Not everyone at the Edinburgh Fringe won an award in 2019, but sometimes it feels that way. Below is a list of all the winners of awards. Information provided by the Edinburgh Fringe Society.
Allen Wright Award
Winner (Reviews): Deborah Chu
Winner (Features): Katie Hawthorne
Commended (Features): Tim Bano
Amused Moose Comedy Award
Amused Moose Comedy Award: Janine Harouni: Stand Up With Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated) – Soho Theatre (Pleasance Courtyard)
Amused Moose Comedy Award - Outstanding Show: Liam Withnail: Homecoming – Liam Withnail (Monkey Barrel)
Amused Moose Comedy Award - People's Champion: Archie Henderson: Jazz Emu – Archie Henderson (Gilded Balloon)
The Asian Arts Awards
Best Production (Technical): Spray – Cho-in Theatre Company (Assembly)
Best Director: Park Cheong-Euy for Spray – Cho-in Theatre Company (Assembly)
Best Comedy: Zeroko’s Teatime – Zeroko (Greenside)
Best Performance: Taiwan Season: Bout – Chang Dance Theatre (Summerhall)
Best Show: Taiwan Season: Floating Flowers – B. Dance (Dance Base)
Brighton Fringe Award
Winner: The Canary and the Crow – Middle Child (Roundabout @ Summerhall)
The Broadway Baby Bobby Award
Letter To Boddah – Watershed Productions (C Venues)
Taiwan Season: Floating Flowers – B.DANCE (Dance Base)
The Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award
Winner: Mouthpiece - Traverse Theatre Company (Traverse Theatre)
The Comedians' Choice Awards 2019
Best Performer: Laura Lexx: Knee Jerk – Andrew Loach Talent (Gilded Balloon)
Best Person: Brian Dobie (The Pear Tree, The Counting House and 32Below)
Best Show: Joz Norris Is Dead. Long Live Mr Fruit Salad – Joz Norris (Heroes)
The Comedy Poster Awards
Audience Award Winner: Sofie Hagen, Haiminh Le and Matt Crockett: Sofie Hagen: The Bumswing – IAM Presents (Pleasance)
Panel Award Winner: Jessica Fostekew, Idil Sukan and Chris Lince: Jessica Fostekew: Hench Jessica Fostekew (Monkey Barrel Comedy)
Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe
Winner: Olaf Falafel: It's One Giant Leek for Mankind – Olaf Falafel (Laughing Horse)
Euan’s Guide Accessible Edinburgh Festivals Award
Best Venue: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Shop and Box Office
Most Accessible Large Permanent Venue: The Festival Theatre
Most Accessible Pop-up Venue Award: Edinburgh International Book Festival
Most Accessible Small Permanent Venue Award: Bedlam Theatre
Spirit of Inclusion Award: Edinburgh International Festival
Dave's Edinburgh Comedy Award
Best Comedy Show: Jordan Brookes: I've Got Nothing – Fight in the Dog (Pleasance)
Best Newcomer: Catherine Cohen: The Twist...? She's Gorgeous – Berk's Nest (Pleasance)
Panel Prize: Jess Brough and Fringe of Colour
The Filipa Bragança Award
Winner: Ameera Conrad: Tales from the Garden – LIV Studios (Assembly Rooms)
2019 FringeReview Award - Exciting Work
Winner: Identity – CTC Dance Company (Greenside)
Fringe Young Writers’ Award
Winner: Ariane Branigan
Herald Angels
Week 1:
Pat Kinevane: Before Fishamble: The New Play Company (Dance Base)
Christine Devaney: And the Birds Did Sing – Curious Seed (Dance Base)
Dritan Kastrati: How Not to Drown – ThickSkin, Traverse Theatre production with Tron Theatre, Lawrence Batley Theatre (Traverse Theatre)
David Colvin: Thunderstruck – David Colvin (Assembly)
Week 2:
Nick Harper: 58 Fordwych Road – Nick Harper (The Jazz Bar)
Jonny Pelham: Off Limits – Jonny Pelham (Just the Tonic)
Gina Moxley: The Patient Gloria – Gina Moxley and Abbey Theatre with Pan Pan Theatre Company (Traverse Theatre)
Week 3:
Zoë Coombs Marr:Bossy Bottom – Soho Theatre in association with Token Events (Monkey Barrel Comedy)
Knot – Nikki & JD / Jacksons Lane (Assembly)
Art of Believing – Daniel Martinez Flamenco Company (theSpace)
Die! Die! Die! Old People Die! – Ridiculusmus (Summerhall)
Holden Street Theatres Award
Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum with Expats – Soho Theatre in association with Show and Tell (Summerhall)
Malcolm Hardee Awards 2019
Comic Originality award: Legs – Julia Masli and The Duncan Brothers (Just the Tonic)
Cunning Stunt award: West End Producer – Cuffe and Taylor in association with Jason Haigh-Ellery (Assembly)
Act Most Likely to Make a Million Quid: President Obonjo: Goodbye Mr President - President Obonjo (PBH's Free Fringe)
The Mental Health Fringe Award
All Of Me – China Plate, Cambridge Junction and The Yard Theatre (Summerhall)
The Mervyn Stutter 'Spirit of the Fringe' Award
Cleopatra Higgins: The Tina Turner Story/The Aretha Franklin Story – Night Owl Shows (theSpace)
Taiwan Season: Floating Flowers – B.DANCE (Dance Base)
Who Cares – LUNG and The Lowry (Summerhall)
INTERBEING - Stories from a Current War – 2Theatre (Assembly Rooms)
Divet Show: The Greatest Divas – Divet Productions (Assembly)
Tom Stade: You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet – Blue Jeans Management (Gilded Baloon)
Havana After Dark – Danza Cuba (Pleasance at EICC)
