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THIS PAGE IS AN ARCHIVE OF THE 2021 PILOT PROGRAM

THE 2022 ARCHIVE CAN BE FOUND HERE

Twenty-By-Twenty Fringe (TBTF) is a new pilot program that was conceived in an effort to provide a platform for artistic directors, theatre practitioners, and theatre-goers across the country to watch bold, innovative, and intimate new works created by the most refreshing and current voices, 20 year olds*.

TBTF values justice, equity, and resonance in theatre and strives to be a catalyst for young artists in celebrating their work, uplifting their voices, and providing low-risk opportunities for creativity and exploration.

This year's Fringe will feature 172 artists from 24 states! We've got a beyond-exciting lineup with something for everyone including a thriller radio play, a Latinx musical, an adaptation of Pinnochio, and shows exploring the themes of queerness, spirituality, diversity, inclusion, and multilingualism.

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FORMAT: Prerecorded

RUN TIME: 2 Hours

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Engaged couple Iylan and Jacob return to Iylan’s hometown to help plan her grandmother’s funeral. While doing so, Iylan learns about her grandmother’s involvement with Obeah, a Jamaican spiritual practice, and her vow to protect Rae, a young girl in the neighborhood who has disappeared. This play is about cultural commitments, spirituality, and how far Black women will go to protect Black girls.

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FORMAT: Live, Staged Reading

RUN TIME: 1 Hour 35 Minutes

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A diptych of two moments in the life of a young doctor. When Valerie takes on a new patient, a child dying from cancer, she can’t help but think of the child she chose to abort when she was just seventeen. As these two stories play out side by side, they become inextricably interwoven, an examination of how we process grief, loss, and tragedy.

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FORMAT: Prerecorded, Full Production

RUN TIME: 1 Hour

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Tarick always knew he was queer, but what happens when Alanzo causes a collision in his life that throws everything off balance?

CW: Explicit Language, Sexual Situations, Physical Assault, Derogatory Language (Slurs), Homophobia

DATES:

FORMAT: Prerecorded, Radioplay

RUN TIME: 1 Hour 45 Minutes

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Produced by Linfield University Theatre, The Button Man chronicles the experiences of Rhode Island native, Pax Jones, throughout his first semester of college, during which he finds himself the puppet of a bodiless virtual entity (the Phisherman) who takes control of him through a video game.

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FORMAT: Prerecorded, Staged Reading

RUN TIME: 2 Hours

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Despierta! follows two Mexican-American families in San Diego as they deal with the pains of their past, the problems in their present, and the anxieties of their future. Soccer games, trolley rides, and the unbreakable bonds of family are brought to life with music and laughter in this two-act original musical.

CW: Racism, Xenophobia

DATES:

FORMAT: Prerecorded

RUN TIME: 1 Hour

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When estranged siblings, Scott and Meradyth unexpectedly reunite in the waiting room of a hospital, tension fills the air as their worlds split. While Scott has to face reality, Meradyth becomes entranced by the memory of her mother, Nora. Can all be forgiven and forgotten or does time never really heal wounds?

CW: Mental Illness, Suicide

DATES:

FORMAT: Live, Zoom

RUN TIME: 35 Minutes

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Today, women make up about half of the college educated workforce, but as of 2018, female STEM professionals only make up about 28% of the field. With the ingrained sexism and imposter syndrome typical of STEM-fields, this statistic is only suspected to worsen over time. This show aims to amplify the stories and experiences of the women we never heard about, and still don’t hear about now. Created from personal interviews and performed through a series of monologues, this piece reminds us that, although we have made some progress, there is still much farther to go.

CW: Sexual Harassment

DATES:

FORMAT: Prerecorded

RUN TIME: 1 Hour 40 Minutes

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Lane and June are thirteen. Lane and June are grieving their [REDACTED]. Lane and June can’t stop pulling Zebra Cakes out of… well, everywhere. When June decides to turn her grief into art as a way of processing, she becomes an overnight sensation in the art world and wins a residency at a prestigious museum. Meanwhile, Lane is left to sit with her grief at home, only helped by a boy (in a backwards hat) who has also had a brush with death. As the sisters grow farther and farther apart, they must learn how to stand in their loss before they turn fourteen.

DATES:

FORMAT: Multimedia, Pre-Recorded

RUN TIME: 45 minutes

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FWD: Compiled Works of Oscar ‘Oz’ Nava presents various experiments and explorations into music, found object, mask, puppetry, and dance/movement. This volume of solo work highlights the theatrical and human interests of Oscar Nava as an artist and a global citizen. Featuring previous work and new original material, Oscar looks forward to rediscover a new world of storytelling on stage and on film.

CW: Dating Violence, Historical Colonization, Trauma

DATES:

FORMAT: Prerecorded, Full Production

RUN TIME: 30 minutes

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Two estranged cousins, Elisa -- a first generation “white washed” Mexican-American woman, and Chayo -- a campesina woman born and raised in Mexico, meet in the southern part of the Mexican-American border for the funeral of Elisa’s mother. The two grapple with opposing views on opportunity, immigration, and the authenticity of the Mexican experience relative to their location.

