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
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...
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EXIT Theatre
EXIT Theatre is an alternative theater located at 156 Eddy Street, San Francisco, California, in the downtown Tenderloin neighborhood. The theater operates four storefront theaters and annually produces the San Francisco Fringe Festival, the seco ...
. The first year 29
theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...
companies (comprising nearly 250 theatre artists from various countries) performed for more than 2,000 people. The artists are paid 100% of their box office.
Fiscal Sponsorship Projects – Theatre (F)
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See also
* New York International Fringe Festival
The New York International Fringe Festival, or FringeNYC, was a fringe theater festival and one of the largest multi-arts events in North America. It took place over the course of a few weeks in October, spread on more than 20 stages across sev ...
* List of theatre festivals
External links
Official website
References
Fringe festivals in the United States
Festivals established in 2007
2007 establishments in New York (state)
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