Sat. May 13 GTI line-up “strong,” claim Mark Strong, Jeremy Strong and Florence Pugh.

L-R: Edi Patterson, Dan O'Connor, Ruth Bratt, Phil Whelans.

Saturday May 13, 2023 @ 2000hrs at Hoopla...

The Miller,
96, Snowsfields Road,
London SE1 3SS Map

In a Special Relationship more Special than that of Tony Blair and George W. Bush... stop booing... GTI will... I said stop booi... GTI will fie... alright, more special than Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Rea... well, that's even worse booing... stop booing... okay okay... more special than Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Mar... oh, that's unfair... please stop booing... anyway GTI will field a line-up that epitomises the Englisch Amerikanische Freundschaft at its very, very best. Why not come and be part of the fun as L.A. and London combine to produce a show with lots of history, but also guns, and where you definitely need a car to get around?

GTI will comprise...

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 Groupand 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.

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 production of Lifegame Off-Broadway and in 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. He was one third of the American Team at the 2006 Improv World Cup Tournament in Germany as part of the arts portion of the World Cup.

Dan’s Television acting credits include Seinfeld, Campus Ladies, Malcolm in the Middle and The Tonight Show. He was an adjunct professor for USC ‘s BFA program. He has taught at UT, DUKE, Pepperdine, UCLA extension and an improv companies around the world. Most recently he taught Cirque du Soleil casts of Saltimbanco and Corteo.

Edi Patterson plays Judy Gemstone in The Righteous Gemstones. She has starred in the film Knives Out and on T.V. in Partners, with  Kelsey Grammar, and Vice Principals. She has improvised with Theatresports in Texas and Los Angeles and is an alumnus of L.A.’s The Groundlings.

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, and has been in Showstopper: the Improvised Musical, Hamlet Improvised, Criminal, and Monkey Toast.