About the Project
Watch our recording on YouTube!
Tuesday, March 24th, from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
To watch digitally, visit the Hollywood Fringe YouTube channel during or after the event.
Join our panel of Fringe Veterans as we discuss tried, true, and creative ways to market your show at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. We will cover everything from networking, social media, flyers, QR codes, flash mobs, events, ticketing recommendations, and more!
This workshop is followed by a Q&A.
To request live ASL interpretation, please email [email protected] at least 72 hours in advance, and we will provide one.
OUR PANELISTS
MARY BONNEY: (she/her) Mary is a genre-loving producer and former production executive who has worked across shows like Yellowjackets and The Rookie. As VP of Production at digital horror studio Crypt TV, her series amassed over half a billion views. Her work as a line producer includes the Emmy-winning children’s show Tab Time and the NAACP Award-winning docuseries Daring Simone Biles. Her films have screened at SXSW, Tribeca, HollyShorts and more. Alongside her on screen projects, Mary is an active force in musical development through her Maryment Entertainment banner, producing stage and digital productions. She co-wrote, produced, and starred in One Up: The Musical, named Best Musical of the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2025 and recently had its second run at LA’s Madnani Theater. She produced the HFF 2023 Les Millénniables, a Best Musical nominee and an LA Times’ “Pick of Fringe”. Mary wrote and co-starred in the digital musical series Break: The Musical alongside Brian Justin Crum, which won the Indie Series Award for Best Soundtrack and screened at SeriesFest. She is a member of The Television Academy, Women in Film and volunteers with the Foundation of New American Musicals.
Elena Martinez (she/her) is an award-winning storyteller and theater maker who explores the dark comedy of what it means to be alive. She brings over a decade of experience in improv and sketch comedy to the stage underlined by a childhood of classical piano training. Her first solo show, “One Night in Aurora”, debuted at Sketchfest Seattle in 2017 – a musical and stream of consciousness retrospective about love, dreams, and misunderstandings. Elena’s ensemble sketch comedy group, Getting Naked with Friends, performed headlining sets at Seattle Sketchfest in 2016 and 2017. Her duo, Sober Virgin, with Anthony Householder explored the altered perspectives of codependency and addiction in their 2018 show “Short Stories”. Before relocating to Los Angeles, Elena toured her holiday musical parody duo show with Rachel Walls and joined the illustrious cast of beloved Seattle improv show Uncle Mike Ruins Christmas. You can now catch her performing with her house team SICKOS on Harold Night at World’s Greatest Improv School helmed by Will Hines, producing Not Too Shabby weekly at UCB, and all over the world with hit indie improv team Dough Dough. In 2025, she debuted “Funeral Show” at Hollywood Fringe Festival, winning Best in Immersive & Games and propelling her to tour the show in 2026 to Austin, Seattle, and Edinburgh!
Annika Hoseth (she/her) is an LA-based musical theatre writer with a deep love for stories that hold space for life’s messiness while incorporating humor and leaving the audience with a sense of hope. She has a subtle and character-based way of addressing important social issues such as women’s rights to reach viewers who might be turned away by a more preachy tone. Whether it’s a musical about people from all walks of life navigating the first year of the pandemic (It Just Takes Time) or a story about cocktail waitresses grappling with the line between objectification and sexual liberation in 1968 (Kittens), she writes to illuminate how tender, funny, and complicated it is to be human. Since graduating from Pomona College, her writing has been published in journals such as Mini Plays Review: An International Journal of Short Plays and Monologues. Songs from all her three of her full-length musicals have been performed at venues including The Green Room 42, the Lincoln Seligman Theatre, The Catalina Jazz Club and more. Recently, her musical It Just Takes Time received a staged reading through the ELATE theatre company and was featured in a concert by the Foundation for New American Musicals. Last summer, the world premiere of Kittens, received a Stage Takes Top Ten mention and a nomination for Best Musicals & Operas at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. She is excited to be returning to the Hollywood Fringe Festival this year with an unofficial musical adaptation the Disney movie “Meet the Robinsons.”
Emma Irene Olson (she/they) is a queer multidisciplinary performance artist living and working in Los Angeles. Their art explores themes of self, perception, ego, authority, and consciousness while being rooted in love, connection, nature, and play. Following what is fun, they seek to find and create live performance art that connects with an audience and cannot be fully reproduced. Her approach is multi-disciplinary, with written text, original music, improvisation, clowning, audience interaction, and wearable art. Emma Irene has self-produced three solo shows: Astro Cabaret (directed and co-devised by Natasha Mercado), The Faults In My Stars (directed by Justin Gilbert), and Universal and Absolute (directed by Rosie Glen-Lambert). Astro Cabaret, her most recent solo drag musical inspired by her astrological birth chart, premiered at the 2024 Hollywood Fringe Festival to rave reviews and was nominated for Best Cabaret & Variety Show by the Hollywood Fringe Community, as well as the Three Clubs Production Award. Their newest work in progress solo show, Space Company, is a satire exploring the absurdity of corporate culture and an insatiable desire to innovate, grow, and profit as much as humanly possible.
