Newburgh Fringe Festival

05/20/2026

As we gear up for Newburgh Fringe Festival 2026, take a trip down memory lane with us... 
Patricia Santos () is a singing cellist and songwriter. During the first-ever Newburgh Fringe Festival, she presented a set of original songs created in response to her experience being a multiracial/multicultural first generation American, and fighting erasure, censorship, and oppression, often through the lens of literature. Her music blends folk, rock, blues, and avant pop, and the cello settings meld classical training with alternative styles and extended techniques. 
Apply NOW to take the stage in NFF 2026, returning October 16-18 🌟  
 
🔗Learn more & apply at the link in our bio 
⏰Submission deadline: June 15, 2026  
🌌 The sky’s the limit with NFF! We’re on the hunt for innovative, immersive, and experimental performing arts programming.  We can’t wait to hear from you. 
Photo credit Brian Wolfe 
 
 


05/13/2026

As we gear up for Newburgh Fringe Festival 2026, take a trip down memory lane with us... 
Scooby: A Dooby Musical Parody: Presented at the first-ever Newburgh Fringe Festival in 2025 
Four young teens in a van driving somewhere they don’t know find themselves lost, solving another mystery, with a dog! A classic 60’s Saturday morning cartoon reimagined in a satirical and hysterical way. 
Creators: Stephen D’Ambrosio and William T. Odell 
Apply NOW to take the stage in NFF 2026, returning October 16-18 🌟  
 
🔗Learn more & apply at the link in our bio 
⏰Submission deadline: June 15, 2026  
🌌 The sky’s the limit with NFF! We’re on the hunt for innovative, immersive, and experimental performing arts programming.  We can’t wait to hear from you. 
Photo credit Brian Wolfe 
 
 


05/07/2026

As we gear up for Newburgh Fringe Festival 2026, take a trip down memory lane with us...

Thom Fitzgerald’s THE BARNACLE’S TALE: Presented at the first-ever Newburgh Fringe Festival in 2025

Thom Fitzgerald’s THE BARNACLE’S TALE is a ten-minute romp with a sassy, profane, frustrated, very funny barnacle. Barney desperately wants to be bartender at the resort bar he can see from his immovable home on the side of a sunken ship in a Caribbean bay. The only problem – he has no appendages.
Director: Gloria Bonelli
Writer: Thom Fitzgerald

Apply NOW to take the stage in NFF 2026, returning October 16-18 🌟

🔗Learn more & apply at the link in our bio
⏰Submission deadline: June 15, 2026
🌌 The sky’s the limit with NFF! We’re on the hunt for innovative, immersive, and experimental performing arts programming. We can’t wait to hear from you.

Photo credit Brian Wolfe

05/01/2026

And with that, applications are OPEN! We're looking for bold, boundary-breaking works to take the stage in the second-ever Newburgh Fringe Festival, returning October 16-18, 2026 🌟

🔗Learn more & apply: https://safe-harbors.org/the-ritz-theater/newburgh-fringe-festival/
⏰Submission deadline: June 15, 2026

🫵 You have a wild dream, we want to hear about it! NFF presents original theater, existing plays with a new take, plays that have never been staged, full length, short form, sketches, standup, one person, puppetry, musicians, dancers, clowns, merrymakers, and everything in-between and beyond.

We present NFF with our partners at Hit House Creative (Shane Bly Killoran, John Hartzell, Patricia A. Cornwell), Ken Martinez, Gloria Bonelli, and Buffey Maria Favata.

04/27/2026

📣 WE'RE COMING BACK!

We're over the moon to announce Newburgh Fringe Festival will return this year: October 16-18 ✨✨

So excited to be bringing this fabulous community together again with our Fringe team: Ken Martinez, Hit House Creative, Shane Bly Killoran, John Hartzell, Patricia A. Cornwell, Gloria Bonelli, Diamond Grade Media, and Buffey Favata.

Stay tuned and follow Newburgh Fringe Festival for updates 💫

04/24/2026