Fringe 2027 Artist Information

New to Dunedin Fringe? This is the TL/DR:

1. Find a venue

2. Register your event

3. Your event is listed on the Dunedin Fringe website and in the printed programme

4. Promote your event

5. We sell your tickets

6. You do your event, you go to lots of other events, you have a blast

7. We reconcile ticket sales and pay you after the festival

8. You give us feedback through a post-festival Artist Event Report

About Dunedin Fringe

Founded in 2000, Dunedin Fringe is the second largest Fringe festival in Aotearoa New Zealand. Produced by the Dunedin Fringe Arts Trust, Dunedin Fringe champions new, innovative and experimental art, alongside re-staged favourites and classics, spanning all genres and showcasing work by both emerging and established artists.

Dunedin Fringe is an annual multidisciplinary open-access arts festival. Anyone can register an event in the programme and take part, regardless of their level of experience. Most events are artist-produced, which means the artist organises the event, books the venue, sets the dates, times and prices, promotes it, and is responsible for 100% of their event costs.

To be part of the Fringe programme, you just need to register your event with us, and plan and present your event. The festival creates a buzz in the city and audiences are activated to go and experience your art.

2027 Dunedin Fringe Grant Applications NOW OPEN!

• Fringe Grants Application Guide Here

• Fringe Grants Application Form Here

• Fringe Grant applications close:
  Noon on Monday 12 October 2026

Key Dates for the 2027 Dunedin Fringe Festival

• Wednesday 7 October 2026
  Dunedin Fringe Registrations Open

• Monday 12 October 2026 at 12 noon
  Fringe Grant applications close

• Wednesday 21 October 2026
  Fringe Grant results announced

• Wednesday 25 November 2026
  Fringe Registrations close

• Monday 18 January 2027
  4 posters for each event due at Fringe HQ

• Thursday 28 January 2027
  Dunedin Fringe Festival programme launch

• Monday 15 February 2027
  Artist Pass requests due

• 4 March – 14 March 2027
  Dunedin Fringe Festival!

• Sunday 14 March 2027
  Dunedin Fringe Awards Night

• Monday 5 April 2027
  Post-festival artist event report due

How to register

Dunedin Fringe uses Eventotron, an online event information management system and ticket provider.

You add all your event details in Eventotron in the Dunedin Fringe 2027 season before the registration deadline of 25 November 2026. 

In the Eventotron Venue Browser, you can find venues, or register your own unique performance space. 

We use the information you provide in Eventotron for the festival’s printed programme, our website, and ticketing box office.

Once the programme is live,  you’ll continue to use Eventotron for things like tracking ticket sales, issuing comps and managing your door list.

Please note: Eventotron has recently been relaunched with an updated system, so it may look different if you’ve used it before.

If something isn’t working as expected, please report it to Eventotron using their Reports feature. We’re also reporting issues and will update this webpage as things change, particularly around ticketing and admitting audiences using the app or Door Tool.

Setting up your registration account

1. Go to Eventotron and Login / Sign Up.

2. Click Create Event.

3. Select Dunedin Fringe 2027 and complete the required fields in the registration form.

You can stop and start working on your form as needed and you don't need to complete the sections in order, as long as all your information is finalised by 11.59pm 25 November 2026. 

When editing your event, make sure you’re in the Dunedin Fringe 2027 form. Your menu heading should look like:

[your event title] > Dunedin Fringe 2027 > Summary(dropdown menu). 

From the menu, select Forms to edit your event information for Dunedin Fringe. 

Note: You can also edit your event in its own section of Eventotron, but any changes you make outside the Dunedin Fringe 2027 form won’t come through to us, so it’s important you start in the right place.

