Auction Links
The New York International Fringe Festival is getting ready to run an online auction fundraiser.
What Have We Been Up To?
In September 2016, we announced that FringeNYC will skip its 2017 festival. Having presented nearly 4,000 productions over the last 20 summers, we needed a year to evaulate and examine how to best serve our artists, audiences and alumni. Over the last year, we've been analyzing 20 years of data and the global Fringe community through the Blank Canvas Project. On August 20th at FringeNYC 20/20: A Vaudeville, we will celebrate the last 20 years of songs, sketches and reciations and announce the future of FringeNYC.
About FringeNYC
In 1997, New York City became the seventh US city to host a fringe festival, joining Seattle, Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Houston, Orlando and San Francisco. FringeNYC has presented over 3000 performing groups representing every continent, prompting Switzerland’s national daily, The New Zurich Zeitung, to declare FringeNYC as “the premiere meeting ground for alternative artists.”
FringeNYC has also been the launching pad for numerous Off-Broadway and Broadway transfers, long-running downtown hits, and regional theater productions including Urinetown, Matt & Ben, Never Swim Alone, The Jammer, Debbie Does Dallas, Dog Sees God, Brandon Teena, Dixie’s Tupperware Party, 21 Dog Years, The Irish Curse, Jurassic Parq, The Fartiste, Silence! The Musical and 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche; movies including WTC View and Armless; and even a TV show (‘da Kink in My Hair).
FringeNYC alumni include Bradley Cooper, Melissa Rauch (Big Bang Theory), Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me, CNN’s Inside Man), Mindy Kaling, Tony Award winner Diane Paulus (Pippin), Alex Timbers (Rocky), Leigh Silverman (Violet), W. Kamau Bell (Totally Biased), Michael Urie (Ugly Betty), Naomi Grossman (American Horror Story) and Chris Lowell (Enlisted), among countless other success stories.
