A promotional picture for the Fringe show My Uncanny Valley. Pictured: Amahna McCall.
One of the dynamic aspects of the Minnesota Fringe Festival is that the lineup continues to change even right before the festival opens as shows are rewritten or written from scratch. Just last week, a late dropout was replaced by Green Sea Productions’ Abreast of Burlesque.
Here’s the final lineup:
| Show Name | Company Name | Credit | Credit Name | Category | Venue | ||
| (Dis)connect | Eclectic Otter Productions | Created by | Windy Bowlsby | Something different | U of M Barker Center for Dance | ||
| 55 Minutes of Sex, Drugs and Audience Participation | Loren Niemi | Created by | Loren Niemi | Something different | Ritz Theater Studio | ||
| A Good Ol’ Fashioned Presidential Debate [Of The Top Six 4th-Party Candidates In America Today] | Damn You Banana Productions | Directed by | Nathaniel Turner | Comedy | Phoenix Theater | ||
| A Mariokart Named Desire | Melanistic Squirrel | Written by | Bryn Tanner | Musical theater | Strike Theater | ||
| A Pie. A Duck. And a Shoe. | Sparkle Theatricals | Created by | Alejandra Iannone and Rick Ausland | Something different | The Southern Theater | ||
| A Study in Emerald | Conundrum Collective | Written by | Neil Gaiman | Drama | Intermedia Arts | ||
| Abreast of Burlesque | Green Sea Productions | Something different | HUGE Theater | ||||
| AfterLife | SunsetGun Productions | Written by | Candy Simmons & Chris Van Strander | Drama | Intermedia Arts | ||
| Airbags | Rebecca Sandell | Written by | Rebecca Sandell | Comedy | U of M Rarig Center Arena | ||
| AirD&D | MDK Productions | Written by | Michael Krefting and Brian Scot Johnson | Comedy | U of M Rarig Center Arena | ||
| All Night Check: Beautiful Young Ladies to Perform for You | The Wandering Uterus Project | Something different | U of M Rarig Center Xperimental | ||||
| An Accidental Organist | David Boyle | Written by | David Boyle | Something different | Ritz Theater Studio | ||
| An Imaginary End | Michael Rogers | Created by | Michael Rogers | Something different | The Southern Theater | ||
| And To Think That I Saw It At 221B Baker’s Street | Rooftop Theatre Company | Created by | John Newstrom & Tim Wick | Comedy | The Southern Theater | ||
| Apple Picking | Ben San Del Presents | Created by | Ben San Del | Comedy | Ritz Theatre Mainstage | ||
| Assemblé | Minneapolis Ballet Dancers | Dance | U of M Barker Center for Dance | ||||
| Babylon Revisited | Abas Theatre Company | Written by | F Scott Fitzgerald | Drama | Ritz Theatre Mainstage | ||
| Ball: A Musical Tribute To My Lost Testicle | The Catalysts | Created by | Max Wojtanowicz | Musical theater | The Southern Theater | ||
| Becoming Inga | David Mann | Created by | Colleen Kruse and David Mann | Something different | U of M Rarig Center Arena | ||
| Bezubaan: The Voiceless | Bollywood Dance Scene | Created by | Bollywood Dance Scene | Musical theater | U of M Rarig Center Thrust | ||
| Bird of Seven Colors | Erin Sheppard Presents | Directed by | Erin Sheppard | Dance | U of M Barker Center for Dance | ||
| Bobby Crossfire: American Acehole | Swing and a Miss | Created by | Justin Feit and Brady Mueller | Comedy | Phoenix Theater | ||
| Break Your Heart | One T Productions | Written by | Scot Moore | Something different | Intermedia Arts | ||
| Broken English, Mother Tongue. | minnerican productions | Written by | Javier Morillo | Something different | Bryant-Lake Bowl | ||
| BUSted | Surprise Me! Productions | Created by | Vickijoan Keck & Surprise Me! Productions | Something different | U of M Rarig Center Arena | ||
