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- Mission
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- The mission of EXIT Theatre is to develop theater artists by providing
opportunities to perform and to develop an audience for that performance.
Our focus is on providing open access opportunities for all theater artists
so they can develop and experiment. We do this by commissioning, developing
and producing new plays; providing production support and low cost theater
rentals to small companies; hosting theaters and playwrights-in-residence;
and by producing the San Francisco Fringe Festival, the largest grass roots
theater festival in the Bay Area, and DIVAfest, dedicated to creating new
plays and other work by women writers.
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- We operate a four venue, 250 seat theatreplex in the Tenderloin
district of downtown San Francisco. Our four theaters range in size from
35 seats to 90 seats and annually host 100 independent theater companies.
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- EXIT Theatre was founded on Eddy Street in San Francisco's Tenderloin
neighborhood in 1983 when a group of method actors and retired vaudvillians
came together under artistic director Christina Augello to perform a new
play in the lobby of a residential hotel and passed the hat for funding.
The local alternative press has named EXIT Theatre "Best Local Venue",
"Best (3,000 miles) Off-Broadway Theater", "Best Off-Beat
Theatre" and the artistic director has been named "Best Producer"
and "Working Woman of the Year."
San Francisco Fringe Festival
- Each September, for twelve days begining the Wednesday after Labor
Day, EXIT Theatre produces the San Francisco Fringe Festival.
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- The SF Fringe is open to all performers, is inexpensive, and 100%
of the ticket revenue goes to the performers. The Fringe attracts a large
supportive audience and provides production support and marketing benefiting
the performers. The Fringe is open access and does not curate, providing
uncensured opportunities of artists.
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- The San Francisco Fringe Festival began in 1992 when a collective
of small local theater groups presented one weekend of performances by
thirteen companies before an audience of 450 people. Since then the Fringe
Festival has been presented each year and has grown to over 200 performances
and an annual audience of 10,000 people. The Fringe Festival is
a major resource for independent theater groups and has provided opportunities
for over 500 different theater companies to perform.
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- Applications to perform in SF Fringe Festival are available on the
fringe website www.sffringe.org in November and performers are selected
at a public lottery. For a list of performers in the 2007 SF Fringe (September
5 - 16, 2007) CLICK HERE.
DIVAfest
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- Each Spring, EXIT Theatre produces a theater festival dedicated
to creating new plays and other work by women writers. These include staged
readings, full productions, and workshops of works in progress. Performers
are invited to perform by EXIT Theatre. The 2007
DIVAfest will be in from April 26 through May 26.
The EXIT Theatreplex
We operate four theaters year round: EXIT Theatre, EXIT Stage Left,
EXIT on Taylor, and the EXIT Cafe. All are available to independent theater
companies interested in performing on our stages. For more information on
the venues click.
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