NEXT EDITION

4 - 14 SEPTEMBER

2025

11 days, 25 locations and more than 250 shows!

Amsterdam Fringe Festival presents a mix mash of theatre, performance art & dance by new, upcoming and untamed talent each year in September.

NEWS

Join Makers* Monday

Makers, writers, actors, directors, dramaturgs, scenographers, programmers, producers, technicians, and other performing arts professionals, come and join Makers* Monday!

WINNERS 2024!

Amsterdam Fringe Festival ends with a BANG, awarding 4 makers/collectives!

Introducing for all: The Amsterdam Fringe Method!

A collaboration with writer Simone Zeefuik & visual artist Lamiae El Hajjaji. Download it for free now!

NEW: Performances with Dutch Sign Language

This year at Amsterdam Fringe we have a performance in Dutch Sign Language and a few performances that have a Dutch Sign Language Interpreter or speech-to-text provider present!

fringe awards

about the fringe awards

Amsterdam Fringe Festival only knows winners! But some performances win something extra.

Our jury of professionals sees every show during the festival and chooses a couple of best performances. Three shows win the ‘Fringe at Best award’ (FAB award) and do not only get the honor and a spot at the next AFF, but also extra spots at other festivals to play their show.
One show wins the ‘International Bursery’, which gives the opportunity to play at Fringe festival abroad with a € 3000,- budet.

After the festival artists, who would like to improve their performance, can also sign up for the ‘Next Best Fringe Award’. Two of them win the award and get the chance to have a residency and get a place to play the improved show.

Winners of the awards in 2024 are:
– Fringe at Best: dat wat ontembaar is van Melisa Diktaş, Love Is Abundant van Pensive Vivifier en Noorderlicht van Jonathan Bonny & Theater Babel Rotterdam

– International Bursary: We play so hard it hurts van Fernando Troya – A Pelo Productions

our story

Amsterdam Fringe Festival shows a mixmash of theatre, performance and dance from new, emerging and untamed talent for 11 days every September.

We present a multidisciplinary program of 57 makers/collectives, from diverse backgrounds, origins and futures.

Our showcase festival is a haven for experimentation and provides a stage for new creators and stories. Amsterdam Fringe Festival is an ode to theatrical madness, the independent spirit and a plea for artistic freedom. A thick, intimate embrace of experimentation in the truest sense of the word: one whose outcome may yet truly surprise you.

Amsterdam Fringe Festival emerged in 2005 around and on the fringes of the annual Netherlands Theatre Festival. Amsterdam Fringe Festival is distinguished from other fringe festivals by its open call and intensive mentoring of creators.

open call

The Amsterdam Fringe Festival works with an open call system. You can subscribe from mid–December until the end of January. In March, the Fringe team will make a selection. Subscription is free, we have a open call form which you can find on our website by mid December!

Check our website and socials for updates on how to subscribe!

fringe festivals

From Deldi to Delft, from Hollywood to Istanbul; Fringe is everywhere! There are more than 250 Fringe festivals in the world.

Although they all have their own artistic way, all Fringe festivals give space for new artistic encounters, cross-overs, experiment and genres.

This year, 2023, the Amsterdam Fringe Festival will turn 18 years! In 2005, the festival started at the fringes of Amsterdam, under the wings of the Netherlands Theatre Festival.

Nowadays, Amsterdam Fringe Festival is known for it’s open call system and the thorough way we guide the artists with workshops and coaching.

creators.

world fringe

World Fringe is an initiative of the following Fringe festivals: Grahamstown, Hollywood, New York, Adelaide, Perth, Prague, Brighton, Edinburgh and Amsterdam. Together we reach millions of people en we create new opportunities for artists, public and sponsors.

The festivals work together in exchanging ‘Best Of Fringe’ shows, to create more opportunities for artists to perform internationally.

Since 2009, Amsterdam Fringe has exchanged with Brighton, Hollywood, South Africa, New York, Prague, Dublin, Edinburgh, Istanbul and Grahamstown Fringe.

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Partners & Sponsors

OUR BENEFICIARIES

Many thanks to:

OUR SPONSORS AND PARTNERS

Many thanks to:

MET SPECIALE DANK AAN

All location partners of the festival
Members of the Fringe jury
Our ‘recommended by’ partners: Poetry Circle Nowhere, Mezrab, Bijlmer Parktheater, RIGHTABOUTNOWINC., ICK.
All volunteers!
Bram de Jaeger
Our colleagues at Nederlands Theaterfestival
Everyone who donated when buying a ticket or has supported us via Support Fringe