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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.

Storytelling PR is looking for a Comms Expert / Senior Publicist

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This is a unique opportunity to join one of the UK’s leading commercial arts organisations – Storytelling PR is an artist-first PR company who work with a diverse and brilliant range of established and up-and-coming live performers and creatives across Theatre, Comedy, Cabaret and Visual Arts.

We are looking for a new member of the team to be a whizz at PR but also have some interest in line-mgmt and future planning. This role is based in Edinburgh at our office in Summerhall. We understand life comes before work, but there are ways to make that time at work so rewarding – and this is the basis of all we do as a team. 

Storytelling PR Ltd work between Edinburgh, Glasgow and London; and with companies touring and making work across the UK. We often work with international arts companies selling mostly to British audiences. Storytelling PR has a huge focus on theatre and performance that has an interest in social change or activism. We love good stories and good storytellers. We define our work by feminist / equalitist ethics and we feel it’s important our work and our services are available to both up-and-coming and established artists and companies – this has always been key to our practice and we actively ensure our client / company list is diverse. We are intersectional feminists, Queer-positive and actively anti-racist. We seek to collaborate with artists of all identities and we take the time to do the learning and work to support our artists and staff.

We are especially keen to see applications from candidates who have worked in Digital Marketing OR Comedy and Commercial Live Performance. 

Storytelling PR Ltd is an equal opportunities employer and we really, really welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. Diversity in the workplace is an asset both to our organisation and our ability to deliver for our diverse client and company base. 


Main purpose of role:

  • To support the Storytelling Team working across Publicity, Digital and Marketing with a personal specialism but a genuine interest and perspective on all areas of the business. 
  • To collaborate with artists, companies, and live event makers. 
  • To (essentially) be a representative to the media of some of the UK’s best live performance and campaigners and creatives in a way that the companies feel matches their own vibe and work. 
  • There is an exciting opportunity to work with any of our year round companies (see our website) on a really aspirational and close level to get the best PR and lend the best advice on comms. 

What you will be doing:

  • Delivering or supporting PR and Digital campaigns for all of Storytelling PR’s many and varied theatre, performance, and activism companies and clients across the UK. PR and Digital campaigns will include writing excellent fully finished press releases, issuing and pitching, logging all on a project WIP, keeping good records of who is engaged and interested in the work, looking for new contacts and matches for the work across a broad range of media. 
  • Line-managment. 
  • Engaging closely with a network of press media and with our companies to sell their work to audiences. 
  • Actively listening. As we work with Minoritised, Ethnically Diverse and Disability led companies there are often new conversations and considerations that need thought – from access, to the restraints of structurally problematic industries on all sides. You will often hear about Racism, Homophobia, Transphobia and Ableism. As you will be the intermediary between our brilliant companies and our colleagues in the press you’ll be expected to be aware of what support companies need and we will support you in turn. 
  • Working on our world-class Edinburgh Festival Fringe portfolio of leading performance art, dance, theatre, circus, cabaret and international theatre work.
  • Every member of the team has a direct project specialism – please outline what your area of specialism would be at application. 

Essential

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Be a strategic and creative thinker.
  • An ability to interpret creative practice for paper or pitching in a way that is clear and concise. 
  • Demonstrable knowledge of, and interest in, issues surrounding diversity and inclusion in the arts.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, and proven ability to collaborate with team-mates on projects.
  • Press contacts and a keen interest in culture media and reportage. 
  • Highly organised, with a demonstrable ability to keep track of tasks, prioritise work under pressure and deliver against set targets to agreed deadlines. 
  • Someone who thrives in a busy environment.
  • Significant experience in the media world (be that as a journalist / PR / communications specialist) and experience working in a busy comms office or working within a press outlet. 
  • Active listening skills
  • Strong values, and the ability to motivate and support others.
  • Ability to identify and develop mutually beneficial partnerships.

Desirable 

  • Knowledge and understanding of the arts in Scotland, across the UK 
  • An interest in the power of the small business and independent makers and creatives
  • Intrinsic motivation and drive to make change, get bums on seats and do your best work (small ask)
  • Experience of working in live events.
  • Experience of working across culture, charity or not for profit.
  • An interest in changing the way things are. 

Storytelling PR Senior Publicist / Comms Expert 

Salary – salary will fit the applicant and will be offered based on experience £26 – 28,000 pa – if you feel this number is more suited to part-time or job share – we will accept those pitches or call Director Miriam to talk through.

Storytelling staff receive an annual pay rise and there is opportunity for staff to have a contribution towards counselling or therapy, because we think it’s very important to have good mental health! 

We work from a light, buzzy (and often busy) office in Summerhall, Edinburgh.

We welcome those interested to send a cover letter and CV to admin@storytellingpr.com. 

