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April 10, 2023 · 5:48 am

A Final, Hair-Raising Adventure for a Very Meddlesome Duo

RUH-Roh! at the 2023 Cincinnati Fringe Theatre Festival, June 2–June 17

(CINCINNATI, OHIO) – The epic conclusion QCF_Ruh-Roh!to Queen City Flash’s award-winning ZOiNKS! Trilogy (ZOiNKS!, 2019 & JiNKiES, 2022). Perfect for both newcomers and returning fans alike, RUH-Roh! follows the adventures of teen detective Nolan Blackwell and her dog Casper and is a foul-mouthed and irreverent send-up of Nancy Drew and Scooby Doo.

PICK-OF-THE-FRINGE winners Bridget Leak, Jordan Trovillion and Trey Tatum return for the finale of the ZOiNKS! Trilogy.

AWARDS AND ACCOLADES FOR QUEEN CITY FLASH
2021 Cincy Fringe All-Access Pick- You Will Live Under the Sea
2020 Cincy Fringe All-Access Pick – Killjoy, Ohio
2020 The Young-Howze Theatre Awards, Show of the Year Winner – Killjoy, Ohio
2019 Cincy Fringe All-Access Pick – Zoinks!
2018 Cincy Fringe All-Access Pick- Alabama Monster
2014 Cincy Fringe Artist Pick – Slut Shaming

THE CREATIVE TEAM
Written by Trey Tatum
Directed by Bridget Leak
Performed by Jordan Trovillion & Trey Tatum

TICKETS: Tickets are on sale now. Tickets can be purchased at
https://cincyfringe.com/ruh-roh/

VENUE: Gabriel’s Corner, 1425 Sycamore St, Cincinnati, OH 45202

SHOW DATES AND TIMES (60 MINUTES):

  • Saturday, June 3 @ 7:00pm
  • Sunday, June 4 @ 8:45pm
  • Wednesday, June 7 @ 8:45pm
  • Saturday, June 10 @ 4:15pm
  • Friday, June 16 @ 8:45pm

PRICING: $18, Multi-show passes available

RATING: PG-13 (13+)

Previous Queen City Flash Productions at Cincy Fringe:
2022 – JiNKiES!
2021 – You Will live Under the Sea
2020 – Killjoy, Ohio
2019 – ZOiNKS!
2018 – of Monster Descent
2017 – The Disappearance of Nicole of Jacobs
2016 – The Midnight Express
2015 – Shelter (with Pones)
2014 – Slut Shaming

ABOUT TREY TATUM: Trey Tatum is a playwright / composer from Cincinnati, Ohio. Recent credits include ZOINKS!, a Nancy Drew send-up about the opioid epidemic, Alabama Monster, his solo show about mental illness, family ties and creatures that lie just out of sight, and JALZ, a remake of the blockbuster movie JAWS that examines Alzheimer’s disease, end of life care and family legacy. For the past four seasons, Trey has been composer for Playhouse in the Park’s Off the Hill Education Touring Series. Current Projects include Have Monster, Will Travel, a new audio fiction podcast about road trips, monsters and the meaning of family. Trey makes theatre and mischief with his wife, director Bridget Leak. treytatum.com

ABOUT BRIDGET LEAK: Bridget Leak is a freelance director and co-founder of Queen City Flash. Previous directing credits; Queen (Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati), Actually (Playhouse in the Park), Playhouse’s Off-the-Hill Series, and both digital and live productions for the Cincy Fringe Festival. Upcoming productions: more episodes of the podcast Have Monster Will Travel produced by Queen City Flash. Bridget is a People’s Liberty Grant recipient and a Cincinnati Arts Ambassador Fellow. She was recently featured in Movers & Makers, American Theatre Magazine and had her work highlighted in Teaching Theatre magazine, a publication of EdTA. Bridget teaches at Xavier University and has directed at Xavier and Miami University. Bridget has her M.F.A. in Directing from the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University. She calls East Price Hill home with her husband, playwright-composer Trey Tatum, infant Wilder and pups “Pocket” & “Lint” bridgetleak.com

ABOUT QUEEN CITY FLASH
Queen City Flash is Director Bridget Leak and Playwright/Composer Trey Tatum. We are committed to: Creating. New. Plays. Critically-acclaimed original works, emboldened by experiments with form, augmented with original music, and deepened by collaborations with neighbors and partners. Money in people’s pockets, not on the walls. Where a minimum of 51% of the budget goes to paying local artists, not sustaining venues or overhead. Open Access. Creating experiences that an entire family can afford, enjoyed in transformed and relaxed environments.

