Kate Dolan Will Bring TROUT to The Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Performances will run 3rd - 30th August at 8.35pm.
Multi-award-winning comedian and breakout star Kate Dolan brings her third consecutive show to this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Trout, for which she recently won the highly coveted Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2026 Director's Choice Award (chosen by Susan Provan in her final year of a 31-year run as Festival Director and CEO). Kate will be performing at Monkey Barrel 2 from 3rd - 30th August at 8.35pm.
Kate won the coveted Moosehead Prize to produce her new show in Australia, and with the prize money she commissioned a massive, realistic, silicon trout head. With terrifying fish helmet in tow, Kate's award-winning show unspools the idea that in 2026 being a fish in the river might be nicer than being a woman on land. A wildly physical, superbly crafted hour of absurdist stand-up comedy, Trout brims with dance breaks, off-the-wall music interludes and tangential forays into success, sobriety, womanhood, PMDD and the sheer horrors of having a physical form. All tackled with a ridiculous joke-per-minute count.
One of the best-reviewed shows at last year's Fringe (British Comedy Guide), Kate's 2025 show, The Critic, saw her win the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2025 Golden Gibbo Award for Best Independent Local Artist, making her the first Brit, and first non-Australian in over 20 years, to win the award. It subsequently transferred to the Fringe, where she gained widespread buzz and won The Skinny x Fest Bestie Awards 2025 Breakthrough Act and was nominated for Best Show at the ISH Comedy Awards.
Kate's critically-acclaimed debut show, A Different Kind of Unhinged, cemented her reputation as a comedic force, saw her win the Adelaide Fringe Emerging Artist Award 2024, profiled in The New York Times: Australia and named as one of the Metro's 'Names to Remember from the Fringe' 2024. Kate was a finalist on the BBC New Comedy Awards (BBC3) in 2025. She created and starred in mini-series History Untold which was picked up and distributed by Grouse House on YouTube (run by Australian sketch legends Aunty Donna). As a live-performer, Kate's appearances include the Sydney Comedy Festival Gala, Sydney Comedy Festival Fresh Artist Showcase and Best of the Fest: New Class (UK), as well as being selected to perform at the prestigious Melbourne International Comedy Festival for the past three years, and subsequently invited on the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow. Kate was a 2019 Funny Women Regional Finalist, 2023 RAW Comedy State Finalist, 2023 Joke Off Finalist and 2023 Funny Women Content Creator Finalist. Kate also co-hosts the podcast Becoming Best Friends alongside fellow comedian Danielle Walker.
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