Venue: Pleasance Courtyard

Time: 9.45pm

Dates: 2–10 August, 12–27 August

Combining punk rock music and comedy for her debut show, Leila Navabi is here to show us the murky world of artistically exploiting marginalised identities for social gain. But in a funny way. Navabi has written for shows such as Bad Education and Never Mind The Buzzcocks and is now set to take to the stage herself.

Venue: Pleasance Courtyard

Time: Dependent on date

Dates: 2–13 August, 15–27 August

After taking last year’s Edinburgh Fringe by storm and selling out the Soho Theatre, Chloe Petts is back with her follow-up hour. And what a follow up it’s set to be. As the show’s title suggests, Petts is not here to be polite or play nice anymore and promises to delve into her darker side while chatting about Greta Thunberg, Millwall and the Queen. She’s in her rude era and we’re here for it.

Venue: Pleasance Dome

Time: 8.20pm

Dates: 15–28 August

Bringing the TikTok energy to this year’s Fringe, Laura Ramoso’s debut show will bring to life her most popular characters, including Italian Dad, German Mom and Three Girls Who Just Got Back From Europe. As well as some improv to shake things up. And the best part? We already have a preview of some of her show through her TikTok videos.

Venue: Monkey Barrel

Time: 11:20am

Dates: 16–27 August

We’re used to seeing Rose Matafeo as the awkward and hilarious Jessie in the BBC Three sitcom Starstruck, but the actor and comedian is now hitting up Edinburgh once again with an hour of work-in-progress stand-up. If you loved Starstruck, then this show is definitely one for the list. Be sure to expect anything and everything.

Venue: Gilded Balloon Teviot

Time: 8.30pm

Dates: 12–23 August, 25–27 August

As seen in HBO’s Hacks, Megan Stalter invites you to an evening of mischief, play and musical laughs. The comedian will be taking on the persona of someone with delusional main character energy, thinking she’s much more talented than she is and seeing the audience as existing to serve her. And yes, the show will include audience participation. Stalter also has a comedy currently in the works with HBO and A24 titled Church Girls.

Venue: Pleasance Courtyard

Time: 10.30pm

Dates: 14–21 August, 24–27 August

Catherine Cohen is all about the glamour and that’s exactly what her show’s all about, which we got a flavour of in her Netflix special The Twist…? She’s Gorgeous. Her new show is a horny musical exploration (if the show’s title didn’t already give things away) of being a woman entering her 30s online, in love and thinking about fertility.

Venue: Monkey Barrel

Time: 7.50pm

Dates: 2–15 August, 17–20 August, 22–27 August

Back with her second show at the festival, Sikisa is asking the question: why is it so hard to say the right things? Something we would also love to know the answer to. Sikisa has appeared on Jonathan Ross’s Comedy Club and made her debut on Live At The Apollo earlier this year.

Venue: Pleasance Courtyard

Time: 8.30pm

Dates: 2–27 August

Having starred in Six And Public, Annabel Marlow is now taking centre stage in her solo debut hour. Described as a ‘comedy gig’, Marlow fuses comedy with original music and pitch-perfect vocals. Expect conversations (and songs) about contraception, love, needing validation and over-thinking. Her only request? You bring a hot, single friend with you.

Venue: Pleasance Courtyard

Time: 4.50pm

Dates: 2–7, 9–14, 16–21 and 23–27 August

Based on the novel by Angela S Cho, this play follows Fiona Yu, a Chinese American woman who’s tired of the stereotypes that white patriarchal society has put on Asian women like herself. And so, Fiona sets out to prove everyone wrong in this musical mash-up of Asian feminism using sex, violence and stilettos.

Venue: Greenside @ Infirmary Street

Time: 2pm

Dates: 14 - 19 August

Using Scottish selkie folklore and dark humour, Morgan-Drew Glasgow plays an anti-heroine that removes herself from her responsibilities as a young mother by embodying a seal skin. This one-woman debut show explores themes around motherhood and mental illness while posing the question: what happens when we shed the skin of our societal pressures, inhibition and sense of morality?

Venue: Underbelly, Cowgate

Time: 8pm

Dates: 3–13 August, 15–27 August

Produced by actor and musician Kate Nash, The Retreat is based on a corporate retreat for the fictional company Men-ses Period Panties and makes fun of just how odd these business retreats can be for employees. The show will be hosted by Glow’s Rebekka Johnson and Parks And Recreation’s Anne Gregory and will feature a rotating cast of Fringe performers. Including likely (fingers crossed) guest appearances from Nash herself.

Venue: Pleasance Courtyard

Time: 6pm

Dates: 2–14 August, 16–27 August

Mary O’Connell likes to say what we’re all thinking. She hates capitalism but loves to shop, something which leaves her both conflicted and annoyed. Her debut show, Money Princess, won’t attempt to answer questions but instead will obsess over life’s everyday hypocrisies. Including herself. She’s the star of BBC Three’s Stand Up For Live Comedy and was the Funny Women runner-up in 2020.