CW: Explicit Language, Assimilation, Drugs, Immigration

DATES:

FORMAT: Live Instagram Heightened Staged Reading

RUN TIME: 1 Hour 45 min

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Growing, changing, and separating as they transition from middle to high school, old friends, Al, Darian, and Tai must grapple with their tenuous bonds and their truths as their adolescence comes to a boiling point. However, when shifting norms and morphing identities clash in locker-filled hallways, the threat of vulnerability threatens to tear them apart.

CW: Homophobia, Transphobia, Discriminatory Language, Depiction of Violence, Sex, Self-Harm

DATES:

FORMAT: Live

RUN TIME: 1 Hour 20 Minutes

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A hate crime has taken place at a liberal University in America. Three women enter a research study planning to create positive change, but instead, uncover their complicated shared history. Jasmine Sharma’s new play, Radial Gradient challenges what complicity looks like - what do we do if it looks like us?

CW: Racism

DATES:

FORMAT: Live, Staged Reading

RUN TIME: 30 Minutes

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Granny hasn’t been visited by her red-hooded grandson in a while, and with Dementia being the only one keeping her company, she can’t remember how long it’s been. Wolfie, nicknamed after his favorite childhood bedtime story and now much older, is in for a surprise when neither of them resembles how they remember (or don’t remember) each other. In this contemporary twist on Little Red Riding Hood, what Wolfie thought would be a simple trip to Granny’s house, turns into a battle against Dementia to keep Granny’s attention long enough to reveal the reason behind his spontaneous visit.

DATES:

FORMAT: Multimedia, Prerecorded

RUN TIME: 1 Hour

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Produced by Hope College Theatre, from playing with dolls to Dorothy dress-up, this woman’s life seems like the average child’s but her relationships past and present cloud her mind with cognitive dissonance. This multimedia solo performance piece combines theatre, music, and animation to tell a timeless coming of age tale about obsession, love, loss, and Dad bringing dolls to family dinners.

CW: Suicide, Stalking, Harassment

DATES:

FORMAT: Prerecorded

RUN TIME: 1 Hour

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Rufus takes us on an interactive journey through the mind of Rufus. Anxiety strikes as they deal with a very complicated mistake towards someone they care about. If we can’t change the past, how do we move forward? Especially when it feels like the whole world is watching?

DATES:

FORMAT: Prerecorded Staged Reading

RUN TIME: 3 Hours

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In 1950s New Jersey, newlyweds Lydia and Floyd move to the suburbs, but Lydia quickly realizes the domestic life might not be as idyllic as promised. Her neighbor Bunnie seems like the perfect happy housewife, but behind closed doors she harbors a few secrets of her own. Meanwhile, we follow the blossoming relationship between an ambitious nursing student, Mary, and a young mechanic. One day, Lydia discovers that Bunnie received an abortion at Frankie’s House, a discreet provider at the edge of town. Soon, the lives of all five women are inextricably linked, bound by a secret that could ruin them all.

CW: Intimate Partner Violence

DATES:

FORMAT: Prerecorded, Filmed In-Person Pre-Pandemic

RUN TIME: 40 Minutes

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Produced by Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre, this adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s ‘The Adventures of Pinocchio’ is an investigation into what a story can be made into. Drawing inspiration from the original text, the ensemble considered the fatalistic nature of Carlo’s first take on the wooden boy come to life. This piece is challenging and engaging, moving through Pinocchio’s birth and death, to the various ways he cheats and is cheated, to find this wooden child’s very essence and reason for being. This show is about the self and the family.

DATES:

FORMAT: Prerecorded

RUN TIME: 2 Hours

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15 years ago, after a period of waning resources, things stopped growing. Ana and Alice danced by the river, too caught up in their budding relationship to understand what was going on until Alice’s sister, Abi, fell into the river. Today, Ana and her daughter, Ava, are trying to survive, Ava dreaming of growing something in the field, when a girl walks out of the river. The two of them begin to grow together. When the girl from the river turns out to be Abi, Ana is forced to confront both her past and her daughter for the first time.

DATES:

FORMAT: Prerecorded

RUN TIME: 1 Hour, 15 Minutes

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It takes approximately 8 minutes for light from the sun to reach the earth. If the sun went dark right now, what would you do with those last 8 minutes? No heroics, no trying to save the world, just normal people grappling with their impending extinction. This play explored 8 different viewpoints -- from doctors to ex-lovers to estranged brothers -- for their final 8 minutes of certainty, of safety, of light on earth.

DATES:

FORMAT: Prerecorded

RUN TIME: 1 Hour 15 Minutes

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Produced by Cameron Wooddy, this devised satire/dark comedy piece follows four individuals as they compete for the chance to tell their “real, personal, not-at-all fabricated to be more entertaining than normal stories”. The only thing at stake is a solution to all of their problems. Can one of them overcome the Producer’s challenges and win the game?

OTHER RECOGNITIONS OF THE EVENING INCLUDE:

Lime Arts Producer Award

Awarded to a show that exemplifies a unique perspective on a timely theme, has a bright future for commercial success, and is presented in a bold, innovative, or intimate fashion.

Best of Fest Award

Awarded to the show with the largest audience.

Stellar Performer in a Leading Role Award (Drama or Dramedy)