In the Summary menu,  you’ll also find things like Box Office, Door, and Cast & Crew (we’ll tell you more about those in further sections of this web page)

What you need to provide in the registration form

• About you & your company/team

• Event title

• One line pitch/subtitle

• Blurb for website, 

• Blurb for printed programme, 

• Hero image (plus alt text for your image)

• Artform and event type tags 

• Content warnings

• The venue hosting your event

• Session dates & times

• Ticket prices (if applicable)

• Accessibility information

• Bank details for bond refunds or ticketing revenue

• Opt in to Dunedin Fringe Awards

• Photography and videography permissions

• Agree to our terms and conditions

• Pay the registration fee

• Cast & Crew details for Artist Passes

Registration fee

The registration fee can be paid once all the required form fields are filled, and must be paid before your event is officially included in the festival.

All events also pay a $50 registration bond, which is refunded once you've completed the post-festival Artist Event Report.

You can pay online with a debit or credit card, or direct deposit into our account.

The registration fee is tiered, based on how audiences access your event, and how many ticketed sessions you have. Fees are capped at three sessions (if you’re  registering for 4+ sessions, you’ll pay the Session 3 fee.)

Fee Types

1. Free – audiences can’t pre-book (no tickets): $40 flat fee
2. Free – audiences can pre-book (free tickets): $50 / $110 / $140 for Sessions 1 / 2 / 3+
3. PWYW at the door – audiences can’t pre-book: $125 flat fee
4. Paid tickets $10 or less / PWYW with no set minimum price: $160 / $220 / $250 for Sessions 1 / 2 / 3+
5. Paid tickets over $10 / PWYW with a set minimum price: $220 / $280 / $310 for Sessions 1 / 2 / 3+
6. Online only: $180 flat fee

Terms and Conditions

Before finalising your event registration, you'll be asked to agree to the Dunedin Fringe Terms and Conditions, as well as the Code of Conduct and Objectionable Content Policy.

Code of Conduct/ safe space for all

The Code of Conduct applies both to the content of your event and to your behaviour during the festival, and applies to all Fringe participants, including artists, audiences, staff, crew, and volunteers.

All participants have the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We do not tolerate discrimination or bigotry of any kind, including discrimination based on ethnicity, race, sexuality, gender identity or expression, disability, physical appearance, age or religion.

Dunedin Fringe is committed to making the festival a fun and safe space for everyone.

Finding a venue

Dunedin has a limited number of live music and theatre venues, and the Fringe brings a large number of events into the city over a short period of time. As well as the wonderful venues on offer, Dunedin also has a range of cafés, bars, community spaces, outdoor settings and vacant shops that can provide interesting Fringe venues.

It pays to get in quickly to book a venue because they fill up fast. If you get stuck, get in touch and we’ll suggest possible spaces for your event.

How to connect your event to a venue in Eventotron

Use Eventotron’s Venue Browser to search by venue name, or browse the list of available venues. Some venues may have opted not to be included in the Venue Browser, but may still be available.

Let us know if you have a venue in mind but it is not in the Browser.

If a venue shows a message: 'Applications closed' or 'Not accepting applications', this doesn’t mean the venue is full. It means the venue isn’t accepting enquiries or applications through Eventotron.

If you’d like to use the venue, contact them directly using the contact details in their listing and confirm your booking.

Once your booking is confirmed, contact the Fringe team. We’ll add your event to the venue in Eventotron, and you’ll then be able to add your sessions.

IMPORTANT: Before clicking ‘Express interest’, contact the venue directly, and confirm they have agreed to your booking. Once your booking is confirmed, click ‘Express interest’ and include a brief note confirming your venue booking. This lets the Fringe team know you have booked with the venue so we can accept your event into the venue in Eventotron. If you don't include a note, we will check with you that the booking is confirmed.

The venue manager may receive and respond to your Express Interest enquiry if they actively use Eventotron.

Adding dates, times and prices

Once your event has been connected to a venue, the Session Scheduler will appear in the menu. Here you can add your sessions, times and ticket prices.

If you are using more than one venue

return to the Venue Browser to add another. In the Session Scheduler, you can choose which of your approved venues each session is held at.

