Norwegian Artists at Edinburgh Fringe

Performing Arts Hub Norway (PAHN) is thrilled to announce the Norwegian artists, presenters and performing arts professionals heading to Edinburgh Fringe in August 2025. Read more about them here!

 

Adrian Minkowicz:
Did You Say Humor or Tumor?

  • Dates:
    Venue: PBH's Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth

    Adrian is an Argentinean comedian based in New York and Oslo. Did You Say Humor or Tumor? is a stand-up comedy show about life decisions, parenthood, facing your fears, chasing your dreams and why free public health care is more important in a national budget than invading Greenland. Adrian is a lawyer, activist and holds a master's in human rights from the University of Oslo.

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Karen Houge:
DREAMGIRL

  • Dates:
    Venue: Underbelly, Cowgate

    Soky Productions creates theatre about global challenges, through storytelling, physical comedy, and clowning. Touring both in Norway and internationally, the company was founded by Norwegian performer Karen Houge, who has background from École Philippe Gaulier in Paris.

    At Edinburgh Fringe 2025, Soky Productions presents Dreamgirl – a playful, raw and bold show about trust and the future of humanity. Dreamgirl is a response to a world dominated by fear and conflict. Blending personal stories with audience interaction, the show invites us into a peace camp built live on stage.

    Dreamgirl had a very successful run at Adelaide Fringe 2025, and are now coming to Underbelly Cowgate for a full August run. 8.10pm every night (not 12th of August).

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Pernille Haaland:
Running with the Wolves

  • Dates:
    Venue: Laughing Horse @ City Cafe

    Pernille Haaland is a Norwegian-British comedian and actor trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (BA Hons). Her acting credits include performances at the National Theatre in War Horse, and appearances on BBC One’s Not Going Out and Netflix’s LOL.

    An award-winning stand-up comedian, Pernille has toured extensively across Europe and has been a regular performer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival since 2016. In 2024, she won “Best Standup Comedian” at the Reykjavik Fringe Festival and was featured in The Times for delivering one of the best jokes of the Edinburgh Fringe that year.

    In Norway, she stars in seasons 4 and 5 of LATTER LIVE on NRK, performing stand-up in Norwegian. She also appears on popular Norwegian reality TV shows including Cooking with Hellstrøm (TV2) and 99 to Beat (TV Norge), and stars in the feature-length dark comedy film K-Town.

    As a writer, she contributed sketch comedy to the hit NRK series Humoretaten. Pernille has also supported top comedians like Michelle Wolf, Alex Blake, and Sam Morril on tour.

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Shelmith Øseth:
Wakati

  • Dates:
    Venue: Assembly @ Dance Base

    Wakati is a Swahili word for time. The performance Wakati explores how past, present and future affect the development of a culture and the life of a human. In Wakati, the performer explores her own cultural history and heritage through time. By using her own experience of immigrating to Norway from Kenya, Shelmith examines the expectations, ideas and limits that come with being an immigrant and multicultural in Norway. The work sheds light on how identity changes and develops within the same culture and between different cultures, as well as how time, identity and culture are intertwined.

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Karl Magnus Moshuus

  • Dates: 28/07-20/08
    Venue: The Counting House, The Lounge.

    Company: Karl Magnus Moshuus/MaestroClass/Free Festival/The Counting House

    Karl Magnus Moshuus is a Norwegian actor and clown. He co-produced 'Ny i Byen' (New to the City), a clown show that evolved into a social "speed-friending" event, and participated in 'Hansken' (The Glove) during Oslo's 400th anniversary celebrations.

    He is currently working on his first solo performance, MaestroClass, which will be staged at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August.

    MaestroClass is a clown-inspired solo show centered on the character "Maestro" leading a one-hour musical masterclass. Through comedy, clowning, interactive audience engagement, play and improvisation, Maestro pursues one goal: to unleash your inner virtuoso! Do you have the potential?

    Contact: magnus.moshuus@gmail.com

OSLO FRINGE FESTIVAL

  • Oslo Fringe Festival is a theatre festival that brings together the city's many independent groups.

    The festival aims to be a platform for all the city's young and creative performing artists. Here, you can experience the city's independent performers and their self-produced shows.

    For full programme, see www.oslofringe.no

    Contact: Amanda Tunsberg, amandasofietunsberg@gmail.com

Adrian Minkowicz:
Latin America

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    Adrian is an Argentinean comedian based in New York and Oslo. Last year Adrian toured South America. From the roadblocks in Bolivia, through the place where El Che was captured, a social protest in Machu Pichu and the spectacular Galapagos Islands, to the streets of Comuna 13 in Medellin, this is an epic road trip through 500 years of Latin American history. Adrian is also a lawyer, activist and holds a Masters in Human Rights from the University of Oslo. Back at the Fringe after a packed first run!

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Simonsen & Straume:
Naughty Cabaret

  • Dates:
    Venue: Underbelly, Bristo Square

    With an ever-changing line up of clown, circus, music, burlesque, character comedy and more. Previous guest-performers include Sophie Zucker, Josephine Lacey, Siblings, Elf Lyons, Lara Ricote, Madeleine Rowe, Amando Houser, Frankie Thompson, Lil Wenker and Gogo Bumhole.

