Katy Schutte is one of the UK's original long form improvisers. She performs and teaches all over the world, is Head Teacher and Course Designer for Hoopla (the UK's largest improv school) and Co-Artistic Director for The Maydays in the UK. Katy has been one of The Maydays since their founding year in 2004, she is half of legendary sci-fi improv duo Project2 and author of The Improviser's Way: A Longform Workbook, which is published by Nick Hern Books. Katy trained at Second City and iO Chicago and with teachers from the Annoyance, UCB, Groundlings, The Magnet and lots of other places.

Improvisation:
As well as The Maydays and Project2 (as mentioned above) Katy played in slow burn long form show Katy and Rach for over a decade, has toured with Fluxx, improvised musicals with Music Box and Baby Wants Candy, co-created the Destination podcast and has guested in countless shows including Messing with a Friend, Criminal, The Playground, the London and Liverpool Improvathons, Grand Theft Impro, Séance Fiction, Whirled News Tonight and The Armando Diaz Experience. Along with Chris Mead and Tony Harris, she was in the first ever improv show in Virtual Reality. She performs in Hoopla's Saturday night shows Tightrope and Speechless and is touring festivals with WrongCom, where non-romantic movies are made into romcoms.
Katy has written a book called The Improviser's Way: A Longform Workbook which is published by Nick Hern Books.

Awards:
Katy is a Funny Women finalist and both nominee and winner of the Brighton Festival Fringe Best Comedy Show award. She starred in online educational series History Bombs which won a BAFTA.

Sketch Comedy & Writing:
For two years, Katy performed with and wrote for Brighton sketch satire company the Treason Show.  In 2011 she wrote and performed with Fringe First winner and Perrier nominee NewsRevue at the Canal Cafe Theatre. As above, she has performed in educational comedy shorts with History Bombs. Katy is a contributing writer for the popular card game Cards Against Humanity and is currently co-creating indie series Sideliners.

Theatre (Acting, Writing, Directing):
In 2012 & 13 Katy co-created and directed The Watery Journey of Nereus Pike starring Fringe First winner Laura Mugridge. She also made three interactive audio shows with Tony Harris for The Campsite at the Ipswich Pulse Festival, the Natural History Museum and with Curating Cambridge. Katy performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2013 & 2014 with her first musical Who Ya Gonna Call? which received rave reviews and left standing room only. She penned I Have an Idea for a Film and award-nominated stand-up and storytelling show Schutte the Unromantic. Katy recently toured her acclaimed semi-immersive folk horror play Let's Summon Demons. She regularly performs in nerdgasm Knightmare Live, and The Maydays' international hit improv show Happily Never After. Katy worked with The Old Market, Make Real and Damien Goodwin on AR/VR/immersive show The Time Machine and is currently starring in Cast Iron Theatre's One Woman Alien.
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Commercials:
Katy acts in TV and online ads for brands such as Giffgaff, Beechams, Barclays, 118 Money, Lidl, Nandos, British Heart Foundation and BT Sport.

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