The Edinburgh Fringe 2022 in numbers

• 63 countries were represented onstage at this year’s Fringe, including 13 country showcases.

• 1,354 accredited arts industry members – e.g. promoters, producers, festival and venue bookers – from 45 countries attended the festival to buy work and support artists beyond the Fringe, including Screen Fringe.

• 150 sensory backpacks were used by autistic children and adults, to help make their experience of the Fringe more enjoyable.

• Over 1,800 tickets were issued to local schools, charities and community groups who took part in our Fringe Days Out scheme, which offers Fringe vouchers and Lothian Bus tickets to people who wouldn’t normally get to experience the Fringe.

• 60% of Fringe shows in accessible venues to wheelchair users.

• 3,384 street performers took to the stages and spaces across the Street Events programme. This also included new sites in St Andrew Square and Cathedral Square (St James Quarter).

• 900 schoolkids attended the Fringe as part of our schools’ outreach work and 38 teachers also saw shows as part of the Teachers’ Theatre Club, which we set up in partnership with Imaginate.

• 777 professional media accredited from 21 countries.

* All stats correct as of 12:00 on 29 August 2022.

About the Edinburgh Festival Fringe: The 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe will take place from 04 - 28 August 2023.

About the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society: The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society is the charity that underpins the world-renowned Edinburgh Fringe. It was established in 1958 by a group of artists to act as the guardian of the Fringe's values. We exist to support and encourage everyone who wants to participate in the Fringe; to provide information and assistance to audiences; and to celebrate the Fringe and what it stands for all over the world. Based on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, the Society has a small team of staff who work year-round to assist all the artists and audiences who make the festival one of the best loved performing arts events on the planet.

2022 AWARD WINNERS:

Amused Moose Comedy Award

Amused Moose Comedy Award - Debut Show: Chelsea Birkby: No More Mr Nice Chelsea, Chelsea Birkby (Just the Tonic at the Caves)

Amused Moose Comedy Award - Outstanding Edinburgh Fringe show: Tall Dark and Anxious – Richard David-Caine (Underbelly, Cowgate)

Amused Moose Comedy Award – Top Sketch Show: Grubby Little Mitts, Nicholls & Brown (Assembly George Square)

Brighton Fringe Award

Winner: Experiment Human by Hooky Productions (Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly)

The Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award

Burn, Ottawa Little Theatre (theSpace @ Niddry St)

Ghosts of the Near Future, emma + pj (Summerhall)

Hotel Elsinore, PLANT[UNLTD] / Susanna Hamnett (theSpace on the Mile)

LIGHTHOUSE, Early Doors Productions (Greenside @ Infirmary Street)

Sandcastles, Brite Theater (Assembly Rooms)

Swell, Tom Foreman Productions (Underbelly, Cowgate)

The Man Who Thought He Knew Too Much,Voloz Collective (Pleasance Dome)

The Mistake, Michael Mears' Essential Theatre (theSpace on North Bridge)

The Poetical Life of Philomena McGuinness, Moon Rabbit (Greenside @ Infirmary Street)

Ultimatum, Treehouse (Pleasance Courtyard)

The Comedians' Choice Awards 2022

Best Show: Rob Copland: Mainstream Muck (Gimme Some of That), Rob Copland/PBH’s Free Fringe (PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Banshee Labyrinth)

Best performer: Jordan Gray: Jordan Gray: Is It a Bird?, Stamptown (Assembly George Square Theatre)

Best Person: Martin Willis, Objectively Funny

The Comedy Poster Awards

Audience Award Winner: Milo Edwards: Voicemail, Impatient Productions (Just the Tonic at the Mash House)

Panel Award Winner: Jordan Gray: Is it a Bird?, Stamptown (Assembly George Square Gardens)

Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe

Winner: Masai Graham, Aaaaaaaaaargh! It's 101 Clean Jokes in 30 minutes (Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys)

