Our People

Our Lead Editor. Shay has worked as a grassroots journalist, performer, and theatre producer since 2017. Working regularly across the UK, Czechia, Italy, Greece, Ireland and beyond, their focus is to highlight work from marginalised creatives – especially queered futures, politics, clown, new writing, and anything in the abstract form. They froth for a Hazy IPA, where available.

Festivals: EdFringe (2018-2026), Brighton Fringe (2019), VAULT Festival (2023), Prague Fringe (2023-26), Dundee Fringe (2023-26), Catania OFF Fringe (2024-26), Inverness Fringe (2026), Thessaloniki Fringe (2026)
Pronouns: They/Them
Contact: editor@bingefringe.com

Our Deputy Editor. Issy is the Co-Founder of Tatty Pants Theatre Company, works full-time as a Theatre Administrator and Production Manager at a theatre in Suffolk, and has reviewed theatre for over 3 years. She loves original writing, femme-revenge, queer stories, new takes on classic tales and daring physical theatre. She likes comedy (not stand-up, sorry), but only the quirky, off-the-wall kind.  Her favourite drink is a nice cold lager (especially after a long day reviewing!)

Festivals: EdFringe (2024-26)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: issy@bingefringe.com

Our Deputy Editor. Moss is a bit of a globetrotter and struggles to stay in one country for long. They first fell in love with fringe theatre in Prague in 2014 and first performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2018 as an improv comedian. They’re interested in a broad range of genres but are particularly excited by themes of neurodiversity and immigration. Their favourite drink is a foamy pint of Pilsner Urquell – it was their first beer and tastes of teenage freedom.

Festivals:  EdFringe (2023-24), Prague Fringe (2024 – 25), Adelaide Fringe (2025 – 26)
Pronouns: They/Them
Contact: moss@bingefringe.com

Our Assistant Editor. Eve is a Glaswegian writer/director/producer, with a love of history and folklore. After completing her MSc in Gender History at Glasgow Uni, she is excited to chuck herself in the deep end of everything theatre and writing. She has broad theatrical interests, and is particularly interested in queer theatre, new writing (especially retellings and reimaginings), absurdism, and anything that plays with gender and sexuality! Her drink of choice is a spicy marg… or three.

Festivals: EdFringe (2025-26)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: eve@bingefringe.com

Our Access Co-Ordinator. Roe is a Neurodivergent and Disabled Access Coordinator, Writer and Researcher from Coventry currently studying BA (hons) British Sign Language (Deaf Studies) at University of Wolverhampton. Their research focuses on all forms of media with disability and LGBTQ representation, especially in local theatre where they are the Youngest Rep for the Little Theatre Guild.

Festivals: Coventry Springboard (2023-26), EdFringe (2025-2026)
Pronouns: They/He
Contact: roe@bingefringe.com

Abbie is a writer and theatre maker, originally from the West Midlands but now residing in Edinburgh. She is drawn to feminist, political, physical and immersive theatre, with a focus on championing work that is queer, female, or disabled-led. Abbie can often be found with a Tequila Sunrise – or just a shot of tequila, depending on the night.
Festivals: EdFringe (2023-24. 2026)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: abbie@bingefringe.com

Obsessed with the Postcolonial world. Aditi likes to look at how theatre and comedy reflects today’s world of multiplicity. She’s keen to watch any kind of theatre or performance but comedy is her go to, because if you don’t laugh you’ll cry.

Festivals: Paris Fringe (2020), VAULT Festival (2023), Bloomsbury Festival (2023)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: aditi@bingefringe.com

Alice is a director and writer, working for The Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh in Marketing. She loves finding writing that feels electric in its ability to look at something in a new way. She especially likes comedy/drama and things that are a little bit weird. Alice’s drink of choice is a margarita (but not if it’s £10.50, she’ll have a Tennents).

Festivals: EdFringe (2026)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: alice@bingefringe.com

Ash is a Birmingham-bred, Edinburgh-based playwright and musician. They take particular interest in stories of LGBTQ+ joy, working-class narratives told by working-class voices, mythology and folklore of all strands, and just about any way music can be incorporated into performance. They’ve given in to becoming a cliché and is on a real Irn Bru Extra kick just now.

