2026 WOW FESTIVAL ARTIST SUBMISSION FORM
IS NOW OPEN!
WOW Festival Dates:
April 23 – 26, 2026
Please complete the submission form by Friday, July 25, 2025.
The WOW Festival offers site-specific, interactive, and immersive projects that transform the familiar into the extraordinary, sparking imagination and wowing audiences of all ages. See below for a video from previous festivals.
Artists of all ethnicities and artists with disabilities are encouraged to submit.
As we cannot guarantee the resources and time to develop or playtest new projects, we are primarily looking for experiences that have been previously presented or workshopped.
The WOW Festival is a mostly-free event, and artists will have access to mostly outdoor spaces and some indoor spaces. Traditional theatre spaces will likely not be available. Artists/Companies will be paid a fee, receive festival infrastructure support and other resources to produce their project at the annual WOW Festival.
We are only considering experiential projects, including immersive, site-inspired, spectacle, interactive, street theatre performances, puppeteering and other activation’s that work in a festival environment. We are not booking bands or DJs unless they are attached to theatrical experiences.
We recently held a Town Hall to go over the festival’s goals and proposal process. You can review that recording here: