Our UNFILTERED interviews get punters straight into the hearts & minds of producers.

• EdFringe Talk: (No) Refunds - "I always describe our first year at Edfringe as if we had made a goal to swim in the ocean without having ever seen an ocean before. WE DID IT. We swam in the ocean! We didn’t drown."
• EdFringe Talk: 00:45:00 - "I’ve learned a lot during our previous run of the play about how important it is to utilize everything the audience gives us and to be specific about what success looks like for each character to maintain a driving want in the story."
• EdFringe Talk: 11½ Angry Men - "Clearly, I have not learned any lessons – because I am back."
• EdFringe Talk: 1518: The Dancing Plague - "A great festival has lots of water stations, bathrooms, air conditioning (for our American attendees aka us), and places to sit. We're hoping Edinburgh has some of those items though we are praying for no heat wave."
• EdFringe Talk: 3 Times I Killed - "I'm plant-based and gluten free and I ate so well in Edinburgh last year I feared I wouldn't fit into my costume by the end of the run."
• EdFringe Talk: A Better Memory - "Because you're performing for a whole month, the show has room to grow and evolve."
• EdFringe Talk: A Cat in a Box - "I worked painstakingly to make the show relatable, understandable, engaging, entertaining, heartfelt, and passionate. It had to be more than a series of memories. It had to work as theatre."
• EdFringe Talk: A Gay Masseur’s Guide to Happy Endings - "I've always understood the artistic toll you pay when creating, whether performing or writing, but producing is an entirely different beast."
• EdFringe Talk: A Marriage of Inconvenience - "We're always the first person the other one tries a new bit on, so putting on a show together was less a decision than an inevitability."
• EdFringe Talk: A Play on Words - "At this age, the learning is hard to quantify, the RE-Learning is a constant."
• EdFringe Talk: A Queer Little Murder - "I kept having this tickle in my heart that I wanted to do a show at Fringe."
• EdFringe Talk: Adele Cliff’s Topical Early Late Show With Adele Cliff - "I keep coming back because every festival I have left at least one treasured possession behind, and I return in hopes of locating it."
• EdFringe Talk: Aditya Mayya Pretends to Be Sad - "In a way, the fact that so much of one's responsibilities at a Fringe involve both producing and performing means that they're constantly being exposed to people of all kinds, which is ultimately the best experience."
• EdFringe Talk: Aidan Greene: Stuttermilk Pancakes - "I’ve never actually experienced the Fringe as a punter. I only know it as a desperate, sleep-deprived performer standing on the Royal Mile in the rain, desperately trying to hand wet pictures of myself to tourists while trying to look like I’m not dying inside."
• EdFringe Talk: Alex Franklin: Kiss Me x - "'Kiss Me x' is about kissing and romance and dating and kissing. Also the fetishisation and denigration of trans bodies, but mostly kissing. Loads of kissing."
• EdFringe Talk: Alice Fraser: Oh Man! - "As with many great monuments, EdFringe is definitely sometimes a little overcrowded and overpriced. But nonetheless, it’s an extraordinary feat of humanity."
• EdFringe Talk: Already Here - "It’s amazing that my daughter gets to experience the Fringe. Her dad was an actor. I know he'll be with us all month. Cheering me on every time I walk onstage. He was the one meant to be in front of the lights. I prefer hiding behind the page."
• EdFringe Talk: Always, Sometimes, Maybe - "Last year was my first and I’m hooked."
• EdFringe Talk: American Assholes: Escape to Edinburgh - "A great festival happens when you get to grow as comics in your writing, performance, and the business side of this industry."
• EdFringe Talk: An Ode to the Casting Director - "I never thought I could do a one woman show before someone told me that I should."
• EdFringe Talk: Andy Macleod’s Soho Days and Camden Nights - "It's like being back at university meets Glastonbury in the most beautiful city in the world."
• EdFringe Talk: Angela Bra – Secret Diary of a Bingo Call Girl - "I always love bringing my show here as I get to meet plenty of like-minded people and have the opportunity to perform in the most unlikely of venues at the most unlikely of times."
• EdFringe Talk: Antigone 1989: A Town Hall Musical - "Silence is not peace."
• EdFringe Talk: Argonauts - "I knew of the Fringe's power as a concept, but being there in person was something else entirely."
