Welcome to the Atlanta Fringe Festival
Est. 2012
Since 2012, the Atlanta Fringe has curated an annual festival featuring live theatre, dance, comedy, storytelling, puppetry, and more from all over the world and the Atlanta, Georgia area, creating an artist-first atmosphere of collaboration and joy.
CHECK IT OUT! Our lineup for the 14th annual Atlanta Fringe Festival is here, featuring 27 local Georgia artists alongside 22 touring artists from 13 different states and Scotland. There’s so much wild stuff here, and we can’t wait to share it all with you at our festival, May 27-June 7, 2026.
GA Artists
Preethi and Nikki are Funny AF, Preethi Sundararaman & Nikki Radford, stand-up/storytelling (Atlanta, GA)
St. Elmo’s Fire – One Play Three Ways, Outlawed Theatre Productions, theatre (Atlanta, GA)
Babylon Is An Action Verb, C. G. Brown, comedy/theater (Atlanta, GA)
Abby Bentley’s Monkey in the Coconut, Abby Bentley, Musical theater/ Solo Show (Savannah, GA)
Herd x Sainwood: an evening of Friendship and Fan fiction, Billie Sainwood and Dani Herd, storytelling/spoken word (Atlanta, GA)
Ryn: Robin of the Sun, Deandra Robinson, aerial circus/comedy and spoken word (Stone Mountain, GA)
Expiration Date, You Should Feel Bad, theatre (Atlanta, GA)
I hope we never Land, Emma Morris Projects, dance/contemporary (Atlanta, GA)
That Haint Right, Amanda Lawrence, storytelling/spoken word (Blairsville, GA)
DON TOBERMAN: PING-PONG CHAMP, Moonlight Theatre Company, comedy (Athens, GA)
Jamie’s Sperm, Great Scott Theatre, theatre (Atlanta, GA)
Open to Work, Tim Millard, storytelling/spoken word (Atlanta, GA)
The Reel Report with Jeffrey, Diverse Arts Now!, Comedy/News/Standup (Atlanta, GA)
The Conry County Public Radio Learning Hour, Benjamin Reilly & Dakota Benfield, comedy (Atlanta, GA)
It’s a Dog Gone Shame, DreamCatcher ENT, theatre (Atlanta, GA)
loser bitches, Danielle Montgomery, comedy-drama/theatre (Atlanta, GA)
The Allison Wonders Show, Allison Wonders Comic Ventriloquist, comedy/puppetry (Atlanta, GA)
Absolutes and Eye Contact: Myths, Jokes, and what to know about “The Spectrum”, Simon Huebner, comedy (Chamblee, GA)
The Trampoline, Rob Shaw-Smith, bouncing chamber music into the comedic (Atlanta, GA)
Hagnificent, Give a Folk Productions, theatre/storytelling/comedy (Atlanta, GA)
TRAPPED: The Weekend and the Search for “LOVE”, LIKA-WISE Entertainment LLC / AKIL, musical theatre (Atlanta, GA)
Still, Life, Maya Torres, Theatre (Atlanta, GA)
Ill, Rebecca Wilson, theatre (Atlanta, GA)
In The Rat’s Mouth, Elizabeth Barney, theatre (Atlanta, GA)
Road Trip: improv based on stories, Madeline Evans + the ATL improv/standup community, comedy (Atlanta, GA)
RoadTrip – An original Absurdist Play, Andres Jorquera Sandoval (Woodstock, GA)
Rogues & Rhinestones: The DnD Improv Burlesque Show, Batsy Sinclair and Rolan Critz, improv burlesque (Atlanta, GA)
Potential Spam Comedy, Potential Spam, Sketch Comedy/Theater (Atlanta, GA)
Touring Artists
Brain Bros Presents: Uber Chronicles, Brain Bros Productions, spoken word lofi rap storytelling (Gotha, FL)
Birdseye McPherson’s Last Ride, Sean O’Brien, storytelling/spoken word (Canton, NY)
69– Emil Amok: Anchorman! The News Made Me Do It, Emil Amok Productions/ Emil Amok Guillermo, storytelling/spoken word (San Francisco, CA)
Sir Thomas Madden Jr., Sir Thomas Madden Jr., comedy (Chicago, IL)
Real Magic, Jordan Allen, magic/mentalism (Murray, KY)
50 Shades of Gay Takes On The ’80s, Ike Avelli, cabaret/variety (Monroe Township, NJ)
TBD, Rya, Cabaret/Variety (Florida)
MAGA Pop Girly! A Musical Satire, Gabbie Watts, comedy (Brooklyn, NY)
Full of Grace, Andrea Barello, comedy (Los Angeles, CA)
Lt. Love Dr.’s Boot Camp for Lonely People like You, Chloe Matonis, (New York, NY)
GHOSTED, Celeste Walker, theatre (Ocean View, DE)
Poe, Through the Tales Darkly, Phantasmagoria, Victorian Horror Troupe, theatre (Orlando, FL)
Mr. Cardboard: The Solo Show, Miles Calderon, comedy/clowning (New York, NY)
Slammed!, Sarah Beth Nelson, storytelling/spoken word (Whitewater, WI)
CHRONIC PAin au chocolat, Janoah…anygoodjokes?, Circus/Clowning (Portland, ME)
Bait & Switch, Anna Conathan, stand-up/storytelling & spoken word (Portland, ME)
DEATHCLOCK – A Magic Show About Death, Augustus Graves, magic/mentalism (Austin, TX)
Lady Penelope in Quarantine, The 6th Act & Bialystock & Bloom/Penny Peyser, theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
An American Love Letter to Edinburgh, Rick Conte, storytelling/history/comedy (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Want to join the fun?
We’re still accepting submissions for Fringe Audio (link below) and for our Atlanta Street fringe busking festival.
Fringe Audio Applications Open!
Submissions are now open for Fringe Audio, the Atlanta Fringe party for your ears!
Podcasts, audio plays, sound experiments, and things that defy description all belong here. If it lives in headphones and makes people lean in, we want it! Works should run between 15 and 60 minutes, and applications are open on a first-come, first-serve basis through March 31, 2026.
Bring us your boldest, strangest, most immersive audio work today!
Donate to the Atlanta Fringe today!
We’re so proud to once again bring together dozens of artists from across the globe for our adventurous audience, but we can’t do it on our own. Our programming is made possible by donations from generous, good-loooking people like you!
2025 Official Sponsors
This program is supported in part by Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. Georgia Council for the Arts also receives support from its partner agency, the National Endowment for the Arts. This program is also supported by City of Atlanta Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs. Funding is also provided by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners.
