Saturday, January 26 from 10am-1pm
Lost Studio, 130 S. La Brea Avenue
The fee for the workshop is $20 per person.
Please e-mail Ginger Perkins at Ginger@FranticRedhead.com
or call 310-440-0221 to reserve a place in the workshop.
Decide to become part of the oldest and largest arts festival in the world: The Edinburgh International Festival Fringe!
Some fascinating Fringe facts 2007
- Fringe 2007 featured 31,000 performances of 2,050 shows in 250 venues
- An estimated 18,626 performers were on stage at the Fringe in 2007
- Theatre made up 31% of the programme followed closely by Comedy with 30.5% Music was next with 17%, Children’s 5.5% Musicals & Opera totals, 5%. Dance & Physical Theatre weighed in at 4.5% Exhibitions is 3.5% and finally Events 3%
- 40% (815) of the shows were World Premiers and from the remaining 60% of the programme 236 of the shows were European premieres and 93 are UK premieres
- 304 shows at the Fringe were absolutely free
- In 2007 there were 6 new awards available to performers. This is in addition to the 15 that were up for grabs in 2006
- At the Fringe in 2007 53,284 tickets were bought in its first week of ticket sales
- 1.6 Million tickets (1,697,293) were sold during the 2007 Fringe smashing all arts festival records
The “early” deadline for the Edinburgh Fringe program copy is Monday, March 31, 2008, and the “final” deadline is Wednesday, April 16, 2008. You will need to make your decisions regarding dates and times of performances, venue, ticket prices and program copy by these deadlines, so prepare now. The EdgeFest workshop on “How to Produce for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe” will provide an insight into the costs, advantages, disadvantages and logistics of producing a show at the Edinburgh Festival with help on how to find a venue, complete the forms, housing in Edinburgh, budgeting, marketing, etc.
Ginger Perkins, former EdgeFest Board Member and producer at the Edinburgh Fringe for 25 years, will lead the workshop and will be joined by Edinburgh Fringe veterans Ray Simmons, Matt Almos, Albert Dayan and Jon Beauregard with experience as producers, directors, actors, writers and venue managers at the Edinburgh Fringe.
The fee for the workshop is $20 per person.
Please e-mail Ginger Perkins at Ginger@FranticRedhead.com
or call 310-440-0221 to reserve a place in the workshop.
