New Zealand Fringe is an open access festival, providing various platforms for artists to experiment, present, and show new or refined works.
It includes contemporary work in art forms including audio (podcast), busking, cabaret, comedy, circus, dance, improvisation, music, online, physical theatre, poetry, puppetry, spoken word/storytelling, theatre, visual & digital art.
New Zealand Fringe is directed by Vanessa Stacey and produced and managed by the non-profit Creative Capital Arts Trust, with Kim Bailey as Chief Executive and a team of professional arts managers and seasonal staff.
Participating artists pay a one-off registration fee and the New Zealand Fringe assists the artists by providing festival marketing (website, fringe programme, marketing collateral), practical information, and one-on-one advice.
In November 2014 NZ Fringe Festival won the Wellington International Airport Regional Community Award for Arts and Culture.