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Storytelling PR Fringe 26 – Press Team Jobs Available

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Storytelling PR are seeking two Press Office team members to join us for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026. We work from buzzy and busy offices in Summerhall, Edinburgh and our team operate the Summerhall Arts Press Office, as well as our working roster of Fringe clients. One of these roles is dedicated to Summerhall Arts, the other will work across Storytelling PR clients.

Storytelling PR provides a challenging and exciting environment to work in, requiring a range of skills and personal qualities, encouraging professional and personal growth.

As Press Assistant in the Summerhall Arts Press Office, you will be part of a small but efficient team that is the first point of contact for thousands of journalists and industry visiting Summerhall in August. Looking after these journalists and companies, you will also be trusted to manage admin tasks, tickets and publicity for the building as a whole.

As Press Assistant in the Storytelling PR Office, you will be part of a team representing over 40 fringe clients, in a diverse range of genres and venues across the city. Primarily ensuring that media monitoring and cuttings are completed timely and efficiently, you will also be trusted to manage admin tasks, tickets and guest lists, supporting our Publicists as they work to deliver great campaigns for our clients.

The deadline for applications is 6pm, Monday 11th May 2026.
Interviews will be held the w/b Monday 25th May 2026.
Rate of pay: £13.45 per hour + holiday pay.

Download the Job Description doc here.
Have a look at our equal opportunities doc here.

Edinburgh Fringe 2025: Storytelling PR round up, a huge thank you, Fringe show awards, and what’s up next this year

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As ever, we were delighted to work with a roster of brilliant artists and shows this August for yet another non-stop Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Coming to us from all over the globe, our 2025 artists included expert comedians, international acrobats, experimental dancers, rising theatre makers, innovative new writers, skilled clowns, passionate musicians, world-class martial artists, cabaret stars, technological creatives, immersive storytellers – and everything wonderful and imaginative in between.

‘Score’ by Isaiah Wilson
(Kultur|lx Luxembourg selection 2025)
| Image credit – Léa Junet

Their shows took us to the heart of Palestine and its people; through the space-race and intimate stories of pregnancy loss; into the last launderette on the Isle of Wight; around the edge of a lonely swimming pool in Saudi Arabia; through surrealist imaginings of ‘Edutainment’ and a fisherman’s curious one-night tale of rare true love; towards living on Mars and futuristic immigration exam requirements; in amongst the seams of beautiful sung and spoken life stories; under the skin of electro-muscle stimulation and dystopian bodies moving in sync as one; and to sit down at a very special Burns Supper table with the historic Bard himself.

‘Is There Work On Mars?’ by Faye Yan | Image credit – Amy Lauffer Neff
‘The Genesis’ by Copenhagen Collective | Image credit – David Poznic
‘Stepping in…Spilling out’ by Mark Bleakley | Image credit – Tiu Makkonen
‘Cheese and Guava’ by Cênica, part of São Paulo Showcase | Image credit – Guilherme Di Curzio
‘Scott Turnbull presents… Surreally Good’ by Scott Turnbull | Image credit – Mel Butler
‘These Mechanisms’ by Christine Thynne and Robbie Synge | Image credit – Brian Hartley

2025 was a very busy year for our team – and we couldn’t be prouder to play a role in bringing so many wonderful stories to life on stage. Whether reuniting with old friends and returning artists, or building beautiful new multidisciplinary global connections, it is always a joy to see our offices brimming with life every summer for the world’s biggest gathering of performance, artistic companionship, and never-ending creative collaboration.

AWARDS 2025 – Edinburgh Festival Fringe

In Fringe-specific awards, we were delighted to see many of our artists smash it out the park across various accolades – including the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, The Scotsman Fringe Firsts, The Besties, and the Brighton Fringe Awards, and lots more.

‘Creepy Boys: SLUGS’ by Sam Kruger & S.E. Grummett
| Image credit – Mat Simpson

‘FLOAT’ by Indra Wilson and F-Bomb Theatre
| Image credit – Mihaela Bodlovic
‘PALESTINE: Peace de Resistance‘ by Sami Abu Wardeh, Counterpoints and Palestine Comedy Club | Image Credit – Zoë Birkbeck

September onwards…

‘Time Keeps The Drummer’ by
Fevered Sleep |
Image credit – Winnie Yeung

As we go into the final third of 2025, we’re excited to be working with some wonderful artists and performers. In addition to continuing our year-round projects and collaborations with friends, we’ll be working with Colette Sadler and FERAL Arts on Present Futures Festival Dundee (10 – 11 September), Shotput’s touring production of Enda Walsh’s Arlington (17 October – 8 November), Hercules the Bear by Tenterhooks (29 September – 29 October), bold new British musical Gwenda’s Garage by Out of the Archive Theatre in association with Sheffield Theatre (15 – 25 October), Harry Clayton-Wright’s Mr Blackpool’s Seaside Spectacular (6 and 8 November), Rhianna Ilube and Coney‘s touring game-theatre show 1884 (9 – 25 October), Kerry Wright’s tour and debut play Kailey (11 – 25 September), Fevered Sleep’s radical multi-genre durational performance Time Keeps The Drummer (touring 12 September – 12 April), and more.