| Caucasian Aggressive Pandas and Other Mulatto Tales | Fearless Comedy Productions | Written by | Duck Washington | Comedy | Theatre in the Round | ||
| Celebrity Book Club | Outlandish Productions | Written by | Jimmy LeDuc, Dan Hetzel, and Sulia Rose Altenberg | Comedy | Theatre in the Round | ||
| Celebrity Exception | Giant Giraffe | Written by | Katherine Glover | Comedy | HUGE Theater | ||
| Circus McGurkus | Mike’s Brass | Choreographed by | Erinn Leibhard | Dance | U of M Barker Center for Dance | ||
| COUGAR-OKE the improvised soap opera with music | Casting Spells Productions | Created by | The Entire Cast | Comedy | Strike Theater | ||
| Couple Fight II: Friends and Family | Weggel-Reed Productions | Created by | Anna Weggel-Reed | Comedy | Theatre in the Round | ||
| Damned If You Do | Schroedinger’s Dog | Written by | Kelvin Hatle | Comedy | Playwrights’ Center | ||
| Darlings | Animal Engine | Created by | Carrie Brown and Karim Muasher | Drama | Ritz Theatre Mainstage | ||
| Don Quixote | Windmill Company | Written by | Connor M. McEvoy | Comedy | Theatre in the Round | ||
| Egregious Errors By The Writers of WriterRung | Got It Made Productions | Comedy | Mixed Blood Theatre | ||||
| Electric Sun | Speck of Dust | Directed by | Logan Toftness | Drama | Ritz Theatre Mainstage | ||
| Evil Twin | Ilana Kapra Productions | Created by | Billie Jo Konze and Ilana Kapra | Comedy | Ritz Theater Studio | ||
| Flying Solo: A Chronicle from the Absolute at Large and Saving Our Superman | Cloud Leigh Productions | Directed by | Jennifer Tuder | Something different | Ritz Theater Studio | ||
| Fool’s Medicine | Theatre of Fools | Created by | Lloyd Brant | Comedy | Mixed Blood Theatre | ||
| For Worse | Theatre Unbound | Written by | Anne Bertram | Comedy | Mixed Blood Theatre | ||
| Four Duets & One More | DA Dance | Choreographed by | Denise Armstead | Dance | U of M Barker Center for Dance | ||
| Frame Works | Classical Mechanics | Choreographed by | Margaret Marinoff | Dance | U of M Barker Center for Dance | ||
| From the Ground Up | Trifecta Dance Collective | Choreographed by | Krissie Odegard Geye and Carrie Patterson | Dance | U of M Barker Center for Dance | ||
| Fruit Flies Like a Banana: Alphabetical Disorder | The Fourth Wall | Created by | The Fourth Wall | Something different | U of M Rarig Center Thrust | ||
| Full Heart Living LIVE! The Boot Camp Experience | Cosmos Theater | Created by | Tom Glaser and Nicole Marie Wilder | Something different | Bryant-Lake Bowl | ||
| Game of Thrones: The Musical | Really Spicy Opera | Created by | Basil Considine | Musical theater | Ritz Theatre Mainstage | ||
| Genesis//Revelations | SB Movement | Choreographed by | Sydney Burch | Dance | Playwrights’ Center | ||
| Gilligan: A Tropical Musical | Literally Entertainment Productions | Created by | Literally Entertainment Productions | Musical theater | Mixed Blood Theatre | ||
| Golmah | Cialuna’s Storydance Theatre | Created by | Cia Sautter | Dance | Intermedia Arts | ||
| Good Friday With Dillinger | LookBack Productions | Directed by | Shalee Coleman | Drama | U of M Rarig Center Xperimental | ||
| Grand Theft Autobiography | Fortune’s Fool Theatre | Written by | Daniel Pinkerton | Comedy | Strike Theater | ||
| Grandma Bernice Tells All | Homeward Bound | Written by | Kristine Malm Holmgren, Minnesota Playwright | Comedy | Playwrights’ Center | ||
| Gray Wolves – a gerotranscenDANCE | Michele Rusinko Dance | Choreographed by | Michele Rusinko and dancers | Dance | U of M Barker Center for Dance | ||
