The Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s 79th-anniversary festival is gearing up! Running from August 7-31, Edinburgh Fringe hosts thousands of shows in Scotland, featuring dozens of performers and shows from Hollywood Fringe that have made the leap across the pond. Check out the 31 shows directly from Hollywood Fringe! 

Bean vs The Robots: A Solo Show Musical

Bebé Bebé

Best. Dad. NEVER. 

Betsy and Patty Find Out

Brendan Scannell: The Abyss

Claire Robin: NUN SLUT

Confessions Of A Mulatto Love Child

Couplet: Folk Marry Kill

CVNT

DADDY ISSUES

Delusions and Grandeur

Dinosaurs

Don’t Kill Daisy

F*CKING FAMOUS 

Fool’s Goldmine

Girlfriends

GOOD GIRL

GULP!

I Am Going to Reveal Something Personal About Myself

Justice

Mark Vigeant: OUT THERE

Mike Blaha: Pivotal Nomad

My Life Is a Sonnet

Olivia Raine Atwood: Oops

PATIENT 13

QFWFQ

Searching For Robert Hennessey

Smile: The Charlie Chaplin Story

Supernova

Tenderly: The Life and Times of Nat King Cole

What Happens In the Dark

 

HFF26 Community Awards
voted on by Fringe patrons and community

Top of the Fringe Award: Syrian Soap

Fringe International Award: CVNT

Fringe First for World Premiere: Strange Beings

Fringe Award for Cabaret & Burlesque: DISCO THERAPY

Fringe Award for Clown & Alternative Comedy: CLUB CLOWN

Fringe Award for Comedic Theatre: Mark Vigeant: OUT THERE

Fringe Award for Comedy & Variety Acts: Wet Hot AMUSICAL Summer

Fringe Award for Dance & Physical Theatre: Trickster

Fringe Award for Dramatic Theatre: Paper Flowers

Fringe Award for Immersive & Games: The Council of Elrond: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Extended Editon: Part 4

Fringe Award for Musicals & Operas: Enormous Things: The Musical

Fringe Award for Solo Theatre: Grief Box

 

HFF26 Discover Fringe Awards
presented by organizations outside of the festival

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

Mark Vigeant: OUT THERE

 

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

They Tend To Themselves: A Choreopoem

 

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

They Tend To Themselves: A Choreopoem

 

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

Reservoir Dolls: The Whole Bloody Affair

 

International Fringe Encore Series 2026 “Hollywood Prize", presented by SoHo Playhouse: 

Jimi Darkness: Alcoholic Superhero

 

New York City Pivot Award, presented by LA Hidden Gems:

Rosie’s Turn

 

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

Body as an Archive

 

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

D.A.F.U.Q. – DATING ADVICE FOR USELESS QUEERS

 

The DSP Medal of Valor, presented by Drew Spears Productions:

Comics Reading Comics

 

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

2026 Salem Witch Trial

 

The Hitmaker Comedy Award, presented by The H.I.T. Comedy Theater:

Lustily Ever After: The Musical

 

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

1st – Sarah Grochala for S-27

2nd – Taylor Gates for Unbridled

3rd – Jessica Marie Fisher for Playback

 

The Planners’ Pick, presented by Theatre Planners:

Sage Center

 

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

Little Chaos

 

The Screamiest, presented by Midsummer Scream:

SOMETHING SPOOKY

 

The StageCrafts Freeway Circuit Award, presented by The StageCrafts:

My One Woman Show (The Search for a Truthful Moment)

 

The StageCrafts Seasonal MiniFest Award, presented by The StageCrafts:

MythicFest

Strange Beings

 

SpookyFest 

SOMETHING SPOOKY

 

FrostyFest 

Roast Your Chestnuts

 

SleuthFest

Dead Man

 

BardFest

JESTER!

 

Once Upon a Stage

Pining in the Prickly Pear Patch

 

The Take the Stage Award, presented by Theatre 68 Arts Festival / Theatre 68 Arts Complex:

I am not a Spy. This is a Magic Show.

