The Hollywood Fringe would like to congratulate the 13 members of the 2020 Fringe Scholarship Program. This year, the Scholarship Program received over 160 applications, and after numerous conversations and intense deliberation by our selection committee, we are proud to announce the 2020 Fringe Scholarship winners. 

The Winners of the 2020 Fringe Scholarships are:

• Alters in the 5th District
• Caminos: A Mother’s Journey
• From A to Za’atar
• Japanese Love Story – SHIZUKA -静御前
• Literary Creatures
• Mermaid
• Palmares
• Pedro the Puppeteer
• Rotten Apple
• SHADE: A Colorful Musical Comedy
• Ten and a Half
• The Book That Won’t Close- Confessions of a Love Addict
• What’s Been Eating Me

Three applicants that also struck the heart of our committee, and have received honorable mentions are:

• 12 Tasks of Denton and Gonzalez
• Family in a Box
• This Was Never Supposed To Be A One Woman Show

We feel so lucky, as the Fringe community, to have received such quality applications for this program. The decision for this year was truly tough for our committee. We have a sincere hope, that many who have applied for this scholarship will choose to produce as a part of our festival.

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, mentally or physically disabled, or LGBTQ+ diversity of the Fringe community.

We are happy to share with you this year’s Award Winners announced at the 2019 Award Ceremony held at the Ricardo Montalban Theatre! Thank you all for joining us at the ceremony. Congratulations to all the winners!

Fringe Freak (Community-Voted Awards) Winners

Top of the Fringe: The Last Croissant

International: Hide Your Fires: Butoh Lady Macbeth

Fringe First (World Premiere): POCKETS

Cabaret & Variety: blackboxing

Comedy: Olivia Wilde Does Not Survive the Apocalypse

Dance & Physical Theatre: Tattered Capes

Ensemble Theatre: The Last Croissant

Immersive Theatre: Vote for MURDER!

Musicals and Operas: POCKETS

Solo Performance: Mr. Yunioshi

Sponsored Award Winners

2019 Unleashed Award: The Mayor’s Debate of Tranquillity Nebraska 

Aunt Lyla’s Fave Fringe Flyer: Matt The Gathering

Fight the Power Award: Start Swimming

No Room in the Green Room Award: Borracho: Spanish for Drunken Bum

O Face Award for Orgasmic Achievement in Theatre: “Most Orgasmic Performance”: Macy Idzakovich – FLOWER SOCIETY

ShoWorks Don’t Wait. Create! Award: The Duchess & The Stripper

Soaring Solo Artist Award: DEAR JEFF by Callie Ott 

Standout Song Award: “SMELLAY LAHK A TURKAY” Blackboxing

Steve Kent Award: Earth Stories: Our Climate and Our Future

The Diverse Diva Award: SQUEEZE MY CANS by Cathy Schenkelberg

The Golden Key: The Pod

The Inkwell Theater Playwright’s Promise Award “Butcher Holler Here We Come” by Casey Wimpee 

The Outdoor Voices Festival “Conversation Creation” Award: Dear Jeff: A Musical Comedy About Suicide & Domestic Abuse

The Paul Koslo Memorial/MET Theatre Award: A Time Traveler’s Guide To The Present

TPP’s Trope Buster! Blackboxing

After intense deliberation by our selection committee, we are proud to announce the 2019 Fringe Scholarship winners. Each production reflects Hollywood Fringe’s commitment to expand and diversify the pool of artists producing work at the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
 
The Winners of the 2019 Fringe Scholarships are:

• El Hood de Macpuerco
• Mr. Yunioshi
• Naked Man Rising
• Not Here Right Now
• Pho Girl
• Student Voices Anthology
• Sugarfree: Foster Care Cognitive Dissonance
• Supportive White Parents
• Ya Basta: Time’s Been Up 
• The Ride

We’d also like to give some special recognition to our honorable mentions: Corina, From Lapdance to Sundance, Girl from Schenectady, and The London Rose.

Fringe Scholarships provide each recipient with complimentary festival registration, a $550 stipend toward venue and production costs, a Fringe mentor, and marketing and networking opportunities as a member of the Fringe community.

