Edinburgh Fringe awards: shortlists announced for Adelaide Fringe, Brighton Fringe, Mental Health Foundation and Filipa Braganca awards

We reveal the shortlists for the other big awards to be announced at the Scotsman’s Fringe First Awards this Friday
By Andrew Eaton-Lewis
Published 24th Aug 2023, 11:44 GMT

For almost two decades years now, The Scotsman’s end-of-festival awards ceremony has been providing a showcase not just for our own Fringe First awards but for a host of other prestigious theatre awards.

This year we are delighted to welcome back our long-term partners the Brighton Fringe Award and the Adelaide Fringe’s Holden Street Theatres Edinburgh Fringe Award. Both support their winners to take their shows far beyond Edinburgh, a demonstration of the enduring power of this festival to launch new work into the world.

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We are also hosting two awards dedicated to people who are no longer with us. The Filipa Bragança Award was set up in memory of an extraordinary young theatre performer and activist who died in 2016, aged just 25, shortly after delivering a remarkable Fringe performance in Henry Naylor’s play Angel, which went on to tour internationally. Bragança was a champion of women in the arts, and the award established in her name in 2017 highlights the work of outstanding emerging female performers.