House of Oz

Celebrating Australian Creativity

House of Oz is an award-winning philanthropic platform for amplifying Australian creative arts for cultural export. We de-risk performing artists' Edinburgh Fringe experiences, enabling easier access to the world's largest arts marketplace.

We support presentations of Aussie works - shows like The Second Woman at The Young Vic, starring Ruth Wilson and selected by The Guardian as the best UK theatre piece of 2023. House of Oz supported the world tour of Gravity and Other Myths, following their staggering trajectory — from playing to an Edinburgh audience of six in 2013 to opening the Edinburgh International Festival for an audience of 25,000 in 2022 — to Hot Brown Honey's 2023 UK tour.
Securing overseas work is critically important for Australian performers and fine artists in order to further their careers. We invest in artists who embody genre-busting excellence and whose work has a quintessential Aussie-ness: wit, vitality and flair. We are excited to collaborate with Assembly this year in Edinburgh and thrilled to be presenting Purse Prize awards on 13 March at Adelaide Fringe, where we will be discovering acts and bringing them to Edinburgh in 2024 and beyond.

House of Oz Purse Prize Award Winners Announced at Adelaide Fringe

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House of Oz Purse Prize Award Winners Announced at Adelaide Fringe ★★★★★

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House of Oz is returning to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for a third year, this time as a house without walls, in partnership with Assembly Festival. Founded in 2022 as a platform to amplify the depth and breadth of Australian talent at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the producer will support up to ten productions with a run at Assembly Festival from 31 July – 26 August.

In 2024, House of Oz will manifest as a “distributed” Australian performing arts showcase, presenting a diverse programme spanning genre and generations across several Assembly venues in Edinburgh, each space carefully aligned with the unique requirements of the performance. Each production will receive funding support toward travel and accommodation, marketing expenses, plus strategic and hands-on support from artist liaison and technical managers.

House of Oz Founding Patron and Creative Director Georgie Black said:

"House of Oz has built a fantastic reputation for the excellence of particular Australian shows at the King’s Hall over the last two Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, but we have found that the ‘one size fits all’ venue solution was limiting our programming. Hence we are delighted in 2024 to be working with Assembly Festival across their range of venues and the possibilities this opens up. The partnership allows us to present spectacular shows of a larger scale, whilst also providing the intimacy and deeply personal connections that come through smaller spaces. Our House without walls addresses the importance of getting the right shows in the right spaces and giving them funding to achieve it.”