Name: Improv Masterclass with Katy Schutte: Silence and Subtext
Start: 2024-07-15T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-07-15T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Store 104, High Street, Rochester, UK

Improv Masterclass with Katy Schutte: Silence and Subtext

Pick up on subtle cues from your co-performer using Chicago-style 'slow comedy'
About this Event

We will be looking at how to pick up on subtle cues from your co-performer, from their physicality, their tone and chosen words to find and play with subtext. We'll use improvised scene work, games and Chicago-style 'slow comedy' using more than one layer of understanding to create realistic and truthful moments with depth and subtlety.

About Katy:

Katy Schutte has performed and taught improvisation in thirty-something countries across five continents. She is a Head Teacher and Curriculum Writer for Hoopla, the UK’s biggest improv school and recently joined the Arvon creative writing teaching team. Katy authored The Improviser's Way: A Longform Workbook, published by Nick Hern Books. She was one of The Maydays from 2004-2022, is half of sci-fi improv duo Project2 and performs with Yes Queens, Track 96, Brand New Musical and Hell Yeah! among others. She was an artist in residence for The Arctic Circle Project in 2022 and her cosmic horror play The Ice at the End of the World has a three-week run at Omnibus Theatre starting September 2024.
Katy is currently directing Man Band for the Hoopla main stage and imminently touring We Built this City on Rock and Coal around Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Katy won eight writing awards in 2022 for her screenplay and web series pilot. She is a Funny Women finalist and both finalist and winner of the Brighton Festival Fringe Best Comedy Show award, Katy also stars in BAFTA winning online educational series History Bombs. She was recently longlisted for the Women in Theatre Lab.
Katy makes her own work including Schutte the Unromantic and acclaimed semi-immersive folk horror play Let's Summon Demons. She is a contributing writer for Cards Against Humanity and actor/writer on web series Sideliners. She 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 co-writer/dramaturg on AR immersive game Beth's Legacy in association with StoryFutures and CreativeXR and writer/improv director/performer on multi-platform live virtual reality shows The Galaxicle Implosions, Play Test and House of Masks with FANDCO and Flipside.