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unusual facts about Edinburgh Fringe Festival



Alon Ilsar

In 2010, he performed with Meow Meow at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and joined Aronas, brainchild of Australian Jazz Bell Award winner, Aron Ottignon for their European tour.

Ecclesfield School

Ecclesfield School teachers Paul O'Farrell and Ben Smithard wrote and directed the play Exit Stage Left which was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in July & August 2012.

Hayley J Williams

Hayley has toured the UK in various theater productions during her professional career, and received excellent reviews for her role in The Coma (an adaptation of the Alex Garland novel) at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Virginia Gay

During August 2012 Gay performed her Cabaret show Dirty Pretty Songs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the The Famous Spiegeltent.


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Ashley Lilley

Lilley starred as Lucille Frank in a production of Jason Robert Brown's Parade at the Edinburgh fringe festival in 2005.

Daniel Maier

Since 2008, Maier has been a resident judge at the Karaoke Circus shows, both in London and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Darien Graham-Smith

He is also notable for his involvement in independent theatre: achievements include co-writing The Cat Must Die, which The Times named critics' choice at the 2002 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and directing the South London Theatre's 2005 production of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen.

Edward Aczel

His 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival show was described by Zadie Smith in The New Yorker as "one of the strangest, and finest, hours of live comedy I’d ever seen".

Hamilton Lee

At various points in the 1980s, Lee drummed for various theatre projects by the comedy/drama/"horror-panto" troupe Count of Three in both London and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, including versions of The Beggar's Opera, Titus Andronicus and Dr Calamari's Music Hall of the Macabre.

Lushin Dubey

Lushin's first solo play "Untitled" solo directed & scripted by Arvind Gaur, traveled to the US, UK and Edinburgh Fringe Festival.Untitled has already completed more than 200 shows.

Matthew Spangler

Matthew Spangler's plays have been produced by the San Jose Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cleveland Play House, San Diego Repertory Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Citadel Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse (staged reading), the Nottingham Playhouse, Liverpool Playhouse, Brighton Festival, the National Steinbeck Center, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the Avignon Theatre Festival, in addition to other theatres and festivals.

Papa CJ

Papa CJ has performed at the Just for Laughs festival in Canada and more regularly at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Stewart Lee

Lee also had a show at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, named Stewart Lee: If You Prefer a Milder Comedian, Please Ask for One in which he performed his own version of the song "Galway Girl".

Tim Vine

Again, Vine came second, beaten by Stewart Francis in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2012 with the joke "Last night me and my girlfriend watched three DVDs back to back. Luckily I was the one facing the telly."