L-R: Nick Oram, Katie Campbell, Alan Marriott, Phil Whelans.
Saturday October 19 2024 @ 2000hrs at Hoopla…
The Miller,
96, Snowsfields Road,
London SE1 3SS Map
An Anglo-Canadian GTI will be sharing the night with The Bazaar. Come down, why don’t you?
GTI will be
Alan Marriott 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.
Nick Oram has written plays for the Derby Theatre and RADA. He won the BAFTA Rocliffe Comedy Writing
Competition in 2017 with his script Last One Left. He has trained under a range of improvisers including performers from the IO, Second City, and UCB. In 2015, Nick appeared in BBC Three’s Murder in Successville. Outside
impro, Nick runs literacy projects for children and young people at the National Literacy Trust.
Katie Campbell is an alumna of Vancouver Theatresports and was a player, coach, trainer, and staff member for the Canadian Improv Games for over a decade. She has been an ensemble member of Sin City: The Live Improvised Soap Opera, Victoria’s OK Dope Comedy Company and Your Parents Improv as well as appearing in the Paper Street Theatre Company’s annual 50-hour Improv Marathon.
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 and was a Monkey Toast player.
Improvising music…
Duncan Walsh Atkins has been musical director of Showstopper since 2009, meaning sell-out Edinburgh
Fringe and West End runs, national and international tours and a BBC Radio 4
series. He’s been MD and/or pianist in countless musical theatre shows as well
as the BBC2 improvised comedy series Fast and Loose. He’s one half of the Flanders & Swann tribute At the
Drop of a Hippopotamus and can occasionally be seen in a wig
portraying Benny Andersson in Abbamania.