GENERAL APPLICATION INFORMATION FOR ALL APPLICANTS

This information is for ANYONE who wants to bring a performance to the

2008 San Francisco Fringe Festival.

 FRINGE

GENERAL

INFORMATION

STANDARD VENUE INFO

NON-TRADITIONAL FRINGE VENUE INFO

STANDARD APPLICATION

NTFV APPLICATION

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

Only ONE application can be submitted per individual/company.

• ALL Applications to the San Francisco Fringe Festival must be submitted online
• ALL Standard Fringe Venue performers -- local, national, and international -- will be selected by lottery.
• ALL Non-Traditional Fringe Venue (NTFV) proposals must meet the NTFV guidelines.

All applicants to the SF Fringe Festival must pay a $35 Application Fee. This will be charged to your credit card when you apply. If you are selected in the lottery to perform at the 2008 San Francisco Fringe Festival there is a $475 Performance Fee for Standard Venue performers. If your proposal for a NTFV slot is accepted there is a $350 Performance Fee. The Performance Fee will be charged to your credit card only if you are selected to perform in the festival.

 STANDARD

VENUE

SHOWS

Tell me more about Standard Venue Applications

The Majority of Fringe performers mount shows as a Standard Venue Performer. Successful Standard Venue applicants are assigned to one of the downtown Fringe Venues and are scheduled for an allotted number of 60 minute performance slots in an equipped, staffed theater with at least 49 seats. Local companies receive four performance slots and non-local companies receive six performance slots.

IMPORTANT DATES for Standard Fringe Venue Applicants

• Standard Venue Applications will be accepted from December 1, 2007 until 12:00AM(Midnight) January 25th 2008.
• Standard Venue Participants and Wait List will be drawn at the Fringe Lottery Party -7:00 PM, February 1st, 2008 at the EXIT Theatre (156 Eddy Street)
• Last day for Standard Venue participants to withdraw and receive 50% refund of Application fee. April 30th, 2008
• 17th Annual SF Fringe Festival September 3-14, 2008

NON-

TRADITIONAL

FRINGE

VENUE

(NTFV)

Tell me more about Non-Traditional Fringe Venue Applications

The primary intent for Non-Traditional Fringe Venue applications is to foster new and innovative ways of presenting theater. Over the years the SF Fringe has hosted shows presented on moving buses, in local parks, bars and cabarets, at the planetarian and the tulip garden in Golden Gate Park, and on a Market Street park bench. It is an opportunity for shows that do not fit the Standard Fringe Venue format. Proposals must meet the SF Fringe Guidelines for NTFVs and be approved by the SF Fringe. The SF Fringe will not judge the artistic nature of a project but rather its viability.

IMPORTANT DATES for NTFV Applicants

• NTFV Applications will be accepted until April 30th, 2008 at 12:00AM Pacific Time (Midnight)
• Last day for NTFVs to withdraw and receive 50% refund of Application fee. June 13th, 2008
• 17th Annual SF Fringe Festival September 3-14, 2008