Our Editorial Team
Our Lead Editor. Jake has worked as a grassroots journalist, performer, and theatre producer since 2017. They aim to elevate unheard voices and platform marginalised stories. They have worked across the UK, Italy, Ireland, Czechia, France and Australia. Especially interested in New Writing, Queer Work, Futurism, AI & Automation, Comedy, and Politics.
Festivals: EdFringe (2018-2025), Brighton Fringe (2019), Paris Fringe (2020), VAULT Festival (2023), Prague Fringe (2023-25), Dundee Fringe (2023-24), Catania OFF Fringe (2024-25)
Pronouns: They/Them
Contact: jake@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 (2024-25)
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: Adelaide Fringe (2025), EdFringe (2023-24), Prague Fringe (2024)
Pronouns: They/Them
Contact: moss@bingefringe.com
Our Reviewers – Voila! Theatre Festival 2025
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), Voila! Theatre Festival (2025)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: lamesha@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), Voila! Theatre Festival (2025)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: lou@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
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
Our Contributors – UK & Europe
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)
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
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 (2023-24)
Pronouns: They/Them
Contact: ash@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 (2023-24)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: callie@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
Elisabeth Flett is a Scottish writer, theatre-maker and folk musician who loves queer fairy tales, sapphic love stories and good cups of tea.
As someone with a Masters in Scottish Folklore who has written their own solo theatre show about vengeful selkies (The Selkie’s Wife) and is currently writing a collection of queerly told Scottish folk tales (No Such Thing As Kelpies), Elisabeth loves theatre with LGBTQ+ representation, live onstage music, re-interpretations of folklore and feminist themes. Her favourite drink is currently a perfectly steeped earl grey tea with honey and soy milk, because she is apparently already approaching middle-age despite being 29.
Festivals: EdFringe (2025)
Pronouns: She/They
Contact: elisabeth@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)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: esme@bingefringe.com
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)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: eve@bingefringe.com
Freddie is an award-winning performer joining Binge Fringe to review Prague Fringe in 2025.
Festivals: Prague Fringe (2025)
Pronouns: He/Him
Contact: freddie@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)
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), 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
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), Voila! Theatre Festival (2025)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: lou@bingefringe.com
Lorne has a background as a musician and composer with an interest in sound design and storytelling through music and audio. They are deeply passionate about accessibility and artists taking strides to create inclusive and accessible theatre. Lorne has a love of gig theatre as well as stories that explore the nuances of gender, our relationships with identity, and our bodies, on stage.
Festivals: Prague Fringe (2023), EdFringe (2023)
Pronouns: They/Them
Contact: lorne@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
Bristol-based and fascinated by theatre and comedy in all its forms. 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 (2018-24), Brighton Fringe (2019), Paris Fringe (2020), Prague Fringe (2023)
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
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)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: rebekah@bingefringe.com
Roe is a writer, stage manager and actor from Coventry currently studying British Sign Language (interpreting) at university. They have always loved theatre from the moment they stepped into an acting class at 5 years old and has never looked back! Roe loves any media with disability and LGBTQ representation, especially in theatre for young people and children as well as implementing more access performances and content around shows!
Festivals: Coventry Springboard (2023-25), EdFringe (2025)
Pronouns: They/He
Contact: roe@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)
Pronouns: He/They
Contact: tom@bingefringe.com
Our Contributors – Australia
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), Fringe World Perth (2025)
Pronouns: He/Him
Contact: christian@bingefringe.com
Madeleine is a writer and clown based between Eora/Sydney, Australia, and Étampes, France. She has performed 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)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: madeleine@bingefringe.com
Sarah is a lover of the arts from Australia, excited to experience all fringe has to offer and immerse herself in the culture of this unique expression voice, heart and character. She enjoys involving herself in every kind of performance, reserving a special place in her heart for spoken word, expression through movement, coming of age and all things gender and exploration.
Festivals: EdFringe (2022), Prague Fringe (2023), Melbourne Fringe (2023), Adelaide Fringe (2025)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: sarah@bingefringe.com
