L-R: Sally Hodgkiss, Dylan Emery, Katharine Bennett-Fox, Phil Whelans.
Saturday 7th November 2026
2000hrs
at…
State of Play Improv…
The Market Theatre,
6A Sun St,
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Tickets here.
Grand Theft Impro are dusting off the Sat. Nav., jumping in the clown-car and hurtling up the… A1? (citation needed) to perform at State of Play Improv’s marvellous night at Hertfordshire’s historic Market Theatre. 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.
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.
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.