Ensemble.
11 International improvisers from all over the world
Anne Rab
Austria / Germany
Anne Rab lived and worked as an actor, director, and theatre educator for 12 years in
Leipzig, Germany. She is part of the leading team for 'Momenta', the international
festival for improvisation in Leipzig, and is a long-standing member of the Theaterturbine. Currently, Anne resides in Vienna, Austria, where she continues her work teaching, directing and performing regularly with the Viennese improv community. Anne also works internationally teaching and performing, as well as developing improvised formats and shows. She performs with several duo-partners, including: Sarah Arndtz (Heroes), Ursula Anna Baumgartner (Bemme&Melange), and Jim Libby (The Messengers), and is a passionate advocate for community awareness in the world of improv.
Her interest for improvisation started over 15 years ago in an ensemble of clowns that made up stories without words, and this work drives and fascinates her to this day: exploring non-verbal improvisation and teaching bodywork to actors, improvisers, and anyone that wants to discover and learn.
Chris Mead
The United Kingdom
Chris Mead is a renowned improv director, performer and teacher from the UK. He is a senior teacher at Hoopla, London's largest improv school, where his classes regularly sell out months in advance. He is also the founder of The Pretend Company which teaches theatrical improv and stage craft to both improvisers and actors. Internationally, he is one of the European circuits most in demand practitioners - visiting festivals in over 25 countries to teach, coach and perform. He wants improv to be evermore compassionate, theatrical, playful and fun. He is known for his thoughtful teaching, joyful stage presence and absolute commitment to pushing the art form forward.
Gael Doorneweerd Perry
Netherlands / France
Gael has practiced improv for more than 15 years in Strasbourg and then Amsterdam. He is the co-founder of Flock Theatre, Anananas & Pampamplemousse (formerly La Carpe Haute), as well as the SIN, an international network of improvisers in Europe, and Safe Play, an community working towards a safer improv field. He just handed the artistic direction of IMPRO Amsterdam over, he is the co-Artistic Director of Improfestival Karlsruhe, and Artistic Director of the Flock Festival in Amsterdam. In short: he creates a bunch of stuff!
He loves to teach abroad and to create new shows to explore and share his passion, including with his partner on and off-stage, Laura Doorneweerd-Perry. After touring the world with their show Object of Affection, he settled in Amsterdam and they created Flock Theatre together: a school and a professional company, to produce unscripted theatre and invite other artists to collaborate.
Some of his latest international collaborations involve Diego Ingold, Inbal Lori and Katy Schutte, with whom he’s created new and very different duo shows.
While traveling, Gael found a thousand ways to improvise. These result in his unique style: both physical and noisy, kind and silly, full of emotions and slightly crazy.
Julia Radschiner
Austria
Julia Radschiner is a versatile singer, keyboardist, and songwriter active in both the international music and improv scenes. She performs with groups like the English Lovers, Die Dritten, and Simply-Impro at Kabarett Simpl. Julia studied jazz theory at the Music & Arts University of the City of Vienna, pop singing and keyboards at iPop (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna), and spent a year at Eastman School of Music, New York. As musical director of MOMENT! 12th International Improv Festival Vienna 2024, she showcased her leadership and collaborative skills. Her training includes Method Acting, Circle Singing with Bobby McFerrin, and Creative Music Training at Guildhall. Julia has composed for film and theater, coached on the TV-show „Herz von Österreich“, and taught at iPop, the Vienna Conservatory, Pop Academy Vienna and Summer Academy Zakynthos. As a studio musician, she has contributed to numerous productions. More on her solo projects and SingSang workshops: www.juliaradschiner.com.
Katy Schutte
United Kingdom
Katy Schutte has performed and taught improvisation in twenty-something countries across five continents. She is a Head Teacher at Hoopla, the UK’s biggest improv school. Katy authored The Improviser's Way: A Longform Workbook, published by Nick Hern Books. She was an artist in residence for The Arctic Circle Project in 2022 and is writing a cosmic horror play for a three-week run at Omnibus Theatre in 2024. Katy won eight awards in 2022 for her screenplay Coming of (Middle) Age and web series pilot Sideliners.