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April 4, 2023 · 12:51 pm

The 2023 Cincinnati Fringe Festival

CFF23_logoCelebrating 20 Years of Experimental Performance in Over-the-Rhine

Announcing this year’s extraordinary Primary Lineup

Know Theatre proudly presents The 20th Annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival – the region’s largest and longest-running annual performing arts festival – June 2-17, 2023! A 14-day celebration featuring hundreds of live performances from independent local, national, and international artists, the Cincy Fringe is Cincinnati’s Summer Theatre Party.

This year we continue to carry the torch of creative community care and radical self-expression forward with:

  • 31 Primary Lineup Performances
  • 40+ Productions (Including 3 FringeDevelopment projects and several Special Events) to entertain at 6 venues across Over-the-Rhine: Know Theatre, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Gabriel’s Corner, and with space provided by our neighborhood sponsor, 3CDC.
  • Free All Ages Performances on Weekend Afternoons!
  • Free Nightly After Hours Events!
  • And the Grand Reopening of the beloved Know Underground Bar!

Come Celebrate With Us!
Join us on May 1 for a cabaret bash celebrating 25 Years of Know Theatre and 20 Years of the Cincinnati Fringe Festival! Enjoy live performances, a delicious dinner-by-the-bite, fantastic drinks from Knox Joseph Distillery, and a silent auction as we toast the history and ensure the future of Cincinnati’s most adventurous live theatre community.

TICKETING INFORMATION

  • 50% of all Box Office revenue is given to the Performance Fringe artists.
  • Single tickets to the 2023 Cincy Fringe are $18.
  • The All-Access Pass ($300) is good for one entry into as many productions as one person can see.
  • Our 6-ticket Voyeur Pass ($90) can be used in any combination of shows and is transferable among individuals.
  • All passes are currently on sale at www.cincyfringe.com

Primary Lineup Details
This year’s Primary Lineup totals 31 productions (30 in-person and 1 online) and features new work from 15 local creators, 14 productions from across the country, and 2 international artists from Japan and Australia.

With 16 world premieres, 15 regional premieres and 15 producing companies that have never-been-seen-before in Cincinnati, audiences are guaranteed to experience something extraordinary!

The 2023 Cincy Fringe Festival Primary Lineup

1nce Upon a Lie: Paul Strickland
Paul Strickland Presents
Covington, Kentucky

Paul Strickland’s NEW collection of HILARIOUS, HEARTFELT STORIES and SONGS!

Anatomica
Amica Hunter
Portland, Oregon

What’s THE BEST skeleton? Get in loser, we’re finding out.

Anchorette
Jane Carver
Cincinnati, Ohio

An abandoned baby, a ship’s crew, and an ancient superstition…

Bloodline
Paris Crayton III
Los Angeles, California

The multi-generational love story of three men with the same name.

Cry Wulf
Boris Dansberry
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Heroism, blood, absolute evil, puppets; what’s more manly than that?

Cyn of Omission
Sound Body Culture
Cleveland, Ohio

A light hearted neo-noir murder mystery with original music.

Gentrification: The Musical!
Doin’ Too Much Productions
Cincinnati, Ohio

Definitely not a musical about OTR or 3CDC.

Granny’s FixIt: An Ozarks Guide to Healing the Body and Soul
Dawn Larsen
Florence, South Carolina

Let Granny fix it, come git a cure.

Happy Go Lucky
Shoshinz/Yanomi Shoshinz
Tokyo, Japan

A one woman puppetry show from Japan.

