L-R: Dylan Emery, Ali James, David Reed, Phil Whelans.
Friday June 16, 2023 @ 2000hrs at Hoopla…
The Miller,
96, Snowsfields Road,
London SE1 3SS Map
Why not join GTI this coming Friday as we share a beguiling night of impro with Joy Story, comprising impro powerhouses, Suki Webster and Maria Peters.
GTI will be…
Dylan Emery. Dylan is co-founder of Olivier Award-winning West End, Edinburgh Festival and Radio 4 Impro Hit, Showstopper, Ken Campbell-inspired hard-bardics masterclass, the School of Night and Grand Theft Impro. He has played the National Theatre, The Royal Court and Shakespeare’s Globe.
Ali James is in Showstopper. She’s played Eva Peron in Evita (Gaiety Theatre IOM), u/s Swallow in Whistle Down the Wind (West End), u/s Laura (Tell Me on a Sunday – UK Tour), Cathy in The Last Five Years (Buxton Opera House), she was a writer and performer in GIRAFFE sketch comedy (Edinburgh Festival) and has been in Eastenders. So there. She’s also a choreographer and movement director – Showstopper, Mischief Theatre’s Magic Goes Wrong, National Youth Theatre. In 2020 she directed PS I’m a Terrible Person by GTI favourites Francesca Forristal and Jordan Clarke.
David Reed. One third of monster hit sketch team and Radio 4 fixtures, The Penny Dreadfuls, David has been on TV in such shows as Gary: Tank Commander, Ghosts, Fast and Loose, It’s Kevin (which Phil was in too,) Endeavour, Father Figure and Beyond Paradise. and He’s been in the Olivier Award winning Showstopper: The Improvised Musical and is a regular guest with The Comedy Store Players. He is the creator of spoof interview show Inside the Comedian. His first stage play, Guy Fawkes, opened at York Theatre Royal Autumn 2022.
Phil Whelans – writer and performer of his own Radio 4 sitcom, My First Planet, founder member of Pros from Dover – with whom he did two series of Radio 4’s The Infinite Monkey Cage. Phil has worked with everyone from Joan Rivers to Basil Brush, Al Gore to Brian Conley, Robin Williams to Giles Brandreth. Phil has been in It’s Kevin, Brasseye, Preston Front and a number of unsuccessful radio and TV impro pilots. He has improvised all over the world, is founder member of Spontaneous Combustion and Grand Theft Impro, has been in Showstopper: the Improvised Musical, Hamlet Improvised and Criminal.