The Dead Centre production of Lippy has received the Fringe First Award in recognition of outstanding new writing premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Riverrun secured the Herald Angel Award and Olwen Fouéré has won the much coveted Archangel award in recognition of her significant contribution to theatre for her performance of Riverrun. This follows on from her earlier success from last week at the festival where Olwen won the Stage Award for Acting Excellence.

Irish artists to feature at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014 include Bush Moukarzel's multi-award winning production Lippy, a haunting investigation into why we tell stories in the face of tragedy and which will be presented at the Traverse Theatre for three weeks during the Festival Fringe. The Emergency Room and Galway Arts Festival production of Riverrun, with Olwen Fouere performing her acclaimed adaptation of the voice of the river in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, will also showcase at the Traverse for the duration of the Festival.