| H.P. Lovecraft’s The Rats in the Walls | Ghoulish Delights | Directed by | Tim Uren | Drama | Mill City Museum | ||
| Happenstanced | Pipermonkey | Written by | Allegra J Lingo | Something different | U of M Rarig Center Xperimental | ||
| HAPPY TRAILERS TO YOU | NKBPRODUCTIONS | Written by | NOREEN K BRANDT | Comedy | Mixed Blood Theatre | ||
| Hazard | Presence | Written by | Megan Burns | Drama | Strike Theater | ||
| Home: The Place Where My Stuff Resides | Red Dice Collective | Written by | Vinecia Coleman | Drama | HUGE Theater | ||
| Hostil Watching | The Drollery | Created by | Matthew Alto | Drama | HUGE Theater | ||
| I (Heart) Brains: An Original Musical | Desperate For Approval Productions | Created by | Elizabeth Eccher, Marino Eccher, Carissa Carroll and Troy Clintsman | Musical theater | U of M Rarig Center Thrust | ||
| If Only: Parallel Worlds Collide at HarMar Mall | Society for the Preservation of Gravity | Written by | Kara Garbe Balcerzak | Drama | Theatre in the Round | ||
| In The Time of Spies | Ferrari McSpeedy Theatrical Productions | Created by | Joe Bozic and Mike Fotis | Comedy | U of M Rarig Center Thrust | ||
| It Always Rained in Paris | Theatre Corrobora | Written by | Hailey Colwell | Drama | Phoenix Theater | ||
| It Came From UUFO | OAFtrax | Created by | Jeffery Goodson, Barry Shay, Patsy Puckett | Comedy | U of M Rarig Center Xperimental | ||
| It is so ordered: The Supreme Court’s Greatest Hits | American Civic Forum | Created by | Matthew Foster | Something different | Intermedia Arts | ||
| Itch | Three Knives | Written by | Tyler Olsen | Something different | U of M Rarig Center Thrust | ||
| Kicking’ It Irish | O’Shea Productions | Created by | O’Shea Productions | Dance | Ritz Theatre Mainstage | ||
| Know Your B-Movie Actors | The Miller Conspiracy | Written by | Derek Lee Miller | Comedy | HUGE Theater | ||
| Lazy Eyed Geek | The Theatre Cosmic | Created by | Brandon Taitt | Drama | Strike Theater | ||
| Letters | W.A.R. Theatre | Created by | Michael Johnson and Elliott Heerman | Drama | U of M Rarig Center Arena | ||
| Lewis/Clark | Rhymes with Montana | Written by | Tyler Mills | Something different | Phoenix Theater | ||
| Life, Beautiful | Jolene Konkel Dance Collective | Choreographed by | Jolene Konkel | Dance | U of M Barker Center for Dance | ||
| LIVER | ChriSTARpher | Written by | Christopher Plakut | Comedy | Playwrights’ Center | ||
| Living With Roaches | Garlic | Created by | GARLIC Artists | Comedy | Ritz Theater Studio | ||
| Lockdown | Agile Rabbit Theatre | Written by | Samson Perry | Drama | Phoenix Theater | ||
| masc4masc | Perfect Chair Productions | Written by | Paul Fosaaen and Joel Swearingen | Musical theater | U of M Rarig Center Arena | ||
| Mead Hall | Tedious Brief Productions | Written by | Greer, Tallen, and Watson-Jones | Comedy | U of M Rarig Center Thrust | ||
| Merkur and Venera | Lunar Autumn Theatre | Written by | Evan Peterson | Drama | U of M Rarig Center Arena | ||
| Midwest Pretty | Dog Medicine | Created by | Amie Durenberger, Leah Isaacson, Neil Pearson, Spencer Retelle & Isaac Witty | Comedy | U of M Rarig Center Arena | ||
| Mother’s Milk | InnerVoice | Created by | Katherine Engel | Something different | U of M Rarig Center Xperimental | ||
| My Uncanny Valley | Olly’s Room | Directed by | Demetre Papageorgiou | Something different | Strike Theater | ||
| No Disrespect, Just Saying | SaMi Productions | Directed by | Dana McConnell | Comedy | U of M Rarig Center Arena | ||
