History
Fringe activity has run alongside Brighton Festival since its creation in 1967. In 1993, Samantha Hutton Bell, Katherine Perry and Jeff Hemmings created a separate organisation to promote and represent this work. So, the "Brighton Fringe Festival" produced a brochure and acted as a mini production resource throughout the 90's, working without funding or subsidy.. The organisation went on to be called The Basement.
In 2002 Brighton Festival announced plans to separate the "umbrella" program of the Festival and create a Fringe Festival with a programme of its own. The new Fringe was founded by Jane McMorrow, Festival Manager and Holly Payton, Fringe Manager. Holly then went on to re-brand and market the Fringe as a stand alone festival to local, national and international audiences and performers. They were both responsible for bringing the first Speigeltent and La Clique to the City, which was positioned in the Pavilion gardens. Holly says "It (the Fringe) started with a box of cheques and a spreadsheet, now it uses some of the best, purpose built, systems in the world!".
Nick Stockman was appointed Development Manager in 2003. Holly & Nick built the Fringe to be the 3rd Largest Fringe Festival in the world.
With the Help of a steering committee, Holly and Nick enabled The Fringe to established itself as a limited company and registered charity in October 2006, with its own board of directors and complete financial independence from the Festival. In 2012 it rebranded itself as Brighton Fringe. The organisation has more than doubled in size in the past five years, increasing from 323 shows in 2007 to 719 in 2012, bringing visitors into the city and boosting tourism and local businesses.
Holly Payton left the Fringe in 2008 http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/1996316.print/ and Nick Stockman left in 2010.
The current Managing Director is Julian Caddy.
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