Front Row Fringe Festival has been created to help artists continue creating art during the CoVid-19 pandemic, in 2020. We believe our artists and performers deserve to have a platform from which they can continue to share their creative and innovative works. Our goal is to provide our audiences an artistic and emotional experience they won’t forget.

Announcing the First Annual Indiana Ten Minute Play Festival! We need your submissions! Sponsored by IndyFringe, Indiana Writers Center, and Indiana Playwrights Circle Six plays will be selected by local theatres for production at the 10-Minute Play Festival. Playwrights will be notified of selections by February 1 (or before), and MUST be available for a table read of all six plays on February 2 at IndyFringe. The Festival will take place May 1st-3rd, 2020, with Friday and Saturday evening performances and a Sunday matinee.

Rapture Theatre is always looking to identify gaps in the theatre community. Local playwright and founder of Rapture Theatre, Megan Ann Jacobs, noticed that despite almost every playwright having a holiday-based short (or two or ten) there are very limited local opportunities for these shows to see the light of day. That's why Rapture Theatre is proud to announce its next production "Merry Fringemas."

Ball State University’s College of Fine Arts and Department of Theatre and Dance, in association with Discovery--Ball State Women's Fund, and the Provost Immersive Learning Initiative, are looking for unpublished musicals and plays to be presented as part of the DISCOVERY NEW THEATRE FESTIVAL. Submissions of new musicals and plays are examined and screened by students until a final selection is made. Selected works are presented at the Summer Festivals as staged readings performed by Ball State students and professional artists. These readings are adjudicated by industry professionals....

The mission of the Cincinnati Black Theatre Company is to keep alive the spirit of Black Theatre by offering top-notch theatrical productions, performance and employment opportunities, children’s theatre, educational programs and community outreach in all aspects of theatre arts. CBTC is committed to increasing literacy, promoting diversity and multiculturalism, pursuing community outreach and collaborations, and providing access to the arts.

Cincinnati LAB Theatre is an organization for established and emerging artists in the Greater Cincinnati Area dedicated to a collaborative creative process that will present established works of drama and develop new plays through a traditional workshop model. Cincinnati LAB Theatre will provide a solid platform for artists to cultivate, strengthen and hone their artistic crafts and talents and offer quality theatre for Cincinnati audiences. Cincinnati LAB Theatre is now planning its ninth producing season and accepting submissions to fill three original play readings and two fully staged...

Each year we present over 200 live performances from more than 40 local, national, and international groups and artists over 13 consecutive days in a dozen venues around the Over-the-Rhine (OTR) neighborhood of Cincinnati. These productions are selected for our Primary Lineup, the biggest programming component of the Festival, with help from a jury of 30+ local theatre professionals and educators. While jurying is a rarity among Fringes, we love how our curation process helps us thoughtfully select a lineup that’s rich with variety and representations. Cincy Fringe also includes visual art...

Est. 2011. Conceived, written, directed, performed, and produced entirely by local high school-aged artists, FringeNext represents the future of theatre by giving these younger artists a chance to flex their theatrical voices in an uninhibited and unique setting.

The Aronoff Center is a large performing arts center in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Events that can typically be found at the Aronoff Center include: plays, ballet, popular music concerts, stand-up comedy shows, and musicals.

Dayton Playhouse has sponsored FutureFest, a festival of new and unproduced plays since 1991, put on by a community theater run entirely by volunteers. Each year we bring you in one weekend six new unproduced plays as chosen by the FF committee from the submissions entered that year. Each play is dramatized as either a staged reading or a full dramatization. Each play is a full length play and we do not limit the subject matter. We bring the playwrights to the festival for the weekend so you can mingle with them and we have talk back sessions with them after their show. We bring in...

We started this festival August 2014 as the 6x10 Festival. Since then, this festival has just grown dramatically. We have added additional performance days and in 2017 decided to produce 10 of the plays since we have such an overwhelming number of scripts submitted. In 2018 we received over 400 scripts from 35 states and 7 different countries!

The Humana Festival is the premier event of its kind in the nation, drawing theatre lovers, journalists, and film and stage producers from around the world. About 38,000 patrons attend the six weeks of plays and associated events, including students from more than 50 colleges and universities. 10-12 fully produced new plays (world premieres) are chosen to run February-April. The Festival culminates in two industry weekends, which bring together a collection of amazing new plays with one-of-a-kind panels, cocktail parties, discussions and networking events. It is the perfect opportunity to...