FRIGID New York (formerly the Horse Trade Theater Group) was founded in 1998 in the East Village neighborhood of

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. It is located at 85 East 4th Street between Second Avenue and The

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. 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 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 presented by the

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. 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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