The final week of winners of the Edinburgh Fringe First Awards have been announced by The Scotsman newspaper, meaning that all winners have now been revealed for the annual awards.
The Fringe First awards are the longest-running awards of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and recognise outstanding new writing premiered at the Fringe across theatre, dance, physical theatre, musicals and opera.
Winners are announced by The Scotsman on each Friday of the festival, and nominated by their critics.
The winners ceremony is being held this morning, Friday 23 August 2024, at the Pleasance Grand.
This year winners are chosen by a panel of judges comprised of The Scotsman’s chief theatre critic Joyce McMillan, who is also chair, and writers Susan Mansfield, Mark Fisher, Jackie McGlone, Sally Stott, David Pollock and Fiona Shepherd.
Winners announced on Thursday 22 August 2024
A Knock On The Roof
Khawla Ibraheem’s monologue about a young Palestinian mother living in Gaza with her four-year-old son when the Israeli assault on Gaza begins.
Venue: Traverse
Instructions
Nathan Ellis’s play that provides a different actor each day with a series of instructions.
Venue: Summerhall
REVENGE: After the Levoyah
A fast-paced comedy drama that sees a pair of Jewish twins get involved in a Tarantinoesque heist based around a plot to kidnap Jeremy Corbyn.
Venue: Summerhall
My Mother’s Funeral: The Show
Paines Plough present a new clever, funny new play by Kelly Jones about money, class and theatre.
Venue: Roundabout @ Summerhall
A Little Inquest Into What We Are All Doing Here
A powerful piece by Josie Dale-Jones following the backlash over her sex education show for children.
Venue: Zoo Southside
Winners announced on Friday 16 August 2024
Winners of the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe First Awards announced on 16 August are:
Comala, Comala
A stage adaptation of Juan Rulfo’s novel Pedro Paramo, from Pulpo Arts of Mexico City and New York.
Venue: Zoo Southside
A Letter to Lyndon B Johnson or God: Whoever Reads This First
Physical theatre from Xhloe and Natasha, based on their own experience of growing up in US military families.
Venue: theSpace @ Niddry Street
Mairi Campbell: Living Stone
Mairi Campbell’s play with songs set on the island of Lismore.
Venue: Scottish Storytelling Centre
Son of a Bitch
The debut play from actor and comedian Anna Morris, directed by Madelaine Moore about modern motherhood.
Venue: Summerhall
VL
Kieran Hurley and Gary McNair’s hilarious and sharply observed show, centred on twin heroes Max and Stevie.
Venue: Roundabout @ Summerhall
Weather Girl
Written by Brian Watkins (Outer Range), and directed by Tyne Rafaeli, this gripping new monlogue about a California TV weather girl, starring Julia McDermott.
Venue: Summerhall
Winners announced on Friday 9 August 2024
Winners of the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe First Awards announced on 9 August are:
BATSHIT
Australian theatre-maker Leah Shelton’s solo show about the life of her grandmother Gwen.
Venue: Traverse
The Border
Studio Wachowicz-Fret’s tribute to Antonina Romanova, a non-binary artist who was living in Kyiv when Russia invaded Ukraine.
Venue: Pleasance @ EICC
Cyrano
Virginia Gay’s gender-flipped version of Cyrano de Bergerac. Also coming to the Park Theatre in London this Christmas – Book London Tickets
Venue: Traverse
A History Of Paper
Co-wrote by the late playwright Oliver Emanuel and composer Gareth Williams.
Venue: Traverse
June Carter Cash: The Woman, Her Music And Me
Charlene Boyd writes and stars in this solo show intertwining her own life with that of June Carter Cash’s early struggle to maintain and build an independent career in a patriarchal world.
Venue: Summerhall
So Young
Written by Douglas Maxwell and set in his home city of Glasgow, chronicling the events of a single traumatic evening.
Venue: Traverse
UPDATES: First published 10 August 2024; Updated 16 August 2024; Updated 23 August 2024
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