[NoHo Arts District, CA] – The 15th Hollywood Fringe Festival, a mainstay of Los Angeles live performance, ran June 12-29, 2025, featuring 400+ shows and nearly 2,000 performances. Thirty-six productions from the 2022, 2024 and 2025 Hollywood Fringe Festivals are taking the stage at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Thirty-six past Hollywood Fringe shows take the stage at the world’s largest performing arts festival in Edinburgh, Scotland
This show of Hollywood Fringe talent is stronger than ever before, with several award-winning shows from Los Angeles’ largest performing arts festival participating in the largest “Fringe Festival” in the world.
Woody Fu’s One Man John Wick, funded by Hollywood Fringe’s 2024 Scholarship artist development award, won big at the 2025 Hollywood Fringe awards. It took the coveted curated Adelaide Fringe Festival Exchange Award, the community-voted Fringe Award for Comedy & Variety Acts, and was nominated for the 2025 Top of the Fringe Award. Woody creates a spot-on parody of Keanu Reeves in this scripted comedy, calling on the audience to help create movie magic live onstage with live-interactive comedy elements.
Molly Sharpe’s Murder, Oops! is not to be overlooked. Sharpe took home the community-voted Fringe Award for Comedic Theatre at the 2025 Hollywood Fringe Awards and was nominated for the 2025 Daredevil Award (local touring award). This hilarious one-woman play experienced a completely sold-out run, in which it reminded its audience that falling for your boyfriend’s string of murderers may not be the best idea. Dancing, music, and wacky characters are included.
Mayuri Bhandari’s The Anti Yogi, funded in part by Hollywood Fringe’s 2024 Artist Fund had a completely sold-out Hollywood Fringe run in 2024. Bhandari swept the 2024 awards, winning the 2024 Zephyr’s Zest Award (local touring award) as well as the community-voted 2024 Fringe Award for Dance and Physical Theatre. The Anti Yogi was also nominated for the 2024 Fringe Award for World Premiere, Top of the Fringe Award, the Denver Fringe Festival Exchange Award, and the Sydney Fringe Festival Exchange Award. This dance-focused dramedy highlights the West’s recolonization of yoga and reveals the true ethos of Yoga.
Mark Vigeant’s The Best Man Show, a crowd favorite, won the community-voted 2024 Hollywood Fringe Award for Comedy and the 2024 Best of Broadwater Award (local touring award), and was nominated for the Top of Fringe Award and Denver Fringe Festival Exchange Award. Mark creates a comedic portrayal of a best man’s spiral as he delivers a speech at his brother’s wedding. Laugh, cringe, and relate to a lonely man sliding into insanity in this incredibly popular one-man show.
Micah O’Konis and Marnina Schon’s Couplet: Honey Honey Moon Moon took home two local touring awards, the 2025 Hollywood Fringe Splash Award & the Transcendent Craft Award, and was nominated for the community-voted 2025 Hollywood Fringe Award for Comedy & Variety Acts and the international touring award, the Adelaide Fringe Festival Exchange Award. This married duo delivers a sensational musical comedy with tunes that will be stuck in your head for years to come. Celebrate their honeymoon as they take on Edinburgh Fringe. Directed by Hollywood Fringe + Edinburgh Fringe darling, Chris Grace and Eric Michaud.
Aaron Pang’s Falling: A Disabled Love Story won the 2025 Hollywood Fringe Movie Book Club Award and was nominated for the community-voted 2025 Top of the Fringe Award and Fringe Award for Comedic Theatre, as well as two international tour awards, the Adelaide Fringe Festival Exchange Award, and the Sydney Fringe Festival Exchange Award. Aaron delivers a raw, yet hilarious, show about his pursuit for love after disability. Get ready for fantastic storytelling and constant laughter with Falling: A Disabled Love Story.
“Each of these shows had a profound impact on the Hollywood Fringe’s roaring success in 2024 and 2025,” says Ellen Boudreau-Den Herder, Hollywood Fringe Co-Executive Director. “The quality of production and creativity is very apparent in each of the above’s work. They all went above and beyond when it came to their crowd-pleasing, but ultimately unique, stories and commitment to giving back to their fellow artists within our community.”
Rounding out the list
Do You Accept These Charges? is a true, narrative solo comedy show by Laurie Magers detailing her real life relationship with an incarcerated violent multi-felon whom she met while he was on parole, and continued to date after he was re-imprisoned (Winner: 2025 Scholarship Artist Development Award).
Smile: The Story of Charlie Chaplin, a hit physical comedy show that blends clownery with the incredible life story of Charlie Chaplin (Winner: 2024 Sydney Exchange Award winner to Hollywood, 2025 Hollywood Fringe International Award).
Role Play (Or The Hottest Day in Belgian History), a coming-of-age epic with an abundance of vulnerability, humiliation, and unexpected turns. (Winner: 2024 Best of the Broadwater Award)
Mel McGlensey is Motorboat the silliest, most outrageous, naughty and nautical show ever made about someone who is part boat, part woman… and full clown. (Winner: Adelaide Fringe Exchange Award to Hollywood)
Karen Hall brings two shows: Delusions & Grandeur: a show that mixes a music recital with hilarious clownery (Winner: 2024 Hollywood Fringe Best of Broadwater Award) and Pandora’s Boombox: a non-verbal twist to the clown genre in this all-ages show (Nominee: 2025 Hollywood Fringe Award for Dance & Physical Theatre).
