experimental

What is it? What does it mean? What does it mean to be? What does it mean to be here?

It’s funny-or-die-in-the-graveyard time when Jeremy Kehoe’s absurdist, existential comedy, “Movin’ On Up”, makes its West Coast premiere at the 2018 Hollywood Fringe Festival at The Complex Hollywood (Ruby Theater, 6476 Santa Monica Blvd.) June 1 - 21.

Surreal Brechtian vaudeville street fight between Jack Benny and Raymond Roussel. Bring your sister.

Catch a sneak peek of the new multimedia rock experience that seamlessly blends live rock music, a movie and a stage drama into one.

This workshop explores the concepts of the embodiment of the voice utilizing conscious breath, movement, relaxation, singing, and action in motion. This is an unique opportunity for vocal play and discovery and to expand your confidence on stage and screen. Open up to your most intimate instrument.

An immersive experience about a young woman in distress and the metaphysical journey you go on to rescue her.

Rayn is a one-woman psychedelic electro opera about everyone’s favorite muse: the sex worker.

With a cast of 8 colorful characters and live music, this passionate journey is about a determined young Jazz Singer, who despite all odds, and an indescribable physical condition, finds the courage and spirit to reveal to the world what he really wants...

To be or not to be, but also, we’re out of toilet paper... There’s no space for soliloquies in this apartment. What happens when three of Shakespeare’s most iconic characters move in together? A sexy, bloody, love triangle.

An actor and a laptop perform a 60-minute adaptation of The Odyssey accompanied by electronic music.

A chilling multi-sensory exploration into a shocking paranormal case. Actual footage, photographs, artifacts, and recordings from the investigation bring this terrifying ordeal to life. From THE UNMARKED DOOR composer Rolfe Kent (Dexter,Sideways,Up in the Air)& dir. Lola Kelly (Hall & Mirror’s YOU).

These three original pieces were written, directed, and performed by recent graduates of the Art of Acting Studio Professional Conservatory. Developed in 2017 as a classroom project, each is an artistic and creative exploration of the life of a notable person throughout history.

SORRY, Andy fans. Due to severe cast conflicts, Andy can't appear at this year's feat. Maybe next year again!

Combining butoh with experimental animation and puppetry, Shilo Kloko uses stark, striking visuals to portray a fluid relationship between puppet and puppeteer, reflecting our unstable, fluctuating social and emotional status as humans. Created by Nao Kobayashi. 2018 Hollywood Fringe Scholarship

The award-winning Matthew Marcum Pollock: A Frequency Parable is an avant-operatic sound performance piece that explores elements of abstract expressionism through nonlinear narrative and extended vocal techniques while paying homage to expressionist-icon Jackson Pollock.