Katy makes her own work including award-winning storytelling/stand-up show Schutte the Unromantic and acclaimed semi-immersive folk horror play Let's Summon Demons. She is a contributing writer for Cards Against Humanity, was resident singer/songwriter on Sean and Robot’s Comedy Circuit podcast and co-creator/improviser for Dead British on Union Jack Radio. She is a writer, improv director and performer with XR creative studio FANDCO.
Lukas Erlinghagen
Germany
Lukas has been Improtheater Karlsruhe's technician since the beginning. After starting out on stage during elementary school, he later found his calling running sound and lights for theatre, live music and other events.
An engineer by trade, Lukas likes to delve into and expand the spaces created on stage by light and sound. And if you want to bring special FX or additional instruments into your show - he's up for that, too.
Mirjam Mayr
Germany
Mirjam's first theater role was a donkey from a German fairy tale in kindergarten. Since then, the stage has been her second home. After completing acting school, she performed in various theaters. She has also gained experiences in commedia dell'arte, clowning and street theater.
In 2022, she found her way to Improtheater Karlsruhe, where she teaches courses and performs with the ensemble.
She is also a passionate dog mom and always has an exciting dog story to tell.
Ramsi Lehner
Egypt
Ramsi is a graduate of the American University in Cairo’s theatre program with a focus in directing. After graduation he spent 15 years touring the world with Ahmed El Attar’s Temple independent theatre company, notably Edinburgh fringe and avignon festival. In parallel he spent ten years in Egyptian television and film as well as Jean Jacques Annaud’s “Day of the falcon”. He is currently focused on teaching improv at his studio IMPRO HUB and training the performing group IRTIGALIA.
Sarah McGillion
Denmark / Ireland
Sarah McGillion is an Irish improviser, actor, and founder of Inconspicuous, a company dedicated to improv training and live comedy production in Denmark. With a background in theatre since age four, she’s known for her high energy, character work, and fast play. Sarah performs with the character-driven duo "If These Walls Could Talk", the genre-savvy team "SuperCut", and the spontaneous sketch ensemble "That Thing We Do."
Her experience spans performances, coaching, and workshops across Europe, North America, Australia, and Africa. Holding an MSc in Artificial Intelligence, she traded algorithms for artistry, becoming a prominent figure in Copenhagen's comedy scene. Whether on stage or in the classroom, Sarah brings passion, humor, and a wealth of international experience to every show.
Raschid Daniel Sidgi
Germany
Raschid was born in 1976 in Weimar. First he wanted to become an adventurer, later a scientist, then a soccer player, after that a rockstar. But after school he started working in a theatre house as a stagehand and a new passion arose.
After a few years of education he graduated as an actor in Leipzig. For 7 years he was engaged in several theatre companies and 2007 he decided to work as a freelancer. Since then he is what he always wanted to be: actor for theatre, camera and audio, musician, producer, entertainer, MC, director, daddy, creator and manager of chaos, author, DADAist, guru and student, activist, dance floor smasher and poetic peace brother...
Raschid has been doing Improv for about 17 years. He plays shows, gives workshops and never stops learning. He is one of the founders of the group THEATERTURBINE in Leipzig. Since 2014 Raschid has been the artistic director of the festival MOMENTA in Leipzig.
Lucy Trodd
The United Kingdom
Lucy Trodd is a writer-performer with an extensive background in comedy and improvisation. She is a founder member of Olivier Award-winning Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, in which she has regularly appeared around the globe and in the West End of London for over 16 years. She co-wrote and performed two sketch comedy series of “Well Done You!” for NBC/BBC Radio 4 and was a finalist in the BBC Audio Awards for Best Scripted Comedy. Writing in partnership with Susan Harrison, she was a winner of the British Comedy Guide Sitcom Competition, was a Finalist in the Funny Women Awards and their radio pilot just aired on BBC R4. She regularly teaches and facilitates in business and creative circles. Lucy designed and ran The Improv Academy for Cardboard Citizens, worked with primary school children for NEON Summer School and has taught in drama schools including Guildford School of Acting. She helps run the Showstopper! Improvers, Returners and Intensive courses. She attended her first international festival in 2024 at IMPRO Amsterdam and went on to perform at Momenta in Leipzig, directing her first improv show REUNITED: The Band. Inspired by the festival can-do attitude, she set up FiT (Folkestone Improv Theatre) in her hometown to bring improv joy to the locals.
