Neurodiverse Review announces 2025 award winners | For work at the Edinburgh Fringe

Neurodiverse Review announces 2025 award winners

For work at the Edinburgh Fringe

The winners have been announced in the Neurodiverse Review awards at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Paul Sinha received a lifetime achievement award and the comedy show Abnormally Funny People won the disability champions award.

Comic Jain Edwards won the Actually Autistic Award  for her show  She-Devil  ahead of the other nominees  Ted Hill, Ria Lina, Pierre Novellie and Cerys Bradley.

The ADHD Comedy Award went to Alice-India (pictured) with Sami Abu Wardeh, Shaparak Khorsandi. Alison Spittle and Hunter King also nominated.

Stand-up Jamie MacDonald won the Outstanding Visually Impaired Creative accolade for his show Toxic Bastard​, ahead of fellow nominees Another Sight, I Dream In Colour and Jake Donaldson is the fifth Weezer.

Niall Moorjani won the North Bridge Comedy Writing Award for his show The Green Knight (But It’s Gay) with the other nominees being Alison Spittle: Big; Alice-India: See You in Hell; Dregs and Falling: A Disabled Love Story

Other  winners were: 

Bop Exceptional Theatre Award Cartoonopolis 

Bop Emerging Talent Award : Hunter King – A Northern Tr*nny Hootenanny 

Deaf Action Deaf Excellence Award: Dregs  

Published: 21 Aug 2025

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