Oslo Impro Festival - Katy Schutte Workshops

Play like Brené/ SOLD OUT
Sunday, October 19, 2025
10:00 AM 1:00 PM

Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston who rose to fame from her Ted talk on The Power of Vulnerability. She’s spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy. We'll be playing with her wisdom - gamified through improvisation - and taking the time to talk about what we notice in ourselves as well as our work.

Tickets:
https://improneuf.as.me/OIF25KatyBrene

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Truth in Song / SOLD OUT
Tuesday, October 21, 202510:00 AM
Wednesday, October 22, 20255:00 PM

Learn how to improvise songs in the moment based on your personal truths, opinions and stories. Practice organic ways of rhyming, creating melody and finding the structure of a song as you go along. In a supportive and relaxed environment we will help you create musical theatre inspired by the styles of Sondheim and Jason Robert Brown and weave rich tales and scenes through teamwork and group mind. Suitable for intermediate to advanced improvisers with zero to lots of experience in musical improv. Ability to sing is not a pre-requisite.

Tickets:
https://improneuf.as.me/OIF25KatySong

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Musical Improv for Beginners
Saturday, October 25, 2025
10:00 AM 5:00 PM

Learn how to create melody, lyrics and song structure in the moment. Through games and scenework we will learn techniques for rhyming, emoting, finding the right time to sing, identifying and creating choruses, bridges and verses plus a whole lot of silly stuff. Ideally students will have done some improvisation before, but there is no prerequisite to be a good singer!

Tickets:
https://improneuf.as.me/OIF25KatyMusical

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About the Teacher:
United Kingdom

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.

More info at the Oslo Impro Festival 2025 page:
www.osloimprofestival.com
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