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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.

 

2024 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
Madame Martha’s Hush Cabaret

Shortlist
Otto & Astrid – The Stages Tour
SEEN & HEARD
SUGAR
The Von Donk Family Old-Timey Vaudeville Revue

Best Circus

Winner
In Place

Shortlist
Escalate

Best Comedy

Winner
C*N’T

Shortlist
1925
A Night With Cherry Vinyl
CADET KELLY IS THE BEST MOVIE I’VE EVER SEEN IN MY FRIGGIN LIFE
CON 2077
Med School
Promising Young Mensch
Prune
Robyn Reynolds is on trial
Scout Boxall – God’s Favourite

Virtuoso

 

Best Dance & Physical Theatre

Winner
Dancing in Infinite Worlds

Shortlist
Fertile Ground
Guild Fringe: Pictures & Ghosts
The Bloom
two thread / Superposition

 

Best Experimental

Winner
I’m Ready To Talk Now

Shortlist
Body of Knowledge
Conduit Bodies

 

Best Music

Winner
Gikilangangu Wergaia

Shortlist
Digital Echoes
Electric Cathedral

 

Best Theatre

Winner
Running Into The Sun

Shortlist
A Brief Episode
Bad Boy
Ballkids (or, scenes from a friendship)
Black Girl Rising
FEAST
I hope this means something
I Watched Someone Die on TikTok
Shitbag
This is the dust we’re in
Twenty Million Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

 

Best Visual Arts & Film

Winner
FLAMES DANCED IN THEIR HAIR BUT DID NOT BURN THEM

Shortlist
ARISE 3
More Than

 

Best Kids

Winner
Dream Swamp

Shortlist
JUNKLANDIA
KABOOM!
Land of the Lost
SwashBuckling Circus
The Farmy Farm

 

Best Words & Ideas

Winner
Borrow a Brick for Contact Listening

Shortlist
Antigone in the Land of the Dead