Accessibility information
The Fringe is for everyone, and we do our best to make it accessible to all. Our venues are accessible to audience members with mobility impairments, and parking information for vehicles with handicapped parking permits is available on our website.
We offer ASL-interpreted performances for people who are deaf/hard-of-hearing and audio-described shows for people who are blind/visually impaired. Look for the icons in the printed show descriptions or check out the schedule below.
A recorded schedule is available by calling the MACT Hotline (612-706-1456) and selecting extension 4. Patrons using ASL/AD services can make reservations without paying the reservation $2.50 fee to accessible shows through Uptown Tix with price code "access". If you need other accommodations or if you have questions, please don't hesitate to contact Robin at robin@fringefestival.org or 612-872-1212.
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Audio Description Schedule
Sat., Aug. 2 @ 5:30 p.m., Mixed Blood Theatre - 59 Minutes 'Til the End
Audio describer: Laurie Pape Hadley
Mon., Aug. 4 @ 7:00 p.m., U of M Rarig Center Arena - a dash of poe
Audio describer: Rick Jacobson
Sun., Aug. 3 @ 7:00 p.m., Intermedia Arts - Among the Oats
Audio describer: Judy Baldwin
Mon., Aug. 4 @ 10:00 p.m., U of M Rarig Center Arena - Antigone...A Riff on Sophocles
Audio describer: Rick Jacobson
Tue., Aug. 5 @ 8:30 p.m., U of M Rarig Center Arena - Boom
Audio describer: Ken Moses
Sat., Aug. 9 @ 2:00 p.m., Bryant-Lake Bowl - Brilliant Traces
Audio describer: Laura Wiebers
Sun., Aug. 10 @ 4:00 p.m., Minneapolis Theatre Garage - BULL"An American Story of Bullheadedness"
Audio describer: Ken Moses
Thu., Aug. 7 @ 7:00 p.m., Ritz Theater - Catfight!
Audio describer: Laurie Pape Hadley
Sun., Aug. 10 @ 5:30 p.m., Minneapolis Theatre Garage - Department of Angels
Audio describer: Ken Moses
Sat., Aug. 2 @ 10:00 p.m., Mixed Blood Theatre - Dipped In Love
Audio describer: Laurie Pape Hadley
Sun., Aug. 10 @ 7:00 p.m., Minneapolis Theatre Garage - Dying in Public Places: a darkly comic new musical
Audio describer: Ken Moses
Sat., Aug. 9 @ 4:00 p.m., Bryant-Lake Bowl - elephant shoes, & olive juice; (mis) communication in a modern world
Audio describer: Laura Wiebers
Sat., Aug. 9 @ 6:00 p.m., Bryant-Lake Bowl - FOOL FOR A CLIENT
Audio describer: Laura Wiebers
Sat., Aug. 2 @ 2:30 p.m., Mixed Blood Theatre - Get It OFF YOUR CHEST!!!
Audio describer: Laurie Pape Hadley
Sat., Aug. 2 @ 7:00 p.m., Mixed Blood Theatre - Going South
Audio describer: Laurie Pape Hadley
Mon., Aug. 4 @ 8:30 p.m., U of M Rarig Center Thrust - How Does a Drug Deal Become a Decent 3rd Date?
