This weekend! Sat 27 May!! GTI at Hoopla!!!

L-R: Max Dickins, Nick Oram, Jessie Rutland, Phil Whelans.

Saturday May 27, 2023 @ 2000hrs at Hoopla...

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

Why not join GTI this coming weekend as we share a wonderful night of impro with not one, not two, not three, but TWO splendid impro juggernauts, The Descendants and Michelle*.

*Order of acts dictated by keenness to avoid making them sound like one act, that act being a quirky 80s band from Ohio called Michelle and the Descendants.

GTI will be...

Max Dickins is the author of four books and four plays. He is an actor, a presenter and a comedian. He has appeared on national television, in shows such as Michael McIntyre’s Big Show. He’s had his own show on Absolute Radio, where he was nominated for a Sony Radio Award. And his live shows have toured nationally.

Nick Oram has written plays for the Derby Theatre and RADA. He won the BAFTA Rocliffe Comedy Writing Competition in 2017 with his script Last One Left. He has trained under a range of improvisers including perfomers from the IO, Second City, and UCB. He created the one man improv show, Nick Oram and the Playmobil Players. In 2015, Nick appeared in BBC Three's Murder in Successville.

Jessie Rutland is a member of Hoopla Impro's original house team 'Gämez', as well as 'Hat Trick: The Improvised Sketch Show'. Previously she has performed in interactive stage shows 'The Improvised Crystal Maze' and 'Fungeons & Dragons'. Jessie has trained with Hoopla, The Maydays, Lee Simpson, Showstopper and Patti Stiles.

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.