Training Factory

Fringe Training Factory is Capital Fringe’s year round program that supports the development of emerging performing artists and companies in DC. It is both a forum for learning and a playground for artists to explore their craft in a creative, supportive and instructive setting. The goal of the Training Factory is not to teach artists, but rather to enable artists to collaborate, produce and learn together. A new partnership with Sasha Bruce Youth Work & The Sitar Center has expanded the Fringe Training Factory to include a youth lead program. Youth-Led is an after school program designed to meet the holistic needs of its students by helping them identify and reach personal goals, free themselves from negative pressures in the street and gain a clear understanding of the community they live in so that they become invested in and the catalyst for its improvement. Fringe is cultivating these students. Giving them an outlet for their voices. These voices are the future and will join and shape the DC performing arts community.

This program is coordinated by Fringe Teaching Artist, Anu Yadav.

We encourage you to check out Anu's new project Classlines.