The 2026 Hollywood Fringe Scholarship Recipients

A total of 12 recipients of the 2026 Hollywood Fringe Scholarship!

Funded by Hollywood Pantages Theatre and County Supervisor Lindsey P Horvath.

Aztlan: (m)otherland

Cirque Lunaire

D.A.F.U.Q. – Dating Advice For Useless Queers

Don’t ask Don’t tell

Don’t be a Pu$$y

Goodbye. Hello.

Hollywood Chola

Interviewing for the Role of Father

MUMMY: A Delusical

Syrian Soap

The Last Palestinian

• They Tend To Themselves: A Choreopoem.

Applications were reviewed and recipients were selected by an objective committee of former scholarship winners and artists & artistic company reps whose missions align with the program’s goal of expanding and diversifying the body of work being presented at Fringe.



There were so many outstanding applications, and the committee would like to acknowledge the following honorable mentions:



Barbie Smith: God’s Favorite Tease

 Building an Altar

 For the Gold

 Jaunty the Rat

 The Malignant Case of the Migrant’s Daughter

 The Miraculous V: The Bizarre Awakening of a Virgin Witch

 Patient Zero.

ABOUT THE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

Fringe Scholarships are available to Hollywood Fringe producers who identify as one or more of the following identities: BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color), disabled, d/Deaf, and/or blind. Winners from the scholarship program have gone on to win awards such as Best Solo Performance 2024, Best Two Person Show 2024, Denver Fringe Festival Exchange Award 2024, Ella Turenne Award 2024, and Fringe Italia Off Touring Award 2024. Shows have also extended runs at various Fringe venues, a run Off-Broadway at the SOHO Playhouse, Second City, and the steps of the California State Capitol Building.

ABOUT THE HOLLYWOOD PANTAGES THEATRE

The Hollywood Pantages is part of The Nederlander Organization, which owns or operates venues on Broadway and in Chicago, San Diego, San Jose, Tucson, Durham, Oklahoma City, N. Charleston, Greensboro, Washington D.C., and London. The Hollywood Pantages is the foremost theatre of first-class touring productions in Los Angeles. Presentations include Hamilton, Disney’s The Lion King, Wicked, The Book of Mormon, The Phantom of the Opera, and more.

ABOUT BROADWAY IN HOLLYWOOD

The curtain rose on BROADWAY IN HOLLYWOOD in February of 2019, to welcome the Best of Broadway in the Heart of Hollywood. As the foremost presenter of first-class touring productions in Los Angeles, BROADWAY IN HOLLYWOOD welcomes over a million people annually. BROADWAY IN HOLLYWOOD presents the hottest shows on the world’s most famous boulevard.  Hollywood History is happening nightly. www.BroadwayInHollywood.com.