Philly Fringe Postcards
Introducing Philly Fringe Postcards, a peer-to-peer review experiment created for the 2025 Fringe by Savannah Reich.
For this year’s festival, a cohort of up to 25 participating artists will each write a “postcard” to one other artist about their work. Each postcard will not be a traditional review, but a short open letter from an artist to another artist about their show. I’ve asked the artists to respond to questions like, what do you want to say to that creator after seeing their work? What connections did it make in your mind? How did you feel when you walked away?
Every artist in the cohort will write a postcard to someone and receive a postcard from someone else. The goal is to share one of the juiciest parts of the Fringe; conversations between artists about their work.
We’ll be posting postcards throughout the Fringe. Follow along here, and at @phillyfringepostcards on IG!
Courtney Taylor on Xora Odelle
Dear Xora, After the brilliant, funny, and thought-provoking performance of Traps I saw, I left thinking about the movie “Ratatouille” (Remi WISHES...
Jess Noel on Tyler Rocio Ecoña
Hi Tyler, Jess Noel from Humble Materials here. Getting ready to head out for Queers in a Thrift Store with Monsters, wearing my finest because I...
Noam Osband on Chris Davis
“To make art in an insane world is the only way to be alive.” Chris, By the time you get to these climactic words at the end of your...
Sara Mascelli on Jake Lucas
Dear Jake, Can I just start by saying how much I adore a he/him lesbian reference this Fringe season? One of many queerdo similarities in both of...
Jack McManus on Fee Pelz-Sharpe
Dear Fee, I’m writing with deep gratitude that this postcards project prompted me to see Emotion/Truth. I don’t remember what exactly I requested...
AZ Espinoza on Jessica Noel
Dear Jess, I had the pleasure of being welcomed to PhillyPACK this past Friday night to see your Fringe show Cass. This venue was new to me, and it...
Rose Luardo on Sara Mascelli
A poem*: Homo hunger Thank you I studied Stalin I wanna be the frat boys They don’t wash their asses Freekydeeky space dyke You’re never too old to...
Anne Brashier on Mallory Vance
Dear Mallory and Mary, Thank you for the delightful time spent waiting in the company of strangers. I was worried that I was a bit late, and then...
Mallory Vance on Jaden Alvaro Gines
Dear Jaden, First off, I should admit that I’m not a music person. Not that I don’t love listening to music, but just that actual music, instruments...
Jaden Alvaro Gines on AZ Espinoza
Dear AZ; This weekend I had the pleasure of seeing a reading of your piece Caribbean King through Cannonball and PTC’s Text and Dramaturgy Special...
John Miller Giltner on Jim Julien
Dear Jim, Or should I say Merry Crampus? And a very merry Crampus it was! Within the first 5 minutes of Krampus Gets Cramped, I felt transported...
Tyler Rocio Ecoña on Jack McManus
ATTN: Jack McManus I’m writing to you today in regard to your nomination for the World’s Most Perfect Person. I want to preface that as a panelist...
Chris Davis on Becky Bondurant
Dear Becky: I had the pleasure of seeing your show Penis Envy this past Friday at the Louis Bluver Theatre at the Drake. What first struck me was...
Fee Pelz-Sharpe on Courtney Taylor
Dear Courtney, “revelations from the first and last ever rehearsal of THEY SAY I DID SOMETHING BAD: an unauthorized taylor swift parody...
Xora Odelle on Britt Anderson
Dear Britt, I must confess that my knowledge of Greek mythology has withered since graduating high school, and that leading up to Arachne’s opening...
Dan Kitrosser on PJ Witkowski
Dear PJ (aka Bambi), First of all, no one plays a drunk, nihilistic (dead?) deer like you. This past Sunday, I walked from my home in East Passyunk,...
Britt Anderson on Rose Luardo
Rose, When I walked into the opening party for your exhibition, you screamed, “THIS IS AN AMAZING HUMAN!”, gave me a hug, introduced me to your two...
Becky Bondurant on Dan Kitrosser
Dear Karen Tenderness (and Dan), My name comes with cultural baggage. A radio hit in my middle-school era spawned frequent valley girl inflected...