We welcome any questions about applications to Miriam Attwood miriam@storytellingpr.com 

Have a look at our equal opps doc here. 

The deadline for applications is 17 April 5pm. Interviews will take place the following week in Edinburgh or via zoom. 

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Sonic theatre podcast Soundworlds returns with a season of brand-new immersive audio experiences

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Sonic theatre makers Soundworlds have today announced a new season of their podcast offering listeners an immersive audio experience combining theatre, poetry and music. Far more than radio plays with music, Soundworlds projects are created by musicians, writers, theatre makers and artists who blend together music and storytelling, sound design, documentary and fiction to give listeners a true escape from the everyday.

From November 2021 to April 2022, Soundworlds will release a new episode fortnightly, on the first and third Thursday of each month. Each episode is its own, unique world: a piece of theatre for your ears, that can be enjoyed anywhere, any time. The eclectic mix of episodes has been created in collaboration with acclaimed international artists, each with their own story to tell, in extraordinary ways. 

Join us for a Christmas party like no other, share some classic children’s books in new ways, and explore issues of our time from sex work to universal childcare, all without leaving your house, or staring at a screen.

Artists featured this season include: Canadian theatre group Quote Unquote Collective; Erased Tapes’ Douglas Dare; award-winning librettist and playwright Stephanie Fleischmann and Pulitzer Prize finalist composer Christopher Cerrone; French electronic musician Aho Ssan aka Désiré Niamké, collaborating with Emptyset member James Ginzburg; acclaimed theatre maker Joana Nastari; adaptations of children’s books Town is by the Sea and Birdsong; as well as new commissions from artists Aminita Francis (BAC Beatbox Academy’s Frankenstein), Travis Alabanza (Burgerz) — who will both be matched up with musicians — and Verity Standen, who will each create new, immersive audio pieces, directed by Soundworlds’ own Patrick Eakin Young.

Patrick Eakin Young, director of Soundworlds, said: “Podcasts have become one of this century’s quintessential new forms of media, yet the creative and expressive potential of the form is still being tested. I think of Soundworlds as a sonic stage on which to present some of the boldest innovations in audio storytelling: a space for musicians, theatre-makers, writers and sound designers to explore, experiment with, and expand upon the familiar podcast formula.”

Soundworlds is directed by Patrick Eakin Young and produced by Eleanor Turney and George Warren. Artwork for Season Two is provided by illustrator Sydney Smith. All episodes are free to listen to on Spotify, iTunes and other podcast platforms, or on the Soundworlds website.

Season Two will open this November with two episodes that reimagine existing albums as narrative pieces, Liminal Highway and Simulacrum. On Thursday 4 November, librettist and playwright Stephanie Fleischmann adapts Christopher Cerrone and Tim Munro’s Liminal Highway, an album for solo flute, inspired by John K. Samson’s poem of the same name. Fleischmann’s overlaid narrative tells the story of a woman chasing down a mysterious double through an urban dreamscape. Later that month, Simulacrum, from French Ghanaian musician Aho Ssan, is reimagined by James Ginzburg as the story of a boy trapped in his own apartment in a near-future society, stratified into a very strict class system, cut off from music and the outside world. It blurs the lines of reality, asking what and who is real? 

One very special episode in December sees us invited to Douglas Dare’s Christmas Party. Listeners will be sonically guided through the festive party you wish you were invited to, eavesdropping on conversations between artists and radical queers, drag queens and East London scenesters, soundtracked by Dare’s rearranged carols.

The New Year will see a series of episodes working with and inspired by incredible Canadian artists. On Thursday 6 January, feminist powerhouses and multi-disciplinary performance company Quote Unquote Collective look at universal childcare as Canada comes out with one of the most comprehensive childcare laws in the world following the pandemic. Based on verbatim interviews with parents about childcare. 

From January 20 our mini-series of Canadian children’s novels will begin, with an audio adaptation of Birdsong. Written by Cree-Métis author and illustrator Julie Flett, it is a subtle, sensitive story of intergenerational friendship, growth and loss. It is soundtracked by K.K. Rose-El (aka Kris Harper) of Polaris Prize-nominated nȇhiyawak, which translates to Cree People, People of the Plains or Free People. Releasing on Thursday 3 February is an adaptation of Town is by the Sea, written by Joanne Schwartz and illustrated by Sydney Smith. It follows a young boy throughout his day spent by the sea, all the while thinking of his father digging for coal deep underground, creating beautiful contrast between the two worlds. Soundworlds uses its immersive audio experience to perfectly capture in sound the beautiful visuals found in each story. 

