HFF25 Community Award Winners
voted on by Fringe patrons and community

• Top of the Fringe Award: And Her Children
• Fringe International Award: Smile: The Story of Charlie Chaplin
• Fringe First for World Premiere: And Her Children
• Fringe Award for Cabaret & Burlesque: Ms. Tucker Will See You Now
• Fringe Award for Clown & Alternative Comedy: Absolute Legends!
• Fringe Award for Comedic Theatre: Murder, Oops!
• Fringe Award for Comedy & Variety Acts: Woody Fu: One Man John Wick 2.0
• Fringe Award for Dance & Physical Theatre: Holy Holy: The Birth of Disco
• Fringe Award for Dramatic Theatre: And Her Children
• Fringe Award for Immersive & Games: Funeral Show
• Fringe Award for Musicals & Operas: One Up: The Musical
• Fringe Award for Solo Theatre: QFWFQ

HFF25 Discover Fringe Award Winners
presented by organizations outside of the festival

• Adelaide Fringe Festival Exchange Award, presented by Adelaide Fringe Festival in Adelaide, Australia: Woody Fu: One Man John Wick 2.0
• Best of Fuery, presented by Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre: Sentience
• Denver Fringe Festival Exchange Award, presented by Denver Fringe Festival in Denver, CO: Black and Blue 
• Ella Turenne Award, presented by Hollywood Fringe Access Advisory Committee: The Troll
• Fringe Italia Off Exchange Award, presented by Fringe Italia Off in Italy: Stuck
• International Fringe Encore Series, presented by SoHo Playhouse: And Her Children
• No Room in the Green Room Award, presented by Make Believe Stage Productions, LLC: Tamra Wasserman presents: This is Real, This is Me (By Tamra Wasserman)
• Playwright’s Promise Award, presented by The Inkwell Theater: NAPOLEON’S WH*RE SISTER
• Spirit of the Fest Award, presented by Short+Sweet Hollywood: 
  79 Ways to Die – The Interactive Shakespeare Speedrun 
• Splash Award, presented by Namba Performing Arts Space, Inc: Couplet: Honey Honey Moon Moon 
• Sydney Fringe Festival Exchange Award, presented by Sydney Fringe Festival in Sydney, Australia: QFWFQ
• The Daredevil Award, presented by Electric Lodge: Trans Mom vs. Family Court: Justice Sees No Gender 
• The “FIERCE ARTIST” AWARD, presented by Playhouse Arts “Zero to Fierce Festival”: A Peacock In The Rubble
• The Loud Karma Emerging Women and Nonbinary Playwright’s Award, presented by Loud Karma Productions, LLC: First Place: The Road Theory; Second Place: I Hope You’re Having Fun in Hell, Dad; Third Place: So Baby
• The Movie Book Club Award, presented by The Movie Book Club: GU; Falling: a disabled love story; To Be Liberated; TRU$T
• The Planners’ Pick Award, presented by Theatre Planners: Menswear
• The Sacred Fools’ Award for Bold Theatricality, presented by Sacred Fools: Holy Holy: The Birth of Disco
• The Screamiest, presented by Midsummer Scream: Todd Macabre
• The StageCrafts Freeway Circuit Award, presented by The StageCrafts: What Happens in the Dark
• The Theatre Theater Playwright Award, presented by Theatre Theater Podcast: Dog of Carnage by: Benjamin Schwartz
• Transcendent Craft Award, presented by Trans Stories / Joy Who Lived: Couplet: Honey Honey Moon Moon; Trans Mom vs. Family Court: Justice Sees No Gender
• Zephyr’s Zest Award, presented by Theatre Planners Venues / Zephyr Theatre: The Server Slasher Massacre

 

HFF25 Community Award Nominees
voted on by Fringe patrons and community

Top of the Fringe Award:

Absolute Legends!

Amazing Sex Life of Rabbits

And Her Children

Falling: a disabled love story 

FUCK! An Iceberg: A One Woman Titanic with Magic Preshow

Just To Be Close To You 

Mark Vigeant: OUT THERE

None of Your Business

QFWFQ

Woody Fu: One Man John Wick 2.0

 

Fringe International Award: 

Brick by Brick

La canción de nuestros días

Medicine Woman

PARIS + JULIET

Smile: The Story of Charlie Chaplin

 

Fringe First for World Premiere:

Absolute Legends!

