The San Francisco Fringe Festival, or SF Fringe, is a fringe theater festival produced by the EXIT Theatre in San Francisco. It is one of the oldest fringe festivals in the United States. It takes place over the course of two weeks every September.
The festival was founded in 1992 by several members of BAIT (Bay Area Independent Theatre), a consortium of small theatres in San Francisco and vicinity.
Performances featured at SF Fringe are chosen by lottery. The 2017 festival featured about 150 performances by more than 35 theater companies, performing in three small theater venues. Non Traditional Fringe Venues (NTFV) have included "bars and restaurants, on buses, park benches and trees". Many of the shows feature mature themes or nudity.
The conclusion of the festival features additional performances by shows chosen as the "Best of the Fringe".
2019 award winners
2019 Best of Fringe Awards
AEON by James Sundquist
Get Uncomfortable Nicia De’Lovely
HICK: A Love Story, The Romance of Lorena Hickok & Eleanor Roosevelt by Terry Baum & Lilith Women's Theater I Favor My Daddy by Jamie Brickhouse The Magic of Ryan Kane by Ryan Kane My Will and My Life by Harry Cronin, Page 86 Productions, John Tranchitella Why My Unicorn Left Me by Resonance
2019 Tech Awards
Barbara Holoway Volunteer Award: David Kirby
Big Tips Award: Glen Micheletti
Curtis Overacre über Tech Award: Michelle Chesley
Techie's Choice Award: Fingertips by Fingertips Variety
Volunteer's Choice Award: Grief is Horny by Jonathan Euseppi
2018 award winners
2018 Best of Fringe Awards
Adam and Eve on a Raft by Book of Jones
ALTARS FOR MY ALTERS Potatoes Mashed Comedy
Dandy Darkly's All Aboard by Dandy Darkly
Dangerous When Wet: Booze, Sex, and my Mother by Jamie Brickhouse
Experts, Assholes, and True Believers by Ronen Sberlo
Mingalaba by James Sundquist
My Preferred Pronoun is We by Lyralen Kaye
The Immaculate Big Bang by Bill Santiago
2018 Sold Out Awards
Adam and Eve on a Raft by Book of Jones
ALTARS FOR MY ALTERS Potatoes Mashed Comedy
Dandy Darkly's All Aboard by Dandy Darkly
Dangerous When Wet: Booze, Sex, and my Mother by Jamie Brickhouse
Experts, Assholes, and True Believers by Ronen Sberlo
Mingalaba by James Sundquist
Put a Little Shimmer in Your Life by Joan Chaplick
The Immaculate Big Bang by Bill Santiago
The Mermaid's Tears by Evelyn Jean Pine
The Secret Language by Allen Gittelson
2017 award winners
2017 Best of Fringe Award Winners with Encore Performances
Dandy Darkly's Myth Mouth! by Dandy Darkly
Expeditious Intent by James Sundquist
Nigga-Roo by Dazie-Grego Sykes
2017 Best of Fringe Awards
An Audience With Shurl by Sue Bevan Theatre
BLACK! by Michael Washington Brown
Dandy Darkly's Myth Mouth! by Dandy Darkly
Even If It's Wrong by Todd Pickering
Expeditious Intent by James Sundquist
Hitler in the Green Room by K.S. Haddock
Homeful by Amy Mihyang Ginther
Keeping Up With the Jorgensons by Jeremy Julian Greco
Nigga-Roo by Dazie-Grego Sykes
Tasha by Cat Brooks
Why Would I Mispronounce My Own Name? by Irma Herrera
You Fucking Earned It by Naked Empire Bouffon.
2017 Tech Awards
Barbara Holoway Volunteer Award: Denise Dee
Big Tips Award: Glen Micheletti
Curtis Overacre über Tech Award: Tyler Null
Techie's Choice Award: An Audience With Shurl by Sue Bevan Theatre
2017 SOLD OUT Awards
Given to shows which sold all seats to a performance. $wampland by Other Voices and Playwright's Center of SF - 1 award Hitler in the Green Room by K.S. Haddock - 3 awards
See also
Elastic Future
EXIT Theatre
References
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/snowflakes-may-feel-triggered_us_59b7fce5e4b0883782dec32c