About the Assembly Family
Assembly, Riverside Studios and Brighton Comedy Festival Our team works year-round to deliver the highest quality entertainment to live audiences of more than 500,000 in Edinburgh, London and Brighton. Led by William Burdett-Coutts our team has extensive experience in festivals, theatre and television. We produce, we present, and we work with partners nationally and internationally.
We are based in Edinburgh all year at Assembly Roxy, run Assembly Festival at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (we are the longest running of the multi-venue operators) and tour with the best of our programme. Throughout the year, we host theatre, music, comedy and events year-round in the beautiful Assembly Roxy in the heart of the Old Town, and in 2013 we premiered Nirbhaya at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and we have since toured to London’s Southbank Centre and to New York, Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore in India. In short, we bring the best talent in the world to Edinburgh.
Our seventeen temporary theatre venues and eight destination bars are jam-packed with actors, dancers, comedians, musicians and audiences from around the world. Our 2015 programme consists of 163 shows from six continents, including comedy talent such as Milton Jones, Adam Hills and Jason Byrne, and new theatre including the premiere of RAZ by Jim Cartwright, Ross & Rachel by 2015 Olivier Award nominated James Fritz and the third instalment of the Jennifer Tremblay Trilogy from Stellar Quines, alongside the first two Fringe First Award winning shows.
Riverside has a renowned, eclectic and innovative reputation – for 40 years it has been one of London’s most important venues presenting great theatre, art-house cinema and international film festivals alongside television productions. Our base in Hammersmith, London is under redevelopment and when we reopen in 2018 Riverside Studios will be a major new live arts destination for West London and a hub for a national network for live and digital production and presentation of arts.
Our Brighton Comedy Festival is the leading curated comedy festival in the UK. Every year we set out to present the best live comedy of the year, across five venues, and there is no better place in the country to do this than Brighton. The heady air of the seaside combines with some of the world’s funniest people to create a mixture that is unmissable. In 2014 we had a truly stellar line-up of 140 acts across 16 days including Simon Amstell, Bridget Christie, Marcus Brigstocke, Jack Dee and Seann Walsh. Come and visit us by the sea.