• EdFringe Talk: Armageddon Outta Here - "Every rehearsal and performance has pushed me creatively."
• EdFringe Talk: Best. Dad. NEVER. - "So embarrassing that one of my first impressions of EdFringe was watching The Simpsons cartoon where Lisa buys a ticket to 'Musical: The Play.'"
• EdFringe Talk: Big Hair: A Rad and Wild Love Affair - "EdFringe challenges you to make those connections, and explore other exceptional theater that has yet to be discovered!"
• EdFringe Talk: Big Stuff - "We've already had our first proper Edinburgh experience and we hadn't even arrived yet. We were scammed out of our accommodation by someone pretending to own a flat."
• EdFringe Talk: Big Tobacco’s Pinocchio - "We do everything together. We wrote the show, we produce it, we act in it, every morning we wake up in the same big bed and put each other's socks on even as we kick."
• EdFringe Talk: Black Blues Brothers: Let’s Twist Again! - "Life is unpredictable... and so is live performance!"
• EdFringe Talk: Bride To Be - "Between cake tastings, DJs, and the relentless expectations of family and tradition, what begins as an ordinary engagement gradually transforms into a much deeper journey of self-discovery."
• EdFringe Talk: Broke and Fabulous in the 21st Century - "Be brave, trust your gut, everytime you overcome something big or small it’s like fuel to the creative fire."
• EdFringe Talk: Broken Planet Show - "I am Scottish and I love coming home to Scotland every year for this."
• EdFringe Talk: Call Me Elizabeth: from Lassie to Cleopatra - "A great festival experience occurs when you allow yourself time for unplanned adventures and spontaneous discoveries."
• EdFringe Talk: Camilla Borges: Be Not Afraid! - "Previously, I have either done work in progress shows, with mostly shorter runs but this year I am really backing myself with this one!"
• EdFringe Talk: Carmilla - "Our show is this sort of modern twist on a Gothic classic (the 1872 novella Carmilla meets mid-century American moral panic) and that burst of innovation against a Gothic background really evokes EdFringe to me."
• EdFringe Talk: Cinderella and Frankenstein’s Monster Are Dead - "The Fringe feels like one giant bingo card that no one could ever finish because there’s simply too much to see—even if you’re watching four shows a day and sprinting between venues."
• EdFringe Talk: Citizen Otherplace - " I felt especially skilled to talk about how INSANE the American medical and medical- billing system is."
• EdFringe Talk: Craig Hill: You’re Not Even Safe Up the Back! - "I love doing Ed Fringe as much as I ever did. It’s like getting on a rollercoaster for a month."
• EdFringe Talk: Dan Bastianelli: The Boy Who Drew Doors - "While I love regular comedy style magic, I came to learn that I enjoy writing more of the dramatic and theatrical style of thing."
• EdFringe Talk: Danger Plan! - "Anyone who has done the festival knows it's not easy (and it's certainly not cheap), but that "summer camp for adults" atmosphere makes it all worth it."
• EdFringe Talk: Darryl J Carrington: Out of the Box - "I love the weather, the architecture, the food, the people."
• EdFringe Talk: Deckhand - "While I have so much love for the Hollywood Fringe, I knew from the start that my ultimate goal was EdFringe."
• EdFringe Talk: Did You Charge Your Phone for the End of the World AND Oops! We Lost a Nuke - "The festival is a dream -- drinking absurd theater from a fire hose."
• EdFringe Talk: Dinosaurs - "I've learned that I need to make rest a priority and be intentional with my time."
• EdFringe Talk: Dystopia 26: The Rock Opera - "I've seen the Fringe change in many ways over the years. It's become more difficult to put on a show because of the technical and administrative demands, while the ever-growing number of productions means you're competing for people's attention like never before. Cost is another huge consideration."
• EdFringe Talk: Eleanor Morton: The Mermaid - "I always struggle with the resident/performer dichotomy. I hate how overwhelming town is when you're just trying to get to the dentist, but on the other hand, it's so exciting to have the whole world come to visit."
• EdFringe Talk: Elvis in Chaos - "I want to implant a weird and interesting image in their subconscious. AND THEN THEY ARE MINE MWAHAHAHA."