    Hosted by “Queens of the ridiculous” (★★★★ The Wee Review), Anna Marie Simonsen and Marie Kallevik Straume, also seen in the “irresistibly silly” (★★★★ The Guardian) clown comedy Troll. Naughty Cabaret has been performed in Australia, Edinburgh, London and Norway.

    Naughty Cabaret was listed as a comedy highlight in the List UK and as ‘unmissable’ by ToDoList London at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2024.

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Steffen Haanes and Gregory Lass: The Ritual

  • Date:
    Venue: PBH's Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth

    Uh oh! Steffen Hånes returns as The Master, with his loyal servant Gregory Lass as Gregor, to conduct The Ritual. The Master will terrify you in extravagant yet charming ways. Gregor lives to serve his master's will while Emilie guards the gate. You are invited to revel in the company of vampires. Do you dare? All creatures of the night are welcome. Winner: Best Comedy, The Spookies 2024. Leicester Comedy Festival 2025 Best Variety Show nominee. 'A growing "cult" following' ***** (NorthWestEnd.co.uk).

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Plexus Polaire / Yngvild Aspeli:
DRACULA LUcy’s Dream

  • Artistic director of Plexus Polaire, Yngvild Aspeli, develops a visual world that brings our most buried feelings to life. The use of life-sized puppets is at the center of her work, but the actor’s performance, the presence of the music and the use of light and video are all equal elements in communicating the story.

    Within her company Plexus Polaire, she has directed eight shows: Signals (2011), Opera Opaque (2013), Ashes (2014), Chambre noire (2017), Moby Dick (2020), Dracula Lucy’s Dream (2021), A Doll’s House (2023) and Trust me for a while (2025).

    Contact:
    Claire Costa, clairecosta@plexuspolaire.com
    Web: https://www.plexuspolaire.com

Gestures and Nods:
A Platform for Performance Art and Embodied Practices

  • Gestures and Nods aims to be a platform for performance art and embodied practices, where such practices can be further researched, discussed and reach different audiences through collaborations with venues in different geographies.
    Exchanging knowledge and perspectives outside academic or institutional formats is at the core of this initiative.
    The aim of the platform is to reach out to venues, cultural workers, and art practitioners that challenge the current canon of art and cultural institutions in Norway, Scandinavia, and in different geographies.

    Contact: Itzel Esquivel, elsa.itzel.esquivel@gmail.com
    Web: https://substack.com/@gesturesandnods?utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page

Hygge:
A Compilation Standup Show

  • Dates:
    Venue: Just the Tonic at The Caves

    Welcome to Hygge. A stand-up hour like no other, featuring a bunch of professional Scandinavian comedians, performing in English. Want to know what hygge means? So do we. Let us cool your warm hearts with our Nordic designed minimalist jokes for one hour. And not a minute longer. We promise to be as excited as we can be, which is not saying much.

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71Bodies:
NORMAL

  • Dates:
    Venue: Assembly @ Dance Base

    NORMAL is an interdisciplinary art project merging dance, storytelling perspectives and film. The production at its core, embodies the physical expressions related to affection, care, intimacy, togetherness and its collective power within bodies that exist and live outside of the norm. NORMAL is about people, bodies and stories that do not belong to mainstream society. It is also about the interactions and intersections that exist between disabilities, sexuality and gender identity.

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Thor Stenhaug: One Night Stand Baby

  • Dates:
    Venue: Pleasance Courtyard

    Thor Stenhaug is a one-night-stand baby. This is a show about love, life (drawings), and being not just a son to your parents – but more like a mutual friend. Thor Stenhaug is a Norwegian comedian based in the UK. In a short period of time, he has built a big online following, headlined top comedy clubs across the country and been shortlisted for British Comedian of the Year – despite not being British (wonder what happened there). Tour support for Fern Brady, Josh Widdicombe, Larry Dean, and Jack Dee.

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Nøtterøy Culture House/
Nøtterøy Kulturhus

  • Nøtterøy Kulturhus (established 1994), is a medium sized, non profit, programming venue located one hour south of Oslo. For the last 20 years we have presented multiple international companies, mainly contemporary circus, physical theatre and dance theatre. For the last 10 years we have taken a role concerning touring international companies in Norway, and have produced several tours with 4-9 Norwegian venues. We had two reasons for doing this: 1. We wanted more people to experience high quality stage art. 2. It’s more sustainable to coordinate several shows when we bring an international company to Norway. For this investment in presenting high quality stage art in Norway, we have got financial support from the Norwegian Council of Culture for the years 2020-2022 and again (and increased support) for 2023-2025, as one of very few receivers. After establishing a Norwegian network of presenters the last years, we now try to establish a Nordic network – to be even more focused on making sustainable tours, not just for Norwegian presenters, but for all the Nordic countries. This network is in the start-up phase.

    Contact:
    Einar M. Schistad (Nøtterøy Culture House) – Venue | einar@kulturhus.no
    Web: https://notteroy.kulturhus.no/

Det Andre Teatret

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