The David Johnson Emerging Talent Award

An Audience with Milly Liu - François Pandolfo (Pleasance Courtyard)

Eve: All About Her - Keith Ramsay (Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose)

The Edinburgh Comedy Awards

Best Comedy Show: Sam Campbell: Comedy Show – IAM (Monkey Barrel Comedy)

Best Newcomer: Laura Ricote: GRL/LATNX/DEF - IAM (Pleasance Courtyard)

The Filipa Bragança Award

Winner: Chloe-Ann Tylor, Svengali (Pleasance Courtyard)

Holden Street Theatre Award

Bloody Elle – A Gig Musical (Traverse Theatre)

Malcolm Hardee Awards 2022

The Flop: A Band Of Idiots (PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Banshee’s Labyrinth)

Cunning Stunt: Ivor Dembina (Laughing Horse @ Bar 50)

Act Most Likely to Make a Million Quid: Jerry Sadowitz (Pleasance @ EICC)

The Mental Health Fringe Award

Manic Street Creature, Maimuna Memon (Roundabout @ Summerhall)

The Mervyn Stutter 'Spirit of the Fringe' Award

The Mistake, Michael Mears' Essential Theatre (theSpace on North Bridge)

Ballet Freedom, Freedom Ballet of Ukraine (Pleasance @ EICC)

The Tiger Lillies: One Penny Opera - Bound & Gagged Comedy in association with Tim Whitehead (Underbelly, Bristo Square)

Made in India/Britain, Rinkoo Barpaga, Deaf Explorer and Pleasance (Pleasance Courtyard)

Taiwan Season: See You, Hung Dance (Dance Base)

Aurie Styla: Green, Aurie Styla (Pleasance Courtyard)

SK Shlomo: Breathe: The Play That Becomes a Rave, Gag Reflex supported by The Royal Albert Hall and Pleasance (Pleasance Dome)

Black Is The Color Of My Voice, Play The Spotlight and James Seabright (Pleasance at EICC)

Musical Theatre Review Award

Best Musical: Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder, Francesca Moody Productions (Roundabout @ Summerhall)

Special Award: Goya Theatre Company

The Scotsman Fringe First Awards

Winners - Week One:

Breathless - written by Laura Horton (Pleasance Courtyard)

And Then the Rodeo Burned Down - written by Chloe Rice and Natasha Roland (TheSpace @Niddry Street)

The Beatles Were a Boyband - written by Rachel O’Regan (Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose)

Happy Meal - written by Tabby Lamb (Traverse Theatre)

Masterclass, written by Feidlim Cannon, Gary Keegan & Adrienne Truscott (Pleasance Dome)

The Last Return, written by Sonya Kelly, (Traverse Theatre)

Winners - Week Two:

Ode To Joy, written by James Ley (Summerhall)

You're Safe Til 2024: Deep History, written by David Finnigan (Pleasance Courtyard)

Brown Boys Swim, written by Karim Khan (Pleasance Dome)

Manic Street Creature, written by Maimuna Memon, (Summerhall)

Truth's A Dog Must To Kennel, written by Tim Crouch, (Royal Lyceum Theatre Studio)

Aberdeen, written by Cassie Workman, (Just the Tonic at the Nucleus)

Winners – Week Three:

Age is a Feeling, written by Haley McGee, (Summerhall)

This is Not a Show About Hong Kong, written by Max Percy, (Underbelly, Cowgate)

This Is Memorial Device, adapted by Graham Eatough from the novel by David Keena

(Wee Red Bar)

Silkworm, written by Vlad Butucea, (Assembly Roxy)

Feeling Afraid as If Something Terrible Is Going to Happen, written by Marcelo Dos Santos (Summerhall)

SIT-UP Award

The Beatles Were a Boyband, F-Bomb Theatre (Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose)

So You Think You’re Funny?

First prize: Joshua Bethania

Second prize: Mark Black

Third prize: Jack Skipper and Pravanya Pillay