Festivals: EdFringe (2023-26)
Pronouns: They/Them
Contact: ash@bingefringe.com

Ben Kay is an emerging director, designer and producer based in Edinburgh. He is interested in creating visually striking, experimental work, often exploring themes of Scottishness, surrealism and fantasy. Ben is the founder and artistic director of Jaggy Bunnet Productions, an Edinburgh-based production company focused on supporting Scottish-based emerging artists. Ben is especially interested in seeing experimental and absurdist works of all forms. Being from Alloa (recently named the 2nd most boring town in the UK), his favourite drink is the town’s very own Chokka Blokka Mocha Stout. The best bit about this pint is how bad it is for having such a funny name.

Festivals: EdFringe (2026)
Pronouns: He/Him
Contact: ben@bingefringe.com

Ben is an Essex-based performer, primarily working in the drag and cabaret scene. He is particularly fond of musicals, immersive theatre and all things queer. They have the palate of a child and, as such, their favourite drink is just a pint of fruit squash (Cherries and Berries, if you don’t mind!)

Festivals: Colchester Fringe (2026)
Pronouns: He/They
Contact: ben.powell@bingefringe.com

Bethany is a theatre maker with one true passion in life – musical theatre! She trained as a musical theatre performer but has since gone on to work across a range of creative roles. She has a particular interest in work that explores feminism, queer culture, climate justice and wealth disparity. This fringe Bethany is super excited to see as much original musical theatre as she can!

Festivals: EdFringe (2026)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: bethany@bingefringe.com

Callie is an experimental composer and theatre technician, with a love for all things eclectic, ethereal, meta, and weird. She is enticed by shows that play at the boundaries between music, movement, art, and acting, and those which explore neurodivergence and the queer experience. Her drink of choice is a Long Island Iced Tea – why choose a single spirit when you can have them all?

Festivals: EdFringe (2023-26)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: callie@bingefringe.com

Clara is a Dundee-based researcher and theatre aficionado who tends to binge-watch Fringe shows. They love being surprised by unusual themes and performance techniques, but also enjoy wholesome queer shows or anything with a political message. You’ll find Clara sipping the most interesting non-alcoholic option on the menu.

Festivals: Dundee Fringe (2026)
Pronouns: They/Them
Contact: clara@bingefringe.com

Eilidh is a writer, reader and avid watcher of film, television and theatre. She loves writing that blends comedy with darkness, and makes public the quirks of life and character that we’ve been taught to hide. She also aspires to be fluent in Spanish, but so far this has proved far harder than expected.

Festivals: Adelaide Fringe (2024) , Prague Fringe (2024), EdFringe (2024)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: eilidh@bingefringe.com

Ellen is a theatre reviewer based in Scotland. She loves all types of Fringe theatre, especially new writing and feminist shows. She is particularly interested in platforming voices that are underrepresented in the creative industries.

Festivals: EdFringe (2026), Dundee Fringe (2026)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: ellen@bingefringe.com

Esme is a director, performer, technician, and all-round creative. When she’s not behind the lighting board, you can find her in the front row of everything from radical performance art to circus. She is passionate about activism on and off the stage, believing in the power that theatre has to provoke, inspire, and activate.

Festivals: EdFringe (2025-26)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: esme@bingefringe.com

Finlay is a budding creative, writer and director, currently studying at The University of Edinburgh for a degree in English and Spanish. He is keen to engage in emotionally invigorating work and that which tests the boundaries of the traditional performance space. Given his love of Hispanic culture, he is excited to cover work from a diversity of languages. And similarly, his thirst will always be quenched an ice cold glass of Sangria, with plenty of fresh fruit.

Festivals: EdFringe (2026)
Pronouns: He/Him
Contact: finlay@bingefringe.com

Frankie is a theatre-maker and clown based in Glasgow. As a leading member of Stolen Table Collective, they provide artist development for early-career practitioners, focussing on creating viable pathways into the arts. They love freaky little shows by freaky little people.

