2024 Fringe Awards : Dunedin Fringe Festival

2024 Fringe Awards

Best in Fringe
WINNER: Preconditioned Hori
RUNNER UP: Our Jurisdiction

NOMINEES: Baroness, Whore’s Eye View, We The Outsiders, Mana Wāhine, Stand Up, Stand Out, THERAPY: Comedy Cabaret, Eli Matthewson: Night Terror

Visual Art Award
WINNER: Toe Fanauina / Rebirth: Art Exhibition 

NOMINEES: Mana Wāhine: Exhibition and Workshop, Brown Skin Girls, Spectacle presents: EXTEND, Circus of Colour, MALU IN THE CITY: TAPU FITU / SACRED 7

Dance/Cabaret/Physical Theatre Award
WINNER: Our Jurisdiction 

NOMINEES: The Trapeze Artists, Féroce Cabaret, We, The Outsiders, Renegade Cabaret, SoliloQueens (+ Kings)

Comedy Award
WINNER: Eli Matthewson Night Terror 

NOMINEES: Baroness, Whore’s Eye View, THERAPY: Comedy Cabaret, James Mustapic: You Mustapicked the Wrong Guy To Mess With, Leave to Enter

Music Award
WINNER: The Pre Conditioned Hori 

NOMINEES: The Trapeze Artists, The Girmit, Tall Tales from Ant-ARC-Tica, Wild Cards Aotearoa, Our Jurisdiction, Romeo and Juliet by The Barden Party

Theatre Award
WINNER: We, The Outsiders 

NOMINEES: Baroness, Firebringer, Company, Whore’s Eye View by Kaytlin Bailey, Hine-pū-te-hue: A Journey of Enlightenment

Outstanding Performance / Performer
WINNER: Simon O’Connor 

NOMINEES: Marea Colombo, Charles in Charge, Rosella Hart

Favourite Comedian Award
WINNER: Janet Millichamp (and James Mustapic)


Outstanding Emerging Talent
WINNER: Stand Up, Stand Out: Teen Comedy School Showcase

NOMINEES: Ana Teofilo, Savannah Kerekere, Tania Sharee Williams, Tama alexander, Chelsea McRae

Outstanding Design
WINNER: Toe Fanauina / Rebirth: Art Exhibition

NOMINEES: Mana Wāhine: Exhibition and Workshop, Butterfly Flutters / January Burns, White Men, The Trapeze Artists, Our Jurisdiction

Outstanding Technical Achievement
WINNER: The Girmit

NOMINEES: Butterfly Flutters / January Burns, Company, Our Jurisdiction, Hine-pū-te-hue: A Journey of Enlightenment, Baroness

UNESCO City of Literature ‘Beyond Words’ Award
WINNER: The Trapeze Artists 

NOMINEES: The Pre Conditioned Hori, Company, Baroness, White Men, Mana Wāhine

Most Promising Pacific Artist Award
WINNER: Toe Fanauina / Rebirth: Art Exhibition - Ana Teofilo

NOMINEES: The Girmit - Nadia Freeman, Brown Skin Girls - Rosie Roache,MALU IN THE CITY: TAPU FITU / SACRED 7 - Virginia Mau.

Most Promising Māori Artist Award
WINNER: Mana Wāhine: Exhibition and Workshop

NOMINEES: The Pre Conditioned Hori - Charles in Charge, Hine pū te Hue - Tania Williams, Captain Festus McBoyle's Travellin' Variety Show - Larissa Loffley, 100 Things - Rebecca Mary Gwendolyn, Our Jurisdiction - Emma Broad

Auckland Fringe Development Award
WINNER: Tania Sharee Williams, Hine-pū-te-hue: A Journey of Enlightenment

 

Touring Award: NZ Fringe
WINNER: THERAPY: A Comedy Cabaret WINNER

NOMINEES: Renegade Cabaret, Space Invaders, Company, Breatha, Baroness

Touring Award: Auckland Fringe
WINNERS: Nicola Brown: Space Invaders & Tama Alexander: Breatha

NOMINEES: Renegade Cabaret, Space Invaders, Company, Breatha, Baroness

Warwick Broadhead Memorial Award
WINNER: Mx. Well (Gender Marxist)

NOMINEES: Spectacle, Lesa Hepburn, Tania Sharee Williams & Jessica Latton

Phil Davison Memorial Award: Special Contribution to Festival Life
WINNER: Harriet Moir

NOMINEES: Blake Armstrong, Ash Dawes, James Mustapic, Eli Joseph, Gina Khan

About Us

Dunedin Fringe envisions a city ignited by creativity, where all people embrace art, culture and creativity into their daily lives.

We have a mission to provide platforms for creative expression that help nurture communities. We have a special focus on supporting emerging artists, and the development of new and experimental work.

We produce the Dunedin Fringe Festival, Amped Music Project and New Zealand Young Writers Festival annually, curate the White Box Gallery, and manage the performing arts venue Te Whare o Rukutia.

Our Contacts

Dunedin Fringe Arts Trust
19 George Street,
Dunedin 9016,
Aotearoa New Zealand

03 477 3350