PortFringe Festival

PortFringe – Maine’s Fringe Festival: PortFringe produces one annual Fringe Festival event in June each year — a celebration of creative expression, artistic activism, cultural connections, and community building. We have welcomed hundreds of Artists each year – from all over Portland and Maine, and from all over North America (and beyond).

PortFringe launched in 2012 as a five-day, scrappy, little, cutting-edge fringe festival with 40+ shows ranging from serious to silly and everything in between. With generous support from our community, an army of volunteers, and a pool of talented actors, directors, designers, and producers, PortFringe has grown into an annual event showcasing an impressive depth and breadth of genre-defying performance work. As we enter our second decade, PortFringe looks to keeps things fringey, expand our audience base, and be a force to reckon with.