Clockwise from top left: Chris Ash, Monica Gaga, Alan Marriott, Phil Whelans, Nell Mooney.
In less than a week. Specifically…
Saturday July 6 2024 @ 2000hrs at Hoopla…
The Miller,
96, Snowsfields Road,
London SE1 3SS Map
…Great Britain will have chosen. Chosen whether or not to go to this show.
Most of Britain probably won’t go – which, for reasons of room capacity, is probably for the best – but if you want to see progressive, forward-thinking, albeit fiscally responsible impro that hasn’t got Nigel Farage in, see you there.
GTI will be…
Monica Gaga – as seen, heard and staged on BBC3, London Live, BBC History, BBC Radio London, Global Pillage, The Comedy Store Players, Hoopla Impro, Yes Queens, Hell Yeah, Boulevard Theatre and more. She spent time at Second City in Chicago, is a member of Do the Right Scene and teaches, hosts and runs nights for Hoopla.
Alan Marriott – Alan is a voice-over maestro whose larynx has graced animation series like Bob the Builder, The Secret Show, Pirates and Aliens, Lego Nexo Knights, Lego Star Wars, My Little Pony, Geronimo Stilton and many more; films including Asterix – The Mansions of the Gods, Planet 51, Boo-Zino and the Snurks and most recently, Norm of the North 2 AND video games like Jumping Flash, Dead Rising 2, Skate 2, Hot Wheels – Stunt Track Challenge, Head Hunter –Redemption, Space Channel 5 and many more. He was in The Reduced Shakespeare Company, brought Theatresports to London and devised or co-devised Hamlet Improvised, The Impro Musical and Impropera.
Nell Mooney studied improv with the Upright Citizens Brigade in the US and has worked in London with the likes of Showstopper, The Free Association and Monkey Toast. Her screen credits include Hyde Park on Hudson, Enchanted and Law & Order.
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, was a Monkey Toast player and has also performed at Shakespeare’s Globe.
Chris Ash is a composer, sound designer and workshop leader. He studied at Goldsmiths, the Guildhall School and Oxford, has worked with Soho Theatre, Birmingham Rep, Spitalfields Festival, Midlands Arts Centre, Full House Theatre and Barbican Creative Learning, to name a few. Chris wrote the music to Three Witch3s, which opened at the Belgrade Theatre.
GTI will be sharing the night with The Mighty Pirates. Come down, why don’t you?