L-R: Katharine Bennett-Fox, Dylan Emery, Charlotte Gittins, Phil Whelans.
Saturday April 25th2026
1900hrs (BEWARE EARLY START TIME)
at
Hoopla…
The Miller,
96, Snowsfields Road,
London SE1 3SS Map
This year, Hoopla celebrates its twentieth anniversary(!) – having stuck together through thick, thin, thick again and thin for the sake of the kids – with a series of terrific shows. We’re proud to be in this one.
GTI will be…
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.
Charlotte Gittins is an actor, documentary-maker and BAFTA Rocliffe-winning writer. She is a member of impro behemoth, Austentatious, half of critically acclaimed double act Folie à Deux, one-third of JCB, Anxiety Club and Grand Theft Impro and has been various percentages of: Norway’s Almost Ibsen: An Improvised Tragedy, Suki Webster’s Guest Speaker, Literary Death Match, This Is Your Trial, Monkey Toast, Marcus Brigstocke’s Unavailable for Comment and Ross Noble’s Evening of Improvisation with Special Guests. She has appeared at festivals across Europe and the Antipodes, performed her début solo show at the Edinburgh Fringe, and acted by candlelight in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe.
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.