Fringe Festival 2020 – A Festival-in-Place

About The Fringe

The Fringe, which in various forms has been around for more than 25 years, exists to produce plays being written by the dynamic community of SFSU student playwrights. Through a project oriented and hands-on experience it aims to educate students in the phase of playwriting which takes a play on the journey from the page to the stage—or in this year’s version to video recordings via Zoom. Working in production teams, with student playwrights, directors, dramaturgs, actors, and managers under faculty supervision the Fringe exposes all students involved to the nature of the theatrical experience when the writer is actually part of the process. For the writers themselves it is an opportunity to learn to revise, polish, and finish a piece in the heat of rehearsal and performance.

Throughout its existence the Fringe has been an opportunity for the diverse and multi-cultural voices of SFSU students. It has produced many plays by Asian-American, Latinx, and African-American writers, as well as many LGBTQ writers, delving deeply and entertainingly into the many aspects of culture represented in the State Theatre Arts and Creative Writing programs. Among the writers whose work it produced while they were studying playwrighting at State are a number who are nationally and regionally prominent, including Marcus Gardley, Peter Nachtrieb, Claire Rice, Chris Chen, Evelyn Pine, Terry Boero, Conrad Panganiban, Rachel Bublitz, Ai Ebashi, Nicole Jost, and many more.

2020 Fringe Online