Music, storytelling and the theatre of personal experience
I have lived and taught in the rural South for a long time. I didn’t mean to… it just worked out that way. Partly because I was fortunate...
A platform for the shows that you don’t know you need
Growing up in St Louis, there were two types of productions that struck me as vital to the community: the big shows that we all know and...
Taking “The Bothered” from concept to Fringe
Our devised work seeks out an answer to one question; Why do we hide away the things we fear? It seems like a simple question, yes? We...
Finding a Home for Our Talents
The creative team at Whale of the People is excited to participate in the 2018 St Lou Fringe Festival. Here, members of the team talk about why Fringe is important to them and their art.
St Lou Fringe Festival: As American as the First Amendment
The first Fringe happened September 25, 1789. A group of fearless visionaries wrote letters, assembled, spoke their truth and in the end...
Unleashing my voice started with volunteering at St Lou Fringe
As writers, we are always looking for a way to get our work produced. How do we do that? We submit to theatre companies or festivals...
Fringe Family Day is a mind-expanding experience for the kids at School of Rock
School of Rock is thrilled to participate in the St Lou Fringe Festival Family Day again this year! We're fortunate to enjoy a thriving...
St Lou Fringe unlocked the bold artist in me!
I gleefully stumbled upon Fringe the summer of 2015, when Mrs. Tracy Bono asked me to dress in eighteenth-century garb for the Fringe’s...
Why Can’t We All Get Along? (a Fringe-worthy question, indeed)
Being black isn’t easy. Before the content of your character is revealed, the color of your skin will be seen. I continue to see unarmed...
A Force for Artistic Expression and the Good of the Fringe
While I’d been aware of the legendary Edinburgh Fringe, and fantasized what it was like, my first real taste of Fringe came in 2003....
