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L-R: Charlotte Gittins, Dylan Emery, Ruth Bratt, Phil Whelans.

Friday April 19, 2024 @ 2000hrs at Hoopla

The Miller,
96, Snowsfields Road,
London SE1 3SS Map

Why not join GTI for a top-drawer night of Impro, as we share the evening with Miss and Chris and Music Box?

GTI will be…

Ruth Bratt– TV includes People Just Do Nothing, Ricky Gervais’s DerekMongrels, Vic Reeves’s The Ministry of Curious Stuff, Fast and Loose and Sky’s Cinderella: After Ever After. On the radio, she was Marion in BBC Radio 4’s Sarah Millican’s Support Group and had her own BBC Radio 4 series, Trodd en Bratt: Well Done You. Ruth is in Olivier Award-winning West End, Edinburgh and Radio 4 hit, Showstopper. Ruth has recently had an upgrade and is now a member of the legendary Comedy Store Players.

Dylan Emery has been performing and directing improvised theatre and comedy for more than 15 years. He 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.

Charlotte Gittins is an actor, documentary-maker and BAFTA Rocliffe-winning writer. She is a member of impro behemoth, Austentatious, half of critically acclaimed double act Folie à Deux, one-third of JCB, Anxiety Club and Grand Theft Impro and has been various percentages of: Norway’s Almost Ibsen: An Improvised TragedySuki Webster’s Guest SpeakerLiterary Death MatchThis Is Your TrialMonkey Toast, Marcus Brigstocke’s Unavailable for Comment and Ross Noble’s Evening of Improvisation with Special Guests. She has appeared at festivals across Europe and the Antipodes, performed her début solo show at the Edinburgh Fringe, and acted by candlelight in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe.

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. He has also performed at Shakespeare’s Globe.

Improvising music for us will be the marvelous Tom Hodge who has played for many of humanity’s best impro groups.