L-R: Katie Campbell, Dylan Emery, Sally Hodgkiss, Phil Whelans.
Friday January17 2025 @ 2000hrs at Hoopla…
The Miller,
96, Snowsfields Road,
London SE1 3SS Map
Celebrate last few days of world not being batshit crazy with an evening of lighthearted impro shenanigans.
On Monday week, if all goes according to plan, the USA will annex Canada and commence hostilities with Denmark and Panama in a bid to seize Greenland and the Panama Canal. Then on Tuesday…
Before all of this, why not get good and ready with GTI as we share the night with the marvellous Michelle impro and My Sons?
GTI will be…
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 BBC Radio 4 Impro Hit, Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, Ken Campbell-inspired hard-bardics masterclass, the School of Night and Grand Theft Impro. He has performed at the National Theatre, The Royal Court and Shakespeare’s Globe.
Sally Hodgkiss is an award-winning actor, writer and comedian. Her acting career has taken her to the Manchester Royal Exchange, Sheffield Crucible, Octagon Theatre Bolton and HOME among others. She’s been in Eastenders and in James Veitch’s Super Hyper Literal. She’s improvised with, among others, Whose Line is it Anyway? Live, The Comedy Store Players, Bumper Blyton and The Committee.
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.