FronteraFest 2025 Short Fringe
Four to five short pieces of 25 minutes or less

The shows will be re-listed her in performance order by noon on Tuesday of the week they perform. 

Mum’s the Word, by Cody Claussen. Two actresses are forced to their brinks by a retired television star.

Augusta Stops the Show, by Helen Sneed. The third one-act play in a series written and performed by Helen Sneed. It’s the story of an accomplished woman with mental illness fighting to survive in New York City.

Love, Granger, by Jess Hawthorne Fiene. A surreal short play exploring the life of Granger Taylor, a brilliant yet enigmatic inventor obsessed with extraterrestrial life, and his bond with Alex, a young protégé drawn into Granger’s orbit. Set against the backdrop of small-town isolation and the mystery of the unknown, the play blends whimsical alien “chosen one” mythology with the raw heartbreak of losing a kindred spirit. As Alex pieces together the fragments of Granger’s final days, they grapple with love, loss, and the question of whether some dreams are too big for this world.

Ma Heart, by Jack Darling. This is a story about how creative love can transform terror into wonder. When force and pain threaten to break a child's spirit, a grandmother's patient wisdom finds unexpected ways to keep their heart whole. It's about the small acts of imaginative kindness that help us survive—and how sometimes the most profound healing comes not through power, but through play. 

The Skinny, written and performed by Holly Hart Raiborn. Through four vignettes, Hart Raiborn’s story unfolds, blending both humor and the bittersweet realities of weight loss. The Skinny, revolving around Hart Raiborn’s lived experience with obesity and weight loss of over 80 pounds, reveals a universal human experience—once you change some­thing about your­self, you assume every­thing about you will be fixed, only to real­ize, you either learn to accept your­self, or have to con­tin­ue chas­ing changes.