L-R: Naomi Petersen, Dylan Emery, Sally Hodgkiss, Phil Whelans.
Friday February 20 2026, 2000hrs
at
Hoopla…
The Miller,
96, Snowsfields Road,
London SE1 3SS Map
GTI are back at The Miller on Friday 20 February, with a stellar line-up, in a show optimists are already calling “brilliant.”
Naomi Petersen has performed in plays and musicals across the UK and in the West End. She has worked extensively with Sir Alan Ayckbourn, most recently originating the role of Lily in The Girl Next Door and Edie in Constant Companion.
Naomi was Poppy in Tender Loving Care at New Theatre Royal Portsmouth and Georgia in Angus Thongs and Even More Snogging at The Leeds Playhouse. Other stage credits include: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (The Ambassadors Theatre), The Witches of Eastwick (The Watermill), 10x10x10 (Pleasance), Chavs (The Lyric Hammersmith). TV includes E4’s Drifters and she was in Radio 4’s Joseph Morpurgo’s Walking Tour.
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.
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.
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 Giant Steps.