 

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

A Revenge on Reality

 

 

HFF26 Community Award Nominees
voted on by Fringe patrons and community

Top of the Fringe Award:

Strange Beings

Brendan Scannell: The Abyss

Syrian Soap

HYSTERICAL

Enormous Things: The Musical

Paper Flowers

 

Fringe International Award: 

PARIS + JULIET

Nun Slut

CVNT

Tenderly: The Life & Times of Nat King Cole

THE SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELLED (DUE TO THE END OF THE WORLD)

 

Fringe First for World Premiere:

Frank Sriracha: Home is Where the Stage Is

On the Line

The Men Who Drew The Universe

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

Strange Beings

Bebé Bebé

 

Fringe Award for Cabaret & Burlesque:

DISCO THERAPY

Lady Satan

Diane Diane! The Parole of a Lifetime

Straitjacket Sirens

The Jewel Box Cabaret

 

Fringe Award for Clown & Alternative Comedy: 

F*cking Famous

HYSTERICAL

Bebé Bebé

CLUB CLOWN

Syrian Soap

 

Fringe Award for Comedic Theatre: 

Vote for Tom Ryan: One Last Time!

She’s So Special

COFFEE DATE

Homecoming: A Darkly Funny Tale About Losing My Mom and Finding Myself… Again

Mark Vigeant: OUT THERE

 

Fringe Award for Comedy & Variety Acts:

Emotional Alpha

Wet Hot AMUSICAL Summer

Couplet: Folk Marry Kill

The Great Marzini

Reservoir Dolls: The Whole Bloody Affair

 

Fringe Award for Dance & Physical Theatre: 

Trickster

They Tend To Themselves: A Choreopoem

PartyBoy

Morpho Dance Fitness

 

Fringe Award for Dramatic Theatre: 

Three Eulogies for Tyson Miller

On the Line

Strange Beings

Playback

Paper Flowers

 

Fringe Award for Immersive & Games:

Don’t Kill Daisy

The Council of Elrond: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Extended Editon: Part 4

DOLL COURT

RADICAL ACTS with Ramón: Tomfoolery, Grief and Whimsy

 

Fringe Award for Musicals & Operas:

NILBOG! the Troll 2 musical

Lustily Ever After: The Musical

Enormous Things: The Musical

The Unofficial ‘Meet the Robinsons’ Musical Parody

ANXIETY THE MUSICAL! (do you like that title? is that okay?)

 

Fringe Award for Solo Theatre:

My One Woman Show (The Search for a Truthful Moment)

Brendan Scannell: The Abyss

Only Child Syndrome

Grief Box

Bellingham Bay

Show Me Your Dick: A lifetime of dating in larger body

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

Body as an Archive

 

HFF26 Discover Fringe Award Nominees
presented by organizations outside of the festival

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

Brendan Scannell: The Abyss

Syrian Soap

HYSTERICAL

Mark Vigeant: OUT THERE

Couplet: Folk Marry Kill

I am not a Spy. This is a Magic Show.

Cell: A Duologue

 

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

They Tend To Themselves: A Choreopoem

Goody

Grief Box

Gil Scott-Heron Bluesology

Bellingham Bay

 

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

Body as an Archive

They Tend To Themselves: A Choreopoem

Paper Flowers

Ritual Music to Cure a Lover

Somos Aire

Between Two Worlds: I Wasn’t Cancelled..Just Confused (Chronicles of The Not Deaf Enough Girl)

 

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

Bebé Bebé

They Tend To Themselves: A Choreopoem

ANXIETY THE MUSICAL! (do you like that title? is that okay?)

Reservoir Dolls: The Whole Bloody Affair

Dinosaurs

Big Maestro & Little Cello Boy

 

International Fringe Encore Series 2026 “Hollywood Prize", presented by SoHo Playhouse: 

My One Woman Show (The Search for a Truthful Moment)

Couplet: Folk Marry Kill

Strange Beings

Jimi Darkness: Alcoholic Superhero

They Tend To Themselves: A Choreopoem

 

New York City Pivot Award, presented by LA Hidden Gems:

Rosie’s Brain

The Seven Year Bitch

Lesion Lady

Rosie’s Turn

I Suck: A Vampire Comedy

ANXIETY THE MUSICAL! (do you like that title? is that okay?)

 

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

Day After Day (the Life and Music of Doris Day) 

There’s Something Seriously Wrong With Cyrus: How I Went From A Hot Mess To A Hot Bitch 

ANXIETY THE MUSICAL! (do you like that title? is that okay?)

Dead Man

In Search of Black People

Body as an Archive

Hollywood Chola

Alpha Nation

 

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

D.A.F.U.Q. – DATING ADVICE FOR USELESS QUEERS

The Great Marzini

Animal Instincts

SHOGUN

The Last Palestinian

Dean Evans: My Finest Work 

 

The DSP Medal of Valor, presented by Drew Spears Productions:

Test Pilots

F*cking Famous

Comics Reading Comics

Brendan Scannell: The Abyss

Don’t ask Don’t tell 

 

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

2026 Salem Witch Trial

RADICAL ACTS with Ramón: Tomfoolery, Grief and Whimsy

Body as an Archive

Tommy Cooper’s Fez

Bellyful

Bebé Bebé

 

The Hitmaker Comedy Award, presented by The H.I.T. Comedy Theater:

Trauma Bondage

Lustily Ever After: The Musical

Sam Ditto: I Quit!