| No Limits | Renew Hope | Created by | Nikki Abramson, Sara Truesdale, and Gizelle Erickson | Drama | Ritz Theater Studio | ||
| NOW OR LATER | NEW EPIC THEATER | Directed by | Joseph Stodola | Drama | The Southern Theater | ||
| Of Something Human | Present State Movement (Tamara Ober) | Created by | Tamara Ober and dancers | Something different | Intermedia Arts | ||
| Oh snap! my alien children are trying to kill me | Zm3 productions | Created by | Zell Miller, III | Comedy | Bryant-Lake Bowl | ||
| On the Road to Verona | MN SkyVault Theatre Co. | Created by | The Minnesota SkyVault Theatre Company | Comedy | U of M Rarig Center Thrust | ||
| One Man’s Journey through the Middle Ages | Third Act Productions | Created by | Judah Leblang | Comedy | Playwrights’ Center | ||
| Orpheus and Eurydice | Garden of Song Opera | Written by | Christoph Willibald Gluck | Musical theater | Mixed Blood Theatre | ||
| Our Dysfunctional Year | Minnesota Shorts | Directed by | Franklin Heller | Comedy | Strike Theater | ||
| PENELOPE | Savage Umbrella | Created by | Savage Umbrella | Something different | Matthews Park Picnic Area | ||
| Pistachios | Uncommon Loons | Created by | Nathan Bergstedt and John Schroeder | Drama | HUGE Theater | ||
| Pluck, Cluck, and Dumb Luck | Tall Tales Productions | Written by | Christy Eichers | Comedy | Bryant-Lake Bowl | ||
| Portrait of the East River | First Tooth | Created by | Molly-Margaret Johnson | Something different | Theatre in the Round | ||
| Preparations | B.D. Schmiegel | Written by | Michael Burton | Musical theater | Ritz Theatre Mainstage | ||
| Ray Bradbury’s Kaleidoscope | Wayward Theatre Company | Directed by | Sarah Nargang | Something different | HUGE Theater | ||
| Restless Beat: A BIG DRUM Musical | Twiggle T Productions | Written by | Tracey Cramer-Kelly | Musical theater | The Southern Theater | ||
| Ricochet | Movement by RUTH | Created by | Ruth Glaeser | Dance | U of M Barker Center for Dance | ||
| RUNE | Vox Medusa | Created by | Vox Medusa | Something different | Intermedia Arts | ||
| Satan Causes Your Poop to Stink! | RPD Productions | Created by | Reverend Pat D | Something different | Bryant-Lake Bowl | ||
| Seeing Self | Eduardo Productions | Directed by | Nathan Eckstein | Something different | Ritz Theater Studio | ||
| Shaken – and Stirred | Jawaahir Dance Company | Choreographed by | Cassandra Shore | Dance | Intermedia Arts | ||
| Skywatch! Or the unofficial official investigation of possible alien landings on a small mid-western wheat field | Blue Moon Theatre Company | Written by | Lawrence Ripp | Comedy | Phoenix Theater | ||
| Sleeper | Al-Bahira Dance Theater | Created by | Mirah Ammal | Dance | Intermedia Arts | ||
| SmashHammer: The Heavy Metal Musical Featuring the Heavy Metal Stylings of the Heavy Metal Band, SmashHammer | SMASH HAMMER | Directed by | Joe Johnson | Musical theater | The Southern Theater | ||
| Smitten by the Kitten | WaHi Productions | Written by | Kristin Froberg | Drama | Bryant-Lake Bowl | ||
| Snow Country | Minnehaha Productions | Written by | Carmen Angelica & Emily Schmidt | Comedy | Theatre in the Round | ||
| So Bright the Night | Hey Rube | Created by | Marcus Anthony | Drama | Strike Theater | ||
| Sock Hops, Recorders, and Owl Pellets: Tips on Surviving the 4th Grade | Caffeinated Productions | Written by | Christopher Cartwright | Comedy | U of M Rarig Center Arena | ||
| Sometimes There’s Wine | Shanan Custer & Carolyn Pool | Created by | Shanan Custer & Carolyn Pool | Comedy | Theatre in the Round | ||
