L-R: Katharine Bennett-Fox, Dylan Emery, Monica Gaga, Phil Whelans.
Friday January 23rd 2026, 2000hrs
at
Hoopla…
The Miller,
96, Snowsfields Road,
London SE1 3SS Map
2026 “Best looked forward to from behind sofa,” claim experts.
Why not join GTI as we emerge, blinking like hibernating bears, into 2026, wondering what in blazes this year holds for us all. Forget about the outside world, impending doom and all that with a couple of hours in the company of…
Katharine Bennett-Fox has been on TV in Doctors, Casualty, Shakespeare & Hathaway (BBC1), Trying (Apple TV), Four Weddings and a Funeral (Hulu and Universal Television) and Borderline (C5) She was in The Guns of Adam Riches on Radio 4. She improvises and teaches with The FA.
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.
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.
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.
We’ll be sharing the night with the marvellous Dreamweaver Quartet.