We are happy to share with you this year’s Award Winners announced at the 2018 Award Ceremony held at the Ricardo Montalban Theatre! Thank you all for joining us at the ceremony. Congratulations to all the winners!

Fringe Freaks (Community-Voted Awards)

Top of the Fringe

RESA FANTASTISKT MYSTISK

International

Vixen DeVille ReVealed

Fringe First (World Premiere)

Doctor Nympho VS. The Sex Zombies

Cabaret & Variety

The Craftlesque

Comedy

A Very DIE HARD Christmas

Dance & Physical Theatre

With My Eyes Shut

Ensemble Theatre

Laertes Loves Hamlet Loves Ophelia

Immersive Theatre

UNREAL CITY

Musicals and Operas

Doctor Nympho VS. The Sex Zombies

Solo Performance

The Word

Sponsored Awards:

2Cents Theatre Award for Distinctive Voices (sponsored by 2Cents Theatre Group)

Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

A Little New Music Award for Outstanding Songwriting (sponsored by A Little New Music)

Manson’s Girls

Aunt Lyla’s Fav Fringe Flyer (sponsored by Lyla Karug)

Wounded

Beyond Bechtel-Wallace Award (sponsored by Broads’ Word Ensemble)

Dr. Nympho Vs. The Sex Zombies

Female Director of Distinction in Theater (Sponsored by GirlTrip LLC)

Elizabeth Lanier

Fight the Power Award (Sponsored by A Bench Productions)

Ain’t That America

Larry Cornwall Award for Musical Excellence (sponsored by Shout it Out Promotions LLC)

Wild at Hart

No Room in the Green Room Award (Sponsored by MB Stage Productions, LLC)

Best Buddies: The Hip-Hop Musical

ShoWorks Don’t Wait. Create! Award (Sponsored by ShoWorks Entertainment)

“Gun And A Motel Bible” directed by Alicia LeBlanc

Soaring Solo Artist Award (sponsored by Soaring Solo LLC in association with the Whitefire Theatre)

Vixen Deville Revealed

The 2018 O Face Award for Orgasmic Achievement (sponsored by Orgasmico Theatre Company)

Christian Levatino as G. Gordon Liddy in “Meantime at Hojos”

The Golden Key (sponsored by The Speakeasy Society)

Rochester, 1996, by Capital W.

The Inkwell Playwright’s Promise Award (sponsored by The Inkwell Theatre)

“Fort Huachuca” by Ailema Sousa

The Outdoor Voices Festival “Conversation Creation” Award (sponsored by That’s What She Didn’t Say)

Still

The Ripest Show (sponsored by Cherry Poppins Productions)

The People vs. HellKross

The Screamiest (sponsored by Midsummer Scream)

Dr. Zomba’s Spookshow of Terror

The Steve Kent Award (sponsored by Rough Riders Theatre Company)

The Dangerous Cures of Dr B

The Unleashed Award (sponsored by Theatre Unleashed)

Mackers

The Upcyclers’ Sustainability Award (sponsored by The Zoo Theatre Co.)

Show: Unreal City (Creators: Tiffany Asta / Kristen Boulé)

TPP’s Trope-Buster!

Coasterthon Catastrophe

The LAFPI Most Wanted Award:

2nd Stage
Actors Company
Art of Acting Studio
Assistance League Playhouse
Lounge Theatre
Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre
Studio C
studio/stage
The Broadwater
The New Collective
Theatre of NOTE
Thymele Arts

The Best of Broadwater extensions: A Beast/A Burden, Ain’t That America, Best Buddies: The Hip-Hop Musical, A Familiar Audience – The Best of Inkfest @Fringe, Disasteroid!, Dracula’s Taste Test, Earth & Fire Walking (Tierra Y Fuego Que Camina), Easy Targets: Artists and Heroes, Echoes, Jane Austen’s Emma Frankenstein, Laertes Loves Hamlet Loves Ophelia, Nobody’s Really Helped Me, Resa Fantastiskt Mystisk, Rimbatubes, Skin Jobs, The Autism Mamalogues, The Day I Became Black, The Joe & Joshua Show! (2018 Edition), The Runaway Clone, The Woman is Perfected, We Are Traffic, Yarn

