Robin C. Gillette

Executive Director: I have control over everything and nothing, all at the same time.

Best pick-up line: Hey, I'm unjuried and uncensored—wanna date?

Fringe is to... theater as the Beastie Boys are to orchestral music.

Matthew Foster

Communications Director: I make Fringe coherent. Or at least pretty.

Best pick-up line: I, um, loved your postcard. Yeah, I think Times New Roman is totally underrated, too. You know, I have InDesign at my place...

Fringe is to... other festivals as "Battlestar Galactica" is to "Suddenly Susan."

Mark Franko

Office Manager: I make sure the office runs smoothly. Some days run better than others. I'm also the Fringe's cynical touchstone.

Have you ever done it? Um... I can't think of one "it" I haven't done.

Fringiest pleasure: I get a lot of pleasure looking at my clean, organized desk. Jealous, Robin?

Jeff D. Larson

Director of Production + Sponsorship: Half tech, half marketing, all awesome.

Best pick-up line: Never needed one. They all flock to the big white rental van.

Fringiest pleasure: Text messages from the technicians on the first day of tech rehearsals.

Allegra Lingo

Director of Audience and Volunteer Services: I noticed a grey hair last week on the top of my head.

Have you ever done it? Why yes. But only if someone's watching.

Fringiest pleasure: Strip Frisbee

Craig VanDerSchaegen

Online Services Director: I code and maintain the website, which is really just an excuse to make panicked calls to Matthew in the wee hours of the morning.

Best pick-up line: I've got a key to the office. Wanna mess up Mark's desk?

Fringiest pleasure: Getting to see the daily show photos before anyone else.

Zoe Benston

Out of Town Coordinator/Deputy Director of Audience Services: Forcing foreign Fringers upon fine, upstanding Minnesotans and facilitating the reification of fabulous Fringe fantasies (ahem—theatrical fantasies) for artists and house managers alike

Fringiest pleasure: Arguing the merits of live theater, representative democracy, postmodernism with newly befriended artists while sipping a Summit on a bar patio at midnight.

Fringe is to... boredom as global warming is to polar bears.

Ashley K. Nelson

Communications Intern: I do whatever Matthew tells me to.

Have you ever done it? Oh, thousands of times...wait... Done what exactly?

Best pick-up line: I'm with the Fringe, wanna watch me do it?

Brad Dahlgaard

Photographer: My art is finding and solving problems with solutions and methods that are sustainable and beautiful.

Have you ever done it? Until I was walking funny.

Fringe is to... Minneapolis as St. Paul is to... well who cares what St. Paul is to?

Rebecca McDonald

Photographer: I am a what you might call a "full service journalist." And I successfully balance art and politics. It's harder than you might think.

Fringiest pleasure: A discount from your Fringe button for your hot date.

Fringe is to... orbital motion as Beyoncé is to Jay-Z. There wouldn't be one without the other. And, more importantly, the Fringe makes the world go round.

Scott Pakudaitis

Photographer: I shoot people for fun and profit

Have you ever done it? Yes! On stage, backstage and in the audience.

Fringiest pleasure: Lounging on the patio at Bedlam

Emily Garber

Gunther Gullickson

Box Office Central Manager: Loose lips sink ships.

Best pick-up line: How about you and I make some performance art?

Fringe is to... adventure as Dr. Phil is to balding.

Scott Artley

House Manager: I'm the man with the walkie and frantic look at your venue.

Fringiest pleasure: The staff pass I don't really have time to use.

Fringe is to... Minneapolis as Hannnah Montana is to Miley Cyrus.

June Berg

House Manager: Orchestrator of localized chaos.

Best pick-up line: I have a great story about buttons. If you buy me a beer I'll tell it to you.

Fringe is to... thespians as Disneyland is to a six-year-old.

Debra Constantine

House Manager: I aid all the Fringe-filled fellows.

Have you ever done it? Puhleeze! I do it everyday and twice on Sundays.

Fringiest pleasure: To look dope walking around Minneapolis with a headset and walkie talkie.

Gus Connelly

House Manager: This is my first year, so I'll be the one attempting to hide in the toilet because I don't know what's going on.

Fringiest pleasure: Watching people (at the Fringe and all over town, really).

Seth Goodspeed

House Manager: I make sure Hugh Laurie doesn't give you controversial and maverick diagnoses.

Have you ever done it? No, I've kept my head in the sand up until now, they caught me while I was taking a breather.

Fringe is to... theater as ants are to a fallen lollipop.

Emilie Hanson

House Manager: If it blows up, I'm to blame.

Best pick-up line: Is that a Fringe button or a tiny poison-tipped dagger?

Fringe is to... Minneapolis as James Bond is to Pussy Galore.

Cari O'Brien

House Manager: You know, this is the fourth time I've been asked this question, and I still can't figure it out.

Have you ever done it? So many times, I've lost count. Wait. What?

Fringe is to... summer as "Garfield" is to Sunday's comic strips.

Susan Roberts

House Manager: I keep Fringers happy!

Have you ever done it? Knitted all day? Sure.

Fringe is to... Broadway as summer is to autumn.

Sophie Vranian

House Manager: I get to wave flash lights around and be awesome with a walkie talkie.

Have you ever done it? TOO MUCH PRESSURE TO BE FUNNY AHHHH

Fringe is to... controlled chaos as damsels are to epic peril.

Robyn Hendrix

Floating House Manager: I inhale helium balloons and float from venue to venue.

Have you ever done it? Why, are you a peeping Tom?

Fringiest pleasure: Peeling dried glue off my palms.

Jeffrey Mosser

Assistant House Manager

Have you ever done it? I don't know, but I always have a cigarette afterwards.

Fringiest pleasure: Picking my teeth with one of those plastic-ended sandwich toothpicks.

Andrew Northrop

Assistant House Manager: A beacon of light guiding Fringe-goers through the straits of punch-cards.

Have you ever done it? I was the one who showed 'it' how to 'do' in the first place.

Best pick-up line: I need a venue for my Fringe show "Greatest Night of your Life"—your place or mine?

Tiffany Plante

Assistant House Manager: I get the behind-the-scenes "in."

Best pick-up line: Fringe is like Visa... Everywhere I want to be.

Fringe is to... bliss as 'mallows are to s'mores.