FRONTERAFEST - Short Fringe, Long Fringe, Bring Your Own Venue, January 20 - February 15, 2014

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DFW by Madeline June Tuckfield, FronteraFest 2013 Short Fringe, Hyde Park Theatre, January 29, 2013

JANUARY 29th AT THE HYDE PARK THEATRE, 511 W. 43rd at Guadalupe (click for map)
FRONTERAFEST SHORT FRINGE


DFW, by Bridgette Day Tuckfield, Madeline Tuckfield, and Amy Wright. A young woman confronts her ghosts as another tries very hard to catch a plane to get where she is going.
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Opportunity: FronteraFest 2013 Applications Available via Hyde Park Theatre

FronteraFest 2013 runs January 15 - February 16, 2013. Applications and information now available at www.hydeparktheatre.org

That's right: it's time to heat up your winter nights again, with the holy-smokes-this-is-momentous 20th anniversary season of FronteraFest at Hyde Park Theatre (typically one gives emeralds on the 20th, hint hint). The Short Fringe, the Long Fringe, BYOV, or Mi Casa--as always and ever, FronteraFest is five weeks of alternative, offbeat, new, and just plain off-the-wall fringe theatre. Too bad there's no actual way to expect the unexpected, because that is your only hope.

FronteraFest is produced in collaboration with ScriptWorks, a group dedicated to supporting emerging playwrights and developing new dramatic works.

The Short Fringe
January 15 - February 16, 2013 at Hyde Park Theatre

Every night we present a new bill of four or five plays no longer than 25 minutes each. Brilliant monologues? Plays in progress? Comedy improv? Cabaret singers? Avant-garde dance? Short films? Multimedia? We've seen it all.

Every Saturday night is a juried "Best of the Week" performance, and the last week, February 12-16, is the juried "Best of the Fest"--with a few wild cards thrown in. A complete schedule, updated regularly, will be available here as the festival approaches.

PARTICIPANTS: Get your application in PDF format turned in right this second, or at least by November 1, 2012. (Seriously, we give out slots on a first-come, first-served basis, so don't delay.) The fee is $50, but there's a $10 discount if we receive your application by October 1, 2012. Print it out, fill it out, sign it, and mail it to us with your wee check.

The Long Fringe
January 21 - February 3 at Salvage Vanguard Theater

Longer productions (90 minutes or less) at Salvage Vanguard Theater: everything from new works by emerging playwrights to cutting edge choreography. Get more details about the shows in this year's Long Fringe right here as soon as we have 'em.

PARTICIPANTS: Download your application in PDF format plus more participant Long Fringe info today. There's a 10% fee discount if we receive your application by October 1, 2012.


B.Y.O.V. (Bring Your Own Venue)
The name says it all: participants bring not just their creative work but also their own venue. It's all part of FronteraFest.

PARTICIPANTS: BYOV fame awaits you! Download an application in PDF format today. Fill it in, mail it in.

Upcoming: FronteraFest 2012 Short Fringe, Hyde Park Theatre, January 17 - February 18

UPDATE: Lisa Scheps and Stuart Moulton interview organizers Ken Webster and Christi Moore, January 11

Hyde Park Theatre again offers its FronteraFest short fringe presentations, a grab bag of theatre in which on any given evening, Tuesday through Friday, you'll see five 25-minute presentations and get the chance to rank them. The Best of Week will run again on Saturdays. FronteraFest kicks off on Tuesday, January 17.

Click to go to KUT.org to hear a two-minute discussion with organizers Ken Webster and Christi Moore, on Mike Lee's Arts Eclectic.

The AustinLiveTheatre calendar provides details for each evening's inscribed presenters. You can see the same information and purchase tickets at the Hyde Park Theatre website. Only $14 an evening -- $2.80 per show, and you're sure to find some gems!

If organizers follow previous tradition, the week of February 14-18 will be devoted to the Best of FronteraFest -- an "A" slate and a "B" slate, each presented for two evenings, and a "wild card" slate chosen by the organizers.

The Hyde Park theatre is at 511 W. 43rd Street at Guadalupe (click for map).