Amazing Sex Life of Rabbits

And Her Children

El Mago Loco 

FUCK! An Iceberg: A One Woman Titanic with Magic Preshow

Holy Holy: The Birth of Disco

Kami Girl: Let’s Go, Tonight!

Mark Vigeant: OUT THERE

QFWFQ

The Time Machine

 

Fringe Award for Cabaret & Burlesque:

A Star is Aborted

Accordion Ryan’s Pop Bangers

Bless Your Heart – A New Musical (Cabaret Edition)

Blow the Man Down: A Sea Shanty Concert

Ms. Tucker Will See You Now

 

Fringe Award for Clown & Alternative Comedy: 

Absolute Legends!

El Mago Loco 

Mark Vigeant: OUT THERE

Slürt

Todd Macabre

 

Fringe Award for Comedic Theatre: 

79 Ways to Die – The Interactive Shakespeare Speedrun

All Cats go to Hell.

Amazing Sex Life of Rabbits

Falling: a disabled love story 

Murder, Oops!

NAPOLEON’S WH*RE SISTER 

What Happens in the Dark

 

Fringe Award for Comedy & Variety Acts:

AP Sex Ed

Couplet: Honey Honey Moon Moon 

FRINGE! TONITE! ALIVE!

Near Sex For Work

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Extended Edition: Part 3

Woody Fu: One Man John Wick 2.0

 

Fringe Award for Dance & Physical Theatre: 

Holy Holy: The Birth of Disco

LA E$trELLA 

Pandora’s Boombox

Rag Doll on a Bomb Site

Vampire Vs. Autism

 

Fringe Award for Dramatic Theatre: 

And Her Children

Dog of Carnage

Family Fries

Ghost Train

GIRL BLOOD (a period piece)

My Tiger

The Time Machine

To Be Liberated

 

Fringe Award for Immersive & Games:

Captive Audience

Funeral Show

Last Call’s Worlds Collide

The Meeting

URTV: Passion Mansion

 

Fringe Award for Musicals & Operas:

KITTENS

One Up: The Musical

Pump Up The Volume: The Musical

Space Rock Opera

SQUIRM: A True Story

The Young Jane Show

 

Fringe Award for Solo Theatre:

A Peacock In The Rubble 

Do You Accept These Charges? 

Dragonfish

FUCK! An Iceberg: A One Woman Titanic with Magic Preshow

Ms. Edwards

PARIS + JULIET

QFWFQ

Slay Me 

The Other Woman

Titi Lee: Good Girl Gone Baddie

 

HFF25 Discover Fringe Award Nominees
presented by organizations outside of the festival

Adelaide Fringe Festival Exchange Award, presented by Adelaide Fringe Festival in Adelaide, Australia:

Woody Fu: One Man John Wick 2.0

Sylvie Wang Presents Sylvie Wang 

Falling: a disabled love story 

Just To Be Close To You 

Couplet: Honey Honey Moon Moon 

Poached

 

Best of Fuery, presented by Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre:

All About Jaime 

Blow the Man Down: A Sea Shanty Concert

Charmin: The Musical

Dolores

Going Home

Layers of Love

Magic Mic

Salon Noir

Sentience

The Other Woman

 

Denver Fringe Festival Exchange Award, presented by Denver Fringe Festival in Denver, CO:

Mark Vigeant: OUT THERE

And Her Children

A Peacock In The Rubble 

Black and Blue 

El Mago Loco 

Sylvie Wang Presents Sylvie Wang

 

Ella Turenne Award, presented by Hollywood Fringe Access Advisory Committee:

Do You Accept These Charges?

