5th July – 6th July (Two-day intensive) | 10:00 – 17:00
Sharing 18:00 – 19:00 on Sunday 6th July
Explore exciting themes from the world of fantasy adventure including:
- Monsters, creatures and species.
- Journeys, locations and maps.
- Characters and protagonists.
- Quests, traps and devices.
- Storytelling and adventure.
- Mythology, folklore and fantasy.
- World building.
We will then be putting it all together into an improvised fantasy show with costumes, audience-inspired maps, fantasy characters, magical elements and exciting stories.
You don’t need to know anything about the genre beforehand, but will need previous long-form or narrative experience.
There will be an (optional!) sharing of the format for an invited audience of friends and family at 6pm on the Sunday evening.
Katy will be bringing her dog Pooka to the class – Pooka won’t be improvising, but will be in the room.
About the Instructor:
Katy Schutte is an award-winning writer, improviser and teaching artist.
Katy 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 part of 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 premiered at Omnibus Theatre for three weeks in 2024.
Katy directs for the Hoopla main stage and tours hopepunk comedy and science climate change show We Built this City on Rock and Coal around the island of Ireland.
Katy won multiple writing awards in 2022 for her screenplay and web series pilot. She is a 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 longlisted for the Women in Theatre Lab.
Katy makes solo 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.
Katy is also a radio, commercial and voiceover actor. She is studying an MA in Folklore Studies at the University of Hertfordshire.