• Leeds Festival Fringe is a 7-day grassroots music festival held across several music venues in Leeds in the week prior to Leeds and Reading Festival. It...
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    year. The Leeds Festival Fringe is a week long-music festival created in 2010 to showcase local talent in the week prior to Leeds Festival. Light Night...
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    The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in England. The events take place simultaneously...
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  • Comedy Awards and for Best Show and Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, winning the former in 2024. She performs solo and as half the duo...
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  • Reading has had several Fringe Festivals over the years. The first Reading Fringe Festival was started in 2005 in Reading, Berkshire, after a group of...
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    at festivals and events including the likes of: Coachella, Tomorrowland, Field Day, Stereosonic, Falls Festival, Groovin the Moo, Reading and Leeds Festival...
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    mother used to work for Leeds Beckett University and is the founder and executive director of the Louder Than Words Festival in Manchester. In 1999, Adam's...
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    Dawson's Creek (1998–2003), Peter Bishop in the Fox science fiction series Fringe (2008–2013), Cole Lockhart on Showtime's The Affair (2014–2018), Dan Gallagher...
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    Thom Tuck (category Comedians from Leeds)
    He was nominated for the Best Newcomer award at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Tuck attended the American International School of Dhaka in Bangladesh...
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    Gemma Whelan (category Actresses from Leeds)
    the 2010 Funny Women Variety Award. She performed at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe with her show Chastity Butterworth & The Spanish Hamster. In 2014, she recorded...
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    Timothy O'Shea (category Edinburgh Festival Fringe staff)
    Jisc". "World's Largest Ever Arts Festival Comes to an End with News of New Appointment | Edinburgh Festival Fringe". Archived from the original on 31...
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  • Fairs Aldeburgh Festival, Suffolk Appleby Jazz Festival Arundel Festival Bolton food festival Barnes Film Festival Bath Fringe Festival Bath International...
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  • In 2007, Spatula Pad (Richardson's first solo show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe) earned him a Best Newcomer nomination at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards...
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  • professional stage debut in Trojan Horse at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Leeds Playhouse. This was followed by London theatre roles in Top Girls...
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    Herriot Hall (Edinburgh Festival Fringe) 1989 The Caucasian Chalk Circle National Youth Music Theatre production Edinburgh Festival Fringe 1990 Captain Stirrick...
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    QI. Walsh performed his 2012 show Seann to Be Wild at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and toured the country with it. He has performed shows with fellow...
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    performed stand up at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe every year since 2003, after making his début in 2001. During the 2006 Fringe, he performed the revealing...
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    Alan Bennett (category Male actors from Leeds)
    Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival brought him instant fame and later a Special Tony Award...
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    Perrier Comedy Award at the 1998 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 2006 he toured the UK, recording a DVD in Leeds entitled Pedantic and Whimsical, which was...
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    Alistair McGowan (category Alumni of the University of Leeds)
    patron of the Ludlow Fringe Festival, where he first performed live in 2013. At the town's St Laurence's Church during the 2021 festival, he performed The...
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    Larmer Tree Festival Latitude Festival LeeStock Music Festival Let's Rock Limetree Festival Lindisfarne Festival Mathew Street Fringe Festival Looe Music...
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    Edinburgh Fringe Festival where the show received several five star reviews, was nominated for the Holden Street Theatres' Edinburgh Fringe Award and...
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  • March 1948) is a musical comedian and head of the Free Fringe at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, for which he was, in 2009, awarded the Panellists' Edinburgh...
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  • So You Think You're Funny (category Edinburgh Festival Fringe awards)
    finals are held every August at The Gilded Balloon during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Past winners include Aisling Bea, Dylan Moran, Lee Mack, Peter Kay...
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    in Cumbria. In 2005, Bowen performed a solo show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe about Bullseye, called "You Can't Beat a Bit of Bully". He returned...
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    Julian Barratt (category Male actors from Leeds)
    then in 1998 they took the show, The Mighty Boosh, to the Edinburgh fringe festival and returned again in 1999 with Arctic Boosh and in 2000 with Autoboosh...
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  • runner-up in the So You Think You're Funny competition at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 2013 Williams appeared as the guest stand-up on Russell Howard's...
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  • Chotto Ookii Theatre Company (category Theatre companies in Leeds)
    won the Total Theatre Award for best newcomer at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The name means 'a little big' in Japanese. Their work includes clowning...
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  • programme Val Falvey, TD on RTÉ One. In 2012, he performed in the Edinburgh Fringe. In February 2011, O'Hanlon returned to the Gate Theatre, Dublin starring...
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    Marc Almond (category Alumni of Leeds Beckett University)
    held at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre, as part of the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, from 1 to 28 August 2011. Ten Plagues is a one-man song cycle based...
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