It is festival season and that means that in the next month there is so many great comedy festivals to look forward to! This month we are looking at some of the great shows that you can see at the Edinburgh Fringe. So take note because we are going to give you all the information you need for just a handful of some of the great shows happening this year!

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An American (Not) in Paris

Location:   Just The Tonic at The Mash House – Just The Bottle Room (Venue 288)

Dates:  Aug 6th-17th, 19th-30th

Time: 18:10

Price: £11.50 Concession £10

Ticket Link: https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/an-american-not-in-paris

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Hello! Tell us all about your show!

An American (NOT) in Paris is a one woman show with stand up, storytelling, musical comedy, and baguettes. It’s very much in the style of Rachel Bloom and Bo Burnham, in that it’s goofy and over the top in one moment, and then suddenly throwing an existential crisis at you in the next, but then we sing a song so it’s fun again. My rhyming description is: An OCD, ADHD, Gluten Free, Gen Z, Musical Comedy! I only got diagnosed with ADHD this year, so I was glad it fit the rhyme scheme.

I’ve been working on this show for about 3 years and have won Best of Fringe at Orlando Fringe 2025 and Funniest of the Fringe at Pittsburgh Fringe, so I’m super excited to finally bring it across the pond! It’s the best parts of Lizzie McGuire, Britney Spears, and Taylor Swift mixed with the worst of me!

What other acts are you looking forward to seeing at the fringe?

I still need to hunker down and study the shows that have been announced, but I’m most excited for all the different genres I don’t usually get to see. Last time I came to Edinburgh Fringe, I saw a South Korean, non-verbal play that mixed clowning with slapstick and masks, and I was sobbing hysterically out of every emotion by the end. And then later that day, I saw a solo musical comedy show that inspired me to bring my own to Fringe! I mean, where else can you have both of those experiences within hours of each other? So, I’m just excited to discover.

Have you done the fringe before? What are the key pieces of advice you have been given or would give to new groups or people performing at the fringe. 

This is my first time doing Edinburgh Fringe! I’ve done some Fringes in the US though, and I think a big thing I’ve learned is how to be scrappy. Things are not going to go perfectly at Fringe; that’s the charm of it. Don’t freak out, make it part of your and the audience’s experience. It becomes the magic.

If this is your first time – what are you looking forward to?

I’m looking forward to the marathon of performing this show 24 times in 25 days! I can’t wait to see what’s uncovered with a global audience, how the show grows, and what proves to be as universal as I hope it is.

I had some very odd but very appreciated audience interactions back in Orlando after shows (one guy just kept saying I had him on strings? That he was my puppet? Not a puppetry show, unfortch), so I’m so excited to connect with audience members in Scotland after the show!

Talk us through your daily routine for a day at the Fringe

Wake up, sing a song off my balcony with the birds, coffee, flyer, see a show, flyer, do my show, see a show, and then come back and work because I’m still doing my full time job across the world.

I help high schoolers with their US and UK college applications, and even the University of Edinburgh doesn’t care that I’m at Fringe, so they’ve still got deadlines.

Ok, where is your favourite place to eat at the Fringe? 

Maybe a hack answer, but as an American, there is something so novel about picking up food at Tesco and Sainsbury’s. Like, I’m soooo UK buying my Heinz salad cream (I don’t eat it, but I have to buy it for the bit).

Best thing about performing at the fringe?

Not to get all sincere on you, but I have dreamed of being onstage my entire life, and the fact that there’s a spot for me in Scotland where I get to tell part of my story? It’s humbling, it’s exciting, it’s truly all little me ever wanted. So, my favourite part of performing at Fringe is getting to bring that younger self with me and show her how cool it all worked out.

Do you bring anything special from home to make it feel more special whilst you are away?

My Owala water bottle. I searched for months to find one that was pink on pink and this one was exactly what I had been manifesting. Because I manifest water bottles. I don’t believe in ordering that kind of stuff online — the perfect water bottle has to find me. And it did. So it made it to Scotland.

What are your best hacks to save money whilst at the Fringe?

I guess the fact that I stopped drinking like a year ago makes this whole thing a lot cheaper, yeah? So Gen Z of me. 

If people want to find out more about you where can they follow you on social media?

You can follow me on Instagram at @LivRocklin_Comedy and the show at @AnAmericanNotInParis_ as well as on TikTok at @LivRocklin. I’m technically on Twitter (sorry to dead-name it) at @LivRocklin, but…you won’t find much there from this decade.

And Finally in three words – Why should people come and see the show? 

Witty, cathartic, Paris.

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