Clockwise from top left: Dan O’Connor, Katharine Bennett-Fox, Duncan Walsh Atkins, Phil Whelans, Dylan Emery, Ruth Bratt.
Saturday 24th October 2026
2000hrs
at…
Hoopla…
The Miller,
96, Snowsfields Road,
London SE1 3SS Map
In an already talent-engorged GTI cast, why not take the opportunity to see visiting impro O.G., Dan O’Connor, who’s over from L.A. to do a bit of teaching. We’re very excited to have our old chum on board.
Dan O’Connor is co-founder of L.A’s Impro Theatre – for which he co-directed and performed Jane Austen UnScripted, Shakespeare UnScripted and Sondheim UnScripted. He’s co-founder of four American Theatresports companies including Bay Area Theatresports, with whom Phil has performed. He was in Improbable Theatre’s Off-Broadway production of Lifegame and the TNN television series of the same name. He co-created the NBC/PAX television improv comedy show World Cup Comedy. He was a writer and the improv director for The Wayne Brady Show.
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.
Ruth Bratt – TV includes People Just Do Nothing, Ricky Gervais’s Derek, Mongrels, Vic Reeves’s The Ministry of Curious Stuff, Fast and Loose and Sky’s Cinderella: After Ever After. On the radio, she was Marion in BBC Radio 4’s Sarah Millican’s Support Group and had her own BBC Radio 4 series, Trodd en Bratt: Well Done You. Ruth is in Olivier Award-winning West End, Edinburgh and Radio 4 hit, Showstopper and is a core member of the world-famous Comedy Store Players.
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 here and abroad, 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.
Dylan Emery. Dylan 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 and Ken Campbell-inspired hard-bardics masterclass, the School of Night. He has played the National Theatre, The Royal Court and 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.