Ms. Edwards

Simply Maria, or the American Dream 

The Troll

Read Between the Minds 

Brick by Brick 

 

Fringe Italia Off Exchange Award, presented by Fringe Italia Off in Italy:

The Life and Times of a Gay Bug 

Reservoir Dolls 

None of Your Business 

πr²

Stuck

 

International Fringe Encore Series, presented by SoHo Playhouse:

πr²

And Her Children

Amazing Sex Life of Rabbits

Dog of Carnage

 

No Room in the Green Room Award, presented by Make Believe Stage Productions, LLC:

Erabus and the Fall of Sparrows

Holy Holy: The Birth of Disco

One Up: The Musical

Saturdays at 10am

Tamra Wasserman presents: This is Real, This is Me (By Tamra Wasserman)

The Time Machine

Honorable Mention: Ozzywood: Oz Reimagined

 

Playwright’s Promise Award, presented by The Inkwell Theater:

Termination Fee

Cuarto Dorado

To Be Liberated

GIRL BLOOD (a period piece)

NAPOLEON’S WH*RE SISTER

Ben’s Viking Trip

SQUIRM: A True Story

Space Rock Opera 

Polite Conversations And Wine

Wilhelmina

 

Spirit of the Fest Award, presented by Short+Sweet Hollywood:

To Be Liberated 

Trunk

79 Ways to Die – The Interactive Shakespeare Speedrun 

Brick by Brick 

Fish in the Tank 

Except Myself

 

Splash Award, presented by Namba Performing Arts Space, Inc: 

Couplet: Honey Honey Moon Moon 

Black and Blue 

Ms. Edwards

Brick by Brick 

Syncopated Debauchery: A Ragtime Celebration 

Me, Myself and Other

Mine for the Tribe

 

Sydney Fringe Festival Exchange Award, presented by Sydney Fringe Festival in Sydney, Australia:

Falling: a disabled love story 

QFWFQ

Slürt

OUTDATED

Read Between the Minds

Soft Animal

 

The Daredevil Award, presented by Electric Lodge:

Betsy & Patty Find Out

Just To Be Close To You

Medicine Woman

Murder, Oops!

Soft Animal

Todd Macabre

Trans Mom vs. Family Court: Justice Sees No Gender

 

The “FIERCE ARTIST” AWARD, presented by Playhouse Arts “Zero to Fierce Festival”:

A Peacock In The Rubble

Do You Accept These Charges? 

Medicine Woman

Brick by Brick

The Troll

El Mago Loco 

 

The Loud Karma Emerging Women and Nonbinary Playwright’s Award, presented by Loud Karma Productions, LLC:

The Road Theory

NAPOLEON’S WH*RE SISTER

#PeasantVibes

So Baby

Thin Blood Memorabilia

I Hope You’re Having Fun in Hell, Dad

Slay Me 

And Her Children

 

The Movie Book Club Award, presented by The Movie Book Club:

GU

Falling: a disabled love story 

To Be Liberated

Uncle Tom:The true story of Josiah Henson 

TRU$T

Eggs

In The Black

How Do I Hold It?

 

 

The Planners’ Pick, presented by Theatre Planners:

A Needless and Wasteful Requirement

Blackout

H.A.G.S. The Musical

Hidden Gem

Trans Mom vs. Family Court: Justice Sees No Gender

Brick by Brick

Menswear

Toy Gory

Trunk

 

The Sacred Fools’ Award for Bold Theatricality, presented by Sacred Fools:

Absolute Legends!

Holy Holy: The Birth of Disco

SQUIRM: A True Story

The Time Machine

The Road Theory

 

The Screamiest, presented by Midsummer Scream:

One Man Poe

Antony Zioni – Tales of the Ancient East 

The Visitor

Todd Macabre

Trunk

 

The StageCrafts Freeway Circuit Award, presented by The StageCrafts:

What Happens in the Dark

More Joy: A Mumoir

Tamra Wasserman presents: This is Real, This is Me (By Tamra Wasserman)

Grocery Story Romance

And Her Children

How Do I Hold It? 

The Road Theory

Marcus is Alive

 

The Theatre Theater Playwright Award, presented by Theatre Theater Podcast:

NAPOLEON’S WH*RE SISTER  by: Shannon Corbeil

GIRL BLOOD (a period piece) by: Gillian O’Leary

52 Pick-Up by: Ann Noble

Dog of Carnage by: Benjamin Schwartz

A Needless and Wasteful Requirement by: Robert MacRae

To Be Liberated by: Soo Chyun

 

Transcendent Craft Award, presented by Trans Stories / Joy Who Lived:

Couplet: Honey Honey Moon Moon 

Feelings

QFWFQ

Rise of A King

The Show of Many Things

Trans Mom vs. Family Court: Justice Sees No Gender

The Young Jane Show

 

Zephyr’s Zest Award, presented by Theatre Planners Venues / Zephyr Theatre:

Fool in the Pool

Much Ado About Nothing

Oh Constantine!