• EdFringe Talk: Every Single Sound in the World - "At heart, I am simply a comedy & theatre nerd, so Edinburgh Fringe is truly my favourite place in the world."
• EdFringe Talk: Father, Away She Goes - "I was blown away by the beauty of Edinburgh and I also met so many fabulous people; audience members fellow performers, it was completely absorbing."
• EdFringe Talk: Finlay Christie: Champagne Casanova - "This will be my third proper FULL hour of stand-up comedy, which is a completely different beast, and the most fun you can have doing stand-up."
• EdFringe Talk: Flamenc Oh!! - "The challenge was never the comedy—it was finding the right balance between respecting the tradition and having the freedom to play with it."
• EdFringe Talk: Fool’s Goldmine - "I’m addicted to Fringe. I will keep writing new shows until the ideas or I expire (whichever one comes first)."
• EdFringe Talk: Friendliest - "Taking a show to the Edinburgh Fringe costs more than my college education... which, in hindsight, explains why my student loans never taught me about flyering. Bummer!"
• EdFringe Talk: Gagula: The Panto with Teeth! - "The first Fringe I did was probably the best week of my life - it was so intense, and just a life goal to perform comedy in front of a paying audience."
• EdFringe Talk: Gareth Mutch Means Well - "I’ve also met some of my comedy heroes at the Edinburgh Festival. It’s kind of just… a comedian’s Christmas. It’s the most wonderful time of the year."
• EdFringe Talk: Geoffrey Asmus: Patriautism - "My country as a whole is an absolute wasteland"
• EdFringe Talk: Gerry Carroll: Young - "I can, on a good day, get a laugh just from my face."
• EdFringe Talk: Glob - "A great festival, for us, is one where you manage to keep both experiences alive at once : the wonder of the punter and the discipline of the producer."
• EdFringe Talk: Gridlock - "I’ve had to wear a lot of hats and learn a lot of new skills in this process."
• EdFringe Talk: Guns in Dragonland - "There is something so special about a singular event that brings thousands of artists of many mediums, countries, and stages of their careers together to celebrate what we all love most in the world: performing arts."
• EdFringe Talk: Guy Branum: Be Fruitful - "I’m still trying to get the American TV industry I love back on its feet."
• EdFringe Talk: Guy Masterson talks EdFringe26 - "I've directed 4 of them. I've dramaturged 1 of them. I'm presenting ALL of them."
• EdFringe Talk: Hannah Byczkowski: Killer - "Wherever you walk into you can expect to see something you'd never seen before, whether that's a bloke eating cheese on stage at 4am or a half-naked person covered in slime. What's not to love?"
• EdFringe Talk: How Not to Make it in America - "There’s probably a lesson in there somewhere but I have no idea what it is."
• EdFringe Talk: How to Poop in an Outhouse at -58°C - "People have said that my show makes them feel like they went on an adventure to the Arctic Circle, and I can't wait to bring that unique experience to my corner of Edinburgh."
• EdFringe Talk: I Almost Died for This?! (A love story. Sort of.) - "The huge challenge of Edfringe is probably a big part of what makes it such an amazing and satisfying experience overall."
• EdFringe Talk: I Bought a Flip Phone - "I’ve met brilliant people at Edinburgh Fringe, even just as a punter. The first person to ever read this script, Katie Plott, was someone I met at Edinburgh in 2023. God bless her."
• EdFringe Talk: I REGRET THIS ALREADY - "The show is stand-up comedy yet it also discusses, depression, dementia and how we need to talk more."
• EdFringe Talk: I’m Mom - "Everyone going is hungry for connection and creation—not necessarily just career-opportunities."
• EdFringe Talk: In A Bad Way - "As an anxious person, change can be the absolute worst."
• EdFringe Talk: In Other Words - "I couldn’t believe the scale, the variety, the uniqueness, and the originality of all the shows."
• EdFringe Talk: In The Black - "I made my Fringe debut in 2025, and it completely exceeded my expectations. There's really nothing like Edinburgh in August."
• EdFringe Talk: Irene Woo: Golden Child - "Putting together a show for the Edinburgh Fringe is the same as planning a wedding: you'll spend all your time, money, energy into something you deeply care about that your friends don't really want to go to. (Of course I'm kidding, my friends are very supportive!)"
