You (or one of your friends) can be the head graphic designer for the 2015 Hollywood Fringe Festival! All you have to do is enter our design contest.

Click here to navigate directly to the contest page.

Dates of the Contest

You can start submitting your designs for the qualifying round starting Monday, February 23rd. To ensure your design is eligible for the final round, make sure we receive your concept by the end of the day on Thursday, February 26th. 

What We Want You to Design

Every year, we produce a printed guide of all the shows produced at our festival. This contest is centered around the GUIDE COVER IMAGE; the seminal representation of the 2015 festival.

Here are the guides from our first five years:

2014 Guide
2013 Guide
2012 Guide
2011 Guide
2010 Guide

Generally, the cover image includes our mascots – “the freaks”. The five main freaks are included on the cover of the 2012 & 2013 Guides. The “look” of these freaks should be adapted to fit the your unique aesthetic so feel free to play into your comfort zone (see the links above for examples of previous adaptations).

The winner of this contest is immediately eligible for additional work finishing off the rest of the guide design. See below for more info.

The Big Prize

The winner of the contest will receive $799 (minus the commission taken by 99Designs) and be eligible for more money to finish off the guide, produce the button and complete other branding needs. Anyone can participate, they just need to create a (free) account on 99Designs.com.

We’d also adapt the images above to be used as print and online ads.

Other Info

Our team has lots of experience working with designers and we have in-house adobe suite experts, so we won’t be constantly going to you for minor updates.

We are ready to answer your questions, so feel free to communicate at will. Just email us at [email protected].

Thanks for your interest and we look forward to your submissions!

• Town Hall I: Registration & Next Steps; Saturday, February 7th, 12-2 PM at Hudson Theatres 

• Workshop I: Ask a Venue; Sunday, February 15th, 4-6 PM at Theatre Asylum 

• Workshop II: Money & Promotion; Saturday, March 21st, 2:30-4:30 PM at Theatre Asylum

• Town Hall II: Marketing; Sunday, April 12th, 4pm-6pm at Dragonfly

• Workshop III: Finishing the Process & Festival Expectations; Saturday, April 18th, 2:30-4:30 PM at Theatre Asylum

• Town Hall III: Ticketing & Festival Prep; Saturday, May 9th, 12-2 PM at Hudson Theatres 
• Workshop IV: How to Tech Your Fringe Show; Saturday, May 16th, 4-6 PM at Theatre Asylum

Some might say that there is no room in the film-centric city of Los Angeles for a thriving, vibrant performing arts scene. That there is no close-knit community of theatre-goers in this city. Some might even say the performing arts are dying.

We’ve got the numbers to prove that these things simply aren’t true.

Some facts about the fifth annual Hollywood Fringe Festival:

• We sold 46,000 tickets this year, which is 11,000 more than in 2013. That’s a 30% growth, people.
• Since our inaugural festival in 2010, ticket sales have increased 170%.
• The festival sold an estimated $389,000 in tickets this year (over $130,000 more than in 2013). The central Fringe organization doesn’t touch a dollar of this money— all $389,000 has been returned to Fringe artists and venues.
• 290 productions participated in this year’s event, securing the Hollywood Fringe’s place as one of the largest open-access arts festivals in the world. During June, nearly 1,500 performances were staged at 64 spaces throughout Hollywood.

Thank you to everyone who took part in this year’s festival!

Here’s a list of this year’s Award Winners— announced just moments ago at the 2014 Award Ceremony! Thank you all for coming and congratulations to the winners!

