Louisville Fringe Festival

Louisville Fringe Festival Louisville Fringe festival (LouFringe) seeks to serve the Greater Louisville Metropolitan area of theatre artists and audiences.

Louisville Fringe Festival (LouFringe) is a collection of original artists with works focusing on theater, film, dance, puppetry, spoken word, performance art, magic, stand-up comedy, circus performing and everything else unclassifiable. Our festival is open to anyone who wants to submit, with an emphasis on artists from Indiana and Kentucky. The purpose of LouFringe is to support the growing numb

er of performance artists who choose to live and work in our exciting city. This ranges from emerging to established, professional, to semi-professional, to student and amateur theatre artists. In order to accomplish this, we strive to be inclusive and intersectional and to remove the financial barriers so that artists can focus on their work. Our Mission is to establish a home for bold and fearless artists in order to create bold and fearless work. To embrace the imaginative and the weird. To encourage experimentation and innovation while providing an affordable and accessible outlet for exciting work that enriches our creative community.

Really cool puppet stuff already happens in Louisville, but puppetry is still a relatively small section of our performi...
05/01/2026

Really cool puppet stuff already happens in Louisville, but puppetry is still a relatively small section of our performing arts scene.

We think Louisville wants more, and the two fully sold out performances of the puppet show at the recent Storytelling Revolution Festival prove it.

We want Louisville to have more puppets: Sweet kids puppets, scary shadow puppets, bun raku, overhead projectors, giant f@cking horrors, winsome marionattes. MOAR PUPPETS.

Here’s where you come in! Please take a couple minutes to fill out this five question survey -link in the comments- to help us decide what we want to do next. What do you want? What DON’T you want? What does Louisville’s puppet community need?

TELL US!! AND BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR OUR FIRST EVENT!!

To the audience members that came to see one show. To the audience members who came for one show and stayed for two.To t...
04/15/2026

To the audience members that came to see one show.
To the audience members who came for one show and stayed for two.
To the audience members who planned every show in advance, and came back over and over.

To the producers, directors and playwrights who made shows happen. To every single artist, actor puppeteer, playwright, performance artist and weirdo who came to play, create, wonder, and pretty frequently say “f**k you” to the people out there who want to squash people who play, create, and wonder.

To everyone at Actors Theatre who welcome us in, from each radical hospitality member, every technical theatre artist, every stage manager, and most especially to Emily Tarquin and Amelia Acosta Powell, who invited us to throw a festival with them.

No official announcements yet, and the future is always unknown, but the words “next year,” “next time,” and “year two,” are already getting thrown around, and we hope to see you again real soon.

Click this oh so handy link to find out about the shows and buy tickets! OR (gasp) Ticket *bundles*.
03/31/2026

Click this oh so handy link to find out about the shows and buy tickets! OR (gasp) Ticket *bundles*.

Join Actors Theatre of Louisville for a vibrant grassroots festival celebrating bold new work from artists and companies across our region.

Lilith is a real one, and Looking for Lilith is based AF.
03/29/2026

Lilith is a real one, and Looking for Lilith is based AF.

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