Katy is one of the UK’s original long form improvisers. She trained at Second City and iO Chicago and with teachers from The Annoyance, UCB, Groundlings, The Magnet and more.

She performed and taught improv with The Maydays since their founding year of 2004 with stints as Director and Artistic Director, she is half of sci improv duo Project 2 and is the author of The Improviser’s Way: A Longform Workbook, one of the main UK texts on long-form improv.

Katy also currently performs improv with Yes Queens, Hell Yeah and Track96. She has also previously performed improv with Baby Wants Candy, Katy & Rach, Fluxx, The Playground, Messing with a Friend, Criminal, Grand Theft Impro and more.

She performed multiple shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe including her Ghostbusters themed musical “Who Ya Gonna Call?” which received rave reviews.

She coaches long form teams across the world. Katy was one of the first people to teach the rest of the Hoopla team, and inspired us to create various shows.

Katy recently won Best Script Award Feature Script Grand Prix and is nominated for Best Feature Film at Golden Art Film Academy. She is a Funny Women finalist and winner of the Brighton Festival Fringe Best Comedy Show award. She starred in online educational series History Bombs which won a BAFTA and in Project2’s Thirteen Cycles which was a finalist in Theatre and Technology Awards 2019.