FronteraFest: Austin Fringe Theatre

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FronteraFest
January 17 - February 18, 2012
Hyde Park Theatre, Salvage Vanguard Theater + Others
Admission Varies





Hyde Park Theatre's annual alternative and fringe theater festival has been running in Austin since 1994.




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2012 FronteraFest

The festival is divided into four components:

  • The Short Fringe @ Hyde Park Theatre - January 17 - February 18, 2012 - Features 4 or 5 shorter plays per evening.
  • The Long Fringe @ the Salvage Vanguard Theater & the Blue Theatre - January 24 - February 5, 2012 - Features regular length productions.
  • Mi Casa Es Su Teatro @ Various Locations - February 11, 2012 (Saturday - All Day) - Performed in local homes and businesses
  • BYOV (Bring Your Own Venue) - Performances of In This House (Everything is You) - 2012 Schedule and Location Pending.


2012 Short Fringe Schedule

For schedule confirmation, full play description, and ticket info, please see the official FronteraFest site .



Short Fringe - January 17, 2012 (8:00 pm)

  • Peace Is With You - Danielle Ricci (Borealis Dance Co.)
  • Date With a Starlet - Robert L. Berry (Weird City Theatre)
  • Cabin Fever - Paul Engle (Lost Beat Generation)
  • Sunset - April Matthis and Elizabeth Doss.
  • The Art Of Verse - Xenogia Spoken Word Collective


Short Fringe - January 18, 2012 (8:00 pm)

  • Leaving England - Philip Kreyche
  • BRINE a Boy Raised in New England - Stuart Hersh
  • The King & The Clockmaker - Tom Horan, Courtney Sale, Trey Gilmore, Rowan Doyle (ScriptWorks Commission)
  • Going - Susie Simpson
  • Sky Candy - Ensemble (Chelsea Laumen)


Short Fringe - January 19, 2012 (8:00 pm)

  • 20 Min Macs - text by Shakespeare, cut by Robert Deike
  • Laura Lynn Loving, Modern Day Mom - Rhonda Kulhanek
  • A nd Now You Will See - Emilio Banda
  • Oh, Science! - Josh Gill, Alex Baia, Nathan Livni, Ed Melendez, and Kristin Henn
  • Hanging Angel - choreography by Marisa Pisano and Miss Sophie


Short Fringe 2012 - January 20, 2012 (8:00 pm)

  • Southie Pride Ezzah Given - Raymond V. Whelan
  • The Glamping Trip - David Lee Hess & John Ratliff
  • Scatology - Jason Rainey
  • Round the Circle - Matt Flickinger and Andy Dollerson
  • Battlestar Gillacktucka - Lisa Jackson & Joshua Gill


Short Fringe 2012 - January 24, 2012 (8:00 pm)

  • Seeking Superboy - Laura Cannon
  • Going Where: Travels In Pre-Speedbump America - Mark Shapiro
  • Honey Mushroom - Gabrielle Reisman
  • The Grind - Harry Truong
  • Battle - Cry Havoc and the Action Artists


Short Fringe 2012 - January 25, 2012 (8:00 pm)

  • The Requirements - Max Langert (ScriptWorks Commission)
  • I Am Not a Preacher - David Harper
  • Moby Dick: The Rock Opera - Benjamin Wright and Philip Kreyche
  • Actor of the Year - Molly Fonseca
  • Gold Mine Dream Jump - Olivia O'Hare, Jennifer Micallef, Errin Delperdang, and Kelly Hasandras


Short Fringe 2012 - January 26, 2012 (8:00 pm)

  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" - Parker Dority (puppet adaptation)
  • After the Disaster - Bolik Not ZIB
  • Firth & Arjet - Jessica Arjet & Kristin Firth
  • Short Fringe Play - Elizabeth Cobbe and Jed Kreiger
  • Had Had - Zack Claxton


Short Fringe 2012 - January 27, 2012

  • Honky Tonk Therapy - Lee Bukstein
  • Miss Match - Heather Bishop
  • Espousing the Right to Espouse - Melissa Jackson Burns, Misty Valenta, Elizabeth Krieg
  • TNM 10 - The New Movement Theatre (Alexandria Berry)
  • Crossing the Streams (October 25, 1985) - E.D. Harrelson (Jeanne Harris)


Short Fringe 2012 - January 31, 2011

  • Wuthering Heights, The Entertainment - Lyrics: Diana Prechter, Music: Kent Cole
  • Please Leave A Message After the Tone - Amy E. Botelho
  • Damned Avalanche - Patrick Knisely and Jenny Carlson
  • I Almost Went Off On Kids... - Anita Ashton
  • iloveyouthemost - Amory Casto


Short Fringe 2012 - February 1, 2012

  • South of Tennessee - Susannah Raulino & Topping Haggerty
  • It's Better Than Last Year - Jacob Dodson
  • Howell and Hume - Kirk German
  • Box and Cox - John Maddison Morton (Bridget Farr)
  • Breeders - McNichol & May


Short Fringe 2012 - February 2, 2012

  • Adventure and Romance: Not for the Faint of Heart - Sally Crandall
  • Death's Dignity - Victoria Labalme (Austin Mime Theatre
  • SIR! - Joanna Wheeler
  • Backpages: "The truth is rarely pure and never simple" (Oscar Wilde) - Cindy Vining, Nancy Whitmore, & Helen Brooks, with additions by Johanna Whitmore & Amy McAndrew
  • Medea Goes To Jail - Handbomb (Alex Berry, Michael Foulk, Vanessa Gonzalez)


Short Fringe 2012 - Febraury 3, 212

  • Revlis: Imprv... FROM THE FUTURE - Kristin Firth
  • Keith Ruckus a The Ex-Girlfriend Show - Keith Ruckus
  • Idol Worship - Joe Hartman
  • Relative Perspective - Cassidy Risien
  • Joy Behar's Book Club - Reagan Ward, Jenna Marie Carey, Yamina Khouane, Ellen Kubecka, Alex Berry, Vanessa Gonzales, Ariel Greenspoon, and Megan Simon.


Short Fringe 2012 - February 7, 2011

  • Divided by Two - Kate Cleary
  • Fundamental Principles of Immanual Kant's A Metaphysic of Morals - Hank Schwemmer
  • Musical Theater and Other Drugs - Meg Peck
  • The Forgotten Trail & Thou Shalt Not Waiver - Sharanya Rao
  • Townsville - Nicole McCracken and Tim Honker


Short Fringe 2012 - February 8, 2012

  • Marilyn - Beth Broderick
  • The Birthday Girl - Anne Maria Newsome (ScriptWorks Commission)
  • The Piano Has Been Drinking, Not Me - Zeb L. West and Justin Sherburn
  • Lady Lazarus - Katie Green
  • Lovely Lincoln Lumps: The Story of Slutty Abraham Lincoln - Stefany Wood


Short Fringe 2012 - February 9, 2012

  • The Apocalypse Play: APOCALYPTIC! - Loaded Gun Theory
  • Fuct or Legs Closed, Heart Open - Renee Troxler
  • Life - Joshua Nanninga
  • Untitled - Gaia Farnam
  • The Desire Body of Bayou Sainte Anne - Susan L. Haga


Short Fringe 2012 - February 10, 2012

  • Nice Ankles - Mary Jo Pehl
  • Sally 4th - Angelica McAuley & Jennifer Bushee
  • Ben Prager - Ben Prager
  • Problems, Professors, and Prozac - Simran Frontain
  • Dice - Candyce Rusk


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