Artists

The 10' Fringe Festival runs July 8-25 - we are happy to welcome 134 groups this year - and nearly 2,000 individual artists!

If you are interested in being a part of Fringe. Look for applications for the 2011 Fringe Festival this coming October.

HOST A FRINGE ARTIST

Every year, Capital Fringe welcomes out-of-town performers from across the nation to Mexico to New York to Albuquerque and all points in between. Fringe artists generally don’t have a lot of extra money for hotels, so we are asking you to volunteer to host a Fringe Artist in our city. We have dozens of people to find housing for-and none of them are picky. So even if you just have a living room floor to offer, we might just take it.

The 2010 festival takes place July 8 through July 25, 2010. Most artists start arriving in DC on or around July 5.

Fill out Host a Fringe Artist Form!

 

What is the Capital Fringe Festival?

The Capital Fringe Festival is a self-producing festival, where established and emerging artists can present their work free of a selection process. For some of you applying it may be a once-a-year opportunity, and for others, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create, produce and perform a show. For more established companies/artists, this can be an opportunity to take a new risk and join the Fringe movement. We strive to encourage Artists in our Festival to give expression to their talents and develop their artistic freedom: without any curatorial barriers between their work and the audience. We want to empower the artists in our Festival to continue on as successful, independent producers.

How does Festival work?

The Fringe staff arranges space, funding, training programs, marketing and community engagement. Artists apply for participation, and as many as possible are selected - first-come first-serve - to present their work in the annual Festival. Those who are not immediately accepted are placed on a waiting list and notified of their acceptance if space becomes available.

Capital Fringe has consistently guaranteed and given - on average - 70% of the ticket revenue back to the Artists in each of its first four years. Most Fringe artists are scheduled for five performances. In 2009, each artist in our Festival received an average of $1,400 in ticket revenue with some performers receiving up to $5,000 for their five-show run.

Artists are asked to describe the sort of venue they would prefer for producing their show in the Fringe (stage size, technical requirements, etc.). Capital Fringe tries to make sure each show is assigned the venue that best fits what is requested. Space is limited - we can’t always give a best-case scenario to our artists, but we work hard to come as close as we can. Fringe staff compiles and reviews all applications from January to February. Artists/companies are notified in mid to late March about acceptance. Upon acceptance, each artist/company is given a HOW TO FRINGE GUIDE that walks them through producing in the Festival. Fringe staff is also available to answer any remaining questions that Artists might have. During the Festival, each artist is given a unique online account to view their own box office in “real-time”. Box office payments are mailed to the artist 15 business days after the Festival.

Despite inflation, we have committed to keeping our ticket prices at $15.00 to be accessible to all economic brackets. All attendees must purchase an admission button, good for admission to the festival plus discounts around the District throughout the year.