Heart Ripped Out Twice And So Can You!
Linnea Bond
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

A (mostly) comedy about pain.

Jon Bennett: Dad (hates) Jokes
2Hoots Productions
Adelaide, Australia

Jon Bennett’s Dad is a VERY serious and VERY accident-prone man.

Julie
coyote & co creative studios
Cincinnati, Ohio

Sapphic-picaresque journey of a 17th-century, bi-sexual, gender-bending, sword-wielding woman.

Keeping Our Torch
Pones
Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky

A dance-infused performance celebrating diverse stories of intergenerational wisdom.

MADE IN AMERICA
Teruko Nakajima
Los Angeles, California

Teruko and Titi’s Triumph over Tragedy!

Magic for Animals
Liz Toonkel / Los Angeles Performance Practice
Los Angeles, California

A magic show breaking through illusions around agency and consent.

Modern Beings in Search of the Sole
Solasta Theatre Lab
Cincinnati, Ohio

To heel or heal, that is the question.

Mothering & Mourning
Megan Flynn & Teresa VanDenend Sorge
Troy, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Cincinnati, Ohio

Dances of mothering and mourning, because aren’t we all?

One Last Night with Mary MacLane
Nora Bonner and James Cargill
Atlanta, Georgia & Detroit, Michigan

19th century genius’s last gig before she meets the Devil.

plosive!
Performance Gallery
Cincinnati, Ohio
Vocal sounds giving new context to conventional language.

Rappings
InBocca Performance
Cincinnati, Ohio

Communing with the dead isn’t scary; it’s downright unreal.

RUH-Roh!
Queen City Flash
Cincinnati, Ohio

A final, hair-raising adventure for a very meddlesome duo.

Runaway Princess
Mary Goggin
Bronx, New York

A hopeful tale of heroin, hooking, and happiness.

ShMILF Life
Penny: For Your Thoughts
Rochester, New York

Stories about dating when trans and old. HINT: You don’t.

Spank Bank Time Machine
John Michael
Chicago, Illinois
Best friends, poppers, douches, & a time machine fueled by participation.

The Highway Woman
Hannah Gregory
Cincinnati, Ohio

The origin story of Wicked Lady Ferrers, Renaissance highway woman.

The Rembrandt Job
Clifton Players
Cincinnati, Ohio

Historically-accurate, hysterically-funny botched robbery of Rembrandt paintings from Taft in 1973.

Thread and Bone
Lisa Egan Woods
Versailles, Kentucky

Sometimes funny, always honest memoir about grief, heart-surgery, and dressmaking.

Todalv
Maia Morrigan Aoibheil
Cincinnati, Ohio

An Indigenous exploration of identity.

To Spite One’s Face
Zoë Peterson
Cincinnati, Ohio

The VHS from The Ring meets the women of G.L.O.W.

UDFCC (Unambiguously Destructive Family Crushes Community)
The Pajama Playhouse
Cincinnati, Ohio

Two Carls, Barry Larkin, and a banana stroll down Central.

Who’s Afraid of Winnie the Pooh?
Clevername Theatre
Saint Paul, Minnesota

It’s Edward Albee, but Winnie the Pooh.

Stay tuned as we announce the 2023 Cincy Fringe All Ages productions, FringeDevelopment projects, Special Events and Digital Primary Lineup later this month!

Know Theatre is Cincinnati’s Theatrical Playground. The Know showcases unexpected voices, new works, and plays that embrace the inherent theatricality of the live experience. Know Theatre seeks to be a place where artists and audiences feel welcome to take artistic risks, creating work that is cutting edge and accessible.

The 19th Annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival is made possible by a generous partnership with our neighbors, the Art Academy of Cincinnati and 3CDC.

Know Theatre’s work is made possible, in part, by the generosity of community contributions to the ArtsWave Campaign.

The Ohio Arts Council helps fund Know Theatre with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence, and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.

Know Theatre is also supported by the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, which provides a simple, powerful, and highly personal approach to giving.

Know Theatre is a member of Theatre Communications Group and an Associate Member of the National New Play Network.

