Greetings, Fringers-

For over ten years it has been my honor to witness the genesis and evolution of the Hollywood Fringe Festival; a community like none other that has sparked inspiration, inspired creation and created joy for thousands and thousands and thousands.

And so with a heart full of the fringeships and memories that have nurtured me these many years, I pass the torch to the next generation of leaders to continue this tradition into the many years that follow.

It’s a bittersweet thing to say goodbye to something you’ve loved (and feared) so very hard that your identity is hardly recognizable in its absence. All the same, this movement was created to outlast, outlive (and sometimes outfox) its founders.  It was a gift to generations yet to breathe, yet to act, yet to be inspired by the brilliant light cascading down from its participants.

Sitting in a parking lot outside a theater in June 2010, I recall tearfully thanking that first class of Fringers, knowing that past this premiere year, things would never, ever be the same.

To my own joyful discovery, I felt the same every year after the curtains fell, for the Fringe will never be finished; its journey will never be complete. Every year brings forth the new and I am forever surprised by the happy surprises we encountered as each year passed.

There are simply too many to thank in this simple note, so I will simply thank you – the Fringer reading this right now. Thank you for your support, your confidence, your willingness to explore, to challenge, to believe in something greater than yourself. Thank you for being with us on this journey, it’s been all for you all along.

Let’s always celebrate the spirit of 2010 and endeavor to keep this warm community in our hearts; especially when we are miles apart.

I love you all. And I love the Fringe.

Fringe On.

Ben Hill

We are overjoyed to share with you the preliminary numbers from the first ever hybrid Hollywood Fringe Festival.

• The festival sold over 13,900 individual tickets
• The festival sold an estimated $120,000 in tickets this year
• In its eleven year history, Hollywood Fringe has returned over $3.6 million to artists.
• 129 productions participated in this year’s event, mounting 724 performances at 18 spaces throughout central Hollywood, and some West Hollywood locations, not including the many spaces used around the world to livestream in from beyond the zone.
• Of the 724 performances, 381 were digital and 341 were performed for an in-person audience. 
• 531 artists and producers participated in this year’s Hollywood Fringe.

Congratulations to everyone and thank you for being a part of the 11th Annual Hollywood Fringe

The Hollywood Fringe Festival is thrilled to announce the fourteen recipients of the 2021 Artist Fund. Selected by lottery and funded by you, our community. 

We can’t wait to see these stories take to the stage at the 2021 Hollywood Fringe Festival. 

Mayhem of The Music Meister!

I Hear So Extremely Loud

Deconstructing Holly

A Night at the Chicano Rock Opera

Boy Crazy Psycho Slut

Funny Bonz, the Humerus Solution

The Dean’s Office

The Blues

Black Woman in Deep Water 

Gideon and the Blundersnorp

I’m Fine

American Woman

Dirty Chai

The Big Crash

All shows listed applied and were selected by a third-party lottery system. Each of these shows has received free registration and a $550 stipend towards production costs at the 2021 Hollywood Fringe Festival. 

More information about the 2021 Artist Fund here. 

The Hollywood Fringe would like to congratulate the 15 members of the 2021 Fringe Scholarship Program.
After numerous conversations and intense deliberation by our selection committee, faced with an incredibly difficult choice over many qualified applications for this award, we are proud to announce the 2021 Fringe Scholarship winners.

The Winners of the 2021 Fringe Scholarships are:

• 1.5 Korean
• Caught in the Mix
• Cheater
• Diary of a Crackhead
• Estrawbery Fields Forever
• Happily Ever After
• JUNK GIRLS
• Justice? Or…Just Me?: The Bite
• The Dean’s Office
• The Ivory Thread
• The Winner
• TransSetter
• VERSATILE: stories from inside the closet of a half black gay man
• Vice
• Welcome to the Vantage Point, presented by Company of Angels
  

There were additionally four applicants that struck the heart of our committee, and have received honorable mentions: Innocence, Inequity, and Injustice: Ft. 21 Chump St., Late Nite Daze and Margaret Garner solo show.

As an open-access festival, we seek to foster a ground-breaking community of artists and make performances more accessible, both to the artists who produce them and for those who otherwise cannot afford to see theatre. Our committee firmly believes that these productions will enrich audience experience and the quality of the Hollywood Fringe Festival’s artistic offerings through the presentation of unique and underrepresented themes.

Each scholarship recipient will receive free registration and a $550 stipend towards production costs, a Fringe mentor, and marketing and networking opportunities as a member of the Fringe community. Fringe Scholarships are available to first-time Hollywood Fringe producers who contribute to the ethnic, cultural, racial, intellectually or physically disabled, D/deaf, and the LGBTQ+ diversity of the Fringe community.