Last night (June 3), Brighton Fringe’s biggest and brightest congregated at the annual awards ceremony to take their curtain call for 2018.
EVERY year, the Brighton Fringe Awards celebrate the outstanding performances and events that make the festival fly.
A whole host of awards celebrate the variety of art forms on show at the Fringe, and each award recognises the respective recipients in a unique way. All companies who win an award also win a free registration to take part in Brighton Fringe the following year.
This year Brighton Fringe hosted two new awards: the Voice Arts Award, supporting the development of creativity and leadership skills; and the Marlborough Development Award, supporting LGBT+ performers taking risks and working in interdisciplinary ways.
With a plethora of exciting new talent and people gathering from all around the country, almost 90,000 tickets were sold at Brighton Fringe 2018.
Fringe Festival Awards 2018
NEW Voice award winner: Standard: Elite – Nominees: Lippy, Fix My Brain
NEW Marlborough Development Award winner: Oozing Gloop
The Argus Fringe Archangel Award winner: Edith Piaf Live At Nimegue – Nominees: Pelican, Joseph Morpurgo: Hammerhead
International Youth Arts Festival Best of Brighton Fringe-Theatre winner: Bully Beef
International Youth Arts Festival Best of Brighton comedy winner: Now That’s What I Call Archie Henderson
International Youth Arts Festival Best of Brighton Fringe family show winner: Margo & Mr Whatsit
First & Foremost Entertainment winner: “Hello La Voix” New Show, New Shoes, Old Earrings – Nominees: The Tap Pack, Circus Vegas
Balkan/Otherplace Award winner: Garry Starr: Garry Starr Performs Everything – Nominees: What We Leave Behind, Meadow by Meadow, Nathan and Ida’s Hotdog Stand
South East Dance ‘Space to Dance’ Award winner: A Night with Thick and Tight – Nominees: My Feminist Boner, Watching
ONCA Green Curtain winner: Subira – Nominee: Efemera
Best Design for Print winner: Passionate Machine – Nominee: Franz Kafka – Apparatus
The Brighton Fringe International Touring Bursary in Association with The Pebble Trust winner: A Night with Thick and Tight – Nominees: Bomb Sex, The Sorrowful Tale of Sleeping Sydney
New Writing South Best New Play Award winner: Passion Machine – Nominees: The Sorrowful Tale of Sleeping Sydney, Gun
Visual Arts Award in Association with HOUSE and AOH winner: The Museum of Ordinary People – Nominees: Open Studios 2018, One Can Not Be Too Careful
Radio Reverb: Out in Brighton LGBTQ Award winner: Hot Gay Time Machine – Nominees: The Morning After the Life Before, Gypsy Queen
Broadway Baby Bobby: Best of the Festival winner: Victorious – Nominees: Hymns For Robots, What We Leave Behind, Always, With a Love That’s True
Latest Live Music Award winner: Glenn Rob – Nominees: The Turbans, Glenn Richardson
Latest Comedy Award winner: Joseph Morpurgo: Hammerhead – Nominees: Garry Starr: Garry Starr Performs Everything, Schutte the Unromantic
Fringe Review Outstanding Theatre winner: The Polished Scar
Primary Times Children’s Choice winner: Oskar’s Amazing Adventures – Nominees: Let’s Build a Planet, The Tale of the Cockatrice, I’m a Magician Get Me Out of Here
Audience Choice – Best Event winner: Love Letters To Rappers
Audience Choice – Best Venue winner: Junkyard Dogs
Spirit of the Fringe Award winner: David Weedall
Julian Caddy, Managing Director of Brighton Fringe, said: “We’re extremely proud of the caliber of performers that Brighton Fringe draws, and pleased to be a part of so many new, exciting works. Congratulations to all our winners, nominees and everyone who has been a part of Brighton Fringe this year. This is your festival, and we can’t wait to see you all again next year.”
Brighton Fringe is the largest open-access arts festival in England and one of the largest in the world. It is an international festival that is at the same time rooted in the community, embracing every art form, every form of artistic expression and supporting both new and established performers in trying out new work and taking risks. Their mission is to bring artists and audiences together and to act as a catalyst for creativity.
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