2025 Edinburgh Fringe Spotlight

We’re so excited for this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where all kinds of live performance is celebrated. Check out our publications of productions premiering at this year’s Festival, including the winning titles of the Women’s Prize for Playwriting and the Untapped Awards.

Consumed by Karis Kelly (UK)
(Drama / 3 women, 1 girl)
Winner of the Women’s Prize for the Playwriting 2022, Karis Kelly’s play is a pitch-black and twisted comedy of dysfunctional family dynamics, generational trauma and national boundaries. A 90th birthday party that no-one seems to want. Four generations of Northern Irish women, reunited under one roof. A house full of hungry ghosts, with more than one skeleton in the closet. Turn off your phones at dinner.

KARIS KELLY won the Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2022 for their play Consumed. Karis was selected for the 2022 Playwright’s Scheme Bursary run by the Peggy Ramsay Foundation with Film4 and the Maria Bjornson Memorial Fund, developing a new play with the Lyric, Belfast, as their writer in residence. In 2024 Karis was selected for the inaugural UK Women In Theatre Lab. Other theatre work includes a piece for the Lyric Theatre, Belfast’s “Listen at the Lyric” programme titled Outside Her and The Childless Aunt for Accidental Theatre, Belfast’s “No Touching Theatre” Festival. She has worked with Theatre503, The Arcola, the Bush Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, Nabokov and DryWrite. Karis facilitates Fighting Words’ Young Playwrights Programme and Papatango’s GoWrite programme. Karis has written on three series of Hope Street for Long Story TV/BBC and is developing drama projects for Two Cities and World Productions. Previously she developed drama projects for Objective Fiction and Universal Content Productions.

JEEZUS! by Sergio Maggiolo, Guido García Lueches and Laura Killeen (UK)
(Musical Comedy / 2 any gender)
A good South American altar boy Jesús is preparing for his first communion but when he looks at the hot man on the cross, he feels something… unholy. Catholic guilt collides with unrepentant queerness in this sinful, heart-pounding mix of live music, dark humour and Latin heat. Winner of the 2025 Untapped Awards.

SERGIO ANTONIO MAGGIOLO is a queer, London-based writer, performer, and director born in Peru and trained in the U.S. Known for making theatre that is political, irreverent, and charged with emotional truth, Sergio’s work blends personal experience with collective memory, often through playful, genre-defying forms. They began their career onscreen in Peruvian television before training at NYU’s Atlantic Acting School and ultimately settling in the UK, where they’ve built a career across stages in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Sergio has directed and performed in acclaimed productions at venues including Brixton House, The Arcola, Southwark Playhouse, The Pleasance, and Teatro Alfil Madrid. They are a founding member of Un Intento Valiente, a neofuturist performance collective, and a core artist with Degenerate Fox.

GUIDO GARCÍA LUECHES is a Uruguayan actor, poet and theatre maker, working in the UK since 2015. They trained at the Instituto de Actuación de Montevideo, Uruguay and Associated Studios, London. They co-founded interactive theatre company Say It Again, Sorry? with whom they created the hit interactive comedy …Earnest? now on a UK tour. Guido’s first solo show Playing Latinx played the Edinburgh Fringe 2023 to rave reviews, and later transferred to Soho Theatre.

Pigs Fly Easy Ryan by Kendra A Miller, Lou Doyle and Trevor White (UK)
(Comedy / 2 trans, non-binary, genderqueer or gender diverse performers)
An aviation bimbofication transubstantiation ritual for big-boy audiences 18 and over. Two flamin’ hot crash fetishists illegally impersonate flight attendants to sneaky-weaky onto a plane and live their ultimate fantasy – total destruction. Expect laughter, tears and lots of feelings as the protagonists erotically cute-ify freedom in the face of climate collapse and rising global fascism. Winner of the 2025 Untapped Awards.

KENDRA A MILLER is a playwright, screenwriter, director, intimacy director and filmmaker from California (kendraamiller.com). Their company NONSTOP is the Winner of the New Diorama & Underbelly Untapped Award 2025, supported by Concord Theatricals. Recent directing credits include Poster Boy and Prologue at Camden People’s Theatre in London. Kendra has worked as a producer, director, and dramaturg at theatres including Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, The Second City, Redmoon, About Face Theatre, Jackalope Theatre, University of Chicago Performance Lab, and Salonathon. They are a certified Intimacy Choreographer for Live Performance (Intimacy Professionals Association), graduated with a MFA and Distinction from the University of London, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and their debut feature film Perfect is premiering in 2026. Executive producer of Best Laid Mice, and founding member of The Rent Brigade (rentbrigade.org), a group of Angelenos committed to ending illegal rent gouging in Los Angeles after the 2025 wildfires.

