The 2025 Sydney Fringe Festival, adorned with local voices and international artists transforming the city, will mark Kerri Glasscock’s final as CEO and Festival Director.
The festival takes over Sydney throughout September, including inaugural collaborations with Canberra Theatre Centre and Merrigong Theatre Company, bringing locally-made works to the Sydney stage. . . Plus the annual Touring Hub, showcasing smash-hit shows from around the world.
“I’m delighted that I can announce a first glimpse into the dynamic 2025 programme, which includes exciting new collaborations with performing arts organisations in Canberra and Wollongong, and powerful, original work by leading theatre-makers from Australia and around the world,” CEO and Festival Director Kerri Glasscock says. “The 2025 programme is a celebration of the bold, diverse voices that make our arts community so vibrant.”
“Overseeing my final Sydney Fringe programme as Festival Director has been a deeply rewarding experience and I’m incredibly proud of how far this festival has come. Over the past 12 years, we’ve grown from a small community event into a NSW Foundation Event and the largest independent arts festival in the state, unlocking underused spaces that have strengthened the cultural fabric of the city and forging lasting partnerships that have brought groundbreaking work to Sydney stages.”
Made In Sydney will present two contemporary works across two weeks. First up is multi award-winning theatremaker, writer and actor Charlotte Otton’s darkly comic one-woman ‘I Watched Someone Die On TikTok’, and Māori artist Daley Rangi’s deeply personal show ‘Takatāpui’.
For the first time ever, Sydney Fringe is teaming up with Canberra Theatre Centre’s NEW WORKS programme, presenting Made In Canberra. Delivered from the nation’s capital, the programme includes inventive dance experience ‘SUPERPOSITION’ by Gabriel Sinclair and Jazmyn Carter; and the Sydney premiere of actor/playwright Christopher Samuel Carroll’s thrilling solo performance ‘The Cadaver Palaver: A Bennett Cooper Sullivan Adventure’.
The inaugural Made In Wollongong programme features local independent works like ‘The Cardinal Rules’ inspired by actor, theatremaker and clown Rose Maher’s Catholic upbringing; and intimate new musical work ‘Dear Diary’ from Kay Proudlove.
The Touring Hub once again finds itself at New Theatre in Newtown. Highlights include Singaporean playwright and performer Jo Tan’s one-woman ‘King’, Danish performance company Himherandit Production’s high-intencity dance work ‘Mass Effect’, spooky all-ages fantasy ‘Shadow Necropolis’, and Melbourne-based emerging theatre collective Pummel Squad’s ‘Twenty Million Thousand Leagues Under The Sea’.
Following on from last year’s ‘Drink Rum With Expats’, UK Fringe icons Sh!t Theatre present ‘Or What’s Left Of Us’.
Chinese-Australian writer, comedian and food enthusiast Jennifer Wong returns too, with ‘FEAST’ and ‘FEAST (Baked Edition)’. Plus, Hurstville Plaza will come alive for Fringeville, celebrating the local flavours and creativity of Southwest Sydney.
Sydney Fringe Festival 2025 is on from 1-30 September.
