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OffFest, Off West End Awards, 'Offies' 2026 - ALTAR by @emtambree

A week ago I ran away from Berlin to London to head to the Offies

Repping for @altartheplay and my beautiful team of Em, @eviekorver @eddie.pattison @callum.chair @kyradoeslights and @bethpatersonaus as our gorgeous Sutton understudy.

And we bloody won (!) Still basking in that post event glow, forever grateful that Em trusted me with their beautiful, courageous play of trans desire, faith and love.

And that they event produce so well, because I had a god-damned event brief in my inbox when I landed. ✨

@milliepitcher gets all the credit for these gorgeous photos and her immaculate award-cemetery-buddy vibes

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ALTAR won the @offwestendcom Off Fest Award 🕊️ @edfringe

The prestigious Off Fest Award honours urgent, innovative work premiering at grassroots festivals across the UK. It was launched in 2019 to ensure that productions with shorter runs and tighter budgets receive meaningful recognition for their contribution to the UK theatre industry.

ALTAR was nominated with 42 insanely brilliant productions (chosen out of 3893 shows presented at the festival last year). Each and every show nominated is filled with artists our team admires and aspires to be. To be chosen for this category at this calibre with @francesca_moody_productions and @shapercaper is beyond what our team ever thought possible.

𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭:
Thank you to each and every one of you who have supported trans storytelling during such a scary time in our recent history: we have been told more than once that the world doesn’t want our stories, yet your support of ALTAR is a testament that our love is sacred and deserves to be heard. Em will surely thank all of you one by one - but we couldn’t have done this without our amazing team: Em Tambree, Kat Yates, Kyra Ryan, Callum Cheah, and our phenomenal actors: Evie Korver, Eddie Pattison, our understudy for Sutton Beth Paterson, and our Auslan actors & interpreters for Dan and Sutton (Charlie Webb & Kellie Steele).

Thank you to Underbelly for taking a chance on a queer love story from halfway across the globe and for taking such care of us during the festival. Thank you to Midsumma Festival and Abbotsford Convent for commissioning the work; to Harriet Devlin and Brendan Cooney for championing ten pages into a debut play. We have received hundreds of letters from people who wish for ALTAR to continuing reaching even more audiences, but already, this production has changed our lives and given us so much strength to continue telling our stories.

This play is for every queer kid who isn’t sure if they have a future - you do and it’s so bright. I promise you. It doesn’t get better, but it does get worth it. Every bit of it. There is so much love waiting for you.

🎞️ @jmtubera

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Called my girls said “SOS pick a dress” for we are winning an international award tonight 🏆💅🏻 @offwestendcom

Thank you to @katyatesdirector & @milliepitcher for accepting the Off Fest Award on my behalf, and for making sure I didn’t miss a single second of it whilst streaming in at 3am!! Your messages and calls and videos and tears of joy and pride made it even more special than it already is & was.

I feel so lucky to share this moment forever with you 💕
📹 vlog by @milliepitcher

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Congrats to our OffFEST winners who are:

(BRIGHTON FRINGE) | Electra at @bn1artscentrecic by The Conor Baum Company
(CAMDEN FRINGE) | Spin Cycle at @etcetera_theatre_camden by Berserk Theatre
(VOILA!) | Naran Ja at @theplaygroundtheatre by logica picnic
(EDINBRUGH FRINGE) | ALTAR at @Underbellyedinburgh, George Square, The Wee Coo. / Presented by Extraterrestrial. Produced by Em Tambree. Production Management by Kyra Ryan.
(EDINBRUGH FRINGE) | Ohio at @assemblyroxy Upstairs by Francesca Moody Productions
(EDINBRUGH FRINGE) | Small Town Boys at Zoo Southside Main House by Shaper/Caper

#Offies2026

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#Offies2026 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗡𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝘀
See full list → new.offwestend.com

𝗘𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗵 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹
4’s a Crowd / theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall
AH-MA / theSpace @ Niddry Street
ALTAR / Underbelly George Square
AN ADEQUATE ABRIDGEMENT OF BOARDING SCHOOL LIFE AS A HOMO / Underbelly Cowgate
Alright Sunshine / Pleasance Dome
An Ode to the Casting Director / Gilded Balloon Patter House
Body Count / Pleasance Courtyard
CADEL: Lungs on Legs / Underbelly Cowgate
Clean Slate / Summerhall
Club NVRLND / Assembly Checkpoint
Crocodile Tears / theSpace @ Venue 45
Disco 2000 / Greenside @ Riddles Court
Do Astronauts Masturbate in Space / Greenside @ Riddles Court
Do You Accept These Charges? / Pleasance Courtyard
Faustus in Africa! / Royal Lyceum Theatre
Frozen Love: A Buckingham Nicks Story / theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall
Fuselage / Pleasance Courtyard
Goodness Me / Paradise Green
Hold the Line / Pleasance Courtyard
Hole! / Underbelly Cowgate
Lost Property / theSpace @ Venue 45
Make It Happen / Festival Theatre
Midnight At The Palace / Gilded Balloon Patter House
Nowhere: Fuel / Traverse Theatre
Ohio / Assembly Roxy
Ordinary Decent Criminal / Summerhall
Outing / theSpace @ the Mile
PALS / Gilded Balloon
Paldem / Summerhall
Rock of Ages / St John’s Church
Small Town Boys / Zoo Southside
Squidge / Pleasance Courtyard
Strangers And Revelations / theSpace @ Venue 45
The Other Mozart / Assembly George Square
The Pornstar Martini Effect / theSpace @ Niddry Street
The Queen is Mad / Zoo Southside
This Blighted Star / Underbelly George Square
Triptych Redux / Zoo Southside
WHEN WE WERE YOUNG / theSpace @ the Mile
Who We Become: One-Acts by Lanford Wilson / theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall
Woman in the Arena / Greenside @ George Street
Woody Fu: One Man John Wick / Assembly George Square

𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
Central Hall Westminster · 30 March 2026
Tickets on sale now
Full nominee details and to book → link in bio
https://www.todaytix.com/london/shows/46173

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IN PHOTOS 📸 the pure queer joy of our #EdFringe Queer Performer's Awards for 2025 💙💛🧡💚❤️💜

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We snuck into ALTAR to surprise our team with their award @edfringe 🏆✨🌈

Thank you to @bingefringemag for joining us to create this special moment!!!

🎥 our award winning housemate @bethpatersonaus

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✍🏻 what audiences are saying about ALTAR @underbellyedinburgh

The support for ALTAR has been overwhelmingly beautiful during week one @edfringe. Thank you to our Scottish audiences who have stayed back for a cuddle, written us love notes on our edfringe page, or attended the show TWICE. Your support means everything to us!!

ALTAR began as a @midsummafestival commission in residency with @abbotsfordconvent. It was developed on-site as a site-specific performance for the @peterrowlandgroup Rosina Courtyard (pictured) with leading LGBTIQA+ Australian organisations and rainbow inclusive congregations.

We have travelled halfway across the world and transformed our play from a 50m2 wedding venue to 5m2 black box to tell this love story.

It is a testament to our dedicated creative team, @katyatesdirector immaculate directorial eye and the breathtaking performances of @eviekorver & @eddie.pattison that ALTAR hasn’t lost any of its power or ability to provoke conversation. You are still writing in to let us know that we are touching hearts and changing minds!

🌏💖🌈 This season has already shown us that our play is part of a much larger global discussion about trans human rights, religious freedom, and true love.

We couldn’t be prouder to be part of that. We’re proving to ourselves and the world that we’re ready to tell this story anywhere and at any scale.

Now that you’ve had a glimpse of our journey here? We hope you join us & follow along for our last two weeks in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

ONLY 12 PERFORMANCES LEFT 👀
Before we fly home to the land of Oz 🇦🇺

📸 portrait of @eddie.pattison by @jmtubera & candid shot @emtambree in script development by @capt.h00k

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it’s our iconic 2-4-1 DAYS here at @edfringe, which means you should get your fix of new, queer, multi-award-winning Australian theatre over the next two days!

AND WE’VE GOT YOUR ITINERARY SORTED FOR YOU

start your fabulous day at;

📍NIUSIA - 1.20pm - @summerhallarts (Former Women’s Locker Room)

then it’s just a short stroll to;

📍Altar - 2.50pm - @underbellyedinburgh George Square (Wee Coo)

have a quick drink + snack break (sexy queers stay hydrated and satiated) and then it’s back over to Summerhall FOR;

📍Shitbag - 4:15pm - @summerhallarts (Anatomy Lecture Theatre)

and FINALLY, you have time for some dinner, a yap, and a decompress before you hit

📍KINDER - 6.40pm - @underbellyedinburgh Cowgate (Big Belly)

and BAM! you’ve just supported 4 incredible, critically acclaimed, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ queer shows that have travelled over 16,000km to be at the festival!

SEE YOU THERE

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Meeting so many lovely fellow creatives! @altartheplay #edfringe #EdinburghFringe #ghostbusters #sapphic

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Waking up to this ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review is a moment our team will never forget! 🙏🏻

Thank you to @bingefringemag for so beautifully capturing the heart of what we’ve worked so hard to create. For our very first write-up in Scotland to be this exquisitely detailed & glowing??? We couldn’t be happier!!!

You can read the full review for yourself at the link in our bio 📚
📸 @jmtubera

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Our Editor Jake Mace @jakemace.arts shares their 'Hot 25 Picks' of shows that have caught their attention and for you to see each and every day of #EdFringe 2025 ➡️ 🔗LINK IN BIO🔗

#theatre #arts #daretodiscover
@boardingschoolhomo @isthereworkonmars @genesistheatreproductions @roisinsbryson @elisabettygun

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