Festivals: EdFringe (2026)
Pronouns: He/They
Contact: frankie@bingefringe.com

Freddie was born and raised in Austria but moved to London at 18 to pursue his dream of not living in queerphobic hell anymore. His debut play F*ckboy has been performed in London, Edinburgh, Dublin and Prague and has won multiple awards. Freddie has also worked internationally as a lead singer for TUI, toured England with Onatti Productions and regularly performs for people in care homes across London.

Festivals: Prague Fringe (2025), EdFringe (2026)
Pronouns: He/Him
Contact: freddie@bingefringe.com

Hannah Hamilton is a writer, a comic, and a poet. They were born in Edinburgh, made in Dundee, and utterly in love with fringe performance and the unusual in all disciplines. They drink either a pint of cider or a tequila, soda, lime depending on how much of a ~girly~ they are feeling that day.

Festivals: EdFringe (2026), Dundee Fringe (2026)
Pronouns: They/Them
Contact: hannah@bingefringe.com

Holly is a performer, writer and drag artist based in London (via Bristol). She’s drawn to unconventional comedy, devised theatre and new writing that isn’t afraid to get a bit messy. She loves work that pushes at the edges of form and makes something brilliant out of chaos. Her favourite drink is a non-alcoholic Erdinger — which she will subconsciously rip at the label of while concentrating.

Festivals: EdFringe (2025)
Pronouns: She/They
Contact: holly.gifford@bingefringe.com

Isobel is a theatre director, facilitator and educator who loves working on theatre which is confrontational and politically charged. She also loves working on participation projects, having worked with many community centres, schools and youth theatres, making bold, ambitious theatre with young people and their communities. Isobel gets excited about working on plays which interrogate form, integrating movement with language and text, and the blending of genres. She is particularly interested in seeing physical theatre, performance art, multimedia and actively political work that challenges audience expectations.

Festivals: EdFringe (2025-26)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: isobel@bingefringe.com

Julia is a freelance music and culture journalist, and is studying for an MA in Magazine Journalism at City University London. She is a writer for CLASH Magazine, Buzz Magazine, Opinion Editor for Empoword Journalism as well as previous deputy editor of Quench Magazine.

Festivals: EdFringe (2025)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: julia@bingefringe.com

Kat is a theatremaker, performer, and self-identified theatre gremlin from the Isle of Wight. She helped to set up an arts centre/music venue near the Isle of Skye. Kat has a vast interest in multiple genres of theatre, comedy, and music. She is particularly interested in entertainment that celebrates openness and understands the power of storytelling. Her favourite drink is a frozen margarita… for all the wrong reasons.

Festivals: EdFringe (2022-24), Prague Fringe (2023)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: kat@bingefringe.com

Lamesha Ruddock is a cultural producer, performance artist and historian working across Toronto and London. From a lineage of griots, she is interested in theatre, performance art, immersive live performances and public interventions. She believes the oldest currency in the world is a story; when lost or down on your luck, storytelling garners response.

Festivals: EdFringe (2025-26), Voila! Theatre Festival (2025)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: lamesha@bingefringe.com

Based in London with a keen interest in all things comedy, Livvie has a background in sketch and stand up. She loves all things fringe theatre, as well as uncovering up-and-coming comedic talent. Her go-to drink is a Guinness, which is a surprise to no one.

Festivals: EdFringe (2019-2024)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: livvie@bingefringe.com

Edinburgh-based playwright and theatre-maker interested in stories at the crossroads of technology, wxmen and the environment. They enjoy plays that play with genre and form to explore how the “human” (whatever that is) responds to inhuman(e) systems and intelligences, as seen from an intersectional eco-feminist praxis. They’re also co-founder of Heads on Crooked, an experimental theatre collective making new work through a non-hierarchical process of skill-sharing and collaboration.

Festivals: EdFringe (2026)
Pronouns: They/She
Contact: lolarose@bingefringe.com

Lou is a self-professed Theatre Kid, English teacher, and proud owner of a Fringe-season alter ego. Drawn to dark comedy, musicals and theatre that unpacks the messy truths of being human, Lou has a sharp eye for storytelling and a low tolerance for cliché. She’s big on anything with a sharp tongue and a beating heart and can be found overthinking an extended metaphor over an IPA.

