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Faces of the Fringe

Carol Tambor, best known in Edinburgh as the force behind the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award (founded in 2004), is also a portrait artist based in New York. She has met playwrights, actors, directors and others during Fringe, who have become inspiring subjects.

Both passions of her life came together in this exhibit of 30 canvases. These paintings were exhibited as part of a fund raising effort for Edinburgh University’s Bedlam Theatre. The exhibition spurred donations for the theatre through an auction of the paintings. Bedlam is a unique, student-run theatre that has a venerable history as part of the University. All money received went to fund a much needed refurbishment.

“In 2008, I gave the Award to the play Eight, by Ella Hickson, which was presented at the Bedlam Theatre. It was impossible for me to ignore the poor state of repair of the theatre,” explains Carol. “I approached The Principal of the University, Sir Timothy O’Shea, and together we came up with a plan for an exhibit at the Edinburgh College of Art. Creating these paintings and exhibiting them here, is a way for me to honor my subjects, as well as raise funds for the theatre.”

This exhibit closed at the end of the festival, August 2012. It raised much needed funds for the University of Edinburgh’s Bedlam Theatre.

Gwendolyn Chatfield, actress “Eight” Best of Edinburgh Award winner, 2008
Anthony Alderson, director Pleasance
Niall Buggy, Actor “Penelope”
Hilda Fay, actor “Little Gem” Best of Edinburgh Award winner 2009
Andrew Dawson, Creator/performer “Absence and Presence” Best of Edinburgh Award winner 2005
Rachel Chavkin, Director of TEAM company
Heather Raffo, writer/actor “Nine Parts of Desire”
Catherine O’Shea, playwright
Lily Franks, Actor “Goodness” Best of Edinburgh Award Winner, 2007
Ella Hickson, playwright, “Eight” Best of Edinburgh Award winner, 2008
Wolfgang Hoffman, Dancer and Choreographer
Giulia Innocenti, Lucinka Eisler, creators and performers “Hysteria”
Kath Mainland, Executive Director Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Camille O’Sullivan, singer
Ross Manson, Director “Goodness”, Best of Edinburgh Award winner 2007
Holly McClay, Actor “Eight” Best of Edinburgh Award winner, 2008
Ishbel McFarlane, Actor “Eight” Best of Edinburgh Award winner, 2008
Joyce McMillan, Scotsman journalist
Sir Timothy O’Shea, Principal, Edinburgh University
Miriam Raines, Jeremy Blocker, Bedlam Theatre Director and Theatre Producer
Michael Redhill, Playwright “Goodness” Best of Edinburgh Award winner 2007
Anita Reeves, Actor “Little Gem”, Best of Edinburgh Award winner, 2009
Baroness Elizabeth Smith of Gilmorehill, Chairman Edinburgh Fringe Society
Carol Tambor, self portrait
Geoff Sobelle, Trey Lyford, performers/creators “All Wear Bowlers”
Tobias Wegner, performer/creator, “LEO”, Best of Edinburgh Award winner 2011
Michael Whitham, actor “Eight” Best of Edinburgh Award winner, 2008
Charlie Wood, director Underbelly
Hannah Pierce, Eloise Secker, Mabel Jones, performers/creators “Pants on Fire’s Metamorphoses” Best of Edinburgh Award Winner 2010

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