If your venue isn’t listed in Eventotron

Get in touch with the Fringe team to check if it’s just not set to be visible in the Venue Browser. OR click 'Can't find your venue?' on the main Venue Browser page and add your venue.

Bring your own venue

If your venue isn't listed*, or if you're using a found or non-traditional space, click 'Can't find your venue?' on the main Venue Browser page.

You'll then be able to add your venue and choose whether to make it available to other participants this season.

*If the venue you add already exists in our venue list (but isn’t visible in the Venue Browser), we may remove your new listing and connect you to the official venue profile instead.

Accessibility

Dunedin Fringe is committed to making the festival as accessible as possible, and we want to communicate clearly to audiences as much about each event and venue as we can.
There are many ways we can all improve accessibility for the Dunedin Fringe, and even small steps can make a big difference in helping audiences feel informed, welcomed, and able to participate equitably.

Dunedin Fringe’s aim this year is to make filtering events on the website by accessibility tags a clearer and more useful process for our audiences. The accessibility questions we’ll ask you in the registration process will help us create the tags that audiences can use to find events that meet their access needs.

If you don’t use any of the additional performance type tags, such as a sensory relaxed performance or NZSL interpreted performance, other steps can make a meaningful difference too.
For example, you could:

• create and share a pre-show visual story

• provide a note about access for your show

• give clear and detailed content warnings

• provide a contact for access questions about your event.

Venue Accessibility

will come through to our website and printed programme based on the Venue’s information, and our production team will check in with the venues about this.

Adding event-specific accessibility information per session

You'll add any accessibility options you're offering in the Session Scheduler section of the registration form in Eventotron. There is an Accessibility section to complete for each session, which means you can offer different accessibility options for different dates and times. Details of the options available in the form are listed below.

Add any extra information in the Session Access Notes field, and you can include an access contact name, email and phone number so audiences can ask questions or request more information.

We’ll check over what you’ve entered, and once we understand what accessibility options you’re planning and how they’ll work, we’ll make sure the right accessibility filters and tags are used in our online and print programmes, so audiences can easily find the information they need.

Below is a list of some specific accessibility improvements you can make for your audience.

Types of Accessibility options to be indicated per event session

Relaxed and sensory relaxed performances
These two types of relaxed performance are differentiated by the changes made to the performance environment. You can offer one or both types of Relaxed Performance.

1. Relaxed performance
   The audience can move around, leave or re-enter the performance space, make sounds, or otherwise respond naturally during the performance. There is a more relaxed approach to audience behaviour and expectations. This may make your event more accessible to neurodivergent, sensory sensitive and disabled audience members.

2. Sensory relaxed performance
   The performance environment is adapted to make it more accessible for people who are sensitive to sound, light or other sensory stimuli. This may include changes to lighting, sound levels or sudden effects.

Touch tour
A touch tour invites audiences onstage before the performance to explore the set, props and costumes through touch. It may also provide an opportunity to meet the performers and become familiar with the performance space before the show begins.

Touch tours are useful for blind and low-vision audience members to get close to elements of the production. Here’s some helpful information from Audio Described Aotearoa.

If you are offering a touch tour, we will get in touch to ask you about how best to set up your tickets and start time for the session.

NZ Sign Language interpreted
A qualified NZ Sign Language interpreter interprets what is being said on stage for d/Deaf audience members who use NZSL. Here’s Arts Access Aotearoa’s page on NZSL interpreted performances.

Captioned performance
A captioned performance displays the words spoken or sung during the performance as text on a screen, including descriptive information about sound, such as music and sound effects. Captioning makes performances more accessible to d/Deaf and hearing impaired audience members.

Audio described performance
Audio description is live narration through a headset that describes what is happening on stage for blind and low vision audience members, including movements, facial expressions and visual details. Here is information from Audio Described Aotearora on Audio Described and Other Accessible Events.

Session Access Notes
You can add any other access details specific to a performance when you are setting up your event session in Eventotron - this might include timings, arrival instructions, or anything else audiences should know before booking.

