—Olivia Krick (Mentor: David Kaye)
In a country where the vast majority of art is commodified and commercialized, established theaters simply cannot take the financial risk to give budding artists and new works access to their space and audience. It was the emergence of fringe theatre festivals that have largely filled this need by providing an unjuried, uncensored, equally accessible playing space to celebrate and exchange new works of performing arts at a relentless rate; they are open-access performing arts festivals that produce a variety of different live performances. After immersing myself in two distinct fringe festivals on opposite sides of the country, I created a documentary about the significance of fringe and saw two major themes develop— the idea of fringe as opportunity and the notion of fringe as community.
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