 The World Fringe Alliance Representatives were Anneke Jansen (Amsterdam Fringe) and Julian Caddy (Brighton Fringe).Additional members on the jury included Mokoala Ndebele (Joburg Theatres), Rudi Sadler (arts writer / Naledi Theatre Awards judge), Heleen Coetzee (arts education), Johann van der Merwe (arts promoter), Steyn du Toit (arts writer) and Fiona Gordon (arts projects facilitator).Standard Bank Standing Ovation Awards were presented to the French Institute of South Africa and the Embassy of France, for two decades of supporting visionary collaborations and exchanges between South African and French artists; Gary Gordon, honouring his longstanding creative energy in South Africa's cultural life and his enormously significant contributions to the vitality of the National Arts Festival's Main, Fringe and Arena programmes; and Ismail Mohamed, for his nine-year commitment as Artistic Director of the National Arts Festival.