Capital Fringe Festival

[1] Founded by Julianne Brienza, Mike Geske, Colin Hovde, Scot McKenzie, Nyree Neil, William D. Parker, Charles Phaneuf and Damian Sinclair, the festival was in the spirit of other Fringe festivals worldwide to provide a stripped down platform for artists to perform their works for adventurous audiences.

The festival grounds were located in the Penn Quarter Neighborhood and the eleven day event featured 90 arts groups in almost 400 performances.

[8] It has added additional programming such as fallFRINGE, Fringe Curated Series, and Duck Pond Music.

The five pieces included: O Monsters by New Paradise Laboratories, The City of... by Matthew Capodicasa, Baracoco by Happenstance Theatre, America's Wives by Farah Lawal Harris, and Andromeda Breaks by Stephen Spotswood.

[9] In 2020 the festival was cancelled and they formed a partnership with the Caandor Labs and Friends of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens.

But 2020 was not kind to the Fringe and the festival had to sell off their headquarters in 2021 and revamp their plans for building out their space and curating year-round programming.