Audio describer: Rick Jacobson
Sun., Aug. 3 @ 5:30 p.m., Intermedia Arts - If a Tree Falls
Audio describer: Judy Baldwin
Thu., Aug. 7 @ 5:30 p.m., Ritz Theater - Medusa's Riddle - Fresh off the Boat
Audio describer: Laurie Pape Hadley
Wed., Aug. 6 @ 8:30 p.m., Theatre de la Jeune Lune - My War: From Bismarck to Britain and Back
Audio describer: Rick Jacobson
Thu., Jul. 31 @ 8:30 p.m., Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts - Ophelia
Audio describer: Rick Jacobson
Sat., Aug. 2 @ 1:00 p.m., Mixed Blood Theatre - PieRats: The Crusade for Peaches Cobbler
Audio describer: Laurie Pape Hadley
Sat., Aug. 9 @ 8:00 p.m., Bryant-Lake Bowl - Red Tide
Audio describer: Laura Wiebers
Tue., Aug. 5 @ 10:00 p.m., U of M Rarig Center Thrust - Shakespeare's Land of the Dead
Audio describer: Ken Moses
Thu., Jul. 31 @ 7:00 p.m., Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts - The Attack of the Big Angry Booty
Audio describer: Rick Jacobson
Tue., Aug. 5 @ 5:30 p.m., U of M Rarig Center Thrust - The Cody Rivers Show Presents: Stick to Glue
Audio describer: Ken Moses
Wed., Aug. 6 @ 10:00 p.m., Theatre de la Jeune Lune - The Gypsy and the General
Audio describer: Rick Jacobson
Sun., Aug. 3 @ 4:00 p.m., Intermedia Arts - The Virginity of Astronauts
Audio describer: Judy Baldwin
Mon., Aug. 4 @ 5:30 p.m., U of M Rarig Center Thrust - You're No Fun
Audio describer: Rick Jacobson
ASL Interpretation Schedule
Fri., Aug. 8 @ 7:00 p.m., U of M Rarig Center Arena - American Sexy
ASL interpreter: Linda Gill
Fri., Aug. 8 @ 5:30 p.m., U of M Rarig Center Thrust - An Inconvenient Squirrel
ASL interpreter: Tammy Hansen, Rachel Arth
Tue., Aug. 5 @ 10:00 p.m., U of M Rarig Center Arena - Boys Don't Make Passes at Girls Who Wear Glasses
ASL interpreter: Bridget Sabatke
Wed., Aug. 6 @ 8:30 p.m., Mixed Blood Theatre - Get It OFF YOUR CHEST!!!
ASL interpreter: Jean-Marie Doran
Tue., Aug. 5 @ 8:30 p.m., Lab Theater - Great American Horror Movie Musical
ASL interpreter: Alan Farnham
Sat., Aug. 9 @ 4:00 p.m., Intermedia Arts - If a Tree Falls
ASL interpreter: Alan Farnham
Wed., Aug. 6 @ 10:00 p.m., U of M Rarig Center Thrust - Love and Video Games
ASL interpreter: Laura Kutzera
Sat., Aug. 9 @ 1:00 p.m., U of M Rarig Center Proscenium - Robin Hood The Musical!
ASL interpreter: B. Sabatke, C. Alexander
Sun., Aug. 10 @ 1:00 p.m., Minneapolis Theatre Garage - Sex, Lies and Abandonment: The Nature of Adoption
ASL interpreter: Kelly Murphy
Fri., Aug. 8 @ 10:00 p.m., Intermedia Arts - The Virginity of Astronauts
ASL interpreter: Linda Gill
Sat., Aug. 2 @ 7:00 p.m., U of M Rarig Center Arena - Tipping the Bucket
ASL interpreter: Julie Olson, J Williamson
Thu., Aug. 7 @ 8:30 p.m., Mixed Blood Theatre - Waking in Minneapolis
ASL interpreter: Paul Deeming
Thu., Aug. 7 @ 5:30 p.m., Playwrights' Center - Writers of the Purple Sage
ASL interpreter: Stephen Medlicott
ASL Interpreter bios
Claire Alexander (CI/CT) has her BA in ASL interpretation, and specializes in performance and deafblind work. This is her second year as interpreter coordinator for the Minnesota Fringe Festival. She has previously worked for Walking Shadow Theater Company, Mixed Blood, Minneapolis Musical Theater, Park Square Theater, Bloomington Civic Theatre, Guthrie Lab, and various musical choruses. She is thrilled to be enabling the strange addiction that is fringe theater.
Rachel Arth, a certified Sign-Language interpreter, feels that it is an honor to be associate with the Minnesota Fringe Festival. She currently works in a variety of settings but is pleased to set foot in the theatrical world. Recently working with the Mixed Blood Theater, her love and appreciation is growing for the performing arts.
Paul Deeming (MS/CI) has been nationally certified by the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID) since 1997. He has a BFA in Theatre and a Master's of Science in Deaf Education. He has been interpreting for the performing arts since 1992 with such theatres as The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, Bloomington Civic Theatre, Bloomington Art Center's Gallery Players, Theatre Latte' Da, the State Theatre, Hey City Theatre, Hennepin Center for the Arts, and the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. In addition to performing arts, he specializes in medical and deafblind interpreting, and is the program manager for DeafBlind Services Minnesota.