Upcoming: FronteraFest 2010 Long and Short Fringes, January 12 - February 13

UPDATE: News 8 interview Ken Webster and Christi Moore, February 6

UPDATE: Spike Gillespie's feature on FronteraFest 2010 for the JetBlue blog, January 18

UPDATE: Lisa Scheps and Stuart Moulton feature Christie Moore talking about FronteraFest and Mike Henry of Austin Poetry Slam at KOOP-FM's "Off Stage and On The Air," posted January 15 ( in second half of 1 hr. program)

UPDATE: Mike Lee of KUT-FM talks with C.J. Moore and Ken Webster about Frontera Fest 2010 on his program "Arts Eclectic," January 11

UPDATE: NowPlayingAustin podcast on FronteraFest 2010 featuring Ken Webster, Big Poppa E, C.J. Moore, Vince Bell, Aaron Black's Hotel Morocco, others, January 9 (11min, 40sec)

UPDATE: Robert Faires' backgrounder on FronteraFest in the Austin Chronicle, January 6

UPDATE: Ryan E. Johnson's backgrounder on FronteraFest at the Examiner.com, January 7


Received directly. Press announcement below includes full schedule and capsule descriptions both for FronteraFest Long Fringe and Short Fringe, as well as Bring Your Own Venue and Su Casa Es Mi Teatro.

17th Annual FronteraFest Showcases
29 Night, 100+ Production, Multi-Venue Fringe Theatre
Immersive 5-week Festival Offers Profusion of Performance from the Edge

Those looking to discover the newest, rawest, most exciting theatre happening need look no further than FronteraFest: a smorgasbord of over 100 new works presented over 5 weeks on a multiple stages. Named the “best theatrical event” by the Austin Chronicle and “the fringe theatre event of the Southwest” by the Austin American-Statesman, the 17th Annual FronteraFest will again exhilarate theatre fans and purveyors alike by opening its stages to some of the most innovative local and national talents on Tuesday, January 12 through Saturday, February 13.

“FronteraFest is like a huge grab-bag of performing arts” said Christina J. Moore, festival producer and executive director of Austin Script Works. “With multiple performances every night for five weeks, audiences can be surprised, delighted, touched, and entertained by the work of over 1,000 local and national talents, including performers, directors and playwrights, at venues all over Austin.”

Co-produced with Austin Script Works and Hyde Park Theatre, FronteraFest 2010 features more out-of-town visitors than ever before including performers from New York, Seattle, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Chicago, New Orleans, and more.

For the last 16 years, FronteraFest has provided a venue for new theatre, comedy, and dance performers, as well as established local and national performers and writers to explore new works that challenge these artists and Austin audiences.

Nationally recognized playwrights like Kirk Lynn, John Walch, and Lisa D’Amour presented some of their earliest work at the festival. Many plays that began as FronteraFest pieces have gone on to become full-length, award-winning productions incuding works by Steven Tomlinson, Ron Berry, Hans Frank, Cyndi Williams, Lowell Bartholomee, Zell Miller III, and others.

The breadth and variety of offerings available in FronteraFest includes four tracks: the Short Fringe including 80 pieces under 25 minutes, the Long Fringe including 20 feature-length works, Mi Casa es Su Teatro where participants present their creative work specifically in their homes, and Bring Your Own Venue featuring site-specific performances.

Read details for each division of the festival, with full calendar, title list and capsule descriptions, all at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: FronteraFest - Short Fringe, Hyde Park Theatre, Jan. 21 -Feb. 6, and Long Fringe at the Blue Theatre & Salvage Vanguard, Jan. 19 - Feb 2

UPDATE: KUT-FM audio piece with Ken Webster and participants (2 min.)

The Hyde Park Theatre has published the full list of performances for Frontera Fest - the Short Fringe. No fewer than 80 different presentations are on offer, at as rhythm of five a night, Tuesday - Friday, and a juried selection of the best of the week on Saturday.

The full list and capsule descriptions are available at the HPT website, which also gives you the possibility to purchase advance tickets ($12 per night). Austin Live Theatre has incorporated the information in the Austin Live Theatre Calendar, which lists by date all announced performances from now through mid-March.

The 18 pieces presented for the Frontera Fest - Long Fringe run approximately 90 minutes each and are usually staged at the Blue Theatre and at the Salvage Vanguard theatre, January 19 - February 2. Each show is presented four times during the fest. The full daily calendar is available at another section of the HPT website. Longer pieces with capsule descriptions are also listed in the ALT calendar.

Article by Ryan E. Johnson on Austin.com

Austin Chronicle's full listing for Short Fringe & Long Fringe, with five images, published January 16