 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
MEDIA MENTIONS:
Chicago Artists Resource
February 8 2010
Dancers at Work Forum: New Directions in Performance Presentation
MMN ep:023 The Edge of Fringe in Chicago
January 19 2010
On the edge of creative performance you will find the fringe. Mikayla Brown and Vinnie Lacey of Fringe Chicago talked with me about their upcoming event slated for the beginning of September.
Arts Professional Story: Sarah Mikayla Brown, Chicago Fringe Festival
January 1 2010
How and why was the Chicago Fringe Festival conceived?
I Just Got Here Blog
December 7 2009
Mikayla Brown, executive producer of the Chicago Fringe Festival, joined me to talk about the origins and vision of the festival and the nuts-and-bolts for prospective performers.
Listen to the full podcast here.
Chicagoist
Theater Community Building
By: Suzy Evans
December 1, 2009
The Chicago Fringe Festival, slated to debut in Pilsen next September, released applications to be a part of the event today. Festival organizers will choose participants by a lottery system, while still ensuring geographic and international diversity.
Time Out Chicago
Does Chicago want a fringe fest? We’ll find out next year.
By Kris Vire
Issue 236 : Sep 3–9, 2009
In major cities across North America, the summer season is fringe season. Fringe festivals of low-budget, high-enterprise performing arts take place from June to September, from Seattle to Orlando. New York’s and Indianapolis’s just concluded; Philadelphia’s and San Francisco’s start this week. And Chicago’s…doesn’t exist. Are we missing out?
Sarah Mikayla Brown thinks so. As managing director of the now-defunct Tantalus Theatre Group, Brown traveled with the company’s show Dreadful Penny’s Exquisite Horrors to last year’s Minnesota Fringe and FringeNYC. “It was such an awesome experience,” she says, that she was struck by Chicago’s deficit. When Tantalus dissolved, she decided to found her own fest. On July 24, the Chicago Fringe Festival (CFF) was incorporated as a nonprofit, with a goal of producing its first festival in September 2010.
