Nick Stuccio

Nick Stuccio

Executive director of FringeArts
The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe has been known since 1997 as an annual contemporary performing arts festival held in early September in Pennsylvania’s largest city and gathering large audiences each year. Now the festival has officially changed its name to FringeArts, simultaneous to its move into a historical brick building (former Water Department pumping station) built in 1903 that has been renovated as a permanent arts center with the same name that will have its grand opening at the time of the September 2014 festival. Standing on the waterfront of the Delaware River, on the edge of the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia, this historic building with 930 square meters of floor space and 30-foot ceilings, has been transformed into a performing arts center with a 240-seat theater, rehearsal and creation studios, and a restaurant, etc. In addition to its festival in September, FringeArts plans a year-round schedule of programs in this new residence.