From Thursday 17 February, Joana Nastari’s award-winning debut play Fuck You Pay Me will be turned into a soundworld. A love letter to strippers, the episode will feature special guests from the community and a live score of Brazilian music. It is a play by strippers, for strippers and about strippers, a celebration that will be captured in Soundworlds’ impeccable audio.

Season 2 will wrap up with another mini-series which sees three new sonic theatre commissions created by Black, female, and nonbinary theatre artists, released throughout March and April. Bristol’s Verity Standen taps into the power of ASMR. Emerging artist Aminita Francis, a break-out member of Battersea Arts Centre’s Beatbox Academy, creates a Bo Burnham-like piece about the isolation of lockdown using only her voice and a looper. And British performance artist, writer and theatre maker Travis Alabanza teams up with Canadian (Polaris Prize-nominated) musicians Bonjay, to create a dancehall inflected fantasy as four trans friends head out into the streets of London together. 

You can also listen back to Season One shows, including adaptations of four Raymond Carver short stories from What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and a piece based on Courtney Angela Brkic’s The Stone Fields, her memoir of joining a UN forensics team helping to excavate the mass graves at Srebrenica in Bosnia. 

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Horizon – the vibrant new pilot showcase gets underway as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021

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Presenting a diverse line up of performance artists from across England Tickets for the online public performance programme of events available now via edfringe.com

Today (Monday 16 August) the inaugural Horizon gets underway, celebrating performance created in England. The residency programme takes place this week with a public programme of performance works available from August 23 as part of the Edinburgh Fringe 2021.
 
Curated by a consortium of England’s leading artist-focused arts organisations and commissioned by Arts Council England, the lineup celebrates artists who are working across an exciting range of performance disciplines – all born out of a new approach to build deep and sustainable collaborations internationally.
 
The 2021 showcase includes streamed live theatre, dance and live art performances, digital works and events for audiences around the world. Six new, tour-ready, public performance works will be presented digitally from next Monday including:
 
Future Cargo, a sci-fi dance show performed in a 40-foot haulage truck is the latest outdoor work by Requardt & Rosenberg, filmed for audiences to experience at home with an intimate sound score.
 
26 August at 11am and 7pm
29 August at 2pm
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/future-cargo
 
Artist Janine Harrington presents a digital online version of her 2018 Screensaver Series, a five-dancer-strong movement and sound installation inspired by the obsolete screen-saving programmes of early computing.
 
27 August at 1pm and 9pm
29 August at 6pm
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/screensaver-series
 
First presented at Contact in Manchester earlier in 2021, mandla rae brings short film As British As A Watermelon which explores the citizenship process, questions the realities of decolonisation, picks apart the long-lasting effects of trauma, and explores mandla’s fragmented memory.
 
26 August at 4pm or 11.30pm
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/mandla-rae-as-british-as-a-watermelon-1
Also part of Summerhall’s On Demand Fringe 2021 programme
 
Built with original music and virtual performances, Chinese Arts Now’s Every dollar is a soldier/With money you’re a dragon invites audiences to roam freely as avatars through an ‘after hours’ digital art gallery. Mixing gaming and 3D technology, writer and performer Daniel York Loh compares the apparent success of the once-richest man in America – William Waldorf Astor – with the migration of Chinese people.
 
24 – 29 August at 1pm and 7pm
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on#q=%22Chinese%20Arts%20Now%22
 
Multi-award-winning British Asian choreographer Seeta Patel presents a screening of their reimagining of Stravinsky’s iconic ballet The Rite of Spring in the classical Indian dance style Bharatanatyam in the year of the 50th death anniversary of Stravinsky.
 
27 August at 11am and 7pm
29 August at 4pm
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/rite-of-spring
 
Tarik Elmoutawakil’s Marlborough Productions will enable audiences across the globe to join their widely celebrated Brownton Abbey (BA) an evolving, international performance collective, centring and celebrating disabled, queer people of colour. Adapted for a digital landscape, Brownton Abbey: Talk Show will be a frank and open conversation.
 
25 August at 11am and 7pm
29 August at 11am
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/brownton-abbey-talk-show
 
Performance and installation artist Joshua Sofaer, theatre director Olivia Furber and Palestinian filmmaker, writer and actor, Ramzi Maqdisi, and award-winning choreographer and director Botis Seva also feature in the programme with new work but as part of a smaller delegates-only series of presentations with a view to public touring and performances this year and next.
 
Moving forward from a year of mass cancellations, drastically reduced opportunities, and with creative freelancers now facing more restrictive and costly regulations for touring work, the Horizon pilot marks the development of a thrilling new collaborative model. Responding to the need for different and more flexible ways of thinking, the consortium has placed care, innovation, environmental sustainability and accessibility at the heart of the showcase.
 
