Collective Fringe at Collective Acting Studio

Collective Arts Community Trust has announced the return of Collective Fringe, an artist led festival that platforms emerging and upcoming creatives. Growing out of the creative environment of Collective Acting Studio, one of the UK’s fastest-rising actor-training studios, the festival will present four powerful new productions, alongside an opening Scratch Night of early stage work, offering a snapshot of emerging talent at different stages of development. Designed to challenge the status quo in the UK’s talent-development pipeline, the festival will give emerging and mid-stage theatre-makers the freedom to take risks, experiment and grow.

Collective Fringe offers audiences and industry the rare chance to encounter work at every stage of development in one festival framework, from fully realised productions to early creative experiments. With their ethos rooted in equity, collaboration and community, Collective Fringe centres early career artists, Global Majority artists, disabled artists and those from underrepresented backgrounds. Led by Festival Director Paul Harvard alongside Dramaturg Sabrina Richmond; Associate Producer Prashant Tailor and Producer Laura Battisti, their team brings experience from across the West End, The National Theatre, The Royal Court Theatre, RSC, and major independent stages across London.