Musical Theatre Review Award
Best Musical: Islander: A New Musical – Helen Milne Productions (Roundabout @ Summerhall)
The Scottish Arts Club Theatre Award (for best Scottish production)
Winner: The Afflicted – Groupwork (Summerhall)
Runner-Up: Thunderstruck – David Colvin (Assembly)
Runner-Up: And the Birds Did Sing – Curious Seed (Dance Base)
The Scottish Arts Club Bright Spark Award (for an emerging Scottish talent)
Winner: Cast of The Brunch Club: The Brunch Club – Grid Iron, SDTN and Pleasance Theatre Trust (Pleasance)
The Scotsman Fringe First Awards
Winners - Week One:
Mustard – Eva O'Connor (Summerhall)
Raven – Chamäleon Productions in association with Aurora Nova (Assembly)
Arthur – Daniel Bye, One Tenth Human and ARC Stockton (Your Home)
How Not to Drown – ThickSkin, Traverse Theatre production with Tron Theatre, Lawrence Batley Theatre (Traverse Theatre)
Enough – Traverse Theatre Company (Traverse Theatre)
Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran – Javaad Alipoor and HOME in association with Traverse Theatre Company (Traverse Theatre)
Winners - Week Two:
The Patient Gloria – Gina Moxley and Abbey Theatre with Pan Pan Theatre Company (Traverse Theatre)
Subject Mater – Woven Voices (Paradise in The Vault)
Everything I See I Swallow – Shasha and Taylor Productions (Summerhall)
Until the Flood – Arcola Theatre Production Company (Traverse)
Bobby & Amy – Emma Blackman Productions and Emily Jenkins (Pleasance)
LipSync / Cumbernauld Theatre – Cumbernauld Theatre and Invited Guest
Are we not drawn onward to new erA – Ontroerend Goed – Theatre Royal Plymouth, Vooruit, Richard Jordan Productions, BiB with ZOO (Zoo)
Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum with Expats – Soho Theatre in association with Show and Tell (Summerhall)
Winners – Week Three:
The Desk – Reetta Honkakoski Company in association with From Start to Finnish (Summerhall)
Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd – Francesca Moody Productions (Roundabout @ Summerhall)
The Afflicted – Groupwork
E8 – The North Wall in association with The Pleasance (Pleasance)
Rowan Rheingans: Dispatches on the Red Dress – Rowan Rheingans (Scottish Storytelling Centre)
Primary Times Children’s Choice Award
Winner: The Listies: Ickypedia – The Listies (Pleasance)
Runner Up: Islander: A New Musical – Helen Milne Productions (Roundabout @ Summerhall)
SIT-UP Award
Who Cares – LUNG and The Lowry (Summerhall)
So You Think You’re Funny?
First prize: Finlay Christie
Second prize: Shane Daniel Byrne
Third prize: Charlie George
The Stage Awards
Nigel Barrett: Pops – Jake Orr Productions, HighTide and Live Theatre (Assembly)
Sophie Melville: Pops – Jake Orr Productions, HighTide and Live Theatre (Assembly)
Caroline Horton: All of Me – China Plate, Cambridge Junction and The Yard Theatre (Summerhall)
Lee Sang-hee: Macbeth – Choin Theatre Company (Korea) in association with C theatre (C Venues)
Breffni Holahan: Collapsible – Ellie Keel Productions and HighTide (Assembly)
Alice Vilanculo: E8 – The North Wall in association with The Pleasance (Pleasance)
Angus Taylor and Shauna Macdonald – Mouthpiece – Traverse Theatre Company (Traverse Theatre)
Richard Gadd: Baby Reindeer – Francesca Moody Productions (Roundabout @ Summerhall)
Dael Orlandersmith: Until The Flood – Arcola Theatre Production Company (Traverse Theatre)
Three Weeks Editors’ Awards
Pianodrome
Eleanor Dillon-Reams for HoneyBee (Gilded Balloon)
Ivor Dembina for Old Jewish Jokes (Laughing Horse)
Fine Mess for A Wake in Progress (Underbelly)
Chamäleon Productions in association with Aurora Nova for Raven (Assembly)
Garret Millerick
The Greenhouse
Simon Caine
Peter Hudler
Brush Theatre
Total Theatre Awards
Total Theatre Awards Discretionary Award: Scottee: Fat Blokes – Scottee & Friends Ltd (Assembly)
Total Theatre Awards Discretionary Award: The Forecast – Amy Bell, presented by The Place (Dance Base)
Total Theatre Awards Discretionary Award: The End – Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas (Summerhall)
Total Theatre Award for Innovation, Experimentation and Playing with Form: Frankenstein: Total Theatre Award for How to Make a Monster – Battersea Arts Centre and BAC Beatbox Academy (Traverse Theatre)
Total Theatre Award for Innovation, Experimentation and Playing with Form: Tricky Second Album – In Bed with My Brother (Pleasance)
Total Theatre Award for Physical / Visual Theatre: Working On My Night Moves – Julia Croft and Nisha Madhan with Zanetti Productions (Summerhall)
Total Theatre Award for Shows by an emerging artist/company: Burgerz – Hackney Showroom (Traverse Theatre)
Total Theatre Significant Contribution Award : Jess Brough and Fringe of Colour
Total Theatre & Jacksons Lane Award for Circus: Knot – Nikki & JD / Jacksons Lane (Assembly)
Total Theatre & Jacksons Lane Award for Circus: Staged – Circumference (ZOO)
Total Theatre and The Place Award for Dance: Seeking Unicorns – Chiara Bersani / Associazione Culturale Corpoceleste (Dance Base)