Horizon aims to be distinctive from other performing arts showcases by encouraging connections and relationships to be built between artists and programmers at different stages of an artists’ journey. The inclusion of seven residencies will offer this – providing an opportunity for artists to develop their ideas while inviting international delegates into their creative process at an early stage. Alongside the public performance strand, the brand new projects, supported as part of a ‘residency’ programme taking place this week include:
 
The Dan Daw Show in which artist Daw will look at his relationship to his disability and to kink, and how power, pride and shame all intersect. It is a show about letting go and reclaiming yourself. Jo Bannon’s Blind Magic is a dance piece with two visually diverse/blind performers and one unreliable audio narrator. It explores the imaginative dance between sleight of hand, deception and dexterity present within magic shows, with a canny parallel to the experience of visually disabled people. Artist and producer Katy Baird will be workshopping Get Off – a funny, relatable and sometimes ‘wee bit grim’ performance that revels in excess whilst exploring ways in which it unites us. Katy asks, ‘what gives us pleasure?’ and ‘how much is too much?’
 
PROJEKT EUROPA will be working on LET YOUR HANDS SING IN THE SILENCE, a planned performance for one actor to recreate their own personal family tree from memory presented by the international female-led theatre company. Multi-award winning writer and performer Rachel Mars’ will use her residency to develop Forge – a new set of work about memorials, replicas, and human behaviour at spaces with difficult histories. Mars asks what and who memorials are for, and what should happen to places where traumatic events have taken place.

Urielle Klein-Mekongo’s TRASH is to be a dark, musical comedy about two working-class black girls who decide to join the expanding industry of earning cash, pushing for financial success at all costs, from social media. ULM will use her residency to explore how TRASH will present power and boundaries in this shiny, online world. UKM’s first self-penned solo show Yvette was presented to acclaim at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. And rounding off the residencies, British Flamenco dancer and practitioner Yinka Esi Graves’s will be working on her first solo creation, The Disappearing Act, will draw on her experiences as a black flamenco dancer and the historical questions that have been raised along her journey.
 
Supported by a community of artists and associates, all performance-makers in the showcase will work collaboratively, and will be encouraged and connected with international artists and partners to exchange ideas. This showcase of England-based artists will enable strong connections between international festivals, producers and presenters even in this most difficult year for artists and creators.
 
Commissioned by Arts Council England, the Horizon showcase is being delivered by a consortium made up of Battersea Arts Centre, Dance4, Fierce, GIFT, MAYK and Transform.
 
The consortium partners are working with several established independent artists to help shape the showcase, including Project O (Alexandrina Hemsley, Jamila Johnson- Small), Javaad Alipoor, Kirsty Housley, Sonia Hughes and Renny O’Shea. Associate partners reflecting different specialisms and art form focuses have also had input into the process, including Akademi, ATC, Bush Theatre, Circus City, The Cocoa Butter Club and Unlimited.

Horizon runs from 16 August, with the public event programme during the week of 23 August. 

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DAVID MICHAEL PRODUCTIONS present QUEENZ – the show with BALLS

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Starring chart-topping Union J’s Jaymi Hensley – the Queenz are heading to Edinburgh LIVE.

For the night out we’ve all been missing – Queenz are ready to, (like a prayer,) take you there. Five vocal powerhouses armed with songs, sass and plenty to say. This unapologetic, dance party night out with five incredible vocalists in their realest drag is landing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to bring some much-needed pride and joy. 

From backstreet bars to West End stars, the Queenz cast represents a mix of undeniable artists who have been waiting their whole lives for this moment in the spotlight. The cast comprises pop star turned drag star Jaymi Hensley (UK Chart top ten selling member of Union J) as Mis Dia Montay the White Queen; Grant Jackson, who recently went viral on TikTok with a Celine Dion vocal some accused him of lip syncing – it was entirely his vocal – joins the band as Gold Queen; Louis Wallond as the Rock Queen aka Billie Eyelash; Lew Ray as the Blue Queen – Mr Van Cartier; and last but not least Josh Hanson takes to the stage for their first leading professional role as Pink Queen – Candy Caned. Welcome to the circus Josh!

The Queenz cast represent a mixed background of experience, all professional singers and dancers at various stages of their career – in and out of drag – including Jaymi, fulfilling a life-long career ambition, professionally putting on a pair heels for the first time – but still relying on the voice that got him to the final of X-Factor and into the UK Chart Top Five. 

Expect an all-singing, all-dancing hour of live vocals and chat with the Queenz as they guide you through an eclectic party playlist, featuring remixed and reimagined pop anthems from The Spice Girls, Shakira, GaGa, Britney, Whitney and everything in between.

Together let’s smash down social boundaries and invite the world in all its sequined glory to a non-apologetic pop party, celebrating unity, unicorns, divas and death drops.

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