GORILLA DESIGN X DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2026: PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT
We are delighted to announce the continuation of our partnership with Gorilla Design for 2026, marking the third year of our collaboration.
Gorilla Design will once again join Dublin Fringe Festival as a key artistic and design partner, working across several strands of this year’s Festival. Their support includes providing in-kind production expertise to two shows in the 2026 programme, creating set design for our programme launch and awards ceremony, and supporting the Gorilla Design Best Design Award.
For more than twenty years, Gorilla Design has worked across performance and events in Ireland, helping artists and organisations transform ambitious creative ideas into memorable physical spaces and experiences.
SUPPORTING SHOWS:
This year, we are delighted to announce the two productions receiving in-kind support from Gorilla Design:
A Recurrence by D’Girlos Theatre Company
Elysian Transmutation by Eluna & Kid Kuba
Through this support, Gorilla Design will help both artistic teams realise the scale of their ambition, offering practical production expertise, creative problem-solving and specialist knowledge from one of Ireland’s most inventive event and set design companies.
Alongside their work with these productions, Gorilla Design will continue as a design partner across the wider Festival, creating set design for our launch and awards and supporting the Gorilla Design Best Design Award.
2026 SELECTED SHOWS:
A Recurrence
D'Girlos Theatre
How much has really changed for working-class women in Ireland?
Three generations of working-class Dublin women. Three homes: 1930s tenement, 1990s flat, modern council house. Thin walls. No privacy. No real choice. As each faces an unplanned pregnancy, time fractures and the same cycles of pressure, secrecy and survival repeat.
These homes, built differently, hold the same truth: we’ve never erased poverty, it’s just changed shape.
Elysian Transmutation
Eluna and Kid Kuba
Elysian meaning a form of paradise. Transmutation meaning transformation.
Be transported from the city landscape into the beauty of nature.
Blending immersive visual art with performances from the underground’s finest, this musical experience moves between alternative hip hop and ethereal R&B, transforming the grit of the city into an enchanted forest.
Step into a surreal space where fantasy and reality meet, anything feels possible, and the music speaks to your soul.
PARTNERSHIP HISTORY
Since the partnership began in 2024, Gorilla Design has supported artists and productions across three editions of Dublin Fringe Festival.
2025
- Cult of Aerobics by Emily Bradley
- The Deadline Project by Joshua McNutt and Tishé Fatunbi, produced by Arínọlá Theatre
2024
- Who Robbed Annie Queeries by Play Not Funny
- Makosh by Polina Shapkina
Gorilla Design’s involvement has also extended beyond individual productions, encompassing wider creative and design support across the Festival, including our launch events, awards ceremonies and campaign environments.
ABOUT GORILLA DESIGN
Based in Dublin and working on events throughout Ireland, Gorilla Design specialises in event draping, lighting, staging and set design.
From the earliest stages of an idea through to final installation, the Gorilla Design team works collaboratively with artists, producers and organisations to transform creative visions into exceptional physical experiences.
Their work includes lighting, set dressing and custom-built sets for concerts, performance, film and television, weddings, private events and corporate productions.
Learn more here about Gorilla Design here.