[1][3] Most indoor venues for the festival are in and around Hollywood Theatre Row, a 1.4-mile (2.3 km) stretch of Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles.

[4] Founder Ben Hill started trying to organize a local fringe festival not long after he moved to Los Angeles from Iowa City in 2007.

[5] To perform, one must pay a registration fee[4] and be ready with a concept and the means to produce it.

[7] In the 2012 festival, theatre companies produced more than 230 shows and gave more than 1,000 performances.

[7] In 2018, the Hollywood Fringe Festival was one of the filming locations for the trivia game show Buzz'd Out!.