Festivals: EdFringe (2025-26), Voila! Theatre Festival (2025)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: lou@bingefringe.com

Maddie wrote and performed in a a sketch show at EdFringe 2022, and also reviewed at Adelaide Fringe. As well as making other people laugh, she also likes to be made to laugh. So, she loves watching stand up and sketch but not exclusively, she is also interested in shows that tell important and often forgotten stories and find unique ways of doing so.

Festivals: Adelaide Fringe (2023), EdFringe (2023)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: maddie@bingefringe.com

Magdaléna is an actor based in Prague and one of the founding members of International Queer Theatre Collective LIMBO PINS.

Festivals: EdFringe (2025), Prague Fringe (2026)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: magdalena@bingefringe.com

Maia is a writer and dramaturg from Massachusetts with an interest in new writing and comedy. Originally trained as a costume designer, she loves exploring the synthesis of character, style, text, and craft that theatre creates. Maia is currently completing an MA in Dramaturgy at Birkbeck, University of London and also writes for Jewish Renaissance Magazine.

Festivals: EdFringe (2026)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: maia@bingefringe.com

Mike is a Bristol-based performer, director and reviewer. He has covered a broad range of Shakespeare adaptations – both straight-laced and out-there – as well as taking a firm interest in stand-up comedy, sketch comedy, improvised comedy, music and even reviewing beatboxing. Mike is interested in the intersection of traditional and classical theatre with contemporary Fringe performance. His favourite drink is a vodka-coke (original, right?)

Festivals: EdFringe (2018-25), Brighton Fringe (2019), Paris Fringe (2020), Prague Fringe (2023, 25-26)
Pronouns: He/Him
Contact: mike@bingefringe.com

Miriam is a writer, opera singer, and arts writer living on top of the world in Nome, Alaska. She loves all of the arts but has a special place in her heart for the written word and anything that makes her ugly cry. She writes because she believes that art helps heal the human spirit and inspires people to reach for their full potential. She stans the Fringe for giving voice to diverse, non-establishment artists and can’t wait to help make those voices heard!

Festivals: EdFringe (2023-24)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: miriam@bingefringe.com

Moy is a recent History and Film graduate living in Dundee. She is interested in the changing narrative within the heritage and creative industries and wants to find out how she can contribute more to it while constantly learning and listening to other voices and experiences around her. Moy’s current drink of choice has to be an Aperol Spritz, and once she has had one too many her passion for trying to articulate frustrations against social prejudices come to fruition.

Festivals: Dundee Fringe (2023)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: moy@bingefringe.com

Phoebe is an AuDHD actor, director, and writer from Milton Keynes. She has a strong interest in theatre shows and graduated from Fourth Monkey which specialised in movement and physical theatre. With a love for social commentary, she looks for challenging concepts about the world we live in told in new and creative ways. If she can feel your passion she’s interested. Currently after hours, you’ll find her sipping on a Jaffa Cake Espresso Martini.

Festivals: EdFringe (2023-24), Dublin Fringe (2024-25), Voila! Theatre Festival (2025)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: phoebe@bingefringe.com

Award-Winning Queer Theatre Maker with a focus on theatre design and stage management! Binge Fringe described his design work saying “excellent production design.. that dallies and fancifully. Oli is passionate about the representation of queer and trans stories in theatre, as well as stories with exploration of Neurodivergency. Their drink of choice is Rum Punch, but only the very specific Rum Punch from their university bar, with Dry Ice, because it makes any drink more fun!

Festivals: Prague Fringe (2025), EdFringe (2025), Voila! Theatre Festival (2025)
Pronouns: They/He
Contact: oli@bingefringe.com

Raynar is a theatre director and artist based in Prague, one of the co-founders of the international Queer Theatre Collective LIMBO PINS.

