Welcoming "Bring Your Own Venue" Applications - Due September 1

Bring Your Own Venue (BYOV) is an option for performers who already have a venue or want to make their own venue arrangements. Be creative when you think of BYOV options: coffee shops, corner bars, living rooms and front porches are all great places for theater. Although we recommend lining up a location near the other Fringe venues, there are no restrictions as long as the venue is in New Orleans city limits. Click here to find out more. Applications must be postmarked or hand-delivered by September 1. Application forms available for download.

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How can I perform in Fringe?

Performers from anywhere are welcome. We include all types or performances: drama, comedy, dance, spoken word, street theater, multimedia, musical theater, performance art, puppetry, improvisational, magic, storytelling, variety, cabaret, burlesque, sideshow, and any other creative madness.

Thank you to the many performers who submitted applications to the standard Fringe submission process. The standard submission period has now closed. The jury panel will begin reviewing the applications, and we will notify everyone of the lineup by August 15. Missed the deadline? It's not too late to participate! You still have a chance through the Bring Your Own Venue option.

When is Fringe? And where?

November 13-16, 2008 in several venues in neighborhoods in New Orleans. Most venues will be in or near the St. Claude Arts District. Check out the Fringe venues here.

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The Festival is a forum for emerging and established performing artists to do their creative thing -- whatever it is -- at an annual multi-day, multi-venue event that is affordable and accessible to the community.

The Festival provides the venue and the audience; the performers do the rest. Anything can be performed: we let the audiences decide what is excellent, astonishing or brilliantly insane.

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