FronteraFest 2025 Short Fringe Four to five short pieces of 25 minutes or less Shows are listed in performance order. Taylor Made?, by Avery Erickson. After being fired from every broadcasting job ever held, Taylor's last chance is to make a go of it as the sole employee of the only radio/TV station at the North Pole.  Taylor literally has to do everything.  And I mean everything!  Hmmm . . . wonder how that will turn out.  Oh, and one more thing . . . the glacier is melting. Long Live Dead Irish Poets, by Raymond V. Whelan. A period piece about three reporters in an old saloon focused on the closing of the Chicago Daily News in 1978.  The Slip, by Patty Harrison. A ghost story that stretches true crime into the realm of magical realism, inspired by true events: a series of suspicious deaths by alleged curare poisoning that took place at a hospital in Patty's New Jersey hometown in the 1960s. Technically Music, by Neil Dorsey. Brace yourself for a cheeky threesome of absurd comedy, hip hop beats, and audience interaction. The result is Technically Music, an experimental work in progress that sits in the uncanny valley between scripted comedy-rap bangers, and chaotic improvised clowning elements. Watch as Neil Dorsey blends influences like Reggie Watts, Marc Rebillet, and The Lonely Island into a unique comedy experience that you can’t get anywhere else. Expect thicc stanky beats, tight absurdist rhymes, and big creative swings that will keep your booty glued to the edge of your seat and twerkin’ to that beat. A Girl Like Me, written and performed by Roxanne Schroder-Arce.A series of eight micro-memoirs performed by the author. The memoirs bring the audience into the trailer park where Roxanne grew up and take them on an intimate journey of the author/playwright's lived experience as a child. The micro-memoirs are weaved together with original music, and Roxanne plays many characters, including herself, her single mom, and the Pink-Lipped Lady on the Blue Baptist Bus. Kyle Romero is Your Dad, by Kyle Romero. What is a dad? How does one become a dad? The fact is, we just don’t know, but the search for truth continues in this one-man show. Drawing from his lifelong experience of being told “you seem like a dad type,” comedian and actor Kyle Romero will attempt to become a dad despite having no children and no romantic prospects whatsoever. He’s not your step-clown, he’s the clown that stepped up.