Other ways you can improve the accessibility of your event

Create additional pre-show information

This is any information that will help audiences know what to expect.

We can add any pre-show information you create as a link with your event listing, and we can also share any it with your ticket holders, or you can share through your social media.
Here are some examples of pre-show and venue information visual stories from ASB Waterfront Theatre, the Tim Bray Theatre Company, and a shorter social media welcome video from the Wellington City Council.

Pre-show visual story

Information about what to expect during the event, including event details, content warnings and a description of what happens during the performance. This can be provided through written information and images or video. It doesn’t have to be flash - phone-video is perfect.

Venue information visual story

Information about the venue, including images, video or a visual layout showing what the space is like, what is and isn’t accessible, arriving at the venue, how to navigate the venue and where to ask for help.

Complimentary companion ticket

This year, all ticketed events will have the option for audience members to add a complimentary ticket to their basket if they require a care or support companion to attend the event with them. The Dunedin Fringe team will set that ticket type up.

Alt text for images

When you’re adding your event images to your registration, you’ll be asked to provide alt text, which screen readers will find on the website. Alt text describes the image so someone who can’t see it can understand what it shows. (eg: Two brightly coloured performers dancing on a dark stage). Alt text should be practical and descriptive.

Accessibility resources

Arts Access Aotearoa’s Theatre Show Accessibility Guide
Accessibility Workshop for independent performing artists (created for NZ Fringe)
Arts Access Aotearoa’s Easy to Action List to Improve Accessibility Checklist

Responsibilities

Dunedin Fringe will:

• Include your event in the printed festival programme.

• Create an event page for you on the Fringe website.

• Provide a unique URL for your event for ticket sales and promotion.

• Distribute the printed programme locally.

• Promote the festival and the programme as a whole.

• Provide ticketing through the Fringe Box Office and website.

• Support opportunities for artists to connect with audiences, media and other artists.

• Manage the ticketing system.

• Provide ticket sales information and settlement after the festival.

• Offer advice and support.

Artists/producers will:

• Book your venue and hold the relationship with the venue.

• Set your dates and times.

• Set your ticket prices.

• Produce your event.

• Manage all technical and production requirements.

• Manage all rights and permissions for your event.

• Market your event.

• Pay 100% of your event bills. Your box office income is yours, minus applicable inside fees.

Insurance

Dunedin Fringe's Public Liability Policy covers the venue Te Whare o Rukutia only.
If you're using another venue, check what insurance the venue provides and consider whether you need additional cover.

Performance rights, music licences, and copyright

You’re responsible for obtaining any licences or permissions required for scripts, music, artwork, film, video or other copyrighted material used in your event. Please check the relevant information and make sure you have any necessary licences or permissions before your event.

This may include:

• Playmarket – performance rights for plays and scripts represented by Playmarket.

• OneMusic NZ – music licences used at events and performances.

• APRA AMCOS – music licensing may be required for music used in a theatrical or dramatic context.

• The Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand (IPONZ) – permissions and licensing for the reproduction or public use of copyrighted text, images, video, and visual artworks.

Event Documentation

We may photograph or video your event to promote the Dunedin Fringe Festival for 2027 and future years.

Photography/Videography Pass

Our festival photographer and/or videographer will have a crew pass so they can access and document events during the Festival.

Any photos and video the festival captures of your event will be shared with you at the end of the festival.

By default, Dunedin Fringe has your permission to document your event. If you do not agree, you can opt out in the registration form, or by contacting us. If you opt out, our photography/videography pass will not apply to your event.

If you’re happy for your event to be documented but don’t want to provide open access through the photographer/videographer pass, you’ll need to discuss and agree alternative entry arrangements with Festival staff before the Festival launch date.

Marketing your event

Posters

Send us FOUR copies of your posters (A3 preferred) by Monday 18 January 2027.

Fringe logos & frames

All printed marketing collateral should have the Dunedin Fringe logo displayed. Download a Zip Folder of our logos Here.