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February 7, 2023 · 5:56 am

Unified Auditions Announced for Cincinnati Fringe Festival

CFF_Orange logo text onlySunday, February 26th from 4-6pm at Wooden Cask Brewing Company in Newport, KY, we are holding the 2023 Cincy Fringe Unified Auditions.

Click here to sign up!

In the non-traditional spirit of Fringe, this will be a non-traditional “audition.” Fringe Producers and Players (that’s you!) will engage in rounds of one-on-one speed dates. 5 minutes per session, producers will pitch their project and players will pitch themselves. Bring a monologue and/or a song, or just bring your VIBE.

This event is a proud collaboration with our pals at Falcon Theatre and the League of Cincinnati Theatres.

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November 8, 2022 · 5:47 am

The Cincinnati Fringe Festival Is Accepting Applications for 2023

CFF_Orange logo text onlyCome Play With Us! The Cincinnati Fringe Festival Is Accepting Applications for 2023

The Know Theatre of Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Fringe Festival are pleased to announce that the application period for the Twentieth Annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival is now open and will run until December 12. The Cincinnati Fringe Festival will run June 2-17, 2023.

What is the Cincinnati Fringe Festival?
A 14-day celebration of theatre, art, music, film, dance, and everything between — it’s Cincinnati’s Summer Theatre Party! Now in its 20th year, Cincy Fringe (as it’s succinctly known) presents over 200 performances of 40+ theatre productions each May and June, plus art galleries, screenings, concerts, workshops, classes, and nightly after hours events.

To facilitate greater equity amongst our applicant pool, this year we are offering a sliding-scale application fee. Applicants are invited to pay what they are able, with a suggested fee for each programming category; some categories are free to apply.

Further details on materials required to apply can be found in the Application FAQ on the Cincy Fringe website. 

The application form will be available at our website, www.cincyfringe.com.

Know Theatre is Cincinnati’s Theatrical Playground. The Know showcases unexpected voices, new works, and plays that embrace the inherent theatricality of the live experience. Know Theatre seeks to be a place where artists and audiences feel welcome to take artistic risks, creating work that is cutting edge and accessible.

Know Theatre’s work is made possible, in part, by the generosity of community contributions to the ArtsWave Campaign.

The Ohio Arts Council helps fund Know Theatre with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence, and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.

Know Theatre is also supported by The Carol Ann & Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation, helping to change our communities for the better through collaboration and innovation, and the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, which provides a simple, powerful, and highly personal approach to giving.

Know Theatre is a member of Theatre Communications Group and an Associate Member of the National New Play Network.

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June 23, 2022 · 10:17 am

Fringe Encores This Weekend at Falcon Theatre

CFF22_Sally Salem logoTwo shows at Fringe had to close most or all of their runs due to cast illness. We were all pretty disappointed about it.

But great news! Due to our partnership with Falcon Theatre, these two shows are getting special Falcon-Fringe encore performances this weekend.

We hope you’ll make it to the Falcon this weekend to catch up on Fringe you may have missed, and to support Fringe artists in this challenging time.

Friday, June 24, at 6:00 PM and 8:00 PM
SALLY SALEM AND THE SPOOKTACULAR BIRTHDAY EXTRAVAGANZA from Zoë Peterson out of Cincinnati, OH.

Sally Salem and the Spooktacular Birthday Extravaganza has Sally and her friends trying to throw a party for her niece and nephew, despite the protests of her conservative sister. They’ll meet ghosts, demons, and the devil himself! An interactive comedy, this play is wrought with themes of love, friendship…and necromancy.

Click here for tickets.

CF22_Charlotte Van Helsing logoSaturday, June 25, at 1:00 PM
CHAROLTTE VAN HELSING BEFRIENDS A VAMPIRE, A CROW, AND (POSSIBLY) HER OWN FATHER from Emily Borst out of Cincinnati, OH.

Managing family secrets and family expectations, Charlotte Van Helsing sets off to find herself by finding others like her. But when strange things start happening all around her, Charlotte realizes growing up might be a little more than she’d bargained for.

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