Now Hiring: Staff for Fringe 2024

We're now hiring for staff to join our amazing FOH, Box Office, Bar & tech teams for our festival period this summer - visit the Fringe jobs page for full descriptions and info on how to... [more]

Vacancy: Fringe Box Office Staff

Job Title: Box Office StaffLocation: 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PLRate of Pay:  £12 per hour + holiday payContract Type: Temporary, fixed term for 4 weeks (1st – 26th August... [more]

Vacancy: Fringe Box Office Supervisor

Job Title: Box Office SupervisorLocation: 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PLRate of Pay:  £12.50 per hour + holiday payContract Type: Temporary, fixed term for 4 weeks (1st – 26th... [more]

Vacancy: Fringe Assistant Box Office Manager

Job Title: Assistant Box Office ManagerRate of Pay:  £13.00 per hour + holiday payPerks: All staff will receive a staff pass which gives first-come first-served access to shows which... [more]

Vacancy: Fringe Bar Staff

Job Title: Bar StaffRate of Pay:  £12.00 per hour + holiday payPerks: All staff will receive a staff pass which gives first-come first-served access to shows which are not sold out and... [more]

Vacancy: Fringe Bar Supervisor

Job Title: Bar SupervisorLocation: 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PLRate of Pay:  £12.50 per hour + holiday payContract Type:  Temporary, fixed term for up to 6 weeks (15 July -... [more]

Vacancy: Fringe Slicer

Job Title:  ‘Summerhall Slicers’ running our dedicated Pizza ShackLocation: 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PLRate of Pay:   £12.00 per hour + holiday payContract Type:... [more]

Vacancy: Fringe Slicer Supervisor

Job Title:  ‘Super Slicer’ supervising the staff and  running of  our dedicated Pizza ShackLocation: 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PLRate of Pay:   £12.50 per... [more]

Vacancy: Fringe Front of House Staff

Job Title: Front of House StaffLocation: 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PLRate of Pay:  £12.00 per hour + holiday payContract Type: Temporary, fixed term for 4 weeks (31 July - 26... [more]

Vacancy: Fringe Front of House Supervisor

Job Title: Front of House SupervisorLocation: 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PLRate of Pay:  £12.50 per hour + holiday payContract Type: Temporary, fixed term for 4 weeks (1st –... [more]

Vacancy: Fringe Technicians

We are currently looking for technicians to join our team for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024. Summerhall provides a challenging and exciting environment for a technician, requiring a range of... [more]

2023 Lustrum Award Winners Announced

Summerhall is proud to present the 2023 winners of the LUSTRUM AWARD for unforgettable festival shows! The Lustrum Award, presented by Summerhall & others include:England & Son -... [more]

Summerhall Surgeries: Artist Development Initiative

Applications Now ClosedAre you an early career artist looking for peer-to-peer feedback on a new idea? Do you have an unfinished piece you’re keen to showcase in a Fringe environment? Do... [more]

Summerhall Launches New 'Support the Artist Ticket'

Summerhall is announcing two exciting initiatives that will happen at the Festival Fringe in August. A new scheme to directly help participants with the increasing costs that are part of presenting... [more]

Summerhall Festival 2020 Statement

Further to the announcement by the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society and the Edinburgh Festivals, Summerhall will not be presenting its usual Fringe programme in August 2020.  Summerhall has... [more]

SUMMERHALL’S FESTIVAL PROGRAMME 2019

The 9th Summerhall Festival Programme is announced today by the year round Edinburgh arts venue. The programme is full of exciting, invigorating and fresh theatre, music and visual arts. Whilst the... [more]

Glasgow Poet Leyla Josephine wins Summerhall Autopsy Fringe Award with Daddy Drag

Summerhall and Feral are proud to announce that the 2019 Autopsy Award recipient is Leyla Josephine, the award-winning poet and theatre maker from Glasgow, Scotland, with her brand new solo show... [more]

Summerhall Festival Ends for 2018 with a rise in ticket sales

Press Release 26th August 2018The 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe marked Summerhall’s 8th year contributing to the programme. The venue continues to draw in diverse talent from across the world,... [more]

Sia producer attends 'The Ballad of the Apathetic Son and his Narcissistic Mother' at Summerhall

Sia producer David Russell attends a Summerhall show based on a mother and son’s mutual love for the Australian pop-star.The cast and crew of ‘The Ballad of the Apathetic Son and his... [more]

£5 Previews on August 1st @ Summerhall

Enjoy many of our excellent shows for only £5 on August 1st.New Perspectives Theatre Company A FORTUNATE MANThis striking mixed media performance takes the pulse of GP practice then... [more]

Festival Press Roundup - July

In the Independent, Lyn Gardner presents her guide for what to see, including our shows: Fallen Fruit, After the Cuts, A Fortunate Man, Big Aftermath of a Small Disclosure, Status, The Midnight... [more]

Summerhall's Festival Programme 2018

Summerhall, Edinburgh’s acclaimed multi-arts venue and Fringe Theatre of the Year nominee at this year’s Stage Awards, is proud to announce nearly 120 shows for its seventh year as part of the... [more]

Summerhall Music Highlights 2017

Already well-known in Edinburgh as one of the city’s key multi-genre strands of dedicated music programming, Summerhall’s Nothing Ever Happens Here (NEHH) pulls out the stops during the Edinburgh... [more]

Summerhall’s Nothing Ever Happens Here music programme: New Additions

Flying the Edinburgh flag will be synth-rock band DTH PDL, who also rocked up at Leith’s fantastic Hidden Door Festival earlier this year, and the always entertaining Kid Canaveral, whose third... [more]

SUMMERHALL POLITICAL HIGHLIGHTS 2017

For many, the political edge of the Edinburgh Fringe is its main attraction, with the collective abilities of some of the most skilled and boundary-pushing artists in the world creating a map of... [more]

Summerhall Art Highlights 2017

Seventy years on from the Edinburgh Festival’s foundation with the explicit intention of helping heal the wounds of the Second World War, art is still required to help us make sense of the chaos... [more]

Fringe show to campaign for return of Canadian indigenous remains from National Museum of Scotland

A show by indigenous Canadians at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is to request the remains of two bodies which are held by the National Museums of Scotland.The remains of the two Beothuk people, a... [more]

Tea break with... Pictish Trail

TEA BREAK WITH... Pictish Trail aka Eigg-based musician Johnny Lynch, winner of the public vote to be shortlisted for the SAY Award and head of the Lost Map record label.You've just played... [more]

(Summerhall) shows we can't wait to see at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Boasting over 50,000 performances in over 300 venues, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe will once again be the talk of the arts world this summer. For three weeks in August (4–28 2017), the Scottish... [more]

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017: drop everything and book these

The 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme has landed. We’ll be diving in to its pages deeper at a later date, once we're suitably armed with highlighter pens, snacks and emergency gin – but... [more]