We are currently accepting applications for the following positions:

- assistant volunteer coordinator

- box office assistant

- assistant to the producer

- technicians

Are you interested?  Then please forward your resume and a letter of intent to the Executive Producer, Natalie Joy Quesnel, at producer@ottawafringe.com

If volunteering is more your thing, feel free to email your details to volunteer@ottawafringe.com

If you are currently in receipt of Employment Insurance (EI) payments or have received EI payments within the last 3 years, you could be eligible for our Administrator position through the Job Creation Partnership Program.  Click here for more info.

ALSO NOTE - The deadline for Bring Your Own Venue applications is March 1st.  Click  here to download your application now!

Did you apply for the Ottawa Fringe lottery and found your dreams crushed when your name wasn’t drawn?

Are you bound and determined to show Ottawa audiences just what you’ve got?

Then the BYOV application might be perfect for you!

The Ottawa Fringe Festival is now accepting applications for Bring Your Own Venues.  You provide the show, the tech, the seating and the venue and we’ll provide you with marketing, publicity and box office.   It’s a great way to help Ottawa audiences discover site-specific and non-traditional theatre spaces, all the while giving you an unique producing opportunity.

It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that interested  companies contact Natalie Joy Quesnel (producer@ottawafringe.com), to discuss BYOV ideas and to get more information.  BYOV space is limited and not all applicants will be accepted into the festival.

Let your imagination run wild and download your BYOV application here!

• - The Ottawa Fringe received 109 applications this year - a new record for the festival!
• - of the 10 winners of the 2010 CAFF Touring Lottery, 8 companies chose to participate in the Ottawa Fringe (also a new record)
• - Alumni Auditorium will NOT be a venue in 2010; it will be replaced by SAW Gallery, which after years as a BYOV has graduated to official venue status
• - there may be a new mystery venue added as well.  But we can’t talk about that quite yet…

After the news, the lottery began!  We had 32 spots to draw (after 8 were claimed by CAFF lotto winners) in 3 categories: local (Ottawa and region), national (the rest of Ontario and Canada), and international (everywhere else).  The lucky companies are:

CAFF TOURING LOTTERY WINNERS
Amy Crnkovic and Tanya Elchuk (Thunder Bay, ON)
Connor Thompson (Toronto, ON)
Tethersend Productions (Toronto, ON)
Bundle of JOY Productions (Saskatoon, SK)
Heat & Hot Water Productions (Vermont, USA)
Cameryn Moore (Jamaica Plain, MA; USA)
Daniel Nimmo (Australia)
David Gaines (Arlington, VA; USA)

LOCAL
Toto Too Theatre
JAT Productions
Chop Productions
Percolator Productions
Counterpoint Players
The Tragedians of the City
Galloping Coconuts Productions
Current Productions
Jer’s Vision
Troupe de la Lune
Modern Geek Theatre
Bio-Punk Productions
Salamander Shakespeare Company
Negative Theatre
Michelle Leblanc
Erudite Theatre

NATIONAL
Mister Froggy Theatre (Toronto, ON)
Angry Kitten Productions (Toronto, ON)
Peacemeal Theatrical Productions (Winnipeg, MB)
Esby Kabarett Productions (Vancouver, BC)
Abstract Theatre Productions (Winnipeg, MB)
Prairie Fire Presents (Toronto, ON)
Inertia Productions (Montreal, QC)
Elison Zasko Inc. (Toronto, ON)
Penny for Your Brain Productions (Toronto, ON)
Written on Water Theatre (Toronto, ON)
The Peter n’ Chris Show (Vancouver, BC)

INTERNATIONAL
Too Much Free Time Productions (Brooklyn, NY; USA)
Barry Smith Presents (Aspen, CO; USA)
Shoshinz (Suginami, JAPAN)
Gunstwork Puppet Mask Theatre (Boulder, CO; USA)
1331 Productions (Old Cathcart, SCOTLAND)

YOUTH FRINGE
Orleans Young Players Theatre School (Orleans, ON)
Youth Infringement Festival (Ottawa, ON)

Congratulations to everyone who was drawn!  For those companies who weren’t fortunate enough to have their name pulled, please contact the Fringe office for details on your position on the wait list.

Remember: only 195 days to Fringe!

Le formulaire en français est disponible ici— 2010indoorapplicationfrench.

And don’t forget to join us for the public lottery party:

December 3rd 2009

Avant Garde Bar - 135 Besserer Street

7pm

See you there!