The American Dream

The Aquarian

The Server Slasher Massacre

We are excited to announce the 24 recipients of the 2025 Hollywood Fringe Artist Fund! 

This past November, we undertook a bold fundraiser with the goal of funding 24 low-income Angeleno artists at this year’s festival. With the generous support from members of our Commissioners Club, we reached our goal! The following productions were selected by random lottery, and will receive a one-time stipend toward registration, venue, and/or production costs at the 2025 Hollywood Fringe Festival:

Leave a Message

A Dad Is Born 

Jim McCaffree – National Treasure

Too Much of a Good Thing

Layers of Love

AP Sex Ed

IMGONNAWANNA

Venus in Fur

Polite Conversations & Wine

Pandora’s Boombox

Road to Hollywood

Gu

How to Make it in New York City: a Cabaret with some Cabernet

Detox

Slap Ass Friday

Godless

PEEP

Ophelia’s Refrain

Slürt

A Miracle on Christmas Street

Family Values

Gutenberg! The Musical!

Salon Noir

Kittens

 

Congratulations to all! 

 

Arts funding in Los Angeles is abysmal, and our work does not stop here. Join the Commissioners Club today to help us make this happen again in 2026!

 

We are so excited to announce a total of 15 recipients of the 2025 Hollywood Fringe Scholarship!

Thanks to support from Third District Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath, we were able to expand the number of scholarships we were able to offer this year!



LA E$trELLA

In Her Head

La Canción de Nuestros Días

Katotohanan

deadbeat.

El Mago Loco presents: Una Noche!

Do You Accept These Charges?

Me, Myself and Other

Natural Born Citizen

The Pyrex 

Eggs

A Minor Inconvenience

She’s About To POP! 

Too Good To Be True 

Riding in Cars with Girls

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:



I Hope You’re Having Fun In Hell, Dad 


Simply Maria, Or the American Dream 


The Troll 


Race for the Summit 



At Hollywood Fringe, we seek to make the performing arts more accessible, both to the artists who produce work and for those who otherwise cannot afford to see theatre. Scholarship recipients will receive free registration, a stipend toward venue/production costs for three performances, an experienced Fringe mentor, and marketing/networking opportunities with the community.



Congratulations to all!

Hi there! I’m Jeannette, the Hollywood Fringe Festival Marketing and Operations Manager. I’m so excited to be back on staff and supporting Hollywood Fringe (behind the scenes)!

Some of you may remember me from this past festival, where I worked at Fringe Central as a Community Coordinator, supporting both artists and audience members by helping them find shows, assisting with events, and even busking on Hollywood Blvd! But my journey with Fringe started back in 2022 when I was a scholarship-winning participant!

I know firsthand the chaos, charisma, and charm of participating in Fringe—so if you see me at any events and want to talk about it all, or just need a moment of mutual artist panic, I’m here for it all!

As the Marketing and Operations Manager, I work on social media, newsletters, and overall planning and facilitating for the festival season! Essentially, I wear a lot of “hats”- but it’s all very stylish over here!

Here’s a little more about me (since you’re made it this far): I received my BFA in Acting and two Minors in Creative Writing and Digital Arts from the California Institute of the Arts. I’m originally from South Texas (“Remember the Alamo”). I love singing to 2000s music in my car (alone, but just know I do a great job). I also enjoy cooking new recipes, watching documentaries, writing, knitting/crocheting/embroidering, and finding time to be the best tía ever (aren’t I humble?).

But in all seriousness, I’m incredibly grateful to be part of this community and to work with the artists, audience members, supporters, and L.A. art lovers who make Hollywood Fringe the chaotically charismatic, and charming festival that it is.

Don’t be afraid to say “hi,” start a conversation, and talk about all things Fringe!

Website: https://www.jeannettesrinivasan.com