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Meet Fringe Central Lighting Designer Brandon Baruch

June 23, 2017 by Stacy Jones Hill

Hiya, I’m Brandon Baruch. I’m a playwright and a lighting designer specializing in experimental theater, opera, and dance. I’m also the guy who designed the lights for Fringe Central.<... read more

Cecily by Gillian Plowman comes to the Hollywood Fringe

April 15, 2014

MEDIA CONTACT: Christina Ogunade Email: [email protected] Phone: 818-497-3726 FOR IMMEADIATE RELEASE LOS ANGELES, CA – Cecily is a play written by Gillian Plowman. It ... read more

HFF21 Awards Winners

August 29, 2021 by Bella Luna

Congratulations to everyone and thank you for being a part of the 11th Annual Hollywood Fringe Commu... read more

HFF25: Your Fringe Show & Tech

April 07, 2025 by Rody Villegas

Hi Everyone!  This Blog post is a reminder about what to expect for your tech day(s) with the Hollywood Fringe festival while also serving as a recap of our most recent Workshop: HFF25 Workshop #6: What I wish I Knew Going into Tech If you'd like to see the presentation used in the workshop, the link to that is ... read more

The Hollywood Fringe Festival

June 07, 2010 by Ben Hill

HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL Featuring new and experimental work by hundreds of artists PREMIERES JUNE 17-27, 2010 “(Hollywood Fringe) envisions a model in which Los Angeles theatre succeeds without having to be a feeding ground for New York.R... read more

ECHO PARK’S ESCALATOR HILL, 5 PIECE AMERICANA INDIE ROCK BAND SCHEDULED TO PERFORM AT THE FIRST ANNUAL HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL JUNE 17 AND JUNE 19, 2010

June 07, 2010

June 7, 2010—Escalator Hill, 5 piece Americana Indie Rock band from Echo Park is scheduled to perform at the first annual Hollywood Fringe Festival Thursday, June 17th from 11 p.m.-12 a.m. at the Paul Gleason Theater and Saturday, June 19th from 6:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m. at the Egyptian Theater Outdoor Courtyard. With two of it’s members hailing from the late LA pop rock group, You Me and Iowa,... read more

USAFF Website Launched

January 13, 2010 by Ben Hill

We are excited to announce the launch of a newly minted website from the United States Association of Fringe Festivals (USAFF): An alliance of US Fringes. One of these days, our schedules will allow us to attend (and maybe even host) one of the USAFF annual conferences. This last year’s conference was held in Orlando and hosted by the l... read more

Timelines for Fringe 2011

September 28, 2010 by Ben Hill

We have just under nine months until the second Hollywood Fringe Festival. Believe it or not, planning hasn’t stopped since we closed up Fringe Central on June 27. With ever ambitious plans for the next several years, there is simply no time to rest. We have received several communications from those of you planning your summers, so let’s clear up some key dates so you can m... read more

HerSheMe presented by Theatre Roscius

April 15, 2013

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE HerSheMe Best of Hollywood Fringe July 12th-July 20th Monday, July 1st, 2013 Theatre Roscius presents The World Premiere of HerSheMe Created by Memory Willis & Constance Strickland, Directed by Fulya Diner, Movement Coordinated by Constance Stri... read more

Hot New Entrepreneurial Content Creator Banks on Branding

April 30, 2013

They call her Peppur, The “Hot” One…and that’s because she is. A brilliant, satirical writer; a budding director, dynamic actor and tenacious producer, Peppur Chambers continually proves she has the chops to write, direct and produce her savvy creativity into something gorgeous. By incorporating a marketing approach to her content, she’s developed into an entrepreneurial brand builder aka “The H... read more

HFF17 Brand Design Contest *EXTENDED*

February 16, 2017 by Stacy Jones Hill

*THE CONTEST HAS BEEN EXTENDED--SUBMISSIONS NOW DUE BY NOON 2/24* We would like to invite our Fringe community to design the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival guide cover, which will be distributed throughout L.A. county. Submit your design ideas anytime between Wednesday, February 15th and Monday, February 20th by Noon, to be included in the qualifying round. To learn more, visit our ... read more

A comedic cage match pitting race against class.

June 06, 2010

For Immediate Release: That’s funny. You didn’t sound black on the phone. at the Hollywood Fringe Festival A comedic cage match pitting race against class. Media Contact: Jacquetta Szathmari [email protected] Hollywood, CA (June 6, 2010): NYC-based comedian and screenwriter Jacquetta Szathmari presents That’s funny. You didn’t sound black o... read more

Let's Fringe! Last of Sneak Peeks by Cindy Marie Jenkins

June 09, 2013

I had no idea what to expect from White Hot based on my interview with some of the team. They also invited me to their final dress rehearsal, so I saw The Vagrancy load into the space and heard some of the last-minute shenanigans that come with 15 minutes of in-space preparation – ah, Fringe! As much as I love a few black chairs and blocks on a Fringe set, I also appreciate companies that... read more

Staff Spotlight: Development Director Kan Mattoo

February 26, 2013 by Rachel Stoll Armstrong

Who are you, how’d you get into the Fringe, and why should we care? I’m Kan Mattoo and I’m the Development Director for the Hollywood Fringe. I’ve known Ben Hill and Dave McKeever since college, back when they were li... read more

“LIVES OF OUR TIMES” BRINGS DANCE AND (FAR) BEYOND TO THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL

April 20, 2011

WHAT: The world premiere of “Lives of Our Times” at the Hollywood Fringe Festival: two one-act Dance/Theater works united by dissolved boundaries of time and space. Act I, “Rockaway Beach, or so I Recall," is a highly-personal, maybe-true tale of 1960s summers, and more, while Act II, ... read more