2025 Philadelphia Fringe Festival: FRINGIES
FRINGIES
Show some love to your favorite shows! After attending any participating Fringe show, you’re invited to submit a 1–5 star score along with feedback about the performance. Read on for weekly updates on Fan-favorites of the 2025 Fringe Festival as decided by our lovely Fringe-goers! At the end of the festival, the Fringe Festival’s overall Fringies winners will be announced!
Week 4 Philly Fringe Fringies Frontrunners
Theater:
Traffic Cam / Panoptic Productions
Miz Prophet Tells All / CCP Theater Program
Acute Exposure / The Lemonade Stand
Baby Everything / Lee Minora
Music:
audiOhm Sound Bath / Brett Zweiman
Dance:
Helpful Hints for Strength and Health for Busy People / Rhonda Moore + Ben Grinberg | Almanac Projects
Elaborate Measures / Jeffrey Sykes
Film:
Bicycle Shorts Film Festival / Yellow Bicycle Theater
Comedy & Improv:
The Great Philadelphia Comedy Magic Walk /Robert Malissa/Philly Magic Tours
Improv Comedy: The N Crowd / The N Crowd
Be Good! with Paulette / Daniel Maseda
Circus:
Time Loops /Philadelphia School of Circus Arts
Immersive / Interactive Experience:
Pennsylvania Semiconscious Liberation Army / Nick Gillette Improv
Jake Strong’s Magic Show / Jake Strong Magic
Spoken word and Storytelling:
It’s Giving…Single / Malaika Carpenter
The Queen in Purple / Formed in Fright
How I Learned (Not) To Drive / Jesse Bradley-Amore
Week 1 Frontrunners
Theater:
Get It Together / Woulder
Dogberry & Verges Are Scared / Slippery Trout Productions & Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
Urinal / Theatre By Development
Plum / Shay Overstone
Roadkill Bambi / Artsake Theatre Company
Music:
Alice Tierney / Opera on Tap Philadelphia
Dance:
yellow-pink, wrinkled, & glistening / evie bondon
Within the Fall / Nell Adkins & Helen Sher
contrarian / Shosh Isaacs
Comedy:
Haute Glue / Rose Luardo
Spoken Word & Storytelling:
Circumscribed: A True Tall Tale of One Father, Two Sons, and Thousands of Foreskins / Noam Osband/Lester W Productions
Cabaret & Nightlife:
Dan Kitrosser is KAREN TENDERNESS in QUEER WINDOW! / Asteroid B612
Visual Art:
Working Title / See/Hear Now Enterprises Worldwide
Week 2 Frontrunners
Theater:
Queerano, or A Very Great Mischief /Wolfsmouth Players Company
Get It Together / Woulder
Urinal / Theatre By Development
Dogberry & Verges Are Scared / Slippery Trout Productions & Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
A Marine Walks Up to the Pearly Gates / Yellow Bicycle Company
Lions / Lightning Rod Special
Music:
Family Vacation / John Giltner and Gene Farbe
Dance:
BABYBABYBABY /Laila J. Franklin
Comedy:
Haute Glue /Rose Luardo
5 Stagehands Fall Out of a Closet (the goose crisis) / Grace Lazarz and Michael Amendola
Circus:
Lunarium / Skylark Circus Arts
Cabaret & Nightlife:
Dan Kitrosser is KAREN TENDERNESS in QUEER WINDOW /Asteroid B612
Immersive / Interactive Experience:
Pennsylvania Semiconscious Liberation Army / Nick Gillette Improv
Art for Young Audiences:
Ants on a Log Family Concert / Ants on a Log
Week 3 Frontrunners
Theater:
Egg Project / Nicole Burgio & Miranda Jo Kramer
The Boo Hag / HooDoo Technique
Mommy & Momma or The Queerspawn Play / Em Harnett
Queerano, or A Very Great Mischief / Wolfsmouth Players Company
Music:
The Beginning of the End: a rock opera by Bad Salmon / Bad Salmon
Dance:
Can You Feel It? The Performative Dance Show / Nylah Jackson
Film:
The Women’s Film Festival 2025 / The Women’s Film Festival
Comedy & Improv:
The Great Philadelphia Comedy Magic Walk /Robert Malissa/Philly Magic Tours
5 Stagehands Fall Out of a Closet (the goose crisis) / Grace Lazarz and Michael Amendola
Be Good! with Paulette / Daniel Maseda
Circus:
Strange Root /Julia Baccellieri
Ashes and Iron /Daisie Cardona
Happy To Be Here! / Jan Damm
Cabaret & Nightlife:
KISS ME DEADLY – A BLOODY BRILLIANT VAMPIRE CABARET / REV Theatre Company
Immersive / Interactive Experience:
Great Bends / Floorwork Arts Collective
Visual Arts:
Working Title /See/Hear Now Enterprises Worldwide
