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FRIGID New York (formerly the Horse Trade Theater Group) was founded in 1998 in the
East Village neighborhood of
Manhattan
Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...
,
New York City
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. It is located at 85
East 4th Street between
Second Avenue and The
Bowery
The Bowery () is a street and neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City. The street runs from Chatham Square at Park Row, Worth Street, and Mott Street in the south to Cooper Square at 4th Street in the north.Jackson, Kenneth L. "B ...
. The two theaters in the group are the Kraine Theater and UNDER St. Marks. These theaters are the artistic homes to the many
Off-Off Broadway
Off-off-Broadway theaters are smaller New York City theaters than Broadway and off-Broadway theaters, and usually have fewer than 100 seats. The off-off-Broadway movement began in 1958 as part of a response to perceived commercialism of the prof ...
theatre artists involved with FRIGID as resident artists and guest artists.
In 2015, the Horse Trade Theater Group/Fire This Time Festival won the Obie Grant at the
Obie Awards
The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards originally given by ''The Village Voice'' newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City. In September 2014, the awards were jointly presented and administered with the A ...
presented by the
American Theater Wing
The American Theatre Wing (the Wing for short) is a New York City–based non-profit organization "dedicated to supporting excellence and education in theatre", according to its mission statement. Originally known as the Stage Women's War Relief ...
.
FRIGID New York is home to a number of yearly festivals including the Fire This Time Festival, the
FRIGID New York Fringe Festival
The FRIGID New York Fringe Festival or FrigidFest is an open and uncensored fringe theatre festival founded in March 2007 jointly by New York's Horse Trade Theater Group and San Francisco’s EXIT Theatre. The first year 29 theatre companies ( ...
, Estrogenius, Queerly, the Little Shakespeare Festival, Days of the Dead, the Gotham Storytelling Festival, FunnYmmigrants, and Burlesque Blitz.
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Off-Off-Broadway
Theatres in Manhattan
1988 establishments in New York City
East Village, Manhattan