Barbie Smith: God’s Favorite Tease

ANXIETY THE MUSICAL! (do you like that title? is that okay?)

 

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

Kellie Pleshinger for Ghosttown

Ruby Marker for Hot Yoga

Jessica Marie Fisher for Playback

Sydney Rene Cox for Please Don’t Freak Out

Sarah Grochala for S-27

Penina Beede for Slack Off

Dana Schwartz for The Bomb

Taylor Gates for Unbridled

 

The Planners’ Pick, presented by Theatre Planners:

Body as an Archive

Letter from David

Sage Center

Sister Wivez

White Lilies

MPAT’s Burt Thunders Presents: The First Annual Fundraiser to Save The Whales

NEO

 

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

Little Chaos

Strange Beings

Cell: A Duologue

Jeremy Worried About the Wind

Lustily Ever After: The Musical

 

The Screamiest, presented by Midsummer Scream:

I Suck: A Vampire Comedy

NILBOG! the Troll 2 musical

No One But Me, My Dear…

On the Line

SOMETHING SPOOKY

DEAD JOHN (Rock ’n Roll Until We Die)

 

The StageCrafts Freeway Circuit Award, presented by The StageCrafts:

Glossolalia

Homecoming: A Darkly Funny Tale About Losing My Mom and Finding Myself… Again 

My One Woman Show (The Search for a Truthful Moment)

Another Distraction from the Epstein Files

Hold That Thought While I Scream

 

The StageCrafts Seasonal MiniFest Award, presented by The StageCrafts:

MythicFest

Strange Beings

The Council of Elrond: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Extended Edition: Part 4

Enormous Things: The Musical

The Men Who Drew The Universe

Trench

 

SpookyFest 

DEAD JOHN (Rock ’n Roll Until We Die)

2026 Salem Witch Trial

Hot Yoga

HYSTERICAL

SOMETHING SPOOKY

 

FrostyFest 

Roast Your Chestnuts

Happy! Merry! Joyous!: Inside the Mind of a Caroler 

 

SleuthFest

Dead Man

On the Line

Black Bag Job

Murder Podcast: The Musical 

Comics Reading Comics

 

BardFest

Lady M

JESTER!

Get Thee to a Beanery: A Hamlet Coffeeshop AU

Paris + Juliet

Arden of Faversham

 

Once Upon a Stage

Jeremy Worried About the Wind

Wendy in Neverwood

Gulp!

Pining in the Prickly Pear Patch

Vote for Tom Ryan: One Last Time! 

 

The Take the Stage Award, presented by Theatre 68 Arts Festival / Theatre 68 Arts Complex:

Body as an Archive

NEO

Between Two Worlds: I Wasn’t Cancelled..Just Confused (Chronicles of The Not Deaf Enough Girl)

Cirque Lunaire: a puppet debacle

Frank Sriacha: Home is where the stage is

I am not a Spy. This is a Magic Show.

MaMa Does Dada: Absurdist Theatre

On The Line

Reservoir Dolls : The Whole Bloody Affair

SOMETHING SPOOKY

The Mary & Margo Art Experience

 

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

A Revenge on Reality

ARGUMENTS!

In The Beginning

Jackie, Baby!

NEO

 

25% of all Hollywood Fringe individual fundraising goes into the “Artist Fund” pool to fund individual productions from low-income Angelenos at the festival. 

The following productions were selected by random lottery, and will receive a one-time stipend toward registration, venue, and/or production costs at the 2026 Hollywood Fringe Festival.

Alps, Adieu!

Cell: A Duologue

Dean Evans: My Finest Work

Failure to Thrive

Ghost Train

S-27

I. We. Us.

Maybe It’s You

Moyamoya Baby: A Trilogy of Strokes, Blood Flow, and F*ckboys

Reservoir Dolls: The Whole Bloody Affair

Sack of Nerves

Strange Beings

The Trick and “The Pearl”

To make your Existence Easier

Thanks to the generous contributions by the Commissioners Club members, we were able to distribute $3,000 more than ever before!

Want to help us make more indie artists’ dreams come true in 2027? Contribute to the Artist Fund today via a Commissioners Club membership to help us get a head start on next year’s goal!

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.