117
Tel/Fax: (504) 941-3640
Dates: Early November – Late November
New York International Fringe Festival
C/O The Present Company
518 East 6th Street, #BW
New York, NY 10009
(917) 745-3397
Dates: Early August – Late August
Since 1997, FringeNYC has presented over 3000 performing groups representing every continent. Each year the festival presents programming by nearly 200 of the world’s best emerging theatre troupes and dance companies.
Orlando International FringeTheatre Festival
398 W. Amelia St.
Orlando, Fl 32801
(407) 648-0077
Dates: Early May – Late May
Philly Fringe Live Arts Festival
919 N. 5th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19123
(215) 413-9006
Dates: Early September
Fertile Ground: A City-wide Festival of New Work (Portland, OR)
c/o Portland Area Theatre Alliance
1507 SW Morrison Street
Portland, OR 97205
(503) 241-4902
portlandtheatre.com/Fertile-Ground
Contact: Nicole Lane, Festival Director.
Fertile Ground is an 11-day arts festival held in late January in Portland, Oregon. Fertile Ground was launched by the Portland Area Theatre Alliance (the service organization for Portland theater artists and organizations) in 2009 to provide a platform for theater companies to showcase their commitment to new work created by local artists.
Recent festivals showcased new works that ranged from fully staged world premieres to staged readings in theatre, to ensemble and collaborative driven work, dance, comedy, visual art, animation and film. The works are not produced by Fertile Ground, but by individual producers.
San Francisco Fringe Festival
C/O EXIT Theatre
156 Eddy Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 931-1094
(415) 931-2699
Dates: Early September
Woodstock Fringe
PO Box 157
Lake Hill, NY 12448
(845) 810-0123
Fax: (212) 602-0061
info@ woodstockfringe.org
Dates: Early August – Early September
Canadian Fringe Festivals
Atlantic Fringe Festival
5182 Bishop Street
Halifax, NS
Canada, B3K 1M3
1- (902) 422-7604
Dates: Late August – Early September
Calgary Fringe Festival
3 Riverwood Close SE
Calgary, AB, T2C 3Z4
Canada
1-(403) 451-9726
facebook.com/calgaryfringefestival
Dates: Late July- Early August
Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival
10330 – 84 Avenue
Edmonton, AB T6E 2G9
Canada
1-(780) 448-9000
Dates: Early August – Late August
Hamilton Fringe Festival
232 Cannon St E
PO Box 37044
Hamilton, ON L8L 0A8
Canada
(289) 698-2234
Dates: Early July – Late July
London Fringe Theatre Festival (Ontario)
207 King Street
London ON N6A 1C9
(519) 434-0606
facebook.com/pages/London-Fringe-Festival-Theatre/8593416143
Dates: May – June
Ottawa Fringe Theatre & Arts Festival
2 Daly Avenue, Suite 100
Ottawa, ON K1N 6E2
Canada,
(613) 232-6162
Dates: Early June – Late June
Regina International Fringe & Theatre Festival
c/o Regina International Open Theatre Society
POB #129 – 4246 Albert St.
Regina, SK S4S 3R9
Canada
Dates: Early July
St. Ambroise Montréal Fringe® Festival
c/o Théâtre MainLine
C.P. 42013
Montréal, QC, H2W 2T3
Canada
Tél. : (514) 849- FEST (3378)
Fax : (514) 849-5529
Dates: Late May-Early June
Performances are in English and French.
Saskatoon Fringe Theatre Festival
c/o 25th Street Theatre Centre Inc.
#217 -220 20th Street West, 2nd Floor
Saskatoon, SK, S7M 0W9
Canada
1-(306) 664-2239
Dates: Late July – Early August
The Fringe of Toronto Theatre Festival
#403 – 720 Bathurst Street
Toronto, ON M5S 2R4
Canada
(416) 966-1062
Dates: Early July
Vancouver International Fringe Festival
Box 203 – 1398 Cartwright Street
Vancouver, BC V6H 3R8
Canada
1-(604) 257-0350
facebook.com/VancouverFringeFestival
Dates: Early Sept-Late Sept
Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival
c/o Intrepid Theatre
#2 – 1609 Blanshard Street
Victoria, BC V8W 2J5
Canada
(250) 383-2663
Dates: Late August – Early Sept
Windsor-Walkerville Fringe Festival
1564 Wyandotte St. E.
Windsor, ON N9A 3L2
Canada
(519) 253-2929
windsorwalkervillefringefest.com
facebook.com/WindsorWalkervilleFringeFest
Dates: May
Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival
174 Market Ave.
Winnipeg, MB R3B 0P8
Canada
1-(204) 943-7464
Fax: 1-(204) 947-3741
facebook.com/WinnipegFringe/home
Dates: July
International Fringe Festivals
UK and Ireland
Bath Fringe Festival
Brighton Festival Fringe
Buxton Festival Fringe
Dublin Fringe Festival
fringefest.com/festival/whats-on
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Mailing address:
180 High Street
Edinburgh EH1 1QS
United Kingdom
+44 (0)131 226 0026
In 1947 eight theatre companies just showed up and performed around the edges of the Edinburgh International Festival hoping to gain recognition from the massive crowds drawn to the festival.
Robert Kemp, a Scottish journalist and playwright, described the situation, “Round the fringe of official Festival drama, there seems to be more private enterprise than before …”
Today, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the the largest arts festival in the world. It features more than 3,000 incredible, unique and inspiring events and takes place every August for three weeks in Scotland’s capital city.
Fringe by the Sea – North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland
London Festival Fringe
Reading Fringe Festival
Southside Fringe Festival – Glasgow, Scotland
Africa
National Arts Festival – Grahamstown, South Africa
Asia
singaporefringe.com/fringe2016
Australia
Adelaide Fringe
Anywhere Theatre Festival (Brisbane)
brisbanefringe.com/brisfringe2015
Melbourne Fringe Festival
Sydney Fringe
Fringe World Festival in Perth
Europe
Amsterdam Fringe Festival
Budapest Fringe Festival
Gothenburg Fringe Festival – Gothenburg, Sweden
Paris Fringe Festival
Prague Fringe Festival
Southside Fringe Festival – Glasgow, Scotland
Stockholm Fringe Festival
Middle East
Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre