THE SCREAMIEST
Sponsored by Midsummer Scream
Description
Midsummer Scream, the world’s largest Halloween and horror convention, will award the Hollywood Fringe show that best represents the spooky spirit of Halloween with THE SCREAMIEST, a physical trophy and boasting rights reserved for the most macabre of creators.
Midsummer Scream returns for its eighth year this August 15-17 to the Long Beach Convention Center.
As a showcase for spooky events and attractions, we love to see emerging talents creating spooky projects each year at Hollywood Fringe.
Past winners include “Final Girl” (2024), “Dr. Zomba’s Ghost Show of Terror” (2018), and “A(Partment 8)” (2017).
Please complete this form to ensure we recommend your show to our jurists for consideration:
https://forms.gle/yRSHxg68jT31vPLn7
Qualifications
The show must feature spooky/scary elements, tones, or themes of the horror variety; supernatural, paranormal, slasher, etc.
Methodology
We invite several reviewers and theatre enthusiasts who have an appreciation for spooky stuff to be on our silent jury. They score each show they see in a few different criteria (overall quality, spookiness, etc.) Jurists scores are counted only if they see a minimum of four shows; shows must have at least four jurist scores to qualify; show with highest score is awarded the Screamiest.
Please complete this form to ensure we recommend your show to our jurists for consideration:
https://forms.gle/yRSHxg68jT31vPLn7
Reward
Winner receives the title of having a show branded The Screamiest, a physical trophy, and the opportunity to stage their production at Midsummer Scream and/or passes for their team to attend the event.
