Man Band (Mixer)

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 Thursday 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 9 participants.

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.

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.​