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Melbourne Fringe Festival Awards


Melbourne Fringe Awards are an opportunity for Melbourne’s arts community to celebrate and acknowledge the diversity, professionalism and exceptional quality of work in each year’s Festival.

At Melbourne Fringe we present five different types of awards:

  • Best in Category Awards
  • Artist Development Awards
  • Touring Awards
  • Design Fringe Awards
  • Special Awards

Information about Awards Eligibility and Judging Criteria can be found in the drop-down menus below.

 

2023 Fringe Awards

The Best in Category Awards are judged by the Melbourne Fringe judging panels. The judging panels are a team of over 30 industry practitioners, drawn from a diverse range of fields and backgrounds. All works are viewed by at least 2 panel members in order to be eligible for consideration.

 

Best Cabaret

Winner
Spunk Daddy

Nominees 
Black Widow
Cabaret Unscripted
Club Briefs
Hot Fat Crazy

Best Circus

Winner
In Common

Nominees 
Apricity
The Dumtectives in Cirque Noir

Le Freak
Of The Land On Which We Meet
Space Between

Best Comedy

Winner
Stickybeak

Nominees
The Coconuts – Brown on the Outside, White on the Inside
Con Vs Con vs Con

Dazza and Keif Reenact the Romeo + Juliet Movie Playing All the Roles
Latchkey
Sam Kissajukian: 300 Paintings
Tom Ballard – Yes/ No: A Comedy Lecture
Vegas Residency
Will Greenway: The Ocean After All

 

Best Dance & Physical Theatre

Winner
LUSH

Nominees
AVES
~~~~~ “…derelict in uncharted space…”
Dunes Rolling Down Dunes
Lush
Oh Sheila

 

Best Experimental

Winner
Enemies of Grooviness Eat Sh!t

Nominees
1800Climate Emergency
I’m Ready To Talk Now
Puppet Mayhem 2
Soup Friends
You Are Me

 

Best Music

Winner
Walking Songs

Nominees
Picture This
The Modern Music Machines
Turning the Page
Video Games Made My Son Like Country Music

 

Best Theatre

Winner
Someday We’ll Find It

Nominees
Burnout Paradise
A Dodgeball Named Desire

I Am Seaweed
Night Sweat
Rakali
Sheltered
WAKE

 

Best Visual Arts & Film

Winner
Sky Symphony

Nominees
Arise

 

Best Kids

Winner
The Listies present ROFL – Final Season!

Nominees
JUNKLANDIA
Squishy Taylor and the City-Wide Ghost Plague

 

Best Words & Ideas

Winner
Yalinguth LIVE by the Birrarung

Nominees
DEAF ENOUGH
The Hungry Poet
Why Runs The Abhisarika