Tucson Fringe Festival

08/30/2026

2 Days lefts to apply for the Tucson Fringe Festival happening in January 2027. Find the link in our bio!

07/01/2026

The performance application for the next Tucson Fringe Festival is now open! Click the link in our bio to learn more.

06/23/2026

The performance application for the 2027 Tucson Fringe Festival is almost upon us. Read up on some of the changes we've made this year to the application. How do you feel about some of these changes? Tell us in the comments.

The performance application for the 2027 Tucson Fringe Festival is almost upon us. We’ve made a few changes since last year. Due to more financial constraints and greater competition for grants fun…

01/18/2026

These are the winners of the 2026 Tucson Fringe Festival Awards. If you know any of the folks who worked on these shows, be sure to congratulate them. All the shows we had this year were deserving of awards and we hope to have just as many amazing shows at the next festival.

Best Drama
“Don’t Feed the Troll” by Adrian Cory from Tucson, AZ

Best Comedy
“Vamos a Reir un Poco (Let’s Laugh a Little)” by Rick “Wind” Herrera from Coolidge, AZ

Best Dance/Physical Movement
Fleeting Fringe Showcase: “Re: TURNING” by FUNHOUSE movement theater from Tucson, AZ

Best Musical/Show Featuring Music
“The Women in Me” by Rabbi Jenny “Skylark” Steinberg-Martinez JD CHT from Joliet, IL

Best Solo Show
“Fall of the High School Valedictorian (Vimeo)” by Philip Simondet from Minneapolis, MN

Best Ensemble
“The Words at the Door” by Sackerson from Salt Lake City, UT

Best Local Show
“Short Plays” by Old Pueblo Playwrights from Tucson, AZ

Best Out-of-Town Show
“The Dumb Waiter” by Mermaid Productions from Minneapolis, MN

Beyond Border(lands)
Fleeting Fringe Showcase: “Omni Tutu: Cool Waters” by Kimberly Miguel Mullen from San Diego, CA

Spirit of the Fringe
“Hey Pamela? Yes Pamela?” by Pamela Leahigh from Washington, DC

These are the winners of the 2026 Tucson Fringe Festival Awards. If you know any of the folks who worked on these shows, be sure to congratulate them. All the shows we had this year were deserving …

01/13/2026

We had a fantastic festival this passed weekend. Thank you all who attended and supported the artists. We still have VOD virtual content available until tomorrow Wednesday, January 14th. Find details on our ticketing page from the link in our bio.

01/10/2026

Every year during the Tucson Fringe Festival, a range of artists have a chance to showcase unconventional, experimental work without censorship. It is modeled after the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where performances take place in smaller, more intimate spaces, outside of mainstream theaters. Preview The Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre and The Historic Y performances at https://www.tucsonweekly.com/newsopinion/uncensored-performance-tucson-fringe-offers-space-for-experimental-pieces-to-be-developed.

📸: JJ Snyder Photography

01/08/2026

We made onto the cover of the Tucson Weekly! Get yourself a copy.

Tucson Weekly

01/08/2026

It’s all begins tomorrow. Get your tickets now! Visit our website or the link in our bio for details and buy your tickets to support local and out-of-town performers. Performers get 80% of ticket sales and 100% of donations so your money directly supports them.

12/13/2025

Just two days left to order a T-shirt for the 2026 Fringe Festival. We have unisex and female styles. Not interested in a T-shirt, you can just send a donation only through the T-shirt fundraiser page. The fundraiser ends on Dec 15 so we can get shirts delivered by Jan 2. Have it delivered to your home or pick it up at the festival. Order your shirt today!

For this year's festival, instead of buying a bunch of one type of shirt, we've decided to sell them through a fundraiser to allow for both male and female style shirt options. Purchasing a shirt not only supports the festival financially, but also advertises the festival every time you wear it. Thi...

11/23/2025

Tucson Fringe Returns for the 14th Festival
Tucson Fringe is an unjuried, uncensored performing arts festival similar to Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

We have performers from Tucson and Coolidge, as well as Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Southern California, Utah, and Saskatchewan, Canada! There are 19 acts doing over 30 performances over the course of 4 days! Some virtual VOD content is available for 7 days. Traditional theatre, storytelling, stand-up comedy, dance, and a variety of other shows ranging from pure entertainment to gripping tales of the human condition provide this year’s festival with something for everyone.

Since 2011, Tucson Fringe has provided artists with low-risk, low-cost opportunities to perform by using economies of scale to reduce venue rental costs and by taking only 20%, and sometimes 0% of the artist’s earnings. Tucson Fringe also provides the Tucson arts community with avant-garde, non-traditional performing arts at low-cost ticket prices.

The festival does not curate or select the performances, maintaining an environment in which everyone and anyone can perform. This ensures that underrepresented artistic voices, such as people of color, the LGBT+ community, women, and other marginalized genders, are championed in our community.

Click the link in our bio to links to:
Our Website, Buy Tickets, 2026 Volunteer Signup, & our T-Shirt Fundraiser.