Fringe Festival
Every three years Fitchburg State’s theater students perform at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. This annual festival is the largest arts festival in the world. Performers travel from all over the globe to perform here. Fitchburg State has performed seven shows in the festival between 2000 and 2018.
The Women of Lockerbie cast at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Faculty and students at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018
Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival
Every year during the last week of January, Fitchburg State's Theater students travel to the regional KCACTF Festival and compete in a variety of acting, directing, stage management, design/technical and theater criticism events and attend a variety of professional workshops that support their professional development. Fitchburg State has had full productions invited to the festival. The most recently featured Fitchburg State production was LYLH. This play was written, produced, and directed by students in 2013.