Social media

If you are posting your event on social media, don’t forget to tag us!
FB/Insta – @DunedinFringe

Add your media release to Eventotron

It’s a good idea to have a media release ready, and it’s your responsibility to share it with your own media contacts and networks.

We publicise the Dunedin Fringe Festival as a whole, and having your words and information on hand helps us do that.

The Fringe works with a range of local media outlets, including The Otago Daily Times, The Star, Otago Access Radio, and others.

Giving us a media release doesn’t guarantee that it will be shared or published, but it gives us useful material when opportunities arise.

Marketing tips

• Don't rely only on the Fringe programme or a Facebook event to sell your event.

• If you are tagged in one of our posts or added as a co-host or collaborator – share with your network.

• The more opportunities you create through your own networks, the better chance your event has of getting coverage. Promoted events sell tickets!

• A publicity campaign could include:

  • Social media

  • Posters and flyers

  • Radio interviews or advertising

  • Online advertising

  • Media interviews

Audience admission

Your event can be free, entry by donation, or ticketed. You set the price. There are a couple of options for events that are free or entry by donation.

1. Bookable free tickets
   This can be helpful if your event is free, but you have limited capacity, so you want people to book in advance.

2. Non-bookable free or donation at the door
   You won’t have tickets available to be booked on the Fringe website, your audiences just turn up on the day.

3. Pay What You Want tickets
   You can use this ticket type if you want people to pay a donation for their ticket, so the minimum would be set to $0 and people choose what they pay or you can set a minimum price that people can opt to pay any amount above.

4. Fixed ticket prices
   Full ticket price, and a concession price if you wish. This is the standard ticket type where the price is set by you before tickets go on sale.

Ticketing information

All tickets must be sold through the Festival's ticketing provider, Eventotron. Tickets are available through the Fringe website and Fringe Box Office.
We sell tickets on your behalf and pay you your ticket sales after the festival. All advertising materials should direct audiences to dunedinfringe.nz for ticket sales. We will provide a unique URL for your show that you can use on your marketing material.

How do I add or change a ticket price?

In the Session Scheduler, add (or edit) a session.

1. Click into the Tickets section

2. Add a ticket type & click the pencil icon to edit the price.

3. Or edit the prices of ticket types you’ve already set up.

What ticket price should I choose?

Base ticket prices on your budget and realistic audience numbers. It's common to budget for 30-40% of venue capacity.

Typical Fringe tickets are $15-$40.

You also have the option to have Pay What You Want tickets with a set minimum price of your choice, or you can have free tickets available to be booked, or you can choose the option where audiences only give a donation at the door.

Why can I only add limited ticket types?

The answer you give in the 'How do audiences attend?' section of the registration form informs the ticket types available to you.

If the options you expect to be there don’t show, go back to the 'How do audiences attend?' section and check your answers there.

Concession ticket prices

You can choose whether you include a concession ticket price.
Concession tickets are available for people who are unwaged, students, seniors, aged under 16, and care companions. We work on a trust-based process and don’t ask for ID at checkout.

Complimentary companion tickets

By default, all ticketed events will have the option for audience members to add a complimentary ticket to their basket if they require a care or support companion to attend the event with them.

This ticket option is intended for audience members who genuinely require a care or support companion, and we ask audiences to only select this option where this applies to them.

If you notice any misuse of the complimentary companion ticket option, please let the Fringe team know.

Promo codes and discount codes

We can set up promo codes and quantity-based discounts on tickets for your event. We’ll contact you before tickets go on sale to collect the details we need to set these up.

If you want to add a promo code or a discount after the deadline we give you, please allow at least two working days for us to set it up.

Holds and complimentary tickets

You can issue complimentary (comp) tickets for your event to VIPs using your holds.

Find your holds in the menu: [your event name] > Dunedin Fringe 2027 > Holds

By default, four holds will be allocated to each session. You can:

• issue complimentary tickets from your holds

• reduce the number of holds if you don’t need them

• release all or some holds back on sale if you won’t be using them

Any holds you haven’t used will automatically be released back on sale one hour before the event starts.

