The Young Fringer

1. Garage Band: Beanstalk Productions

Meg is determined to start her own rock band. She recruited the hottest guitar player in town. And as the lead singer, she knew she could carry her band to stardom. But what's up with the rest of the band members? And will that pesky little sister be the end of them?

Jessica Ferris contacted me about her show in the Fringe. She is a San Francisco Bay Area-based performing artist, who has been making solo shows for the past ten years. Her show is about her father disappearing when she as young and finding out what really happened to him. It turns out that he is a con man and also while researching she finds that there is more than one con man there.

When I heard that Blank Slate Theatre was putting a show in the Fringe, I was really happy to hear that they are putting their work before a bigger audience. So I contacted Adam Arnold to get the scoop on his Fringe show. Blank Slate Theatre is a company that collaborates with artists ages 12 to 18 in producing and performing dramatic works speaking to issues relating to, and impacting, teenagers in America today.

This is Top Hat’s eighth year in the Fringe. I was in three of Top Hat’s earlier Fringe productions.  It is a theater that specializes in providing family-friendly shows based on common fairy tales and folklore. Pam and Todd Russell, a wife-and-husband team, take well-known stories, i.e. "Cinderella," "Snow White," but then give them a modern spin.