Our People

Our Lead Editor & Edinburgh Editor. Jake loves putting together reviews that try to heat-seek the essence of everything they watch. They are interested in New Writing, Literary Adaptations, Musicals, Cabaret, and Stand-Up. Jake aims to cover themes like Class, Nationality, Identity, Queerness, and AI/Automation.

Festivals: EdFringe (2018-2024), Brighton Fringe (2019), Paris Fringe (2020), VAULT Festival (2023), Prague Fringe (2023-24), Dundee Fringe (2023-24), Catania OFF Fringe (2024)
Pronouns: They/Them
Contact: jake@bingefringe.com

Our Race, Ethnicity & Culture Editor & London Editor. Obsessed with the Postcolonial world. Aditi likes to look at how theatre and comedy reflects today’s world of multiplicity. She’s keen to watch any kind of theatre or performance but comedy is her go to, because if you don’t laugh you’ll cry.

Festivals: Paris Fringe (2020), VAULT Festival (2023), Bloomsbury Festival (2023)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: aditi@bingefringe.com

Abbie is a writer and theatre maker, originally from the West Midlands but now residing in Edinburgh. She is drawn to feminist, political, physical and immersive theatre, with a focus on championing work that is queer, female, or disabled-led. Abbie can often be found with a Tequila Sunrise – or just a shot of tequila, depending on the night.
Festivals: EdFringe (2023-24)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: abbie@bingefringe.com

Ash is a Birmingham-bred, Edinburgh-based writer and musician. They take particular interest in stories of LGBTQ+ joy, working-class narratives told by working-class voices, mythology and folklore of all strands, and just about any way music can be incorporated into performance. She’s given in to becoming a cliché and is on a real Irn Bru Extra kick just now.

Festivals: EdFringe (2023-24)
Pronouns: They/She
Contact: ash@bingefringe.com

Callie is an experimental composer and theatre technician, with a love for all things eclectic, ethereal, meta, and weird. She is enticed by shows that play at the boundaries between music, movement, art, and acting, and those which explore neurodivergence and the queer experience. Her drink of choice is a Long Island Iced Tea – why choose a single spirit when you can have them all?

Festivals: EdFringe (2023-24)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: callie@bingefringe.com

London-based, with a focused effort so far on writing about stand-up comedy and performance art. She has a masters degree in English Literature, and is interested in the voices of emerging artists and creatives, especially with reference to literary texts and political events.

Festivals: Paris Fringe (2020), EdFringe (2021)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: daisy@bingefringe.com

Eilidh is a writer, reader and avid watcher of film, television and theatre. She loves writing that blends comedy with darkness, and makes public the quirks of life and character that we’ve been taught to hide. She also aspires to be fluent in Spanish, but so far this has proved far harder than expected.

Festivals: Adelaide Fringe (2024) , Prague Fringe (2024), EdFringe (2024)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: eilidh@bingefringe.com

Holly studied English Literature and Drama at university and loves sinking her teeth into every kind of performance, however she reserves a special place in her heart for anything movement based from clowning to dance theatre.

Festivals: VAULT Festival (2023)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: holly@bingefringe.com

Issy is a director, production assistant, and general creative wannabe based in Suffolk. After studying in St Andrews for four years she has made it her personal goal to return to Scotland whenever she can to take in all it has to offer. She loves original writing, femme-revenge, queer stories, new takes on classic tales and daring physical theatre. She likes comedy, but only the quirky, off-the-wall kind.  Her favourite drink is a nice cold lager (especially after a long day reviewing!)

Festivals: EdFringe (2024)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: issy@bingefringe.com

Kat is a theatremaker, performer, and self-identified theatre gremlin from the Isle of Wight. She helped to set up an arts centre/music venue near the Isle of Skye. Kat has a vast interest in multiple genres of theatre, comedy, and music. She is particularly interested in entertainment that celebrates openness and understands the power of storytelling. Her favourite drink is a frozen margarita… for all the wrong reasons.

Festivals: EdFringe (2022-24), Prague Fringe (2023)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: kat@bingefringe.com

Based in London with a keen interest in all things comedy, Livvie has a background in sketch and stand up. She loves all things fringe theatre, as well as uncovering up-and-coming comedic talent. Her go-to drink is a Guinness, which is a surprise to no one.