Encore extensions:

Aeriform Arts: Dorothy & Alice

Actors Company: A Piece of Work, Anxiety Written, Benevolence, Cowboy Mouth, Daddy Issues: A One-Way Ticket from Daughter to Darkness, I DIED TODAY, Maron Doll. New Kid on the Block, Public Comment, a New Musical, Strong. The Oz Monologues

Los Angeles LGBT Center: Dr, Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The Complex Baby Boy, Blackballed, Dr. Zomba’s Ghost Show of Terror, Drunk Bible Stories, Hercules Insane, Hollywood Minstrel Show, I Can Hear You Now, Lady Farts, Matthew Marcum: Pollack A Frequency Parable, Meantime @ HoJo’s, Ronnie Brixton: The Best of British Boxing, Sam Shaber: Life, Death & Duran Duran, Still…inspired by 444, The Book I’m Going to Write, The Color Collective, The Rental, The Study, The Universe (101)

3 CLUBS: Jack Benny (A Ménage En Train), Lorelei: I’m Coming Out, Othello & Otis, Shakes on the Rocks, STAGES: Girl Meets Boy, Boy Meets Boy, Girl Meets Drink, The Bitch is Back, The Craftlesque, The People Vs Hell Kross, The Word, White People Drinking

STUDIO / STAGE: 19 Years Later: A Surprisingly Dark Satire of Witchcraft and Wizardry, From Toilet to Tinseltown, Hungry Bitch , PLAY ON! A Musical Romp with Shakespeare’s Heroines, THE HIGH CAPTAIN, A Very Die Hard Christmas, Final Preparations, God: The Apologies Tour, Love, Locs & Liberation, Met Again, My Mom Died When I Was 14 (A Comedy), SURVIVAL CHECK, The Women of, Lockerbie, Buzz’d Out Live!, Jake and the Angel, With My Eyes Shut

Actors Company: A Piece of Work, Anxiety Written, Benevolence, Cowboy Mouth, Daddy Issues: A One-Way Ticket from Daughter to Darkness, I DIED TODAY, Maron Doll, New Kid on the Block, Public Comment, a New Musical, Strong., The Oz Monologues

NEW COLLECTIVE: Because Of You, Here’s To You

ASYLUM: Alexa, turn off heartbreak, Baba, Jee (Father, Yes), Black When I Was A Boy, Coasterthon Catastrophe, First Dates, Fresh Meat, Houses Without Walls, Ingersol Speaks, KEEPING UP WITH THE PROSOROVS, Last Christmas, Let There Be Thistles, Pervert, Psychodelicate’s magical mystery comedy show, Rayn, Reality Star, Sink or Swim, The Complete Works of Julia Roberts:a parody musical, The Elevator (Working Title), The Importance of Being Oscar, The Other Side of the Razor Ribbon, The Sower (He Who Hath Ears), Villain, What I Want To Say To You, WNTMTSUSK

Fringe Runway Awards: First Place— Cowboy Mouth, Second Place— The Upcyclers Green Theater Workshop, Third Place— A Beast/A Burden, Runner up— Dorothy & Alice

After intense deliberation by our selection committee, we are proud to announce the 2018 Fringe Scholarship winners. Each production reflects Hollywood Fringe’s commitment to expand and diversify the pool of artists producing work at the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
 
The Winners of the 2018 Fringe Scholarships are:

• Baba, Jee (Father, Yes)
• Unapologetically Black
• Trafficked 2.0
• Paisajes Marinos Con Tiburones y bailarines
• Love, Locs & Liberation
• I Came To Make Noise
• House of Tales
• A Mile in My Shoes
• The Goddesses Guide: Adura for the Women of African Diaspora
• Shilo Kloko

Fringe Scholarships provide each recipient with complimentary festival registration, a $550 stipend toward venue and production costs, a Fringe mentor, and marketing and networking opportunities as a member of the Fringe community.