| Sons of Swayze | Notorious PKG | Created by | Peter Gilbert | Comedy | U of M Rarig Center Thrust | ||
| Suite Surrender | PZ Productions | Directed by | Piper Shatz-Akin and Zach Christensen | Comedy | U of M Rarig Center Xperimental | ||
| Surge | The Rose Theatre | Written by | Chris Stezin | Drama | Playwrights’ Center | ||
| Take Talkback | Six Four Six One Productions | Directed by | Brad Erickson | Comedy | Ritz Theatre Mainstage | ||
| Terror On The High Seas | The Adventures of Les Kurkendaal | Created by | Les Kurkendaal | Comedy | Bryant-Lake Bowl | ||
| The Abortion Chronicles | The Red Letter Society | Created by | Ariel Leaf, Ruth Virkus and Ben Layne | Something different | Theatre in the Round | ||
| The Adventures of Crazy Jane and Red Haired Annie: Adventure stories for grown-ups | Laura Packer, storyteller | Created by | Laura Packer | Something different | HUGE Theater | ||
| The Cast was Dyed | The Prime Time Players | Created by | Don Cosgrove | Comedy | Playwrights’ Center | ||
| The Chair-Builders | Catalog Models | Created by | Gemma Irish and Mark Sweeney | Drama | Phoenix Theater | ||
| The Clock That Fell Off The Mantle | Morally Ambiguous | Created by | Taylor Fischer & Samantha Smith | Drama | Playwrights’ Center | ||
| The Deluded…a light comedy | Pennywick | Written by | Sheila Path-McMahon & Jay McMahon | Comedy | U of M Rarig Center Xperimental | ||
| The Disillusionist | Stunt Theater | Created by | Neal Skoy | Comedy | Strike Theater | ||
| The Exclusion Zone! | Martin Dockery | Created by | Martin Dockery | Comedy | Ritz Theatre Mainstage | ||
| The Fever | Patrick O’Brien | Written by | Wallace Shawn | Drama | Phoenix Theater | ||
| The Final Tubby Bye-Bye | Play-dot | Created by | Play-Dot | Something different | U of M Rarig Center Thrust | ||
| The Gospel of Sherilyn Fenn | HT Productions | Written by | Brad Lawrence | Comedy | HUGE Theater | ||
| The Gun Show | IDIC Theatreworks | Directed by | Kevin T. Houle | Drama | Strike Theater | ||
| The History of (my) Dance | Smiling Lune | Created by | Kalila Indivar | Something different | Intermedia Arts | ||
| The ImproVoice | Double-Blind Productions | Directed by | Eric Thompson | Musical theater | The Southern Theater | ||
| The Invention of Baseball | Beckettian Donuts | Directed by | Thomas M Buan | Musical theater | Phoenix Theater | ||
| The Jackpot Hour With(out) Jack Power | Paper Soul | Written by | J. Merrill Motz | Comedy | U of M Rarig Center Xperimental | ||
| The Last Late Night Show on Earth | On Tenterhooks Productions | Written by | Elizabeth Ess | Comedy | Bryant-Lake Bowl | ||
| The Last Red Shirt | Expensive Wino Productions | Created by | Expensive Wino Productions | Comedy | Theatre in the Round | ||
| The Life of Charles Schulz | History Comes To Life | Created by | Brad Erickson | Drama | Phoenix Theater | ||
| The Lost Anklet – Therukkoothu | Minnesota Tamil Sangam | Directed by | Sachidanandhan Venkatakrishnan | Drama | The Southern Theater | ||
| The Lounge-asaurus Rex Show with Lounge-asaurus Rex! (featuring Lounge-asaurus Rex) | Tom Reed | Created by | Tom Reed | Comedy | Theatre in the Round | ||
| The Most Dangerous Game | Sheep Theater | Created by | Sheep Theater | Comedy | The Southern Theater | ||
| The Non-Producers | TROMPE L’OEIL | Written by | Kevin Bowen | Comedy | U of M Rarig Center Thrust | ||
| The Not-So-Silent Planet: A Speculative Storytelling Show | Word Sprout | Directed by | phillip andrew bennett low | Something different | U of M Rarig Center Arena | ||
| The Nutcracker and the Mouse King | Jeremy Terry Productions | Written by | Brendan Jones | Drama | Ritz Theatre Mainstage | ||
