Applications to the 2024 Fringe Festival July 11 -21 will be open Jan 16-30!* 

• Participation Fee $585; $280 insurance fee
• Acceptance & Participation Agreements February
• Venue Tech Spec & Show schedules April
• Marketing Images and Blurbs May
• Tickets on Sale June 21
• Tech days July 8-10
• Fringe Festival July 11 – 21. Performances run thu-fri 6pm – 10pm; sat-sun Noon to 10pm.
• Box office payout August 9

*Venue availability is limited. Apply as soon as applications become available. PDF of Application will be made available no later than Jan 14. Watch our socials to be alerted.  Fringe will provide up to one venue with a sprung dance floor,  multiple spaces for casts of five or more, one to two venues for production with eight or more on the stage at one time, and multiple spaces for solo productions. We are not able to currently announce our 2024 venues or neighborhood officially. We primarily utilize vacant spaces and create our own venues due to high rental prices at theaters in Washington, DC. For inquiries, please email julianne@capitalfringe.org

What Capital Fringe does to support Participating artists and companies:

• Offer consistent guidance, support, and communication to all participants’ main contacts.
• Host a virtual ‘How to Fringe’ session with a self-producing manual for the Capital Fringe Festival.
• Schedule one technical rehearsal, length double your production run time plus 30 minutes, and the requested number of shows (2 to 5 shows) with run times of 50 to 75 minutes.
• Provide a venue with a minimum of 50 seats and basic lights and sound for live performances.
• Assign a dedicated Venue Manager to manage the venue and venue box office staff, who will run the venue box office from 30 minutes before the first curtain time of the day to 15 minutes after the last curtain time of the day.
• Supply a media list and Fringe Publicist and press team to assist in pitching your production to the press.
• Market the Fringe Festival as a whole, including sending out festival press releases, advertising in the DMV area, partnering with organizations to expand and deepen the reach for all participants, and creating events for participants to pitch and market their productions.
• Create a unique show page with a ticket-buying click-through on capitalfringe.org.
• Grant access and retention to show patron and box office data.
• Allocate 70% of your productions’ ticket revenue to you (tickets priced at $15).
• Require all participants to be fully vaccinated.

About the Capital Fringe Festival

Capital Fringe’s annual festival is the only unjuried, self-producing live performance festival in the Washington, DC area. Since 2006, we have presented 16 festivals featuring over 52,350 artists to an audience of 393,234 ticket buyers. The festival has generated over $2.5 million in artist revenue. At our most recent festival in July 2023, 50% of available tickets were sold, resulting in a total payout of $83,908 to participants, with an average artist payout of $2,097 (a $425 increase from 2022)