Who's getting a 2024 Keep It Fringe award?

180 Edinburgh shows get £2,500 of help

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has announced the recipients of the 2024 Keep it Fringe fund.

A total of 180 shows across all genres will each receive a £2,500 bursary to help them put on a show at this year’s festivals.

The scheme is funded by a £1 million grant from from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport over two years, and this year it received 749 applications.

Shona McCarthy, chief executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, said: ‘We know that for many artists the financial challenges of putting on a show can prevent some from coming to the Fringe, and this funding will enable the Edinburgh Fringe to be more accessible to artists from across the UK.’

The successful applicants are, in alphabetical order:

   ¡Ay Mija!
   "Why, Ifrah Why?"
   1 Moment in Time
   1 Murder: The Mind Reading Lawyer
   2 Muslim 2 Furious: Mecca Drift
   Aaron Twitchen: Himbo
   A Brief Case of Crazy
   After Shakespeare - Richard III
   Alasdair Wallace & Tom Hutchinson - "Are We Not Men?"
   Alexander Bennett: Emotional Daredevil
   All the Fraudulent Horse Girls
   Ambitious Underachiever
   An Octopus, The Universe n Stuff
   Barbara Fernandez Singing, Sagging and Shagging
   The Beatbox Collective: 'What's Your Sound?'
   Bella Humphries: Square Peg
   Bellringers
   Best in Class
   Big Year
   Birdwatching
   Blodwen’s in Business
   BLUBBER
   Blues and Burlesque
   Bot Brothers: A Story of Our Times
   Brennan Reece: Me Me Me
   Burning Down The House
   Burst
   Caravan Club with Miss Missy Heavens
   Carl Donnelly: Boosegumps
   Celtic Roots
   Chameleon
   The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return
   Character Flaw
   A Chip Off the Gold Block
   CHOIN
   Chokeslam
   Chris Cook: The Art Of Taking Part
   Chris Tavener is Faking Cool
   Christian Dart: Bigger Than The Christmas Turkey
   Clownfishing
   Cobin Millage: Fifteen Pints With a Wax Figure of Renowned Painter Pablo Picasso
   Colin Hoult: Colin
   Comedy for the Curious
   Dani Johns: Cringe
   Crying Shame
   Darkside
   Deeptime Atomic Waste Pleasure Party
   Delighted
   Diary of a Gay Disaster
   Doom & Glitter: A Tribute To Tom Waits
   DRUM
   The Duchess of Buckingham Regrets to Inform You That Her Husband Is Dead
   Duck
   The Duncan Brothers: Blood Sword
   Edy Hurst's Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Himself
   Elaine Robertson: Delulu
   The Emu War: A New Musical
   Experiment Human
   Failure Project
   Finding Splashman
   Float
   For the Love of Spam
   FREAK OUT!
   The Freemartin
   Free Mason
   Galentine's Day
   Gamble
   Glass Crumpet's Best of 2024
   Gogo Boots Go
   Goldfish
   GOOD BOY
   The Good Iranian
   Granny Norbag Saves The Planet
   Grow
   HALF MAN || HALF BULL PART ONE: THESEUS & HALF MAN || HALF BULL PART TWO: DAEDALUS
   Hardly Working
   A History of Fortune Cookies
   How I Learned to Swim
   How to Catch a Book Witch
   Hysterical
   I am Claire Parry (very funny stand up)
   I Did Something I Shouldn't Have
   I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life
   I See My Sister
   I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar
   Identities
   In Defiance of Gravity
   In the Round
   In The Sick of It
   Instructions
   Iona Fyfe
   Is the WiFi Good in Hell?
   It's the Economy, Stupid!
   Jake Donaldson: Spectacle
   Joe Kent-Walters is Frankie Monroe: LIVE!!!
   Josephine Lacey: Autism Mama
   Jukebox Jury
   Just Aretha
   Kate Hammer: Double Virgin On the Rocks (with a Twist)
   Kate-Lois Elliott: How to Belong Without Joining a Cult
   Lessons On Revolution
   LIFE
   LIMBO - a sonata for acrobatic violinist and acrobat
   Locomotive For Murder: The Improvised Whodunnit
   Logan, A One Woman Show (Because only one of us survived)
   Look After Your Knees
   Lorna Rose Treen: Skin Pigeon
   Lost Girl
   Louise Atkinson: She's Got The Look
   Love Your Work
   Made of Magic – poetry of rage & (be)longing
   make the Bed
   MANikin
   Maria Fedulova: Russian. Mafia. Family.
   Mark Nicholas This Is Not The Autistic You Are Looking For
   Material Girl
   Midsommar
   MIME CLUB
   Mind Milk
   Mitzi Fitz (WIP)
   My Brain is Soup, Your Hands are the Spoons
   Neurochatter
   Non Player Character
   Occupational Hazard
   Oh, Calm Down
   Paper Swans
   please DON'T see our show
   plewds
   Pool's Gold
   Psyche
   The Queen's Head
   Rachel Creeger: Ultimate Jewish Mother
   Rice
   Rockstar Magician
   RTFM (Read The F***ing Manual)
   Ruby Carr: eBae
   Saint
   Sam Dodghon's Memory is Full
   Sam Hickford
   Sam Hurst Magic! Mayhem! Memes
   Sarah Roberts: Silkworm
   SAVOY! - Everybody's Doing It
   Scaffolding
   The Screen Test
   Selena Mersey: Madonna/Whore
   Seymour Fucking Mace You Cunts
   Shapiro: A Pop Star Musical
   A Show About Tomorrow
   The Shroud Maker
   Sian Davies: Band of Gold
   Sing, Sign and Sensory
   Sisters Three
   Sisyphean Quick Fix
   Sitting Pretty with Kitty
   Snake Boy Takes Manhattan
   Son of a Bitch
   Sorry (I Broke Your Arms And Legs)
   Sour Candi
   Steffan Alun and Support: Free Stand-Up, but at What Cost
   Stephanie Laing: Rudder
   Summoning Sondheim
   Surrender
   Tam o'Shanter
   This Porno does not pass the Bechdel Test
   This Show Contains No Maths, and other lies
   Tit Swingers
   Tom Short – Succes
   Turbo Town
   Ugly Sisters
   waiting
   The Weird Sisters
   What songs may do...
   When Judas Met John: Songs of Dylan and Lennon
   Wish You Were Here
   With the Best Will in the World
   Wood Owl and the Box of Wonders
   The World Got So Dumb
   Yes, We're Related
   Yvonne Hughes is Absolutely Riddled
   Zac Zac Zoom: A Story of Wheels and (F)eels