In the Black tells a story of a first-generation Ghanaian American and his attempts at securing the American Dream in the corporate finance landscape (Nominee: 2025 Movie Book Club Award).
Just To Be Close to You, a solo clown show where renowned lounge singer, Carl Poteraychke, will serenade you and show you what it means to love (2025 sold-out run at Hollywood Fringe, Nominee: 2025 Top of the Fringe Award, Adelaide Fringe Festival Exchange Award, and The Daredevil Award).
Three Can Keep A Secret presents an interactive crime thriller where not one show is the same (Nominee: 2024 Top of Fringe Award, 2024 Hollywood Fringe Award for Comedy).
Furiozo: Man Looking for Trouble, a punk-rock comedy show with police chases, theft, and a polarizing protagonist. (Nominee: 2024 Hollywood Fringe Award for Comedy, 2024 Hollywood Fringe International Award)
Marcus Is Alive replays one crazy night in LA following a hit-and-run (Nominee: 2025 StageCrafts Freeway Circuit Award.
Olivia Raine Atwood also brings two comedies, Olivia Raine Atwood: Faking It, the very real, true story of her classified mission evaluating NYC hospitals (Nominee: 2024 StageCrafts Select Award) and Olivia Raine Atwood: Oops where she portrays a comedic matchmaker.
There’s Something Seriously Wrong with Cyrus presents a comedic true story about one man’s experience on breaking cycles of homophobia and finding his true self (Nominee, 2024 Zephyr Zest Award).
One Man Poe: The Black Cat and The Raven & The Tell-Tale Heart and The Pit and the Pendulum both immerse audiences in Poe’s classic tales that are sure to leave a chill down your spine (Nominee: 2025 The Screamiest Award).
All The Boys I Blocked is a not-to-miss musical clown show about tumultuous relationships (Nominee: 2024 StageCrafts Select Award).
Accordion Ryan’s Pop Bangers is a musical comedy show that will make you want to dance along (Nominee: 2025 Hollywood Fringe Award for Cabaret & Burlesque).
SMUT with Entendre Entendre live-delivers a woman’s real-life romantic escapades, train wrecks and all, through song, striptease, and spoken word (2025 sold-out run at Hollywood Fringe).
Beth Wants the D delves into suicidal ideation, but leaves the audience full of hope (2025 sold-out run at Hollywood Fringe).
Chris Grace: Sardines (A Comedy About Death Chris Grace, known for his roles in shows like Superstore, is coming to Edinburgh with his 2024 comedy show about the complexities of death.
Mike Blaha: International Joke delivers wild and wacky stories from around the world, turning negative experiences into humorous anecdotes.
Mr. Chonkers, by LA cult-favorite clown John Norris, is an absurdly fun show filled with avant garde, dark humor.
Rugburn takes audiences on a deranged journey of a celebrity designer amidst a betrayal-triggered meltdown (featuring drug-induced confessions and hysterics, of course).
Buen Camino, a show about a woman’s call to adventure and her walk along Spain’s famous Camino de Santiago, featuring 23 characters and various multimedia aspects.
Biscuit Barrel: The 69-Sketch Show is back from their successful across-the-pond run at Hollywood Fringe and ready to deliver absurd slapstick sketches at a rapid pace.
The C Word examines the female experience of objectification and competition as five women are trapped in a museum and forced to face a C-word monster.
Trust Me, I’m from Essex is a fun-filled journey with laughter, singing, dancing, and down right drama.
Not Without Right presents a heated argument between Shakespeare and his Muse in a battle for the truth of his life, with his work and legacy on the line.
Call Me Crazy illustrates the gender injustices of the healthcare system as one woman attempts to advocate for her well-being.
Hurricane Party fuses improv with heart-warming character arcs and reuniting childhood friendships during a hurricane.
“We are incredibly excited by the local work taking the stage at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year. These shows are an exceptional example of the talent and creativity that take our festival by storm each year. The Hollywood Fringe is a bold, raw, and diverse program. We look forward to Edinburgh audiences getting a taste of the city of angels!” says Lois Neville, Hollywood Fringe Co-Executive Director.
About The Hollywood Fringe Festival
The Hollywood Fringe Festival is an annual, open-access, community-derived event celebrating freedom of expression and collaboration in the performing arts community.
Participation in the Hollywood Fringe is completely open and uncensored. This free-for-all approach underlines the festival’s mission to be a platform for artists without the barrier of a curating body. By opening the gates to anyone with a vision, the festival can exhibit the most diverse and cutting-edge points-of-view the world has to offer. Additionally, by creating an environment where artists must self-produce their work, the Fringe motivates its participants to cultivate a spirit of entrepreneurialism in the arts. Learn more about the festival at hollywoodfringe.org.
About the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
“The Fringe” is a three-week festival of performing arts that takes place in Edinburgh every August. Its story dates back to 1947, when eight theatre groups turned up uninvited to perform at the Edinburgh International Festival.
Not being part of the official programme of the International Festival didn’t stop these performers; they just went ahead and staged their shows on the fringe of the Festival anyway, coining the phrase and our name – the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Since the dawn of this spontaneous artistic movement, millions have flocked to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to produce, and to enjoy art of every genre.
Since the inception of Edinburgh Festival Fringe, hundreds of Fringes have popped up all over the world, including the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Learn more about the festival at edfringe.com
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