2026 Philadelphia Fringe Festival: FRINGIES
The Philly Fringies are the Philadelphia Fringe Festival’s Audience Choice Awards for Independent Festival Presentations. Stay tuned after the festival to find out which shows take home the Fringies!
Week 1 Frontrunners
Theater:
Stoop Bitch / The LAB
The Melon’s Cry / The Kammerspiel
Christmas Carol: The Rap Musical / Michael Radzwilla
The Sicilian Dilemma / Joe Canuso
DECLARATION / Joe Torsella
Comedy:
Betsy Ross Groundhog Day / Grace Lazarz, Patrick Burke, Claire Bronchick
We’re All Gonna Die So Stop Caring / Nazeer Art’aud
Cabaret & Variety:
Karen Tenderness in DOPPEL BÄNGER / Asteroid B612
I Don’t Dance! / Morgan Kirner
Dance:
Not Yet Complete / Bart.Co Dance x Canzonieri Dance collective
To Root, To Rise / Coke + Mentos Dance Co
DESCENDANZE: IN FULL EFFECT! / Native Nations Dance Theater & AfroDanze
Clown:
Red Dye 40 and Diarrhea Jones Marry the Night / Madoc & Chelsea LLC (Live, Laugh, Clown)
KACHONK / Suz Murray
Circus:
Lunarium / Skylark Circus Arts
ANARCHY! / The Rebellion Circus
Art for Young Audiences:
Baby Whale and the Plastic Ocean / Philadelphia Children’s Theater
Film:
House of Guns – Gunslinger’s Ball / Incredible Dreamz
Interactive Experience:
exotopia / Kirsten Lydic
Week 2 Frontrunners
Theater:
And Her Name Was Pickles / Dani Brugger
VOLTA / The Hum
Custody / Lawrence Theatre Company
Americana Cosplay / Die-Cast
Bog Man / The Lemonade Stand
returned, iridescent / Theatre by Development
Comedy:
Betsy Ross Groundhog Day / Grace Lazarz, Patrick Burke, Claire Bronchick
Notice Me, Gwyneth / Matthew Reid
My Dog is Dead and You’re the Father / Isabel Beck-Roe, Dom Arp, Alex Braslavsky, Kelly Conrad, Kelsey Hébert, Jake Lucas
Cabaret & Variety:
Karen Tenderness in DOPPEL BÄNGER / Asteroid B612
The Light Between / A Modern Cabaret with PJ Casbar and Tom McCormack
Dance:
Masks Off / El Rizal & Joshua Marquez
Egg and How I Learned to Save Myself / Nicole Burgio & Jo Kramer Bailey / Burgio Wong Performance
Clown:
Red Dye 40 and Diarrhea Jones Marry the Night / Madoc & Chelsea LLC (Live, Laugh, Clown)
Art for Young Audiences:
Baby Whale and the Plastic Ocean / Philadelphia Children’s Theater
Music:
Opera on Tap Philadelphia Presents: Pagliacci / Opera on Tap Philadelphia
Wherever You Are / in situ
Interactive Experience:
The Untitled Court Show / Rachel O’Hanlon-Rodriguez
Visual Arts
Heart2Art / BreakTheCycle215 – Squirt
