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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

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023

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August is our busiest and best time of year here at Storytelling PR. Just before Scotland’s (often very rainy) summer begins its slow wind-down into autumn, we have the world’s most exciting culture and performance festival left to enjoy: the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, right here on the doorstep of our city. 

Having worked with artists performing at the Fringe since 2013, the Festival is particularly special for us. Over the years, we’ve seen friends and family perform their work, we’ve met countless brilliant emerging artists, we’ve seen and supported hundreds of shows; and we’ve forged a name for ourselves as distinctly artist-led in everything Festival-based that we do. 

And this year is no different. Back and bigger than ever, the Storytelling team has been working flat-out since the start of 2023 to support 50+ artists with their upcoming shows – including 22 performances at Summerhall, running Summerhall’s bustling Press Office, and 3 performances at the Royal Lyceum Theatre (Nova; An Oak Tree; FORGE), in addition to supporting shows across Assembly, Dance Base, Greenside, Scottish Storytelling Centre, ZOO, Monkey Barrel, Gilded Balloon, Traverse, and Pleasance. 

The Purple Pill – Nabil Abdulrashid | Image Credit – Matt Stronge

With a list spanning the Festival’s most iconic places to be, Storytelling PR is proud to support an eclectic mix of Festival legends, returners, debut performers, international artists, groups, and solo acts this year. 

Our bread and butter is theatre and performance – and this year’s selection is gripping, entertaining, and fresh. From experimental and emerging to large-scale productions, small casts to big, we’re working with the likes of Tim Crouch (An Oak Tree), Tortoise in a Nutshell (Concerned Others), Jade Anouka’s raw and honest exploration of love, loss, and self-discovery (HEART), Fishamble (Heaven), Elle Dillon-Reams (MEAT, HoneyBEE), Obehi Janice’s new theatre-storytelling show on her romantic-sexual entanglements and Casanova (NOVA), Ben Noble (Member), Raymond Wilson’s comedic storytelling work on masculinity and nature (I Hope Your Flowers Bloom), Guido Garcia Lueches (Playing Latinx), DARKFIELD’s gripping shipping-container experiences, Adam Scott-Rowley (YOU ARE GOING TO DIE) and more. 

I Hope Your Flowers Bloom – Raymond Wilson | Image Credit – Jassy Earl

In cabaret and comedy shows, we have the pleasure of supporting the brilliant Gail Porter on her stand-up show and Festival Fringe debut (Gail Porter: Hung, Drawn, and Portered), Reuben Kaye’s double-show return as a Festival favourite (The Butch is Back!, The Kaye Hole), Nabil Abdulrashid’s comedy show about trying to be a good person while staying a badman (The Purple Pill), Stuart Goldsmith’s climate-crisis stand up (Spoilers), and others. 

For dance and movement-based work, we’re so excited to support Solène Weinachter’s comedic dance-storytelling work on death rites and family funerals (After All), Foster Group Dance (Double Goer), Jian Yi and Journey to the East (Weathervanes), Max Percy’s powerful butoh dance, performance art and circus rope show (BAKLÂ) Thaddeus McWhinnie Phillips (Lost Soles), Gözde Atalay (NOMAD), Katie Armstrong’s new double-bill on movement, music, turntablism, and multimedia (SKETCHES/GLISK), and more. 

BAKLÂ – Max Percy | Image Credit – Northwall Arts Centre

We’ll be working at full-speed until the end of August, but we always have time for a chat and a coffee with artists and friends. You can find our Fringe-time press office team inside Summerhall (just opposite the Gallery Bar & Cafe), or head through the Summerhall courtyard to the Cairns Lecture Theatres for our year-round office team – we look forward to saying hi!

After years of lockdown and post-Covid anxiety, ongoing international disputes and war, the climate crisis, and the general instability of the international stage, we hope for this Fringe to be one punctuated by hope, compassion, bravery, pride, strength, and unbridled creativity. To use art to look to the future is a gift – and we couldn’t be happier to carve out positive, meaningful forward-looking paths with some of the best artists around. 

From all of us at Storytelling: enjoy the Festival, and see you after! 

Apply to be Storytelling PR’s Press Assistant with the Kickstart Scheme

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Storytelling PR Office

Storytelling PR is part of the UK Government’s Kickstart scheme, which is designed for young people aged 16-24 who claim Universal Credit and are at risk of unemployment.

The scheme has helped us create a new entry-level vacancy for someone to join the team for six months as Press Assistant.

About the Role

This job will involve everything from writing press releases, speaking directly with creatives, logging coverage and planning in endless spreadsheets and generating great ideas. You will be expected to listen, learn and engage with the arts.

You will be supported to train and look for your own opportunities to grow – which storytelling will support with time or finance. We are looking for someone who engages with culture, loves to hear, and tell stories and is ready to take this opportunity and run with it. Storytelling is a small company meaning the opportunity for growth is very real and could happen really quickly with the right person and commitment!

The press assistant will work across all projects in the entire team, copywriting, fact-checking, researching and prepping press releases and supporting the team with admin tasks.

The role will last six months and will be 30 hours each week, over four days, and it can be flexible.

The successful applicant will be paid the Living Wage.

Skills and Experience

Desirable

· A Higher / A Level equivalent in Drama, English, History, Politics, Culture

· Experience working in a fast paced environment

· An active interest in pop culture

· Comfortable with social media, be that one favourite platform or an awareness of many

· An active interest in the news, how the news is made and what’s happening in the world

· Experience making videos, editing and playing around with tech

· Fun loving and curious

Essential

· An interest in culture, be that books, live music,

· An awareness of what press relations and publicity are

· Excellent writing skills

· Experience using Excel, Word, Google drive and Google docs,

· A willingness to learn, think quickly

· Good communication skills

· Open-minded, caring and thoughtful

About Storytelling PR

Storytelling PR Ltd works with theatre makers, musicians, artists and change-makers to get their stories told to the world via press, media and digital marketing. We are one of the leading small publicity companies in Scotland and are very well known, within industry, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

We pride ourselves on working opening within an equalist, feminist, anti-racist code of conduct and we appreciate as a small company we have perhaps more capability to support change makers, and make change ourselves, than some big industry powers.

How to Apply

To apply, contact your local job centre and ask to be referred to us.