Friday January 20th. GTI at Hoopla. FACT.
by Phil Whelans | posted in: News | 0
WHO? Grand Theft Impro.
WHAT? …perform our first set of the year at Hoopla Impro
WHERE? The Miller, 96, Snowsfields Road, London SE1 3SS Map
WHO? Grand Theft Impro.
WHEN? Sat, 10 Dec 2022, 19:45 GMT
WHO? GTI: Dylan Emery, Charlotte Gittins, Sally Hodgkiss, Phil Whelans, AJ Vaage.
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.
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.
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, is a Monkey Toast player and has also performed at Shakespeare’s Globe.
AJ Vaage is a Canadian actor, writer, and all-around athlete. He began his career improvising with the legendary Rapid Fire Theatre. He won a Canadian Comedy Award for a kids sketch show where he pretended to be a surprisingly violent dinosaur.