TREVOR WHITE is a performer, devisor and sound designer interested in the intersection of noise, queer performativity, and live performance. Previously a director for Old Dog Theatre for a puppetry adaptation of Kafka’s The Castle (Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2019). Currently a devisor, sound designer and co-founder of ClusterFlux, who have received support from New Diorama Theatre, Theatre Deli, Curious Directive, ArtsDepot, The Pleasance Theatre, and CPT. Their critically acclaimed debut show, ‘PLEASE LEAVE (a message)’, was featured in Fergus Morgan’s (The Stage) top three shows of The Fringe and has since been toured internationally. Trevor is a freelance sound designer for devised theatre and was an installation technician on Punch Drunk’s immersive piece The Burnt City (2022). Trevor graduated with a First Class Honours in BA (Hons) Drama and Theatre Studies from Goldsmiths and a Distinction in MA Advanced Theatre Practice from Central School of Speech and Drama.

LOU DOYLE is a performance artist, writer and creative producer based in London. Winner of the Untapped Award 2025, in collaboration with Concord Theatricals. Their debut play, Poster Boy (WINNER: Starting Blocks Award, recipient of Arts Council England), was directed by Clara Potter Sweet (Emergency Chorus) and Kendra A Miller. They were commissioned by the NOW Gallery in 2023 to create The Hide; a siteresponsive commission addressing the ecology and history of North Greenwich. They have produced short-form cabaret interventions for events including Duckie, Riposte, Eurovision Boycott, Crabs, Fellanies, Miss Ellaneous and many more since 2023. They have also worked as a dramaturg for Sweet Beef Collective, and most recently as a creative producer on plewds by Kathrine Payne (WINNER: Mary Dick Award, NOMINATED: Tony Craze Award). They were the Fringe Programming Assistant at Summerhall from 2022-2023, Edinburgh, supporting the selection of the VAULT award 2023. They are the Press & PR Assistant at Soho Theatre and have written about live and digital performance for This is Tomorrow, Sunday Times Culture and The Sunday Times.

SKYE: A Thriller by Ellie Keel (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 1m)
1995. Holidaying on the Isle of Skye, Annie and her siblings glimpse their father across the beach. Which seems impossible, because he died four years ago. What follows is a relentless search for the truth, on a rugged island where real people and ghosts seem to walk hand in hand among the mountains and lochs. A chilling, propulsive debut thriller by Sunday Times bestselling author and Olivier-nominated producer Ellie Keel.

ELLIE KEEL is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Four (HarperCollins), an Olivier Award-nominated theatre producer, and the youngest ever winner of The Stage’s Producer of the Year Award. She is the Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Playwriting, the leading award for female and non-binary playwrights from the UK and Ireland. With her company EKP, she has produced over twenty-five new plays to critical acclaim in London, at the Edinburgh Festivals, and on tour across the UK, at venues including the Royal Court Theatre, Barbican Centre, Southbank Centre, Chichester Festival Theatre, and Sheffield Theatres. Her journalism and short stories have appeared in The Guardian, The Daily Express, and The Stage. She is a Trustee of the Brontë Society and London Youth Theatre, and in 2017 she collaborated in the founding of leading LGBT+ youth charity, Just Like Us. Her second novel, A Bad Day To Hide A Body, will be published by HarperCollins in May 2026. SKYE: A Thriller is her first play.

Ways of Knowing by Emergency Chorus (UK)
(Experimental, Devised / 2 performers)
Uncovering a mysterious series of visions and omens, Ways of Knowing delves into the ways we predict and prophesy the future. Amidst an intricate system of choreography, found text and live sound, Emergency Chorus wield science and magic to reckon with our precarious present and enter into the unknown. Winner of the 2025 Untapped Awards.

BEN KULVICHIT is a performance maker based in Bristol, UK. Chiefly working in collaboration with Clara Potter-Sweet as Emergency Chorus, Ben’s practice spans experimental theatre, live art and dance. He has worked with other artists (emma + pj, Alan Fielden, why this sky, SUBJECT OBJECT, YESYESNONO) as a performer, dramaturg, director and lighting designer; as a teacher in higher education; and as a critic and writer. In Bristol, he co-runs the zine and gig/performance series TOUGH SELL, is a member of Interval artist collective and a volunteer at the Cube Microplex.

CLARA POTTER-SWEET is an artist working with performance and other sundry disciplines, based in Bristol. They regularly make work with Ben Kulvichit as experimental performance duo Emergency Chorus. They collaborate elsewhere in different capacities – dramaturg, performer, outside eye, writer – and with artists such as Alan Fielden, Rachael Clerke, Young In Hong, Jo Hellier and Yas Clarke. They are a member of Interval artist collective & a guest lecturer on The Wardrobe Ensemble’s theatremaking course at Bristol School of Acting. (www.clarapottersweet.com)

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