Cincinnati Fringe Festival is a two week performing arts festival run out of the Know Theater in Cincinnati’s OTR. Fringe showcases works from artists of all sorts of performance mediums. Over the course of the two weeks, over 200 performances of over a dozen shows will occur. Check out the promo here. This festival has been taking place in Cincinnati for years. I, however, was slightly clueless to it until a month ago.
I knew Fringe was a thing, you can’t live in a theater house hold and move to Cincinnati and not know, but I had never had any experiences with it. I had never seen shows, or heard of when it was occuring. Flash to a few weeks ago when I needed a job and an oppertunity to work Fringe landed in my lap.
Fringe 2019 just rounded off their first week and is headed into their second. I have already worked around 10 shows as a box office attendant, seen 3 amazing productions and met some of the wonderful humans that exist in the Cincy art scene.
There is nothing quite like seeing the Cincy theater community pull together for 2 weeks of incredible theater. Even I, who has not been around the Cincy scene long, already feel like a part of the family just by working the festival. Because, “It’s Kinda Weird, Like You.”
If you have a free hour this next week, Check out Fringe. You wont be sorry.
Theater Talk with Sarah 