Applications ARE OPEN NOW!
The next Asheville Fringe Arts Festival will take place March 15-22, 2026.
Remaining
2025 dates
September 12-13
November 21-22
December 12-13
more dates TBA!
A series of one-hour performances by Fringe artists at 35below, ACT’s intimate black box theatre, presented by Asheville Fringe Society & Asheville Community Theatre
2025 was the 23Rd year of the Asheville Fringe Arts Festival.
Asheville Fringe Society
The Asheville Fringe Society is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to producing innovative, boundary-pushing work in Asheville, North Carolina. AFS produces the annual Asheville Fringe Arts Festival in March, as well as individual artist-driven projects throughout the year.
OUR MISSION
The Asheville Fringe Society is dedicated to cultivating strange and wonderful work that lies outside the mainstream. The Asheville Fringe Arts Festival provides artists with opportunities to explore the edges of their work, to collaborate across genres and to bring new and innovative performances to culturally adventurous audiences. Our continual goal is to curate experiences that expand the minds and hearts of our audiences and to be inclusive of artists who work within a myriad of genres, styles, and forms to create truly unique and original pieces in our community.
Board Members
Jim Julien, Jocelyn Reese, Erinn Hartley, Jenni Cockrell, Morgan Biessert, Jennifer Murphy and Jennifer Bennett.
