L-R: Dylan Emery, Jessie Rutland, Alan Marriott, Phil Whelans.
This coming…
Friday June 20 2025, 2000hrs
at
Hoopla…
The Miller,
96, Snowsfields Road,
London SE1 3SS Map
Why not escape the insufferable, choking heat of London’s notorious London, and seek respite in the oasis of refreshing, breezy improvisation that is Hoopla? Come and see GTI in some excellent company as we share the night with GÄMEZ , Track 96 and, of course, an air-conditioner.
GTI will be…
Dylan Emery 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.
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.
Jessie Rutland is a member of Hoopla Impro’s original house team GämezShe has performed in interactive stage shows, The Improvised Crystal Maze and Fungeons & Dragons. She is a musical theatre actress and a cellist. Jessie has trained with Hoopla, The Maydays, Lee Simpson, Showstopper and Patti Stiles.
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 will be the brilliant Duncan Walsh-Atkins.
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.