2016 Hollywood Fringe Festival Beats Last Year's Stats

Hollywood Fringe Festival organizers announced today that the seventh annual festival, which closed June 26th, sold an estimated $447,000 in ticket sales. This is a 12% increase in ticket sales from last year.

The numbers reflect a growth trend that has been in place since the festival began in 2010:

• The Festival sold over 56,000 individual tickets.
• Ticket sales have increased more than 300% since the inaugural festival (2010).
• The festival sold an estimated $447,000 in tickets this year.
• Approximately 60% of all tickets were "Fringe-sold" (sold directly through www.hollywoodfringe.org and the Fringe box office) and the remaining 40% of transactions were "venue-sold" (sold at the door of participating venues). It's important to note that the central Fringe organization doesn't touch this money-- all $447,000 has been returned to Fringe artists and venues.
• In its seven year history, Hollywood Fringe has returned over $1.8 million to artists.
• 296 productions participated in this year's event (up 64% since 2010), mounting 1,554 performances at 50 spaces throughout central Hollywood.
• 1,453 artists and producers participated in this year's Hollywood Fringe.

Organizers are already planning for the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival; dates will be announced soon.

The Hollywood Fringe Festival is an annual, open-access, community-derived event celebrating freedom of expression and collaboration in the performing arts community. Each June during the Hollywood Fringe, the arts infiltrates the Hollywood neighborhood: Fully equipped theaters, parks, clubs, churches, restaurants and other unexpected places host hundreds of productions by local, national, and international arts companies and independent performers.

Participation in the Hollywood Fringe is completely open and uncensored. This free-for-all approach underlines the festival's mission to be a platform for artists without the barrier of a curative body. By opening the gates to anyone with a vision, the festival is able to exhibit the most diverse and cutting-edge points-of-view the world has to offer. Additionally, by creating an environment where artists must self-produce their work, the Fringe motivates its participants to cultivate a spirit of entrepreneurialism in the arts.

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