BRIGHTON FRINGE AWARDS CEREMONY 

To celebrate the final day of Brighton Fringe 2024, we crowned 15 brand new award-winners at a ceremony held in Fool’s Paradise on Sunday June 2nd. Sarah and Ben from the Brighton Fringe team hosted the event and were very grateful to Head First Acrobats and Matthew Gest’s Boogie Troop for their fantastic performances, and George Attwill from Lung and Half Full Theatre for the use of their confetti canons to really celebrate with a bang! 

A huge thank you also goes to all our generous sponsors for enabling us to offer prizes that will help our award winners to develop their work ready for next year and beyond. 

And the winners are….. 

Laine Pub Company Best Newcomer:  

Katherine & Pierre (Talksmall Theatre) 

The Pebble Trust International Touring Bursary: 
Madonna/Whore (Selena Mersey) 

Lauren Varnfield Award for Theatre 

J’ai Un Bleu (WomanEwer) 

Gemini Design for Print Award 

Sluts with Consoles (Dogmouth Theatre) 

Gold Arts Jewellery Community Award 

LewesCurious (Anna Frearson) 

Brighton Girls Family Friendly Award: 

Basketball Man Can Fly (Basketball Man) 

Woodfire Camping’s Best of Brighton Comedy Award: 

Gay Witch Sex Cult (Andrew Doherty) 

South East Dance Award for Most Surprising Dance Performance: 

ZOOLOGIA (OLTRENOTTE dancetheatre company) 

With a special commendation for Only Bones V1.9 (Matthew Pasquet) 

The FringeReview Outstanding Theatre Award: 

The Trials of Magnus Coffinkey (Give or Take Production) 

Brighton Fringe Exhibitions Award in Association with Artists Open Houses: 

Mid Street Lab 

Supajam Education Outstanding Neurodiverse Performance: 

Neurochatter (Sara Harvey) 

Farnham Maltings Emerging Artist/ Company Award: 

How to Catch a Book Witch (Coppice Theatre) 

Audience Choice Award: Best Brighton Fringe Venue: 

Lionhouse 

Audience Choice Award: Best Brighton Fringe Event: 

Aquarium History Tours (Jackie Marsh-Hobbs) 

Spirit of the Fringe: 

Nik Coppin (Art of Comedy/Laughing Horse) 

Huge congratulations to all our winners. See you next year!