That’s us for now…! If you’d like to work with our lovely team in the future (whether on year-round work or Fringe-specific shows) please do get in touch with Managing Director Miriam, Executive Director Emma, or Senior Publicists Ambrose and Polly.

Storytelling PR x

Christmas visibility – supporting Scottish makers

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Do you need a boost in visibility ahead of Christmas?

Over the coming two weeks we’ll be taking on a very small list of companies to do some targeted Christmas gift ideas for gift lists. We’d love to encourage people across Scotland – and the UK – to put down their A***** app and buy meaningful gifts from Scottish makers. 

All we need from you is either a run of products or an idea of a few featured products, high quality images, and initial copy (we can chat through this with you to ensure it’s fit for purpose).

As this is an online campaign, we’d recommend you have distribution UK-wide. We have a list of blogs and What’s On contacts, and review and sample requests, from some independent family and parents-type contacts looking for gift ideas. We haven’t had access to such a broad list before, and some of them may want samples; if this isn’t a fit, or doesn’t make sense for your business personally, that’s ok, we just won’t offer that.

Get in touch today with any questions and drop us a line!

Warmest wishes,

The Storytelling PR team X

MANIPULATE Festival 2021 Launch

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Manipulate Festival 2021 trailer

Tickets go on sale today for Puppet Animation Scotland‘s 14th MANIPULATE Festival. The festival will combine a bespoke multi-city outdoor installation artwalk, and a digital programme packed with performance, screenings and workshops. MANIPULATE Festival returns in brand new form against the odds this January.

The innovative festival of international, award-winning visual theatre, puppetry and animated film will return in a new hybrid format. Festival fans can enjoy MANIPULATE Digital Festival (29 January – 7 February 2021) from the comfort of their own homes. Those in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow can experience a specially commissioned outdoor kinetic sculpture series called Restless Worlds (21 January – 21 February 2021).

A note from Dawn Taylor, Puppet Animation Scotland’s new director


“In the challenging circumstances that the pandemic has thrown up for our sector, the immediate priority for myself and the Puppet Animation Scotland team was finding a way to generate work for as many artists as we could. Commissioning, hosting installations and digital theatre – all these represent uncharted territory for Puppet Animation Scotland, but we have been overwhelmed by the creativity and ingenuity of artists in meeting this brief, said Dawn.
 
“It’s clear that there are challenges to come for us as a society this winter, and so we also wanted to create something exciting and concrete that audiences can put in their diaries and look forward to.  We’re thrilled to be able to keep providing boundary-pushing creative experiences through MANIPULATE in 2021.”

The full programme and tickets are available on the MANIPULATE Theatre website.

Darkfield’s DOUBLE joins the official selection for the Venice International Film Festival 2020

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DARKFIELD’S ‘DOUBLE’ CONFIRMED TO JOIN THE  OFFICIAL SELECTION FOR THE VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2020 

  • First ever audio-only experience to be shown at Venice Film Festival
  • 2500 people worldwide have experienced DOUBLE in two weeks
  • London-based AR company’s run extended into September due to popular demand
  • Evening performances to begin on United States time zones from mid-August

Announced today across Europe and round the globe,  DARKFIELD RADIO’s first broadcast DOUBLE is confirmed for the Venice International Film Festival, the first ever audio-only experience in the programme.  DOUBLE is part of Venice’s ‘Best of XR’ (eXtended Reality a catch all term for immersive productions including AR and VR) category and represents an innovative shift for the immersive theatre company, from physical installations to home entertainment as a reaction to the ongoing COVID19 pandemic.

Alongside this announcement DARKFIELD are excited to announce Darkfield Radio and DOUBLE performances will open up to the US with evening performances added for Eastern and Pacific time zones . 

Darkfield Radio, a groundbreaking new project, brings DARKFIELD’s innovative audio experiences to audiences at home. DOUBLE, the first ever audio only experience to be part of the official selection for the Venice International Film Festival, will be shown as part of the ‘Best of XR’ category usually held in a site specific island in the Italian town, it will instead be hosted on well-known XR gaming platform ‘VR Chat’ opening up the festival XR programme to audiences worldwide.

