After intense deliberation by our selection committee, we are proud to announce the 2017 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 2017 Fringe Scholarships are:

• Do You: Migration of the Monarchs
• Blamed: An Established Fiction
• Chatter
• La Casa de Bernarda Alba
• MexiKhan: Growing Up Mexican and Pakistani in America
• Hey Hollywood, My Hustle Has ADHD 
• Secret Identity Crisis
• Supa’Nova
• Unspoken: Shakespeare’s Personae in Peril
• Who You Calling A Bitch?!?

Fringe Scholarships provide each recipient with complimentary festival registration, three performances at a Hollywood Fringe Scholarship venue, a Fringe mentor, and marketing and networking opportunities as a member of the Fringe community.
 
This scholarship is partially funded through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The expansion of this program is also due in large part to the generosity of the Fringe Scholarship Venues: Complex Theatres, Lounge Theatre, Sacred Fools Theater, Studio/Stage and Theatre Asylum.

For more information visit www.hollywoodfringe.org/scholarships.

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 contest link.

The winner will receive a $550 cash prize for their winning design. Additionally, the winner is eligible for a bonus cash prize of $500 to design the category headings for various disciplines and the official Fringe Button – the pin fringe-goers sport as they see shows around Hollywood. Participation is open to everyone. To get started, create a (free) account on 99Designs.com.

 Feel free to share the contest with friends! 

We are looking for smart, motivated individuals to help the Fringe staff mount the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival. It’s a big job but it’s also a very rewarding one. Some of our past interns have even moved on to become Fringe staff. 

The following positions are available: Fringe Central Set Design Intern, Fringe Events Intern, FringeTV Production Intern, and Fringe Volunteer Intern.

If you are interested in an internship with the Hollywood Fringe Festival, please review the four available positions here and submit a cover letter and resume to [email protected]. Please specify which position(s) you are applying for in your cover letter. Deadline to apply April 1st.

Every year we host a series of Twitter Chats in order for Fringers to meet and mingle online before the festival begins. It’s a great way to recruit audiences and make #fringeships long before June. You’ll get to tweet about how the process is going for you as well as the opportunity to chat with Fringe staff members.

This year we’ll be hosting the Twitter Chats at the following times:

• February 27th (Mon), 7:00pm-8:00pm PDT
• March 13th (Mon), 2:00pm-3:00pm PDT
• March 27th (Mon), 7:00pm-8:00pm PDT
• April 10th (Mon), 2:00pm-3:00pm PDT
• April 25th (Tues), 7:00pm-8:00pm PDT
• May 8th (Mon), 2:00pm-3:00pm PDT
• May 22nd (Mon), 7:00pm-8:00pm PDT

All you have to do to join the discussion is use the hashtag #hff17. The chat will be moderated by Communications Director Stacy Jones Hill on the @HollywoodFringe account. Can’t make the time but still want to participate? All you have to do is schedule a tweet or two using one of the many available Twitter clients.

Twitter Tips:

• You can only use 140 characters (including spaces and punctuation) in every tweet so brevity is key.
• To say something publicly to someone, you can type their Twitter handle into your message (anything that has an “@” before it is someone’s Twitter handle/user name). Other Twitter users will be able to see these messages.
• To say something privately to someone, you can send them a Direct Message (they will have to be “following” you first).
• To take part in the Fringe conversation, include the hashtag #hff17 in your tweets. You can also search the same hashtag to see what other Fringers are saying.
• Don’t spam people on Twitter. Use it thoughtfully. Post pictures of your rehearsal process, links to your fundraising page, ask people questions about their own production, but DO NOT send the same message fifty times to every Twitter handle you can find. This will directly oppose any goals you may have to make friends.
• Posting a . before an @ helps tweets show up on your feed. For example, if you said “ @hollywoodfringe is super cool", only users that follow both you and @hollywoodfringe will see the tweet. If you instead write " . @hollywoodfringe is super cool " (note the period at the beginning), everyone will see.

Registration is now open and we are happy to announce the creation of a new category: Immersive Theatre. This category may include any kind of performance that thrusts the audience member into an interactive experience in a non-traditional environment. We added this category due to an increased interest in these types of productions by patrons and producers alike.

The Immersive Theatre category will join the ranks of Cabaret & Variety, Comedy, Dance & Physical Theatre, Ensemble Theatre, Events & Workshops, Musicals & Opera and Solo Performance. When registering, producers must select one category. At the end of the festival, the community will vote for their favorite shows within each category. 

If you have questions about the new category, feel free to contact us at [email protected].