Workshop Details
Facilitator: Katy Schutte
Level: Advanced
Cost: €80
Date: Friday March 27
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm (with 1 hr lunch break at 1:00pm)
This is an advanced-level workshop culminating in a Friday evening performance. You'll perform alongside other advanced narrative improvisers under the teacher’s direction.
Application required: see our FAQ for how applications work. Max 8 participants.
Man Band (Mixer)
A musical comedy long form improv show with gender blind casting and heart-throbs aplenty. Grrrrrl. Playing with the tropes of boy bands through the decades, we learn some loose song structures and a flexible format exploring the coming-together of a band who have since gone their different ways. We'll explore narrative, character, relationships and musical improv within the boy band genre.
Application required: see our FAQ for how applications work.
About Katy Schutte
Katy makes her own work including award-winning storytelling/stand-up show Schutte the Unromantic and acclaimed semi-immersive folk horror play Let's Summon Demons. She is a contributing writer for Cards Against Humanity, was resident singer/songwriter on Sean and Robot’s Comedy Circuit podcast and co-creator/improviser for Dead British on Union Jack Radio. She is a writer, improv director and performer with XR creative studio FANDCO.
Katy Schutte has performed and taught improvisation in twenty-something countries across five continents. She is a Head Teacher at Hoopla, the UK’s biggest improv school. Katy authored The Improviser's Way: A Longform Workbook, published by Nick Hern Books. She was an artist in residence for The Arctic Circle Project in 2022 and penned a cosmic horror play for a three-week run at Omnibus Theatre in 2024.
Katy won eight awards in 2022 for her screenplay Coming of (Middle) Age and web series pilot Sideliners.