Alan Farnham (CI) graduated from St. Paul College’s Interpreter Training Program in 1987. This is his second year interpreting the Fringe Festival. Alan interprets for the MN State Colleges and Universities at Hennepin Technical College and as a Video Relay Interpreter for Sorenson VRS. He has interpreted for the Minnesota Department of Transportation, medical settings, regional theatres, dance companies, Twin Cities GLBT Pride Festival and for Catholic, Lutheran, Evangelical, Pentecostal and Prison Worship Services. Alan has had the privilege to team interpret with many of the excellent interpreters in the Twin Cities area. He looks forward to this year’s Fringe Festival. He also thanks MN Fringe Festival for its continuing efforts to provide accessible performances for the local theatre-going hard-of-hearing and Deaf community.
Tarra Grammenos graduated from St Paul College in 2006 and has been working VRS, Freelance and Theatre interpreting since then. Goes to Metropolitan State University for Psychology of Deviance with a minor in Criminal Justice and a focus on the Deaf community. Graduates spring of 2009 and has long term goals of being a legal interpreter but mainly a deaf advocate in the prisons and court systems. All the plays that she's interpreted have had the focus of deviance in one way or another which is why she's excited to do the Fringe Festival this year because it's right up her alley!
Tammy A. Hansen (CI/CT) is excited to be interpreting at the Fringe Festival for the first time. She currently works in a variety of areas, most often in post-secondary education and video relay. Her previous theatrical interpreting experience includes Mu Performing Arts, Mixed Blood Theatre, and Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. Tammy greatly enjoys the opportunity to incorporate a lifelong love of theatre into her work.
Bridget Sabatke is a local interpreter who does both educational and performing arts interpreting. Bridget has done a number of fine arts performing events in the area including several musicals and choir concerts. Some of her previous theatrical experience includes The King and I, Fiddler on the Roof, Grease and many more.
Audio Describer bios
Rick Jacobson has been involved in audio description since 1988 and coordinates audio description services for the Fringe Festival. He has described shows for many local theater companies, including the Guthrie, Park Square Theatre, Bloomington Civic Theatre, Children's Theatre Company, Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, Ballet Arts of Minnesota, Minneapolis Musical Theatre, Chanhassen Dinner Theatres, and the Ordway Center. Rick spends his days providing accessibility services at the University of Minnesota, and he’s done over 5½ years of television description.
Ken Moses had a long illustrious career as a producer, director, designer, and performer in professional theatre before going off on a round-the-world trip. He then had a second career in disability services and was trained in Audio Description by the late Eric Peterson. In 2006, the City of Stillwater gave him its first Human Rights Award for his work in advocacy for people with disabilities. Latte Da, Theatre Unbound, Triple Espresso, Walking Shadow Theatre Company & the Walker Art Center.
Laurie Pape Hadley is looking forward to her 4th year working with the Fringe Festival. She was trained & mentored as an Audio Describer through the Guthrie Theater and has described for over 14 years with various theaters and arts organizations in the Twin Cities including The Children’s Theatre Company, Cross Community Players, Girl Friday Productions, Hennepin Stages, Illusion Theater, Intermedia Arts, Local Strategy, Minnesota Jewish Theatre, Mixed Blood Theater, Morris Park Players, Mu Performing Arts, One Voice Mixed Chorus, Orpheum Theater, Park Square Theatre, Plymouth Playhouse, Steppingstone Theatre, Ten Thousand Things Theater, and Theater in the Round.
Laura Wiebers is honored to be an audio describer for the Fringe Festival. She has also served as a describer for the Guthrie Theater, Frank Theatre, Theatre Unbound, Starting Gate Theatre, Steppingstone Theatre, Intermedia Arts and the Minnesota State Arts Board. She is also an actor, and has appeared at the Guthrie Theater, Park Square Theatre, Lyric Theatre, Ebullient Theatre Company, The Playwrights' Center, Theatre Unbound, Theatre In The Round Players and the Minnesota Fringe Festival.
