The Hollywood Fringe Festival

About the Hollywood Fringe

Started in 2010 as Hatchery Arts, Hollywood Fringe is an annual, open-access, community-derived event celebrating freedom of expression and collaboration in the performing arts community.

Each June during the Hollywood Fringe Festival, the arts infiltrate the Hollywood neighborhood. Hundreds of productions are mounted in fully equipped theaters, parks, clubs, churches, restaurants and other unexpected places by local, national, and international arts companies and independent performers.
And this year……

Theatre of NOTE is thrilled to be participating as a venue for the 2026 Hollywood Fringe Festival!

Theatre of NOTE as YOUR Venue

You Can Fringe It Up at Theatre of NOTE

Our theatre is a staple of the independent theatre scene in LA, standing for 44 years just south of Hollywood Blvd on Cahuenga. We are a 42-seat black box theatre that has been home to over 450 productions throughout our storied tenure, and we hope you will become a part of that history!

Renting Theatre of NOTE as your 2026 Fringe venue gets you a tech programming session, a preview, four performances and a dedicated tech professional and house manager! We are looking for shows that run 60 minutes or less.

We truly hope to have your wonderful art grace our stage! If interested, please apply directly on the
Hollywood Fringe site
or reach out to our Co-Producers,
Roni Paige (roni.paige@hotmail.com)
J.T. Melaragno (jt.melaragno@gmail.com),
for more information!
Hollywood Fringe runs June 11–28, 2026

BOMBSHELL
It’s very expensive to be Anna Nicole Smith. Ever thought how much? Have you ever wondered what it would really be like to be a true Hollywood Blonde Bombshell? Has that lusted after titled died with the our newfound ideas of body positivty, “Me Too” Movements, and actually seeing behind the hair dye? Or is there something lurking in the shadow, pulsing in our own blood to be set free?

Featuring:
Alli Herman

Extension Dates:

Performance July 10th 7:30 PM
Performance July 11th 8:30 PM
Performance July 12th 6:30 PM

THE BOMB
When the shine on Alex’s career starts to tarnish, he returns to his stand-up roots. But are the laughs real or just polite? Enter Naomi, with a quick wit and great impression of Alex. As he wrestles with his fear of failure and she fights to find her voice, the two form an unlikely partnership.

Presented by Theatre of NOTE, Dana Schwartz, and Justin Huen

Extension Dates:
Performance July 10th 8:30 PM
Performance July 11th 7:00 PM
Performance July 12th 5:00 PM

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BOMBSHELL
It’s very expensive to be Anna Nicole Smith. Ever thought how much? Have you ever wondered what it would really be like to be a true Hollywood Blonde Bombshell? Has that lusted after titled died with the our newfound ideas of body positivty, “Me Too” Movements, and actually seeing behind the hair dye? Or is there something lurking in the shadow, pulsing in our own blood to be set free?

Featuring:
Alli Herman

Performance Dates:
Preview June 9th 7:15 PM

Performance June 13th 5:30 PM
Performance June 21st 2:00 PM
Performance June 26th 7:15 PM

BURN SCAR
A comedy of catastrophic proportions about the ’25 Palisades fire, the wretched aftermath, epic insurance fuckery – and the single encounter that saved her humanity.

Written and performed by Christine Dunford

Performance Dates:
Preview June 4th 7:15 PM

Performance June 13th 4:00 PM
Performance June 20th 7:30 PM

GIRLFRIENDS
Why get breakup bangs when you could cross the country with a stranger? Travel with two “girlfriends” across the American landscape in a 98 Honda Civic in 2014 with $200. Watch while they explore everything from sex to sandstone to Shakespeare to singing for gasoline, and see if they ever reach the peak of their truth. For when you don’t yet know how to heal, but you know how to drive.

Written and performed by
Sara Malinowski

Performance Dates:
Preview June 9th 8:15 PM

Performance June 12th 8:45 PM
Performance June 13th 6:30 PM
Performance June 26th 8:30 PM
Performance June 27th 5:00 PM
Performance June 28th 7:15 PM

GET THEE TO A BEANERY
Everything was going normally for 30s something Hamlet at the University of Wittenberg, studying philosophy per the plan to be a Good King*, hanging with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern at their coffeeshop, and facetiming with Ophelia. Enter Horatio, a kind, witty woman who seems to love philosophy & art almost as much as Hamlet. Will Hamlet confess their feelings? Find out in this Sapphic Coffeeshop AU* !

Written and directed by
Alice Dranger

Performance Dates:
Preview June 7th 7:15 PM

Performance June 13th 9:00 PM
Performance June 21st 12:15PM
Performance June 25th 7:15 PM
Performance June 28th 9:00 PM

LADY M
Lady M is not your typical reimagination of the old Scottish play. In this dark comedy, Lady M and the witches take the lead. After the recent loss of her stillborn babe, Lady M discovers her husband’s return from war is anon. Done with his abusive and oppressive ways, she plots to gain a Queendom with the three witches and their allusive leader, the Raven. Will everything go to plan? Come experience an hour full of murder, twisted humor, love and the supernatural!

Written by Caitlin Apparcel
Directed by César Di Bello

Performance Dates:
Preview June 5th 8:15 PM

Performance June 12th 7:15 PM
Performance June 25th 8:45 PM
Performance June 27th 6:30 PM
Performance June 28th 5:45 PM

WHITE ELEPHANT
A Hitchcockian inspired tale of a brother and sister who think they’ve committed the perfect crime of murdering their mother to protect their inheritance… until they receive a surprising gift at a white elephant party: the murder weapon. A comedic mystery less “whodunnit” and more “whoknowsit.”
Murder is a family affair.