Tampa International Fringe Festival
The 2025 Tampa International Fringe Festival took place June 11-22, 2025.
This year’s festival took place at the Kress Contemporary & The Commodore on 7th Avenue in Ybor City.
This year featured 33 shows, ranging from theatre to dance, sideshow to kids shows!
This Year’s Award Winners Were:
- The Nikki Award: Joe the Bartender
- Slayer of Socials: My Life as an “Inspirational Porn” Star
- Fringe Harder: Schizo Days
- Tech Choice Awards: Pup Play, La Ultima Muñeca, Whispers of the Wind, A Cabaret of Legends
- The Edge Award: Pup Play
- Social Good Award: My Life as an “Inspirational Porn” Star
- Box Office Award: The Common Ground
- Runner Up Best of Fest: Pup Play
- Best of Fest: A Cabaret of Legends
Want to Perform in the Festival?
Applications for the 2026 festival will open September 12th at 5pm, and the lottery will take place in January/February. Learn more HERE
We manage several venues that we curate through a lottery system, and our waitlist is in order of timestamp of application. 2026 will see some other options as well! Join our mailing list and follow our socials to keep up to date on all the intel.
Join our mailing list to keep an eye on dates or reach out to us at info@tampafringe.org
Love Fringe?
- Come to our 3rd Thursdays Anything Goes Open Mic at The Fringe Theatre! 1624 E 7th Ave, #228, Tampa 33605. Hosted by William Glenn, Lisa Urbano & Brianna Larson, every week at 730p, pay what you can. No fire, no glitter allowed, anything else goes!
- Check out the website for the theatre, HERE, or sign up for our mailing list to learn about special programming at the theatre throughout the year, and about next year’s festival.
- Need a cool space to rent? Get in touch! We offer rehearsal and event space at great rates.
Updated Late Seating Policy:
Every year, we make it the artist’s choice to allow late entry.
Last year we had some very popular shows and it got messy, so here are the policies!
This year some shows:
- allow late entry at any point
- allow late entry up to 10 minutes
- do NOT allow late entry
You can see these policies on each show listing.
Please note that if you are more than 10 minutes late, your seat may be taken by someone on standby if the show sells out. You may still be able to stand in some cases. If you have any questions or special requests for accomodations, please reach out to boxoffice@tampafringe.org.
Important Dates
June 11 – 22, 2025 – 9th Annual Tampa Fringe Festival
September 2025 – applications open for the 10th Annual festival via Eventotron
Check out this year’s Full Festival Schedule
Join our mailing list to keep an eye on dates or reach out to us at info@tampafringe.org
Special Thanks: 3 Daughters Brewing, Tampa Bay Sisters of Perpeptual Indulgence, Elizabeth Corwin, Publix
How to Fringe
Learn about the history of Fringe festivals, discover the sites and sounds of Tampa Bay, find out about Fringe Friendly businesses, or load up on Fringe merch and display your Fringe Pride!
Be the Fringe
Get involved! Find out how to join our merry band as a performer, volunteer. Visit the companies, partners and venues who already part of our pack, and follow their lead! Have a room to spare? Become a billeting hero to a traveling artist.