If you need more than four holds per session, let the Fringe team know and we can increase your allocation.

Festival comp tickets

All ticketed events will automatically have complimentary tickets held for judges, media, festival staff and volunteers, and festival supporters and sponsors.

• 10% of capacity for the first two sessions

• 4 tickets for each subsequent session, or 2 tickets for events with a capacity under 50

• Very small venues may be treated as exceptions

• The Fringe team will manage and allocate these tickets

• Any unused holds will be released back into your ticket pool to go on sale

Ticket refunds

Cancelled events or sessions result in refunds to purchasers.

Refunds generally won’t be available for other reasons. Ticket holders may be able to swap their ticket to another session of the same event, subject to availability.

Ticket sales/reports

You can track your ticket sales in your Eventotron menu: [your event title] > Dunedin Fringe 2027 > Box Office.

You’ll find the following report pages:

• Overview (of sales)

• Sessions (tickets booked per session)

• Ticket Types (report on all ticket types booked)

• Financials (overview of your income, and the season inside fee)

• Discounts & Orders (all orders including comp tickets, and promo code/discount tickets)

Let us know if you need help navigating this.

Audience contact details

Ticket purchasers see our Privacy Policy. By default, their contact details are not shared with the artist/producer. If they opt-in to receive communications from you – the event producer – you’ll be able to view their contact information.

Reconciliations – how and when you’ll get paid

Money from ticket sales will be paid to your nominated bank account with remittance advice after the festival concludes. We aim to make these payments within two weeks.

Admitting Audiences, Door Sales, and front of house

All ticketed events must sell tickets at the door, unless the event has already sold out online.
It is not the Festival’s responsibility to manage any aspects of your door sales, although we may be able to source volunteers to help you if you let us know before the Dunedin Fringe Volunteer Manager’s deadline (to be advised).

Who manages front of house?

In some cases, your venue will manage front of house and have access to your ticket sales. In other cases, you will need to organise and manage your own front of house.
Eventotron is developing an app designed to make admitting audiences at the door a simple process. We’ll provide more information and instructions once the app is available.

If you are managing your own front of house

Make sure you have reliable staff or volunteers to manage door sales and welcome your audience. They should:

• Understand the different ticket types available

• Know how to process door sales

• Be able to answer basic questions about your event and accessibility

• Recognise and accept Artist Passes, if you have opted to accept Artist Pass standby entry

• Know the venue’s maximum capacity and ensure you do not exceed it

• Check the list of pre-purchased tickets before the event and be aware of any accessibility requirements or notes provided by ticket holders, so you can be prepared to welcome and assist them

If your venue is listed as wheelchair accessible

Make sure this is accurate and practical. A wheelchair user should be able to safely and independently enter and move through the venue.

Handy things to have at the door

• Cash box and change

• Sold Out and ticket price signage

• Reserved signage for accessible seating

• Tablet, laptop or smartphone for ticketing and checking pre-purchased tickets

Ticket Inside Fees & Audience Booking Fees

Inside Ticket Fee

Dunedin Fringe deducts a 6.5% inside fee from the face value of each ticket sold. This fee is deducted from the ticket price before the balance is paid to you, so please factor that in when setting your prices.

Examples

• Ticket price: $15 – inside fee: $0.98 = you receive: $14.02
• Ticket price: $20 – inside fee: $1.30 = you receive: $18.70
• Ticket price: $25 – inside fee: $1.63 = you receive: $23.37
• Ticket price: $30 – inside fee: $1.95 = you receive: $28.05
• Ticket price: $35 – inside fee: $2.28 = you receive: $32.72

Audience Booking Fee

An 8.5% booking fee is added to each ticket sold. The booking fee is paid by the ticket buyer in addition to the advertised ticket price. These fees cover the payment processing and ticket provider fees we are required to pay.