• EdFringe Talk: It’s A Struggle Coming Ou - "I taught international teaching assistants how to adjust to America... God. I really hope I learned something from all that."
• EdFringe Talk: It’s A Struggle Coming Out - "I have learned that it is okay not to always have every answer. In fact, it is better to ask for guidance than to allow the fear of potential judgment to dampen my productivity and faith in myself."
• EdFringe Talk: Jake Baker: The Gentle Men’s Club - "My show is about a certain type of manosphere masculinity and I think the key has been trying to understand where it comes from rather than just dismissing it as dumb."
• EdFringe Talk: Jamie Wolf: Psycho - "I’ve done stand up for almost a decade and have never done an hour almost every night for nearly a month. It’s gonna be a fun crash course."
• EdFringe Talk: Japanese Grandma Funeral - "I made so many friends just standing in line for some shows, and that’s what a great festival is about, a place to make friends, who are so, so in love with the performing arts."
• EdFringe Talk: Jealousy Play - "When I returned last year as Director of Sluts With Consoles, I fell in complete love with the festival."
• EdFringe Talk: Jerk Off! - "Every performer who steps on stage is doing something deeply generous; it's a real act of love."
• EdFringe Talk: Jess Robinson: Elton Reimagined - "I’ve become much clearer about what brings me joy and what doesn’t."
• EdFringe Talk: John Achkar: His country is collapsing. He’s having a baby. So obviously, this is the right year… - "Fear is a much worse decision-maker than failure."
• EdFringe Talk: John-Luke Roberts: What I Talk About When I Run About, Talking - "I'm excited this year to be doing a type of comedy show different from all my previous shows."
• EdFringe Talk: Join the Club! A Story About the Sex You Never Wanted - "It's so much harder to get people to see your show if you've only got a team of one or two as opposed to five or more."
• EdFringe Talk: Jonathan Rudge: Stay at Home Son - "I absolutely love Scotland, and the restaurant scene excites me a lot. I'm belly-led."
• EdFringe Talk: Kat Higgins: In Memory of Me - "Never trust trains or Ryanair flights to run on time- plan for delays. Thats a lesson I'm still struggling to learn."
• EdFringe Talk: Kate Hammer: Government Approved Comedian - "Fringe cannot hurt me, because I am always fringing. Just another thing I have in common with the Hulk."
• EdFringe Talk: Leo Hincks: Emotional Cowboy - "Even if I bomb, I’m bombing in one of the best festivals in the world!"
• EdFringe Talk: Lifelong - "The absolute best thing about the festival is being able to meet other creatives from around the world who are putting their work out there. Their energy is catching!"
• EdFringe Talk: Lil Wenker: BOYKING - "I've learned that I can't learn to tap dance at a professional level in six months."
• EdFringe Talk: Lil’ Miss Kate – Ward of the State - "We’ve written a brand-new show for the Fringe featuring Mole People, forbidden love, a very intriguing orb, and Sal Loon and his Second Avenue Saloon."
• EdFringe Talk: Lizzy Sunshine - "The lesson that I've absorbed the most is you must rest as hard as you work. I've prioritized rest, breaks, and my health in the last year so that when it's time to go Beast Mode I'm well-equipped!"
• EdFringe Talk: Long Way Home - "Every year I’d look through the programme to see who was performing and imagine what it would be like to be there as an audience member. So to now be bringing my own show to Edinburgh is a bit of a pinch-me moment."
• EdFringe Talk: Lt Love Dr’s Boot Camp for Lonely People Like You - "I've begun to really find my pleasure on stage, and am getting more comfortable trusting my impulses."
• EdFringe Talk: Ludwig: Unfinished Business - "I've never worked so hard in my life."
• EdFringe Talk: Making Love with David Magidoff - "I'm back again with a new set of friends, plus my wife, plus my kid and plus my mother in law."
• EdFringe Talk: Man or Bear - "We started with research and development workshops with girls and women from our local area. From this, we created our characters, heard stories that inspired our narrative and played games that fed into the playful, funny and absurd moments of the show."
• EdFringe Talk: Mandy: Prince of Darkness - "Be bright, be excellent - and remember, nobody asked you to do this!"
• EdFringe Talk: Mario Adrion: Live a Little - "Audiences can handle much more than we sometimes give them credit for."