Take a look back at 20 years of the IndyFringe Festival
Pauline Moffat, former executive director of Indy Fringe, is shown here in front of the IndyFringe offices located on Mass Ave. in the Indy Fringe rickshaw on Aug. 14, 2006.
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"Camp Summer Camp", by Defiance Comedy, from Indianapolis. The Athenaeum theatre hosted 2 min preview performances by 2015 Indy Fringe Festival performers, Wednesday August 12th, 2015.
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8/20/06 --- Kelly Lusk,right, and Nick Berman,left, go through their scene from the "Seems to Fit" a satire on speed dating, as they practice at the Comedy Sportz club for IndyFringe. Lusk, a 17-year-old Brownsburg High School Student, wrote and produced the play.
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Motus Dance Theatre perfrom Kin. A preview performance of the upcoming iNDYfRINGE 2007 was staged Wednesday 8/1/07 at the American Cabaret Theater.
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Kendra Wilcox (middle-hand waving), of Euripides' Medea, greets the crowd during the Fringe Opening Night Parade and Preview Party down Massachusetts Avenue Thursday, August 20, 2009.
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Nell Weatherwax peforms And I Am Not Making This Up. A preview performance of the upcoming iNDYfRINGE 2007 was staged Wednesday 8/1/07 at the American Cabaret Theater.
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Zehra Fazal, from Virginia, performs "My Friend Hitler," an intimate view of Adolph Hitler at the dawn of his rise to power, during the IndyFringe opening night party preview on Massachusetts Avenue on Aug. 21, 2008.
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Nikki Mungal of Indianapolis, a.k.a. Cool & Collected, watches participants on stage at the Fringe Festival Carnival which offered a sneak peek at all of this year's Fringe Festival shows in two-minute performances Aug. 19, 2010.
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Rebecca Holloway of Zionsville demonstrates the sticks for Daphne Altstadt, 3 of Medford, Oregon, left, and her sister Sophie Altstadt, 4, before the start of the Fringe Festival Carnival on Aug. 19, 2010.
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Julie Lyn Barber as the Green Fairy, in "Cabaret Absinthe: A Theatre du Grand Guignol" by Main Street Artists performed at The IndyFringe Basile Theatre on August 20, 2012.
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Indy Fringe participants and fans gathered Thursday August 18th 2011, for a preview party held on Mass. Ave. where 41 IndyFringe shows presented a 2 min teasers.
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