Festivals: EdFringe (2025), Prague Fringe (2026)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: raynar@bingefringe.com

Rebekah is a writer, performer and theatre maker based in Edinburgh. Motivated by seeing artists from all backgrounds represented throughout the industry, Rebekah takes special interest in brave, political and divisive theatre. She loves New Writing with themes of identity, religion, mythos, class and gender. Her drink of choice: a Sidecar cocktail or peaty Scotch – neat.
Festivals: EdFringe (2023-24, 2026)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: rebekah@bingefringe.com

From the robust city of Hong Kong, Romeo is a multidisciplinary performer and creative currently training at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and the National Youth Theatre. Their work focuses on queer, immigrant stories, drawing on their own life experience in hopes of connecting to their communities and elevating marginalised voices.

Festivals: EdFringe (2026)
Pronouns: They/Them
Contact: romeo@bingefringe.com

Salvador Kent is an aspiring Director and Playwright based in Edinburgh. He is English-Peruvian, and both their languages and cultures are integral to his practice. Specific interests include Clown, Surreal, Political and Ritual theatres, especially when formally playful. His favourite drink is a Cuba Libre, because he finds the ideological implications of the name funny.

Festivals: Prague Fringe (2026), EdFringe (2026), Dundee Fringe (2026), Catania OFF Fringe (2026)
Pronouns: He/Him
Contact: salvador@bingefringe.com

Tom lives and works in Edinburgh, and is a big fan of live performance. Always enjoying stand up comedy, and more recently anything from theatre to musicals to clowns. Their drink of choice tends to come from a local brewery, preferably a pale ale.
Festivals: EdFringe (2025-26), Dundee Fringe (2026)
Pronouns: He/They
Contact: tom@bingefringe.com

Cat Smith is a Scottish circus performer and puppeteer currently based in Adelaide. She has performed in experimental outdoor arts projects such as with giant puppet STORM and as a hype dancing slice of bread for the iconic Victorian outfit The Burnt Sausages. A proud member of the South Australian Puppetry Network and UnimaOz and UK she is interested in all things puppetry, circus and physical theatre, particularly themes of ritual, belonging and transformation.

Festivals: Adelaide Fringe (2026)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: cat@bingefringe.com

Christian Best is a dynamic writer and actor, celebrated for his insightful narratives and compelling performances. A storyteller at heart, Christian’s work spans multiple disciplines, including poetry, filmmaking, and stage acting. His dedication to the arts is evident from his extensive involvement in community-driven projects and his captivating performances across stages from Adelaide to Edinburgh.

Festivals: Adelaide Fringe (2025 – 26), Fringe World Perth (2025)
Pronouns: He/Him
Contact: christian@bingefringe.com

Madeleine is a writer, clown and dramaturg based in Naarm/Melbourne. She has performed in and produced theatre across Australia, France, the UK, and Switzerland, and has lectured in cultural studies for NYU Sydney and the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia. Away from the stage and the page, Madeleine turns to tarot for perspective, play, and a peek at the future.

Festivals: Adelaide Fringe (2025 – 26)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: madeleine@bingefringe.com

Patrick is a guy from Adelaide, who is both real and legally a human, and has a certificate to prove it. They may best be heard ringing the bells of Adelaide’s cathedrals and Town Hall, and are a member of the Society of Royal Cumberland Youths. Patrick specialises in photography and cinematography, as well as venturing into the realms of spoken word and fiction writing. He enjoys stand-up comedy, classical and contemporary musical performance, and whatever you’re doing with a pipe organ. His favourite drink is an ice-cold Coopers Extra Stout, which is interesting as he otherwise hates vegemite.

Festivals: Adelaide Fringe (2026)
Pronouns: They/He
Contact: patrick@bingefringe.com

Sarah is a writer and poet based in Naarm, Australia. Her work explores themes of identity, grief, political consciousness, and collective liberation, with a particular focus on community, minority voices and the Arabic world. She is passionate about spoken word and storytelling that bridges the personal and the political. But above all, she loves a cheeky middle finger to the systems that thrive on oppression, and all those who enable them.

Festivals: EdFringe (2022), Prague Fringe (2023), Melbourne Fringe (2023), Adelaide Fringe (2025)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: sarah@bingefringe.com