The Worldwide Puppet Fringe Pageant, New York’s solely worldwide fringe competition devoted to puppetry, returns August twelfth to sixteenth, 2026, and can as soon as once more characteristic performances by main puppet makers and troupes from world wide. Produced by Teatro SEA, and Grupo Morán (The Morán Group) with the help of The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Schooling Heart.
The Worldwide Puppet Fringe Pageant is an open, artist-driven platform to showcase your work in NYC—celebrating each up to date and conventional puppetry. Not like a curated competition, a Fringe welcomes daring concepts, rising voices, and progressive experiments, creating an inclusive area the place artists can take dangers and audiences can uncover contemporary, sudden work.
The primary three editions of the competition, in 2018, 2021, and 2023 had been the proof that there’s an excellent inventive neighborhood round puppetry, in addition to an viewers longing for this timeless artwork kind. We’re preparing for a fourth version that may even rejoice the reopening of The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Schooling Heart, house to the competition and landmark of the Decrease East Aspect. We invite all artists and firms to submit and take a part of this distinctive occasion in 2026!
Software deadline: January sixteenth, 2026