| The Pioneer: AKA The Funnyman | Bearwolf Productions | Created by | Clint Allen | Comedy | Intermedia Arts | ||
| the place between | two somethings | Created by | Annie Galloway, Autumn Ike, Ben Kolis, Malia Yang, Rob Ward | Something different | Playwrights’ Center | ||
| The Plucky Rosenthal Show | Showsenthal Productions | Created by | Alisa Rosenthal | Comedy | Bryant-Lake Bowl | ||
| The Pound: A Musical for the Dogs | Imagined Theatre | Written by | Phil Darg and Jules Darg | Musical theater | Mixed Blood Theatre | ||
| The Real World Fringe Festival | Trusty Paper Ship | Written by | Annie Scott Riley | Comedy | Mixed Blood Theatre | ||
| The Right Words: Stories of Justice Served and Justice Thwarted | Story Arts of Minnesota | Created by | Story Arts of Minnesota | Something different | Ritz Theater Studio | ||
| The Story of You and Me | Lady Z Productions | Created by | Maureen L. Bourgeois | Drama | SpringHouse Ministry Center | ||
| The Yeti | Siege Perilous Films | Created by | James Buffington | Comedy | Mixed Blood Theatre | ||
| Theatre Forever’s The Accident Book | 7 Hornets Theatre | Directed by | Jon Ferguson | Comedy | Ritz Theatre Mainstage | ||
| There’s No Coffee in Heaven | Jayme Allen | Written by | Jayme Allen | Comedy | Ritz Theater Studio | ||
| To Kill a Minnesotan | Foxhill Studios | Created by | JL Charrier | Drama | The Southern Theater | ||
| Trump: A Musical Tale | Clevername Productions | Directed by | Alexander Gerchak | Musical theater | Mixed Blood Theatre | ||
| Trump’s America (It’s Hell) | F.E.A.R. Productions | Created by | Elliot Stevenson | Drama | Mixed Blood Theatre | ||
| Twice | Its Time Productions | Written by | Chris Andersen & Lee Lawing | Drama | Playwrights’ Center | ||
| UBU TRUMP | Trouveres Theatrics | Created by | Trouveres Theatrics | Something different | HUGE Theater | ||
| Unsafe at Any Speed | Michael Merriam | Written by | Michael Merriam | Something different | Bryant-Lake Bowl | ||
| Vegtables Got it Easy | Everything You Want…Right Now! | Created by | Michael Ross | Comedy | Ritz Theater Studio | ||
| Visiting Hour | Hegg’s Army | Directed by | Elliott Mallin | Drama | Playwrights’ Center | ||
| Watch This Space | Public Displays of Affection | Created by | Tim Cameron | Something different | U of M Barker Center for Dance | ||
| What I Thought I Saw: Random Acts of Blindness | Dreamland Arts | Created by | Leslye Orr | Comedy | Strike Theater | ||
| When She Became Me: a pro-choice play about abortion | Constructed Theatre | Created by | Elizabeth Horab | Drama | U of M Rarig Center Thrust | ||
| Why I Don’t Want to Be a Cat Woman: Reflections on Human Rites of Passage | Human Doings Productions | Created by | Sara Truesdale | Comedy | Ritz Theater Studio | ||
| Wolf Tales | DanceCo | Created by | Matthew Keefe | Dance | U of M Rarig Center Xperimental | ||
| Write Me a Song | Loud Folk Records | Created by | Jeromy Darling | Musical theater | Bryant-Lake Bowl | ||
| Writer’s Block. | The World Crime League | Written by | Andrew Rosdail | Comedy | U of M Rarig Center Xperimental | ||
| Yes! Feed The Monkey! | Theatre Curiosita | Created by | Vlad Messing | Something different | HUGE Theater | ||
| You Suck. | Tinker-2-Evers-2-Chance | Written by | George Campbell | Comedy | U of M Rarig Center Xperimental | ||
| Zombie Apocalypse/Killer Robots From Mars! | Court Ordered Theatre | Written by | Peter Krinke | Comedy | Phoenix Theater | ||
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