DOUBLE, a strange and curious world built from 360 degree binaural sound, is a troubling exercise in familiarity for two people sitting opposite each other on either side of their kitchen table. It asks ‘‘everyone to be who they say they are”. DOUBLE explores the Capgras delusion, a condition in which the sufferer is convinced that a loved one has been replaced by an exact replica with malign intentions. This follows the theme of Darkfield’s previous shows, exploring ideas around Drug Placebos, the Multiverse and the unknown beyond the veil.

The experience is communal – not only are audiences experiencing the show in pairs, but the show is replicated in hundreds of rooms across the world with a set performance time, much like going to the cinema for a screening, or a theatre for a play. The DARKFIELD RADIO app, available on IOS and Android is designed to deliver the show at a set time and date. Part of  The magic of the show is the ability for Darkfield to deliver a powerfully immersive experience with just a pair of regular headphones, a mobile phone, and a kitchen table. 

“By turning your house into a stage, this one, fleetingly, becomes a doppelganger for the real thing” ★★★★ The Guardian 

“Darkfield prove themselves arch manipulator” Lyn Gardner, Stage Door

“Conceptually, this is sorcery” – ★★★★ Reviews Hub 

“…What has been created fills [the audience’s] senses and the room around them“ – ★★★★ The Stage

“all the classic horror tropes are here as the sinister soundscape sweeps you up in a wave of irrational fear” ★★★★ Time out

“your kitchen – so achingly well known to you – becomes an eerily defamiliarised place” ★★★★ Metro

DARKFIELD creates new innovative work at the forefront of technology and theatre, utilising binaural sound and sensory effects. Previous acclaimed pieces SEANCE, FLIGHT and COMA, sited in shipping containers, originally premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and have since toured the UK and Australia.  DARKFIELD has so far welcomed 167500+ audience members globally and with DARKFIELD RADIO, will now reach even larger audiences worldwide in their homes. The Darkfield Radio App is powered by Wiretapper, and funded by the Arts Council for England. 

Tickets are available via the DARKFIELD website and will be signposted within the ‘Best of XR’ at the Venice Film Festival on ‘VR Chat’.

Shows run every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 20:00 & 21:30. PLEASE BE AWARE SHOWS ARE 14+.

Experienced through the DARKFIELD RADIO app available for android and iphone. 

darkfield.org/radio

NOTES TO EDITORS

CREDITS

PERFORMER Chris Brett Bailey

DIRECTORS David Rosenberg & Glen Neath

WRITER Glen Neath

SOUND & TECH David Rosenberg

PRODUCER Victoria Eyton

PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Sara Codrington

IMAGERY Alex Purcell

For press information, images and interview requests please contact Miriam Attwood miriam@storytellingpr.com 07825642225 

Venice International Film Festival

Wednesday 2 September 2020 – Saturday 12 September.

https://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/2020

Best of XR

A popular new strand of Venice International Film Festival screening the best of XR / VR / AR from around the world.

VR Chat

https://www.vrchat.com/ create and play in virtual worlds 

PRAISE FOR DARKFIELD CONTAINER SHOWS

“[Darkfield] harness the very Uncertainty Of Pretending, and In Doing So Create An Experience That’s Properly

Exhilarating. It’s A Perfectly Programmed High-art Theme Park Ride That Spits You Out Into The Sunlight Feeling Palpably, Certainly, alive.”

Exeunt Magazine

SEANCE PREMIERED 2017 EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE

★★★★

Natasha Tripney, The Stage

‘It’s skin-tingling, breath-quickening stuff’

★★★★

Lauren Mooney, The Stage

‘Perfectly contained and completely absorbing, spine-tingling’

FLIGHT PREMIERED AT SUMMER 2018 AT LATITUDE AND THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE 

★★★★

Hannah Wright, The Wee Review

‘Outstanding…an all-consuming experience that takes you away from the busy streets of Edinburgh and into a different reality’

★★★★

Niki Boyle, The Scotsman

‘…Absolutely unsettling. The sound and production design are both excellent – in addition to the authentic interior, boarding passes and Kafkaesque safety cards are distributed, all of which enhance the creeping unease.’

COMA PREMIERED AT THE 2019 EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE 

★★★★

Fest Mag

’An immersive experience that takes audiences to another realm’

The Independent

‘If you’ve never experienced one of Darkfield’s shows, absolutely go: it is technically astonishing, completely uncanny, and deeply unnerving. You start to question your own senses. You may start to feel a rising panic. It’s not for faint-hearted.’

THE INVISIBLE

In 2020 DARKFIELD partnered with Universal Pictures to create ‘The Invisible’ – a bespoke experience in a container created to partner the  launch of Universal’s  ‘The Invisible Man’. The experience was sited at Universal Citywalk, Los Angeles, and gave audience members a unique experience inspired by the film.