Katy trained in improv at Second City and iO Chicago as well as with teachers from Annoyance, UCB, The Magnet Theatre and more.

She is a Funny Women finalist and winner of the Brighton Festival Fringe Best Comedy Show award.

She is co-artistic director of award winning improv group The Maydays. In 2014 Katy created Oh Boy! The Quantum Leap Show and also performs in The Mayday’s Tim Burton inspired show Happily Never After.

She performs and co-directs the sci-fi improv group Project2, including a recent successful run at The Rosemary Branch Theatre.

She also performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with their Ghostbusters themed musical “Who Ya Gonna Call?” which received rave reviews. She also made her first solo theatre show I Have an Idea for a Film at the Edinburgh Fringe.

She is half of the two woman long form show Katy and Rach, and plays in the Destination podcast and live shows.

She coaches long form teams and leads workshops in England, Europe and the States. Katy was one of the first people to teach the rest of the Hoopla team, and inspired us to create various shows.

She has toured with Fluxx, improvised musicals with Music Box and Baby Wants Candy and notably guested in the London and Liverpool Improvathons, Grand Theft Impro and Messing with a Friend.

Katy has recently been performing in Knightmare Live and her award-nominated stand-up and storytelling show Schutte the Unromantic.

She is currently performing her semi-immersive folk horror play entitled Let’s Summon Demons, featuring real witch craft!

Fred is Professor of Digital Art at University of the Arts London (which consists of the six London art schools Central Saint Martins, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion, Chelsea, Camberwell and Wimbledon.)

Fred is founder and director of the collaborative organisation Fred & Company which specialises in interactive art projects.

Fred is half of the band Lemon Jelly with Nick Franglen who have been nominated for Mercury and Brit awards, sold over half a million albums and headlined stages at almost every major UK music festival (Glastonbury, Bestival, Big Chill, Reading, Leeds, T in the Park).

Previously, Fred was Founder and Director of ground-breaking London design agency Airside 1998-2012 with Nat Hunter and Alex McLean which won and was nominated for two BAFTAs, nine D&ADs, four Design Week Awards including Best In Show, and a Webby. The Gestalten book ‘Airside By Airside’ (2010) tells Airside’s story.

Fred has given talks at the Design Museum, the Barbican, RCA, LCC, Design Indaba and Pictoplasma and has performed at TED, run animation workshops in the V&A, judged the British Animation Awards and delivered a lecture tour to professionals and school children around Indonesia with the British Council. He also played a role in the working group for the Gowers Review white paper on the UK’s creative economy which was presented to the DCMS in 2006.

Drawing on experience gained during the course of his varied ‘portfolio career’, Fred is currently exploring how creativity happens in collaborative studio spaces and how this creative spark is nurtured in an increasingly commercial cultural marketplace with a view to generating new pedagogies to empower emerging talent.

His many other current interests include inventing new hypothetical formats for releasing music in a post-digital age, the boom in engaging audiences through gamification and interaction, the grey area between art and design and how it is increasingly irrelevant to emerging generations, and all kinds of alternative culture. His previous career has encompassed popular music, graphic design, interaction design, illustration, clothing, performance, branding, strategy, systems design and many other disciplines.