Festivals: EdFringe (2019-2024)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: livvie@bingefringe.com

Lorne has a background as a musician and composer with an interest in sound design and storytelling through music and audio. They are deeply passionate about accessibility and artists taking strides to create inclusive and accessible theatre. Lorne has a love of gig theatre as well as stories that explore the nuances of gender, our relationships with identity, and our bodies, on stage.

Festivals: Prague Fringe (2023), EdFringe (2023)
Pronouns: They/Them
Contact: lorne@bingefringe.com

Maddie wrote and performed in a a sketch show at EdFringe 2022, and also reviewed at Adelaide Fringe. As well as making other people laugh, she also likes to be made to laugh. So, she loves watching stand up and sketch but not exclusively, she is also interested in shows that tell important and often forgotten stories and find unique ways of doing so.

Festivals: Adelaide Fringe (2023), EdFringe (2023)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: maddie@bingefringe.com

Bristol-based and fascinated by theatre and comedy in all its forms. He has covered a broad range of Shakespeare adaptations – both straight-laced and out-there – as well as taking a firm interest in stand-up comedy, sketch comedy, improvised comedy, music and even reviewing beatboxing. Mike is interested in the intersection of traditional and classical theatre with contemporary Fringe performance. His favourite drink is a vodka-coke (original, right?)

Festivals: EdFringe (2018-24), Brighton Fringe (2019), Paris Fringe (2020), Prague Fringe (2023)
Pronouns: He/Him
Contact: mike@bingefringe.com

Miriam is a writer, opera singer, and arts writer living on top of the world in Nome, Alaska. She loves all of the arts but has a special place in her heart for the written word and anything that makes her ugly cry. She writes because she believes that art helps heal the human spirit and inspires people to reach for their full potential. She stans the Fringe for giving voice to diverse, non-establishment artists and can’t wait to help make those voices heard!

Festivals: EdFringe (2023-24)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: miriam@bingefringe.com

Moy is a recent History and Film graduate living in Dundee. She is interested in the changing narrative within the heritage and creative industries and wants to find out how she can contribute more to it while constantly learning and listening to other voices and experiences around her. Moy’s current drink of choice has to be an Aperol Spritz, and once she has had one too many her passion for trying to articulate frustrations against social prejudices come to fruition.

Festivals: Dundee Fringe (2023)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: moy@bingefringe.com

Phoebe is an AuDHD actor, director, and writer from Milton Keynes. She has a strong interest in theatre shows and graduated from Fourth Monkey which specialised in movement and physical theatre. With a love for social commentary, she looks for challenging concepts about the world we live in told in new and creative ways. If she can feel your passion she’s interested. Currently after hours, you’ll find her sipping on a Jaffa Cake Espresso Martini.

Festivals: EdFringe (2023-24), Dublin Fringe (2024)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: phoebe@bingefringe.com

Rebekah is a writer, performer and theatre maker based in Edinburgh. Motivated by seeing artists from all backgrounds represented throughout the industry, Rebekah takes special interest in brave, political and divisive theatre. She loves New Writing with themes of identity, religion, mythos, class and gender. Her drink of choice: a Sidecar cocktail or peaty Scotch – neat.
Festivals: EdFringe (2023-24)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: rebekah@bingefringe.com

Sarah is a lover of the arts from Australia, excited to experience all fringe has to offer and immerse herself in the culture of this unique expression voice, heart and character. She enjoys involving herself in every kind of performance, reserving a special place in her heart for spoken word, expression through movement, coming of age and all things gender and exploration.

Festivals: EdFringe (2022), Prague Fringe (2023), Melbourne Fringe (2023)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: sarah@bingefringe.com

Moss is a bit of a globetrotter and struggles to stay in one country for long. They first fell in love with fringe theatre in Prague in 2014 and first performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2018 as an improv comedian. They’re interested in a broad range of genres but are particularly excited by themes of neurodiversity and immigration. Their favourite drink is a foamy pint of Pilsner Urquell – it was their first beer and tastes of teenage freedom.

Festivals: EdFringe (2023-24), Prague Fringe (2024)
Pronouns: They/Them
Contact: moss@bingefringe.com

Qiankai is Binge Fringe’s resident event photographer, showing up to all kinds of exciting and interesting things happening at Fringe Festivals around the world to capture moments of human connection and bursting creative joy. Originally from China, he now lives in Dundee. His favourite drink is some kind of obscure Belgian Witbier that you’ve probably never heard of.

Festivals: EdFringe (2022), Dundee Fringe (2023)
Pronouns: He/Him
Contact: qiankai@bingefringe.com