Pretend Academy | Katy Schutte | Silence and Subtext

What is Pretend Academy?

Pretend Academy is a monthly improv boot camp for any improviser who has gone through an improv school's training programme and is thinking - What next? This class is for improvisers who want to progress in the craft - we expect all students to already have experience performing and know how to sustain scene work.

• We will start at 6pm and the session will only have a brief warm-up before moving into exercises and scene work for 90 mins, no break
• We will focus on a different skill each month
• The class size will be limited to 14 people maximum
• Each class will also include a FREE ticket to The Pretend Night (worth £10) - which starts at the same venue at 8pm
• The class is open to any improviser of any school of improv - we love and respect all forms of the craft

This month: Katy Schutte - Silence & Subtext

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 (she/her) is an award-winning writer, improviser and teaching artist with a special interest in folklore.

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 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 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 recently longlisted for the Women in Theatre Lab..

Summary

Where?  Theatre Deli Studios, Studio 12, 107 Leadenhall St, City of London, London EC3A 4AF, United Kingdom
When? 6-7.30pm (with this ticket you also get free entry to our Pretend Night show 8-10pm in the same venue)
How much? £25 

Refund Policy

We regret we cannot refund tickets once bought. We will gladly help you find another improviser to sell them to, but we can't take responsibility for actually reselling them. So please factor this policy in before you buy.