Sanj Surati Talks
Episode 20

Date: Tuesday 14th June 2022

This is the twentieth episode of the Sanj Surati Talks podcast featuring Improvisation Guru, Katy Schutte recorded on Tuesday 14th June 2022. Katy Schutte has performed and taught improvisation in over twenty countries across five continents. She is a Head Teacher and Curriculum Writer for Hoopla, the UK’s biggest improv school. A Funny Women finalist and both nominee and winner of the Brighton Festival Fringe Best Comedy Show award, Katy also stars in BAFTA winning online educational series History Bombs. In this podcast, Katy talks about how she got into improvisation, working with Augmented Reality in the arts and going out to the Arctic Circle to live on a boat for three weeks.


Katy Schutte can be contacted via:
www.katyschutte.co.uk
https://www.instagram.com/katyschutte/


What we talked about:
Improvisation
Performance
Coaching
Drama
Writer
Edinburgh Fringe - https://www.edfringe.com
Long form improv
The May Days - https://www.themaydays.co.uk
Rachel Blackman - https://www.vibrantbody.co.uk
Art
Second City - https://www.secondcity.com
Short form improv
Hoopla - https://www.hooplaimpro.com
Steve Roe - https://www.linkedin.com/in/roezone/
Maria Peters
Chris Mead - https://twitter.com/mrchrismead
Track 96 - https://track96.com
A Harold Improvisation style
Uber Eats
YouTube
Google
Welcome Festival - https://welcome.huddersfieldsu.co.uk
Music
Jazz
Rock
Mental health
Brené Brown - https://brenebrown.com
Inclusion
Joe Morpurgo - https://www.josephmorpurgo.com
Cards Against Humanity - https://www.cardsagainsthumanity.com
Augmented Reality
XR
Virtual Reality
Fred Deakin - https://freddeak.in/about/
Lemon Jelly - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_Jelly
Rob Armstrong - https://www.fandco.xyz
The Theatre & Tech Awards - https://www.theatreandtechawards.com
Science Fiction
Galactical Implosions
Flipside - https://flipside.ai
The Arctic Circle Residency - https://thearcticcircle.org

Places:
Germany
America
Edinburgh
Brighton
Chicago
London
Rome
Italy
Iceland
Arctic
Norway
Svalbard
New Zealand
Hollywood

Advice:
When coaching improv, ask questions about what your students want.
Regarding reviews, develop your filter
Know what you want your show to achieve
Sometimes surrender control
Understand what your focus is
Think about what you are excited about
Know when to take a break


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Launched over the Covid 19 lockdown, The Sanj Surati Talks Podcast is a channel for Sanj’s discussions with people he knows and a few discussions with himself. There is no agenda but hopefully some healthy debates. Feel free to tweet your thoughts using the hashtag #sanjsuratitalks on Twitter and instagram, and we’d love it if you could rate, review, listen on all the podcast places including iTunes, Google, Spotify, Stitcher and the lot. These Podcasts will also be running on Youtube.

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