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Meet our New Publicity Manager

My name is Brittany Gash and I am in love with words. (I am also the new Publicity Manager for Hollywood Fringe Festival, but I’ll get to that later.) I’m in love with how we use words to describe things and communicate our feelings. I’m also intrigued by the many ways in which we choose to ditch our words and use other methods to communicate. Some people dance, paint, act, or make music. My art is communication. I love the magic of composing a sentence or phrase that will inspire, inform, motiv...

Winners of HFF16 Fringe Scholarships

We’re proud to announce the winners of the 2016 Fringe Scholarships:...

Meet the New Fringe Bar Manager, Bradley Pierce!

Q: How did you get involved with the Hollywood Fringe Festival and what made you want to stick around?A: I first experienced the awesomeness of Fringe during the Opening Night Party of 2016. I was attending as a guest of the incompararable Bella Luna (Fringe’s Cabaret Director). We had arrived early and through some sort of cosmic alignment I was able to get behind the bar and help out. I found a groove quickly and really enjoyed my time there that night. It turned out to be the first night of several th...

Volunteer Director Stina Pederson Takes on Fringe Central Front of House Duties

My husband, Brendan, and I moved to L.A. in the fall of 2010 to pursue our dreams of acting and writing, respectively. We first heard of Fringe midway through June the following year. We were dead broke, like so ma...

Meet Fringe Central Scenic Designer David Offner

For the past three years, I have taken an almost empty space, and turned it into a place for socializing, drinking, networking and anything in between. Hi, I am David Offner, and I am the scenic designer for Fringe Central. ...

Meet Fringe Central Lighting Designer Brandon Baruch

Hiya, I’m Brandon Baruch. I’m a playwright and a lighting designer specializing in experimental theater, opera, and dance. I’m also the guy who designed the lights for Fringe Central. <p dir=“ltr” styl...

Embracing the Fringe: Resigning Publicity Manager Brittany Gash's Farewell to HFF

Embracing the FringeI have never been the cool kid or the popular one – the girl that everyone wants to be like and hang out with.  Don’t get me wrong. I’m super rad aweso...

The HFF17 Interns: Bridget Driscoll

This is the first installment of a series of blog posts written by the HFF17 interns. Our yearly group of interns are an essential part of our festival team and this year’s bunch was absolutely outstanding. We owe them our deepest gratitude. *Upon graduating from college, your world is turned completely upside down almost immediately. The structured class schedule and being steeped non-stop in your studies and peer group requires some serious transitioning out of. This was the...

The HFF17 Interns: Rachael Garcia

 The newest installment of our intern series comes from HFF17 FringeTV Intern Rachael Garcia. <p...

The HFF17 Interns: Effy Yizhou Yang

The second-to-last installment in our intern series comes from Effy Yizhou Yang, HFF17 Set Design Intern. I consider myself really lucky to be able to participate in the Fringe internship program. There are not many programs out there that has specific intern categories, such as Fringe TV, Volunteering Organization, Set Design, etc. Those specific categories allow the interns to focus on tasks that they are actually interested in and develop skills accordingly.For example, not only...