Meet the winners of the Untapped Award 

Underbelly, New Diorama Theatre and Concord Theatricals are thrilled to announce this year’s winners of the hit-making Edinburgh Untapped Award - designed to support and discover theatre makers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Alpaqa, a company led by creatives Sergio Antonio Maggiolo, Guido Garcia Lueches and Laura Killeen, will present JEEZUS!. A bold, irreverent, and euphoric musical experience that celebrates self-discovery, faith, and queerness through the power of anthemic pop Latin bangers. Set against the backdrop of a South American Catholic upbringing, it follows a young altar boy on the path to his first communion - only to experience a queer awakening as he falls head over heels (and balls deep) for Jesus Christ himself. Blending clowning, musical theatre, and magical realism, the show unpacks the suffocating grip of authoritarianism in faith, family, and country while celebrating the absurdity and beauty of belief. 

Creative team Nonstop, made up of multidisciplinary artists Lou Doyle, Trevor White and Kendra A Mill, presents Pigs Fly Easy Ryan, a wild, high-flying spectacle for audiences 18 and over. Two plane crash fetishists illegally pose as flight attendants to sneak aboard a plane and live out their ultimate fantasy - total destruction. Hilarious, chaotic, and strangely tender, the show playfully eroticises freedom in a world teetering on the edge of climate collapse and rising fascism. With a mix of physical comedy, visceral intensity, and direct-to-audience sincerity, Pigs Fly Easy Ryan captures the thrill of a spontaneous getaway on a maxed-out credit card with the guilt, escapism, and fleeting euphoria.

Award-winning performance duo Emergency Chorus, founded by Clara Potter-Sweet and Ben Kulvichit,  presents Ways of Knowing, a mysterious and slippery dance-theatre work that explores the impossibility of predicting the future. Through detailed choreography, live sound design, and found text, Ben and Clara investigate the strange tools humans have relied on to foresee what’s to come - storm-predicting leeches, Victorian inventors, mystical tarot figures, hermits in caves, and corporate trend forecasters. The show unfolds in two distinct halves, moving from deadpan humour and synchronized dance to an apocalyptic soundscape and a chilling descent into uncertainty. As we navigate a world shaped by accelerating technology, corporate power, and the looming climate crisis, Ways of Knowing challenges our desperation to control the unknown.