Examples

• Ticket price: $15 – booking fee: $1.28 = audience pays: $16.28
• Ticket price: $20 – booking fee: $1.70 = audience pays: $21.70
• Ticket price: $25 – booking fee: $2.13 = audience pays: $27.13
• Ticket price: $30 – booking fee: $2.55 = audience pays: $32.55
• Ticket price: $35 – booking fee: $2.98 = audience pays: $37.98

Artist Passes

Set up artist passes for your cast and crew in Eventotron: go to Dunedin Fringe 2027 > Cast & Crew.

1. Add all cast and crew members – first name, last name and email address.

2. Click Request Pass beside each person’s name.

3. Select Dunedin Fringe 2027 Artist Pass

4. Submit the request.

We’ll approve all pass requests by Monday 15 February. Once approved, each person will receive an email with instructions for adding their pass to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet on their phone.

If any cast or crew member doesn’t use Apple or Google Wallet, please contact us before Monday 15 February and let us know who needs an alternative. We’ll create a unique JPEG pass for each person you identify and send it to them.

All registered events can receive Artist Passes for performers and creative crew.

The 2027 Dunedin Fringe Artist Pass perks are:

• Concession ticket price for all Dunedin Fringe shows

• Free Standby Entry to selected shows once all paying audience members have entered (see the star by their event listing if they’ve opted in to give free standby entry to artist pass holders)

• Discounts of 15% off beer and wine at Te Whare o Rukutia

Dunedin Fringe Awards

Opt in through the registration form in Eventotron to be considered for the Dunedin Fringe Awards. This gives you the chance to have your hard work recognised and build your track record through a potential nomination or award win.

Come along to the awards night on Sunday 14 March to celebrate all the winners and nominees. This is a really fun evening.

Online workshops

Our wonderful pals at NZ Fringe have a great range of online artist development workshops.

Check out their Past Digital Library of Artist Development Workshops for useful resources and insights to support your practice.

Other Fringe festival dates

Planning to take your show on a Down Under Fringe tour? Here are some other Fringe festivals in Australia and Aotearoa that line up well around Dunedin Fringe.

• FRINGE WORLD: 20 January–14 February 2027 (registrations close 7/10/26)

• NZ Fringe (Wellington): 12 February–6 March 2027 (registrations close 9/10/26)

• Adelaide Fringe: 19 February–21 March 2027 (registrations close 30/10/26)

• Nelson Fringe: 4–13 March 2027 (registrations close 4/11/26)

International artists

Dunedin Fringe has approved Festival Status from Immigration New Zealand (INZ).

Visa requirements for participating in the festival vary depending on whether you are from a visa-waiver country or not. See information about visa requirements.

We’ll be in touch with all registered international artists and provide you with a copy of the INZ Dunedin Fringe Festival Status Letter and a Dunedin Fringe Festival Invitation Letter for you and your cast/crew. You will need to have these documents with you when you enter New Zealand.

Health and Safety guide and templates

Keep yourself, your cast and crew, audiences and volunteers safe by creating a Health and Safety Plan for your event.

Here’s a guide to help you create your own Health and Safety Plan and Hazard & Risk Register, including identifying risks and putting appropriate controls in place. It includes a template you can use.

Steps to Writing a Health & Safety Plan.pdf

Check with your venue about their Health and Safety Plan, as they may already have one in place that you need to follow. You should still create a plan specific to your own event.

Staying in touch

We’ll send regular Dunedin Fringe communications to the main event contact registered in Eventotron.

You can add team members who should get these communications in Eventotron, or by letting us know directly.

The email addresses you provide will be subscribed to our mailing list.

We’ll keep emails to a minimum, but please read all the information we send you. Our emails may include important information, deadlines, and requests for information we need from you.

We will also update this Artist Information web page with new information.

Volunteers

Keep an eye out for a volunteer request form (with a deadline) from our Volunteer Manager, and let them know if you’d like a Fringe volunteer to assist with your event. They may be able to help with front of house, back stage, or wayfinding etc.

We're here to help! Don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions.