Croydonites Festival is back!
The Croydonites Festival returns for its 12th year from Wednesday 4 – Saturday 21 November 2026, bringing bold new theatre, comedy, film and performance to venues across Croydon.
The festival celebrates both homegrown talent and brilliant artists from across the UK, with plenty of opportunities for local creatives and audiences to discover something new.
Theatre highlights include Hannah Maxwell’s 2026 Fringe First award-winning Turn Your F*cking Phones Off, a timely exploration of human connection in the information age. Other theatre highlights include the critically acclaimed Man or Bear, inspired by the viral question to shine a light on female survival in an increasingly dangerous world. Fringe legend Victoria Melody will join the festival for the first time with her crucial show about food poverty, Trouble Struggle Bubble and Squeak while Edinburgh stalwart James Rowland returns with Fringe hit Team Viking.
Comedy highlights include Ollie Horn’s absurd cult hit The Most Toast and the return of comedy line-up show Dick’s Picks, showcasing big-name comedians alongside cult characters including Sam Eley as Basil Crumbwick and Katie Norris.
Croydon itself takes centre stage in a major new film project premiering at this year’s festival. Richard DeDomenici’s Redux: Heads of State is an exclusive film commission from Croydonites which will see local participants recreate scenes from the high-octane action movie Heads of State, in the original Croydon locations used for filming. This will sit alongside a ‘Crollywood’ walking tour of famous Croydon film locations featured in Batman, The Da Vinci Code, Criminal, Black Mirror and Taylor Swift’s Opalite.
Tickets are on sale now!