San Francisco Fringe Festival Picks Productions for Theatre Fest 9/8-9/19

40 Theatre Companies have been chosen by lottery for 19th Annual San Francisco Fringe Festival. Performers are coming from the U.S., Canada, England...and Mauritius!!!

Following in the tradition of big shows from small countries, the 2010 San Francisco Fringe Festival, September 8-19, brings in a theatre artist from Mauritius! Last year's faraway show came from Andorra. This year, it's Mauritius, the island nation in the Indian Ocean best known as the habitat of the last living dodo.

Trup Sapsiway, sans dodo, brings his show, The Madogs of Diego, all the way from Roches Brunes, Mauritius to The S.F. Fringe Festival in September.

Other international performers in this year's Fringe come from Toronto, Winnipeg, and London, England. Of the 15 national performing groups, nine are from Los Angeles, with representation for Brooklyn, Boston, and Dekalb, Illinois, as well. The 20 local slots are filled mainly by San Francisco groups, plus Sacramento and one from Petaluma - offering a show called Love & Sex in the Earth's Spin Cycle.

The 2010 Fringe Festival Shows - Selected by Lottery Feb. 20, 2010

Bay Area Theatre Companies
Company/Performer Show Title Home City

RIPE/Secret Theatre The Burroughs Project: An Evening in the Interzone San Francisco
Allen Gittelson The Secret Language San Francisco
Lili Weckler The Burnings San Francisco
UpMarket Productions Zombie Wedding San Francisco
David Jacobson Theme Park San Francisco
William Petersen Visions of Billy San Francisco
Carolyn Doyle Good Grief: Confessions
of a Peanuts Junkie San Francisco
Aji Slater Table for Two San Francisco
J. B. Enterprises ZINNIA ROSENBLATT San Francisco
Annie Paladino Dreama San Francisco
Sarah Abbey The Weight Game San Francisco
Look At His Butt Productions Look At His Butt San Francisco
Lambeth Sterling Love & Sex in the Earth's
Spin Cycle Petaluma, CA
Silvia Girardi Acting The Dark Season San Francisco
GRINADO PLAYERS What about the Couch? San Francisco
La Tropa 32,700 Instants of Horror San Francisco
Dangerous Lorraines Dance Café Lorraine Sacramento, CA
Theatre
ripley/larson Angina Monologues San Francisco
Wegent & Page Wegent & Page Give it
Another Try San Francisco
Annabelle Productions/
Gearge Pfirrman AROUSAL San Francisco

U.S. Theatre Companies
Cameryn Moore Phone Whore Boston, MA
Karen Bankhead The VO5 Experience Los Angeles
VITCH VITCH Los Angeles
Julia Steele Allen Little Tainted Blood Brooklyn, NY
The Faux-Real Theatre Co. Queer in the U.S.A. New York City
Dominic Hoffman Last Fare Venice, CA
OPM OPM's Green Tea Party Los Angeles
Anya Warburg Invisible Los Angeles
Phil van Hest Phil the Void; The Great
Brain Robbery Los Angeles
Fred Blanco The Stories of Caesar Chavez Los Angeles
Rotimi Agbabiaka Homeless Dekalb, IL
T-O-T-A-L-L-Y! KIMLEIGH
PRODUCTIONS T-O-T-A-L-L-Y! Los Angeles
James Schneider Man on Sex Los Angeles
The Magnum Opus Players Magnum Opus Theatre Los Angeles
Rupert Wates And Friends Joe's Café Brooklyn, NY

InterNational Theatre Companies
Rachelle Fordyce unADULTeRATED me Winnipeg, Mtba.
Hot Penguin Graffiti Highway Toronto, Ont.
Paradise Artists LEVITATE Toronto, Ont.
Popped Cherries Theatre Jurassic Tart London, UK
Trup Sapsiway The Madogs of Diego Roches Brunes, Mauritius

The San Francisco Fringe Festival is an open, non-juried, uncensored theatre festival where performers are selected through a lottery. The SF Fringe returns 100% of box office earnings to the performing company.

New for 2010 is that 20% of the Standard Venue shows may be up to 90 minutes in length. In previous years, Standard Venue shows were limited to a maximum of 60 minutes. NTFV shows may be of any length.

With the opening of the new 40-seat EXIT Studio and the addition of some 90 minute slots, the EXIT Theatreplex will be able to support 40 shows at this year's Fringe, explains SF Fringe producer Christina Augello. To compliment the 40 Standard Venue shows, the festival is also interested in including some Non-Traditional Fringe Venue (NTFV) shows. This category is for site-specific work, and in previous festivals has supported Fringe shows on moving buses, in local parks, museums, bars, cabarets and other shows outside the traditional theatre setting.

Artists applying to perform their work at Non-Traditional Fringe Venues must arrange for a site and meet NTFV guidelines. NTFV shows are not chosen by lottery. Deadline for submitting an NTFV application is midnight (PST) May 31, 2010.

The San Francisco Fringe Festival presents live theatre in an informal, accessible and inexpensive environment. It strives to break down traditional boundaries between audience and artist, encouraging open dialogue between theatre-goers and theatre-creators. Audiences are invited to experience the work of seasoned veterans alongside that of emerging artists. Local, national, and international performing companies benefit from working together and learning from each other in a vibrant and exciting festival atmosphere.

In order to stimulate artistic innovation, applications for participation in the Fringe Festival are accepted through a non-juried lottery. Traditional boundaries are broKen Down in terms of economics, as well, as 100% of the box office goes to the performers.

The 2010 San Francisco Fringe Festival will bring over 250 performances of more than 40 new shows to the EXIT Theatreplex, plus site-specific venues, over its 12-day run. The Fringe Festival features fresh, exciting theatre of all kinds for open-minded audiences of all persuasions. The S.F. Fringe brings international performers from all over the world, from cities like London, Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles, as well as from the Bay Area.

SF Fringe Festival - EXIT Theatre - 156 Eddy Street - San Francisco, CA 94102 415-931-1094 www.sffringe.org.

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