Fringe Freaks (Community-Voted Awards):

• Top of the Fringe: Women
• Fringe First (World Premiere): NO HOMO – A Bromantic Tragedy
• The International Award: Love Is.
• Best in Ensemble Theatre: NO HOMO – A Bromantic Tragedy
• Best in Solo Performance: The Wake
• Best in Comedy: Women
• Best in Musicals & Operas: Bronies: The Musical
• Best in Dance & Physical Theatre: Into the Fog
• Best in Cabaret & Variety: Fancy: Secrets from My Bootydoir

Sponsored Awards:

• The THIRTY90NE Golden Elephant Awards: Women (Golden Production); Joseph Lee— Vengeance Can Wait & Catherine Waller— The Creeps (Golden Performer); Brandon Baruch— No HOMO- A Bromantic Tragedy (Golden Playwright); Joe Greene, Heidi Powers, Tom Moore, Rebecca Eisenberg and Ryan Bergmann— Bronies: The Musical (Golden Producer/Director)
• BGBA’s Innovative Women in Theatre Award: Sardia Robinson— From a Yardie to a Yankee
• The Imagined Truth Award for First Play: Melanie Thomas— The Cave: A Folk Opera
• Bitter Lemons Award for Family Fare (BLAFF): Beau & Aero
• Bitter Lemons Irreverent Fringe Femmes Award (BLIFF): Women
• Bitter Lemons Outrageous Award for Theater (BLOAT): Belli Gemelli: An Opera Sitcom
• O FACE Award for Orgasmic Achievement of a Performer: Lee Turnbull— Love Is
• O FACE Award for Orgasmic Achievement of a Production: The Wake
• O FACE Award for Orgasmic Achievement of a Writer or Composer: June Carryl— La Bete
• The DOMA Award for New Musical: Lydia Trueblood: The Black Widow of the Atlantic Coast
• The DUENDE Distinction: Into the Fog
• The Lumpy-Cramp© Freshman Participant Award: Beau and Aero
• The Unleashed Award: Star Cross’d
• The LAFPI Most Wanted Award: Schkapf, Theatre of NOTE, iO West, Three Clubs, Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre, Hudson Theatres
• Trailer Park Award: Fancy: Secrets from my Bootydoir
• Veterans for Virgins Award: Beau & Aero
• The Ezra Buzzington Spirit of the Fringe Awards: June Carryl— La Bete (Female Performance); Michael Shaw Fisher— The Werewolves of Hollywood Blvd: A Damnable Rock Musical (Male Performance); Colin Mitchell— Linden Arden Stole the Highlights (Best Writing); Jessica Hanna— No Homo – A Bromantic Tragedy (Best Directing); Ben Moroski— The Wake (Best Production)

The Encore!- Producer’s Awards:

• Theatre Asylum: Friends Like These, Gimplecapped: A Journey of “Inspiration”, Linden Arden Stole the Highlights, Man’s Dominion, Meet & Greet, “The Mermaid Who Learned to Fly”, NO HOMO- A Bromantic Tragedy, Odessa, Reborning, Riot Grrrls Save the World, Schachner Vs Schachner, Seven Seductions of Taylor Swift, The Wake, Into the Fog, Woof Woof
• The Complex: 52 Pick Up, Beau & Arrow, Belli Gemelli – A Opera Sitcom, Boss: The Untold Tony Danza Story, David & Leeman – Magic and Other Dangerous Things, Jackass- A Prom Story, Love Is, Memoirs of a Bartender, Open Mike, Schoolcraft and Murray, Starcross’d, Stumbling Along, Poofy du Vey in “Burden of Proof”, Things Being What They Are
• The Lounge: Bronies: The Musical, I Want To Bury My Testimony, Lincoln Adjacent, Waitless, Independence, La Bete
• The Lex: Zombies From Beyond
• Three Clubs: Fancy: Tales from My Bootydoir, Lydia Trueblood: The Black Widow of the Atlantic Coast, Some Girls(s), The Cave
• Actors Company: Angels and Whiskey, Bonnie’s Future Sisters, Death by Powerpoint, Eddie, Rapture, Ravens and Writing Desks, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Most Massive Woman Wins, Twelfth Night
• Cupcake Theatre: Snow White: the Musical, The Last Five Years, RSVP: RIP, That’s Why I Hold On